Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1899 — The New York Sun’s Pen Picture of Albert J. Beveridge. [ARTICLE]

The New York Sun’s Pen Picture of Albert J. Beveridge.

“A critical East will soon pass on Mr. Beveridge’s gift of eloquence, but certainly with bier .clear cut features and undaunted brow, he looks the orator. Report says that although a good iinpomptu bpe'aker, buying both fluency and wit, he prefers to labor over a speech and is not I content until he has polished every facet, of it. Physically, Mr. Beveridge will not be one of the big men of the senate. Of medium height, he weighs about 150 pounds, and is well-knit and hard as nails As a man who knows how to handle himself in an emergency, be must delight the shade of the late Roscoe Oonkling, for the story is told the quiet of Mir. Beveridge, with the thinlfpped mouth, once routed a party of drummers, who were making night hideous in a sleeping car, and who-had conceived the idea that the railroad belonged to them and there was no hereafter. Finally, the young Indiana senator is democratic, sociahle and thorougly human. It would not be surprising if the old senators should find him a trifle impatient of certain musty precedents, for he is a very dynamo of energy, and couldn’t be idle if he were to try. Suoh a man should have the promises of a long and useful career in the United States senate.”

Between 30 cent MoKinley corn and 17 cent Cleveland coin, there is a much greater difference than thoee figures indicate. A careful Carpenter township farmer finds that it costs him 13 cents a bushel to raise and market oorn. Thirteen cents from 17 cents leaves a profit of four cents on the Cleveland side of the ledger. Thirteen cents from 30 cents leaves a profit of 17 cents on the McKinley side of the ledger. The difference is more than, four to one in favor of McKinley corn.

Governor Mount has signed Senate bill No. 3, governing the employment of convicts in the Indiana State Prison. The bill provides that at the expiration of existing contracts the prisoners shall be employed in manufacturing goods on the State’s account. Meantime the State is authorized toengagesoper cent, of the prisoners on contract work, the remainder to be employed at agricultural pursuits for die institution.

Public wrestling matches seem to draw as rough crowds, and to be productive of as much quarreling, rough talk, gambling and prof anity as prize fights; and their demoralizing influence on the hoys must be about as bad. They are a good thing to sit down on.