Show JOSEPH B FORAKER I Ohios Young anil Handsome Chief Kxecutivc Special Correspondence CLEVELAND 0 June 15 Hair hesitating before it turns iron gray large eyes denoting language full of the light that conies with intelligence a nose that shows strength a good brow a well kept mustache a dark skin and you have the head and face of Govenior Joseph B Foraker Ohios young and handsome chief executive I Here we have a politician wio joined I church at the ago of 1 and who still continues con-tinues t bo a figure in the religious world I I Rather strange isnt i As a small boy Foraker was celebrated for his Virtues A i farmers lad was he and a very small log I cabin was his birthplace He was reared in the good old fosh 1 ioned way and his mother taught him how to pick geese I how to cook wash iron and spin One I summers day s the story runs i when everybody about the farm was bus Fore busy young For j ker hopelessly tore his pantaloons Hero was a situa ton inasmuch as HI wwvfs the lad had but a J B FORAKER single pair to his name The village was faraway far-away and t save time and labor Mrs Fora ker ripped up an old coffee sack and In a twinkling she had a pair of trousers not especially elegant t the eye but us serviceable service-able almost r buckskin Now tho governor wears broadcloth while the little chaps who made sport of his coarse breeches years ago still dig in the dirt among the hills of Highland count The governors mother in relating the incident in-cident declares that he vehemently protested against the coffee sack outfit saying All the bos will laugh at mo if I wear it Never heed what the boys say replied the mother uI you become a useful man I IK x > dy will ask what kind of pantaloons you I ore when a child The lad put them on I tui boys laughed sure enough and years after i I those very same breeches were paraded in the newspapers and dangled on the slump when I when the owner thereof was a candidate for ovenior i The Foraker library consisted of a copy of I Jotephus Pilgrims Progress and JOphu Pigms Prg Joseph i Bensons Commentary on the Bible The 1 family were devout Methodists and tae eleven children six boys and five girls wero nil brought up in that faith School houses in those days were made of logs while birds log and bats built nests in the chinks Foraker i3 a young man and h hardly passed his fortieth milepost It has only been a few i i years since Ohio was a wilderness and all the nqoduced hers havo virtually i i 2 v i Hold Kosecrans Huyes and Thurmuii were pioneers or the sons of pioneers and were reared among fallen trees and by the side of running water and under the shadows of Ohios tall hills At 16 Foraker went to war He was a Tugged young fellow the first recruit mustered into the 89th Ohio infantry and the last one mustered ont At I he commanded com-manded his company in the battlo of Mission Ridge and later he cam ricO important merges from Sherman to Lincoln and the generals serving under the hero of the Atlanta campaign cam-paign When the war was over ho was dong staff duty for General Slocum Returning home he learned that the girl he had left b 7 R of IL If Lr M < r k f i j Z Jl 1 < = V KI r I f J tJ i i FOHAKERS BIRTHPLACE hind had joined her fortune with that of another an-other fellow To this day the little dun pony OH whose Iack young Foraker was wont tore to-re when ho acourting went can be seen feeding in the fields at tho old Iiomistend The disturbance in the south Iwing over Foraker prepared himself for college at the Wesleyan University at Delaware 0 and entered Cornell graduating therefrom in the first class that left that institution At 2 he i was a lawyer in Cincinnati and twelvemonths twelve-months after he was married to Miss Julia Bundy a daughter of lon I S Bundy of Jackson 0 Bund a a member of con press during the war and a personal friend of Lincolns I The governors family is made up of one son and three daughters all of whom attend tho public schools of Columbus At Mrs Forakers request the governor sat himself down to prepare an autobiography some years since He wrote several hundred words of the preface and then abandoned the tk For a young man Foraker was very successful suc-cessful a a lawyer and an intimate friend of his recently informed mo that he cleared at least 10000 a year before he entered politics He was taken up by the people of Cincinnati and elected to judgeship when a very young man and thence he was sent to the gubernatorial guberna-torial mansion while still on tho sunny side of 40 When he a inaugurated a year and a half ago his father and mother wife and four children were on the platform to witness the ceremony Hoadly and Foraker old and new came upon the platform arm and arm They took their places and then Governor Hoadly spoke his farewell woids The two men grasped hands the people cheered the silver haired father smiled proudly and the fond mother shed a silent tear It was an inspiring in-spiring picture you well may believe The gOY ernor that was and the governor that was t be were personal friends although the one had defeated the other in a great political battle wherein a handsome trophy was the stake Yet they clasped hands without guile and pledged anew their warm attachment thus presenting to view as Garfield would have said one of the beautiful flowers that bloom on the wall of part politics 5 Like all successful men Foraker has had considerable of a load to carry He purchased a fine fai in of 170 acres for his parents and was compelled to go in debt and depend on his law practice to meet the payments Ho has ben the biggest member in the family and iu consequence thereof the burdens of each individual therein have been lightened at his expense In addition to all this politics poli-tics has not been a paying financial investment invest-ment to him His fine law practice a sacrificed for the honorable position of governor gover-nor which in the great state of Ohio only pays the occupant 4000 per year By virtue of a law enacted last winter however succeeding suc-ceeding governors will be paid 8300 JAMES B MORROW |