. Review of reviews and world's work. NEW IN THE BUSINESS. Uncle Sam : Im afraid some one will see me doing this. The Otheus :* Dont Rot nervous, undo; youll got used to it if you keep on trav-eling with us. —From the Kvcniny Acivx (Detroit). MR. STEVENSON, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. BY THE HON. JAMES S. EWING. (Formerly United States Minister to Belgium.) LAMARTINE said, From the Gracchi toMirabeau and Jefferson, the greatest friendsof the people have sprung up from the ranks ofthe HON. E. STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS. (Democratic and Populist nominee for the V
. Review of reviews and world's work. NEW IN THE BUSINESS. Uncle Sam : Im afraid some one will see me doing this. The Otheus :* Dont Rot nervous, undo; youll got used to it if you keep on trav-eling with us. —From the Kvcniny Acivx (Detroit). MR. STEVENSON, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. BY THE HON. JAMES S. EWING. (Formerly United States Minister to Belgium.) LAMARTINE said, From the Gracchi toMirabeau and Jefferson, the greatest friendsof the people have sprung up from the ranks ofthe HON. E. STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS. (Democratic and Populist nominee for the Vice-Presidency.) This is epigrammatic, but it is not true. The0Conors, Garrisons, Lincolns, and Bryans havenot sprung from the ranks of noble birth, butfrom the ranks of the people— the plain peo-ple, as Mr. Lincoln called tliem. The man whoaspires to be a leader of the people must knowthe people ; must know their wants and needs ;their modes of thinking and living ; their aspira-tions and hopes ; their economic and politicalconditions ; and he must be in honest sympathywith them. Thrs knowledge and sympathy isnot acquired ; it is largely inherited—the growthof generations, inbred into the warp and woofof a generous nature. Then the product is thegenius of leadership. It is for this reason the public love to know the ancestry, the youth, theprivate life, and the personal characteristics of apublic man. The line between eulogy and biography is notalways clearly discernible. This sketch is neitherbiogra
Size: 1350px × 1851px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidreviewofrevi, bookyear1890
