Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1915 — New York Irish World Pays Tribute to Pat O’Donnell. [ARTICLE]

New York Irish World Pays Tribute to Pat O’Donnell.

Delphi Journal. Patrick H. O’Donnell, Carroll county’s noted Irish son, probably the most famous attorney in Chicago, that city of brilliant legal minds, receives a splendid tribute in the New York Irish World of Nov. 27th, which carries seveial columns devoted to his life and works, together w th a large portrait of former Washington township farmer boy, who has risen to the pinacle of being the country’s foremost orator. The tribute is too lengthy for reprint but a paragraph of it will convey to his friends in Carroll county an idea of the fame which “P. H.” ds earning. It follows: •

“To those parts of the United States outside Of Chicago—and there are as many as the stars in the flag —that know him through his political relationship, Patrick H. O’Donnell as an orator, probably the greatest orator in Aineric.i today, not even barring Bryan of the silver tongue; for his oratory is founded less on opportunism and more on fundamentals, with the added gift to rouse to frenzy the same audience that he can send into gales of mirth. Few speakers of our time can so thrill his hearers with exalted emotions of patriotism than can foe. With his Celtic power of imagery, of seizing the spirit of the crowd and shaping it as if it were plastic material until it has assumed the sculptured form of his fancy, O’Donnell has the extraordinary power of the poet superimposed upon the talent of the spellbinder, so that it is little wonder that those who haveheard ham associate him almost exclusively with his oratory.”