Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — Kind of Farmer Matthews Is. [ARTICLE]

Kind of Farmer Matthews Is.

Frankfort News. Claude Matthews, the so-called farmer candidate .nominated by the Democracy for secretary of state, never did a day’s work on the farm in his life—never raised a callous with a hoe handle or lifted a plow at a furrow turn. After a good time in college he married a rich woman and settled on a beautiful farm called “Hazel Bluff” at the outskirts of Clinton, Vermillion county. Here he has lived in luxury for years, entertaining royally his many city visitors and introducing the .latest “fads” to the natives. When Claude Matthews, “the farmer," is mentioned the first thought suggested to the av-

erage farmer is a shady 'porch, a ' big -arm chair and ringlets of i BU‘oke’.fr<)iri a Havana .cigar. He is a great lover ..of blooded horses and is better. qualified to select a colt that has'speed in it than seed corn that will produce an average stand. The chickens dont roost on. his wheat drill—because he keeps a hired man to “shoo” them m.Z.