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Show "llui-le Joe." New York Star. Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald is down here from Indianapolis on legal business, and is stopping at the Fifth avenue hotel. Out in hoosierdom the democrats call him "Uncle Joe." Ho is one of the finest old democrats in the west. He is a reminder of the olden time, both in the cast of his countenance counten-ance and in the collar, cravat and other articles of his raiment. His kindly face is well known to the country by the numerous pt r. raits which have appeared, ap-peared, especially when a national democratic convention is at hand. His rotund and rubicund countenance coun-tenance beams all over with good nature, although men who have stirred up Uncle Joe, either in congress or on the hustings, know that at times he can show a good deal of force aud warmth. He has a large head, linely chiseled features and keen gray eyes, and he shaves smoothly save 'for a fringe of white beard under his chin. After (ho old style, he shaves himself. He carries an old fashioned gripsack, which sometimes contains papers worth thousands of dollars. Sometimes it does not. Once when I met the ex-senator just after his return from a stumping stump-ing tour in the west, he said he had very little information and very little of anything, adding with a twinkle in his eyes: "In fact, there isn't anything iu my old satchel except the usual property prop-erty of a democratic campaigner, a shirt and an empty bottle." |