Show Eugene Fields Portrait of Debs The newspaper portraits of E V Debs are not accurate They represent him as fat and sleek and he is not Debs stall s-tall blue eyed palu smooth shaven and inclined to baldness He looks very like Bill Nye and the fact that ho wears spectacles emphasizes tho resemblance resem-blance He dresses very plainly but neatly He talks fluently he is an omnivorous om-nivorous reader and he particularly likes poety Qf address he is candid and cordial Ho has to a dpgreq thaj quality called personal magnetism Five minutes with him would suffice we think to convince a reader of hum n pature that Debs is a man of high ideas honest couyictions unswerving integrity integ-rity great intellectual vigor or per haps rather zeal exceptional simplicity I simplici-ty I of character and consummate impracticability im-practicability His traits nre those we believe which taken singly are most admirable but which bunched are very likely to get him into trouble Chicago Record |