Show DAN VOOKHtiES Tlio Tall Sycamore of Iho ATnbasIi ct Home Special Correspondence TEUHE HAUTE Ind April 16 lion Daniel V Voorhees tho tall t and manly senator from Indiana bids fail to illustrate Dr Holmes witty remark that man is like an apple in that after he gets age he begins to get sweet and mellow There ii i indeed a tendency among really manly men to grow kinder nnd more charitable after passing middle lifeif they have been sue cessful Having been through the hard contest con-test and won a victory they sympathize with others It is markedly so with Senator Voor hees The fierce political warfare of his i i twenty years from ISoS to IsIS gave him an I air of combat foreign to his real nature Now I that his place in public life is well ns > urcd j I the natural geniality of the man shows uilli less reserve His social traits arc revealed I his society is more agreeable and his I home life as n man 1 i and citizen is more I admired This 4 I L S mellowing process A pro-cess may be observed if ob-served in the tone a7 I of his speeches I r 1J f9 S they deal more I r I gently with opponents w di oppo-nents than vas his 00 ifc6 t wont in tho 60s and ti = l4ff 70s He is not SOIr positive as ho once was in politioi l I rhetoric at any nox D w oornTE8 Irate I-rate that his opponents are tho moitrl enemies of frcedcm in fact ho now finds I that they are really pretty good fellows at heart but badly mistaken thats nIl He i was always ready to do a Kindness for a I neighbor without regard to politics and his neighbors were almost painfully ready to ask it of liiin Teiro Haute which has been tho senators home for thirty year is among the most d hi lightful towns in the country In the west it is nowhere excelled and seldom equalled The location is good tho society far above the average in taste and education There han h-an unusually largo number of cultivated musicians mu-sicians talkers and amateurs in various art I I and the local spirit is very strong They aro Terre Haute people first Rcpub j I I licans or Democrats afterward Nothing i is too good for Terre Haute they think and other towns in the Wabash valley sometimes amend by adding that Terre i Haute never can get good enough It certainly cer-tainly has got a good deal especially in the line of absorbing the talent from adjacent counties and in this local phalanx Senator Voorhees is leader Ho is in lore with his i town and the Terre Hauto man is always a Voorhees man even when he votes against him It is noticeable that tho asperities of politics are softened on both sides in this city Republican and Democrat are equally proud of any great thing done by any Terro Hauto politician and as Mr Voorhees walks t tho streets it is not easy to say which class i of partisans greet him with the moro deference i defer-ence or look at him with greater pride The I senator has a very pleasant homo nnd agreeable I agree-able home life Like most great orators he is i I not a financier Ho has been compared to the statesman for whom he was named but 4 those who know him best jocularly say that in the art of getting rid of i money without knowing whero it goes I > ho is away ahead of Daniel Webster This I characteristic appears to belong in general to i Terre Haute greatness Other active politicians poli-ticians in this city are a little better and lInt i little It is a city of many competencies and i t 1 few large fortunes so the social life is a I happy union of culture and intellect rather t than display Mr Voorhees will bo GO years old on the 20th of next September but the years have only added to his fine appearance i giving breadth to his person and smoothing out the wrinkles of thought in his forehead I i while his form is as erect and his step as firm J as ever His dor tic life lut > been fortunate I I and no doubt much of the charm of his I I manner while in Terre Haute springs from I tha social freedom that prevails here Here ho feels that ono does not have to be continually J continu-ally on guard Hero he can talk to townsmen towns-men and friends as townsmen and friends not Ins < I-ns watchful politicians for one can always i feel sure that whatever their politics may bo they are first and always Terre H uteansr J J PARKE |