Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — A Picturesque Statesman. [ARTICLE]

A Picturesque Statesman.

Tbe El Dorado Bepubllcan gives a picture of an early statesman and his picturesque attire: When the Hon. David Jj. McCabe was elected to tbe legislature from Butler county In 1865 and went to Topeka to be sworn In he astonished not only the natives, but everybody else, as he was the most gorgeously dressed statesman that Kansas had eVer produced. He was very dark, with long black hair. On his head was a coonskln cap, the tall of the coonskin hanging gracefully down his back. His coat was made of wolfskins nicely tanned and lined with red flannel. Six handsome tails hung from bis coat tails and flapped In the breeze as he meandered up to the speaker’s desk to take the oath. He wore a spotted doeskin vest, buckskin knee breeches, handsomely fringed; top boots, gloves made of beaver skin, a watch chain done in beadwork, a flannel shirt with a flaming red bandanna pocket handkerchief around his neck, and it is needless to say he created a sensation.