Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — President Steyn Need Not Want. [ARTICLE]

President Steyn Need Not Want.

President Steyn of the Orange Free State is a Free-Stater by birth, a lawyer by profession, and a republican by conviction. He is still not much over forty, Is happily married (his father-in-law and motherdn-law are both Scotch), and before the war was considered a coming man among the Boers. He was elected President In February, 1890, just after the raid, succeeding Mr. Reitz, who is now State Secretary in the Transvaal, and who, like himself, has been a judge. President Steyn’s emoluments are £3,000 a year, £OOO table money, and £BO9 for traveling expenses.