Show written for this paper RAY S AY SHOTS AT candidates by frank G carpenter washington april 1896 ERE ARE SOME SNAP shots at the presidential candidates dilates of the united states senate I 1 am taking with a sly cathode ray camera from impress ess gallery vice president adlai I 1 1 stevenson sits just below me the itty expanse of his bald head shining ivory vory and almost tempting me to fee e the ink from the end of my pen m upon it what a commotion it ald d create if I 1 did so and what a blot would make on the pate of the leading democratic batic presidential candidate date of the atoll atit let me throw my X ray camera on ai what an immense man he is is T he is is re than six six feet tall and he tips the a at pounds you can almost the vice presidential chair groan i his bis weight as he sits upon it look jal t right arm with which he wields gave in calling the senate to order tt lugger bigger around than the thigh of aaton or william E chandler who is aping ng about abou over tover there on the sa side trying to get the vice ats attention vice president steven H has bas a big chest he measures two t across the shoulders and his blonde d is so massive that you could hardly beeze ze it into a peck measure his t is as fair as that of a newly washed y and his eyes are of that clear blue which you find on old english china tue dome of his beao iti it looks dulieb like Bis marcks and those heavy thaws remind you of webster how P ber he looks he is dressed in his long frock coat buttoned r lightly aly over his big chest and a standing collar ar framing his head until it makes aw think of that of john the baptist when it was brought in to herodias on a harger I 1 I 1 wonder how the vice president feels labbe abbe sits there holding the second 11 office of the union I 1 wonder if he rel e members how he worked on a farm in bucky plowing corn on his fathers R irritation tat ioa with a one eyed mule I 1 wonder if he reviews his career as a k chool teacher at 25 a month and as a young lawyer when he was dad 6 to get a 5 fee now he is receive xa a year and has his eye on t cleveland and his ao 50 job let us move the camera see that fellow standing at the back 1 of the senate chamber under the clock r I 1 mean that tall man with his hands in in ss U pockets he is dressed in black and IHS hip long coat hangs from his square a awers b as though it ii were on a wire irame in front ot of a secondhand second hand clothing il his arms are long and you can 4 t se see e knots at the elbows and ers his thin bony hands ex below his cuffs now he puts EAN E AN Vs hillas hands in his pockets throwing back isad coat and making himself look more XZ 4 gaunt and angular than ever see how his face comes out on the ground glass ot of the camera it is strong but it has a rugged strength and its features are almost as angular as those ot of the rest of his body the cheek bones are as high as those of an indian he wears no mu mustache tache and stiff short choit black hair bair mixed with gray forms a bristly beard around his angular chin his eyes are sunken his forehead lo is high and full his nose is large and strong it is so prominent that he rests his gold eyeglasses on the bridge rat at least an inch below the point used by the spectacles of the ordinary man As I 1 look one of his fellow senators comes up the angular man greets him cordially and gives him a pump handle bandle shake of the hand the two chat and laugh together and it is evident that the tall tail angular rough featured man is telling a story that man is shelby M cullom the united states senator from illinois and the man whom that state will present to the st louis convention for the presidency cullom is a typical son eon of illinois born in kentucky hauled in a canvass covered wagon through ane woods and over the stumps to illinois when he was still a baby just cutting his first teeth he was raised in a log cabin and got his schooling at a country school his early life was much like that of lincoln who by the way he strikingly resembles working on the farm he shot up tall and slender an angular boy who later on developed into an angular man his education was meager he went to school at a little seminary and by burning the midnight oil within a couple of years found himself on the edge of the grave he had I 1 think a hemorrhage or two and for a time thought that a farmers career was the only one that would keep him alive he went back to his father and walked behind the plow in his bare feet until the life breathing properties of the soil and the pure air gave him the muscle which enabled him to go back to his studies after a hard bard struggle wih his health he succeeded at the law got into politics became governor of the state was elected to congress then to the senate and is now one of the candidates for the nomination of the republican party as president in front of senator cullom sits another presidential candidate he is not as tall as cullom but he weighs I 1 venture twice as much he has a square shaped head bright twinkling brown eyes a complexion as fair as that of a girl and a collar as white as the marble statues in the rotunda of the capitol this collar idof is of the old fashioned kind it is the biggest collar worn in the united states senate and if you could turn it down you would find fina on its back written the name of its owner WB W B allison senator allison is so near senator cullom that cullom could lean over and stick a wisp of straw into Alli sons ear whereupon allison would jump but would look about and laugh he is a remarkably even tempered man he never gets excited and never loses his head now lie he gets up and moves across the chamber notice how quietly he goes and still there is an air about him that shows you he means to get there allison always does get there and though he looks lazy and seems to take things very easily he is one of the hardest workers in the senate he does not look to t be sixty eight years of age and his digestion is probably perfect now he writes a letter fetter he holds his pen like that of a school boy and he pens his words in true style making every curve of the proper shape As he writes a long bearded man with a head not much bigger than a base ball comes up and sits down beside allison he puts his hand on Alli sons shoulder and allison turns around he greets the long bearded man cordially and chats with him placing his hands on the mans knees as though he loved him still there is no love lost between these two men men that little man with the base ball head and long beard is peffer and I 1 venture that away down in his sout soul allison despises hi him in but allison is a diplomat and there is no need of showing it a there are some curious things about allison and cullom both were born bom the same year both worked on a farm both got their schooling in log school houses and both were educated in second class colleges allison was wa born in wayne county ohio cullom was born in wayne county ky K allison was one of the best spellers of wayne county at sixteen he went to an academy at wooster ohio and worked on the farm during his vacations next he went to allegheny college at meadville then taught school and finished his college education at the little town of hudson near cleveland he then went to ashland ohio a town of about people and there studied law helas he was deputy county clerk at the same time judge stewart john shermans Sher mans father inlaw in law was judge but who is that old woman whose figure shows out through the lens between us and allison it is isme merely reli a silhouette on the ground glass and we need a new focus As we turn the screw the old womans comans figure changes into that of a man we can see its bald head and we note that its eyes droop as did those of ben butler it is dressed in black and its double breasted frock coat is unbuttoned and hangs out somewhat like a skirt now the figure turns about face and we see the form and features of one of the best known men of the great northwest the great law lawyer er of st paul and a man who can csake make it is said from to a year at his practice his name is cushman K davis and though he has withdrawn from the presidential race his name may yet be mentioned among those abich come up at st louis cush davis davi is a curious looking man he is very tall his shoulders are slightly bent and isis his little semi bald head is fastened to them by a short neck he is one ot of the most studious men of the senate and one of the best read hi he has one of the finest private libraries of the country he is a great lover of books and when he wants to rest from his studies he drops what he is at and takes up some work in a different literary line when he is tired of thinking of politics he translates a lot of virgil or horace for a change and when he finds as he does sometimes I 1 venture for he is a trifle lazy his ambitions flagging he bol bolsters himself up by reading the life of alexander the great or that of julius caesar to him the greatest man who ever lived was wa napoleon he was an admirer of bonaparte bonaparte long before the present craze concerning him broke out he has already about four hundred napoleonic books in his library and he is i always picking up more As I 1 compare davis da vis with cullom and allison I 1 think oi of the three great men who have molded the lives of these presidential candidates davis is a worshiper of napoleon allison was brought up on henry clay cullom modeled his bis life alter after that of abraham lincoln and over there so near cullom that he could hit bit him with a paper wad if he chose to throw it is another senator a young man of same some presidential ambition who all his life has worshiped at the shrine of james G blaine that man is stephen B elkins note how he sits there behind his mahogany desk perfectly at ease in the senate of the united states he is one of the youngest of the prospective candidates di and perhaps the richest lie ile owns miles of railroads thousands upon thousands of acres of timber and millions of carloads of coal he has towns and villages on his estate and his principality ci in west virginia is unsurpassed by pat that of any man east of the sis and still elkins began his life asa as a poor boy he went across the plains in in a canvas covered wagon to new mexico studying spanish on the way he set tied in santa fe as a lawyer and made money out of both the mexicans and the spaniards one ot of his first good jobs was in connection with the maxwell rant maxwell paid him a salary ot of floo a year for defending his interests and at one time he got from maxwell for a single hours work he first came to congress as a delegate from new mexico and after leaving the house of representatives he made 50 50 boota a year here at washington practicing law from washington he took the dollars he had saved to new york and they there bred for him more dollars increasing their yield almost as fast as australian rabbits which are said to be the fastest breeders bleeders bre eders of the world the result was that he be soon had a big fortune and by joining this with that of his father in law ex senator henry G davis he became possessed of his wonderful estate in west virginia senator elkins is not lying awake at night waiting for the presidency he told me once that it if it came his way and got ot near enough to him so that he could put his hands bands on it he would take it but he added that he did not think his chances were very good he is a healthy looking man and does not los lose e sleep over his political ambitions he is a good organizer and knows all about practical politics he is however a more cultured man than many suppose th s he is well educated and h has i the studious bent he likes browning quotes cleotes tennyson frequently and reads greek latin and hebrew in the original he is a great walker and keeps his system in good order by exercise he dr dresses esses in business clothes but his linen is always of the whitest his skin is as rosy as that of a country girls alter she has taken a scouring at the pump and his bis short white teeth are strong sharp and exceedingly clean 4 As I 1 look senator hoar of massachusetts waddles up to elkins and whispers in his ear hoar is a dry joker and he is probably making one ot his sarcastic remarks lor for elkins bursts into a laugh hoar sits down and the two chat together smiling like ke school boys rather than sedate united states senators As they do so a dark faced man in front of them turns about and almost scowls that man is also a presidential candidate but he is not a candidate who smiles he seems to sit and brood he reminds you of cassius though he has not th the elean lean and hungry look oi of Shake thinker he is however a plotter and he is one of the strongest ot of our political managers his name is matthew stanley quay he is the man who carries pennsylvania in his pocket and who has been chosen by that state as its candidate for the presidency quay is a natural fighter he would rather fight than eat when he was in in the army you remember he was sick and he insisted on going to the battlefield the surgeons and his superiors told him he was a fool for making the attempt and he replied 1 I 1 would rather die a fool than live a coward quay is now in his prime he is tall well rounded and healthy looking he keeps himself in trim by taking fishing excursions his chief exercise at washington is in political work he goes but little in society you never see him about the hotels and there is nothing of the hail tellow well met about djs character still I 1 am told he is is a man of more than ordinary culture he is well educated has literary tastes and his house at beaver pa is packed with books on the other side of the senate chamber there is a democratic candidate who is if much like quay in character this is david B hill look at him as he sits there with one hand in his pockets leaning back in his chair with his glasses on his eyes note how his jaws are fastened together they are as light as a sprung rat rattrap trap see the determine tion in his countenance how he grips the arms of his chair with his hands he is evidently planning out some political scheme and you can almost see the light darting out ot of his eyes from under his heavy brows as he sits there like a sphinx and thinks and thinks and thinks As you look at him now he seems to be almost statuesque you would hardly imagine he had life stir him up however and you will see he is a natural fighter he goes about with a chip on his bis shoulder and he is ready for a quarrel at the drop of a hat let us get gel a better focus what a queer looking man hill is his head is as bald at the top as a new drum head and quite as white A heavy black mustache covers his mouth and at the lower edge ot of his bis forehead there are heavy dark eyebrows now he looks up at the gallery how sharp his eyes byes are they seem to look ngot through you and it is said that hill can tell a man at a glance how aggressive they are and how lull full ol of determination i the soul back ot of those eyes has faith in itself and depends on itsell hill confides in no one he has many acquaint ances but few friends his soul is wrapped d up in his ambitions he plots his own campaign compa ign and uses other men to carry them out he is one ot of tile the hardest of workers and still he has neither wife nor family to work for he has never married and he keel JP TX bachelors hall here in a big house ow lafayette lafa ette square out of the windows which he can look at the white ho 8 and have the goal of his ambitions backi b him while he plots how he may rea reach I 1 senator hill keeps himself in PS P pr imd S P physical condition he is simple in bick B tastes eating little and drinking lc les W he is said to be a good boxer and anub t knows the use of the pulley weighty weigh tg J punching bags and dumb bells 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