Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1904 — PEOPLE OP THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OP THE DAY

Secretary Hay’s Prompt Action. The powers accord to Secretary of State John Hay the full credit for initiating the policy “to localise within as small an area as possible the hostilities in the far east and to insure over as much of China as possible her neutrali-

ty.” This step Is the boldest yet taken by any country for the preservation of the integrity of China. There were reasons why the United States better than any other nation could initiate the policy set forth by Secretary Hay, but the promptness with which he acted and the early concurrence manifested by the European powers are matters for congratulation by Americans.

Living Likeness of Webster, Senator Overman is heralded throughout North Carolina as the living likeness of Daniel Webster. It has not appeared to people around the capltol as particularly striking, although Mr. Overman Is with one accord voted a handsome man, says the Washington Fost. Like Mr. Webster, however, he is a powerful man before a jury. He has eloquence and the power of eliciting sympathy for his client. Some years ago the present senator was engaged in a suit for damages where a brakeman had been dragged by a freight car and seriously Injured. The conditions were such as to make ithe outcome of the case doubftul for the plaintiff, and Mr. Overman was at his wits’ ends how to proceed. It occurred to him to visit the home of his client, which proved to be a little log house near which a few flowers were growing. When the moment came for addressing the Jury, Mr. Overman drew a beautiful picture of the simple, vlneclad home, the children playing about its door, and of their mother, deprived of a strong arm of support. Each point in the picture was touched with delicacy, even to the flowers that climbed over the rough hewn logs. When Mr. Overman had concluded his peroration, several of the Jurymen were In tears. A verdict was returned for a good round sum. Senator Clarke’s Rapid Fire. When Senator Clarke of Arkansas, “Old Cotton Top,” made his first speech In the senate recently he spoke on the Panama canal and attracted much attention by his remarkable delivery. Clarke talked so rapidly that his speech sounded like a chatter. He Bpoke, the official stenographers say, at about 275 words a minute and sometimes got to 300. It was conceded that he broke all fast talk records for the senate. Will Voluntarily Leave Congress. It looks as If the Democrats of the Fifth Minnesota district would have to choose a new candidate for congress next fall. John Lind, the present representative from that district, has, it Is reported, declared that he no longer cares to remain in the house. Mr. Lind once before voluntarily retired. This

was at the close of the Fifty-second congress, after service for three terms. The house has not the power in legislation it once had, and Mr. Lind finds that body much less interesting than it was during his former service, and, as he is not the kind of man who enjoys being a nonenity, he says he will get out. John Lind has been governor of Minnesota. and it is believed by his friends that be would not turn aside if a favorable opportunity of once more serving as the executive of bis state were presented.

SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN HAY.

JOHN LIND.