Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1913 — Could Look Up to Him. [ARTICLE]

Could Look Up to Him.

Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania, who was one of the committee to advise Lincoln of his nomination, and who was himself a great many feet high, had been eyeing Lincoln’s lofty form with a mixture of admiration and possibly jealousy. This had not escaped Lincoln, and as he shook hands with the judge be inquired: "What is your height?” “Six feet three. What is yours, Mr. Lincoln?” “Six feet four.” • "Then,” said the judge, “Pennsylvania bows to Illinois. My dear man, for years my heart has been aching for a president that I could look up to, and I’ve at last found him.”