Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Ths Socialist Candidate. For the third time- Eugene V. Dobs, candidate of the Socialist party for president of the Halted States. Is making the race for the highest honor in the gift of the people. In 1000 he ran on the Social Democratic ticket, receiving 87,814 votes. Four years later as a straight Socialist 402,283 ballots were cast in his favor. Mr. Debs balls from Terre Haute. Ind., where hte was born fifty-three years ago. In his younger days he was a locomotive fireman and from 1880 to 1893 was secretary-treasurer of the brotherhood of that craft. Resigning from that body, he organized the

American Railway union, of which h* was made president. As head of the latter union he won a large strike on the Great Northern. While managing a still larger strike on western roads in which the Pullman company was involved he was charged with conspiracy, but on trial was acquitted; then he was charged with violation of an injunction and sent to jail for six months for contempt of court. Mr. Debs is a man of more than ordinary culture and has served as a member of the Indiana legislature and as city clerk of Terre Haute. Big Man of the House. Representative Cy Sulloway of New Hampshire is the best known man at the head of a long table in all congress. The capitol sees little of him except in that attitude. Sometimes he stalks upon the floor of the house, so tall and massive that there is no seat quite large enough to make him comfortable. He rarely remains very long. The place he likes is in the swivel chair at the head of the committee on Invalid pensions, which adjoins the most used of the house elevators. The Hon. Cyrus keeps the mahogany doors open most of the time, with a plump, round-faced negro messenger on guard. The multitudes pass and repass day after day, and the big Granite Stater, poring over papers, examining private pension bills and writing reports thereon, has become as much of a fixture in the optical apparatus of this perambulating throng as the goddess of Liberty on the capitol’s top.—Boston Herald. Conquerors of the Air. The Wright brothers of Dayton, 0., who recently created a sensation by flying in their aeroplane on the coast of North Carolina, seem to have solved the problem of aerial navigation. Aside from the triumph of apparently controlled flight, the most important achievement from the aeronaut’s viewpoint was that the flying machine not only carried both men. but carried them in a sitting position. Heretofore their aeroplane carried but one man, and he lying prone. According t<> all reports, the Wrights have succeeded in overcoming the real problem of mechanical flight, that of equilibrium. For many years the Wrights have been at work cn their flying machine.

They have made upward of 200 flights and have had many accidents, none of them serious. The last one demolished their ship and put a stop for the time being on further ascensions. Wilbur, the elder brother. Is a large man of the big boned type. Orville Is slight and dapper. Both are modest and very reticent concerning their machine. They are well known in Dayton, having lived there since childhood. Their .venerable father. Bishop Wright i» still and keenly interested In the exploits of his flying sona

EUGENE VICTOR DEBS.

ORVILLE WRIGHT.