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intimate stories of men and events and his captivating manner of telling them made his presence at any social event a joy. His fame in this regard was nation wide and during his many years ' residence in Washington and travels on public business he was in constant demand. Fortunately his reminiscences of the great men of America covering more than fifty years will not be lost, his book ' ' Something of Men I Have Known, ' ' being a priceless legacy to history, as treating the great figures of the most stirring times in a vein wholly apart from prosaic statistics. Mr. Stevenson's gentle and lovable disposition and keen but kindly wit coupled with an integrity in public and private life that never felt a breath of scandal, made it possible for him to accomplish a miracle. He was possibly the only man in America who loomed large and who was an intense partisan in the days ADLAI EWING STEVENSON 43 when oratory on the stump was fiercely bitter, who was able to go through the hardest fought campaigns in the forefront of bat- tle and still emerge without a personal enemy. So general was the feeling of friendship and respect that he was twice elected to congress as a Democrat in a strongly Eepublican district, and came within a hairsbreadth of carrying the state of Illinois as a Democrat in a presidential year when the head of the Repub- lican ticket went in on an overwhelming majority. So general was the respect and affection that the demonstrations from time to time when he was the central figure in great political contests were Bloomington mass meetings rather than Democratic rallies. While Mr. Stevenson goes out from a perfectly rounded life