Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — A Picturesque American [ARTICLE]

A Picturesque American

Brooklyn Union. B The election of Richard W. Thompson as one ,of Indiana’s delegates-at-large to the Republican National convention assures the presence of one of the most picturesque figures left in our politics. It is a full ha,lf century since Mr. Thompson entered public life, and he was a leading figure in the famous canvas of “ fippecanoe and , Tyler, too,” back in 184*). Indeed, it was the recollection of one of his speeches in that Whig campaign which directed Mr. Hayes’ attention to him when the Ohio man was making up his Cabinet and brought him out of a retirement which had lasted nearis a verj’ : old man, his 75th year closing the week after the Chicago convention, but he is still hale and hearty, and his voice ban yet arouse the enthusiasm of a convention.