Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

Lafayette Young, New Senator From lowa.

Lafajitce Yeung, senator by appointment to.so'•opt'd the late Jonathan P ? Dolliver of lowa,, hi s long been a prominent figure in the Spite. i< r twenty years he has been editor of the Dos.Moinas Capital and is the recognize! leader <>f stand pa* forces. In ihfit) Sir. Young imminatod Theodore Ito-s-velt ft r the vice pi e-d deney at the Philadelphia national convention. He had beeif select* .1 I • name J. P. Dolliver, the man he now succeeds as senator, but changed his speech at the last moment, the lows candidate having withdrawn. The new senator is a native of lowa and is sixty-two years old. He served twelve years as a member of the lowa state senate. During the Spanish war Mr. Young accompanied General Shafter in the operations before Santiago as war correspondent and was with Colonel Roosevelt at San Jtian Hijl. Senator Young is considered one of the best public speakers in a state noted for its orators. Mr. Guild a Linguist Ex-Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts, who was appointed by President Taft as this country’s special representative to Mexico’s centennial celebration, can make a speech in any old language. Whenever the city of Boston wants to welcome a distinguished German, Guild is called on to make the welcoming address in German. If a French dignitary blows in Guild gets off a spiel in French. When he went to Mexico he told tjie Mexicans all about themselves in Spanish.