Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . as it was a quarter of acentury ago when he was a school teacher over inShaler township, opposite PittvSburg. But peoplewho know him ; who possess his confidence, orfriendship, see him as others do not. Affability,jollity, good-fellowship and a sturdy faithfulnessto friends in Mr. Lyon are component parts ofhis make-up—but he does not w^ear them wherethe world ma^^ always see them and criticise withcompliment or condemnation. Mr. Lyon hasmade his way by the exercise of none of thearts of the politician or the patter of thedemago
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . as it was a quarter of acentury ago when he was a school teacher over inShaler township, opposite PittvSburg. But peoplewho know him ; who possess his confidence, orfriendship, see him as others do not. Affability,jollity, good-fellowship and a sturdy faithfulnessto friends in Mr. Lyon are component parts ofhis make-up—but he does not w^ear them wherethe world ma^^ always see them and criticise withcompliment or condemnation. Mr. Lyon hasmade his way by the exercise of none of thearts of the politician or the patter of thedemagogue. That is why some care-hardened 68. Hon. Lyox,Lieutenant-Governor. politicians wonder at his success. But he hasbeen a success—will be a success. There is not much to tell about his life. Hereit is as he wrote it,—all legislators have to writetheir biographies for Snuills, bear that in mind—for the Legislative Handbook : Walter L3on, Allegheny Count}, was born in ShalerTownship, Allegheny Count}-, Pa., April 27,1853 ; admittedto bar January, 1877, and has continued in practice ; ismember of law firm of Lyon, McKee & Sanderson, ofPittsburg. \Vas appointed United States Attorney forwestern district of Pennsylvania J vine, 1889, and com-missioned for four years from January 27, 1890, whichposition he resigned to accept his seat in the Senate. That is all. No hint of early struggles, nosuggestion of the vicissitudes that marked hisearly manhood and developed his inherent back-wardness into a rugged self-reliance. His fatherwas a real estate operator, and he gave his chil-dren a thorough education. That was
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