Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . nly said, Oh, parson, have you seen iny lastbaby? No, said the parson, and I never expectto. WILLIAM I. SCHAFFER—he of the ctirl-ing hair, towering form and eloqtienttongtie—was the j^oungest of the cani-paignens. He is voting in years, bnt old, oh,so old, in political experience. Behind his tallform there is a backgrotnid of sticcess that hascome to few of older years. This talented votingmember of tlie Delaware bar has been honoredby the quiet Quakers and busy artisans of hiscounty as no other yoting man—if Congressman Jack Ro
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . nly said, Oh, parson, have you seen iny lastbaby? No, said the parson, and I never expectto. WILLIAM I. SCHAFFER—he of the ctirl-ing hair, towering form and eloqtienttongtie—was the j^oungest of the cani-paignens. He is voting in years, bnt old, oh,so old, in political experience. Behind his tallform there is a backgrotnid of sticcess that hascome to few of older years. This talented votingmember of tlie Delaware bar has been honoredby the quiet Quakers and busy artisans of hiscounty as no other yoting man—if Congressman Jack Robinson be excepted—has been hon-ored. He holds their confidence and esteem. Hehas shown himself worthy of it, and the perfec-tion of manhood in experience which the yearsmust bring will see him still more greatly hon-ored. He is a lawyer, able, keen, and far-sighted, oneof the yoting men who sat at the feet of thatGamaliel of Southeastern Pennsylvania, JudgeBroomall. Mr. vSchaffer, though barely past theqnarter century mark, has filled and is filling 76. William I. Schaffer, Attorney of Delaware County. with distinction and abilitj the position of Dis-trict Attorney of his county ; as Count} Chair-man he imparted a vigor to the Republican or-ganization in Delaware that it had never knownbefore. As a campaign orator he has no equal for hisyears. At all times eloquent, wath flashes of wit,and bursts of brilliant metaphor, he was one ofthe most popular speakers in the great campaignthroughout the State. Read some of his utterances below : What is the reward we are to receive for breaking dowmthe barriers which kept Great Britain out of the marketsof America ? Mr. Wilham L. Wilson and his free tradefriends answer, The markets of the world. Almost200,000 miles of railroad in this country of ours go tomake up the network of civilization, which binds the pinetree State of Maine to the sunlit golden shores of thePacific—the watery wastes of the lakes to the traf
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