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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1372918124

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1372918124

Author : Claude G. Bowers

Because carping Pilot asked “What is truth” and did not stay for an answer, the world has thought that question to be the one unsolved riddle. Yet there are many other attributes to which answers have been given that are almost, if not altogether, as great riddles.

What constitutes greatness has received as many answers as there have been men to express them. It all depends upon the mental process of a man as to whether his fellow man has attained unto greatness. The paladin of finance would consider it a joke to be told that an Egyptologist was a great man; the doer of deeds can never think of greatness as an attribute to the dreamer of dreams; and thus it is that the estimate by one man of another will only pass current with those of like mind.

For me, it has been needful that brain and heart should work in unison in the life of a man in order to render his story worthy of being embalmed in a biography. Mere intellect is not sufficient; mere emotion unsatisfactory. For thirty years I knew all about and I also knew John Worth Kern. Heaven molded him with a clear and analytic mind—a mind{viii} capable of grasping and elucidating the great problems of state—and then Heaven further endowed him with a tender and loving heart, so that much as he believed in the principles for which he stood and the faith which he avowed, he had that large-hearted and generous judgment of his fellow men which mark, to my mind, true greatness.

It is the measure of a little man to be cocksure, to be eternally and everlastingly right, to be quite certain that Jehovah gave into his hands all knowledge, all goodness and all power. It is the measure of a really great man to walk with certainty and yet to walk humbly in his public life, granting to other men the right to think, to speak, to act freely.

This was the grade of man John Worth Kern was. He showed it in his brilliant services at the bar, in his forceful presentation of his party’s principles on the stump and in that kindly, loveable leadership which, when he left the Senate of the United States, made it the supreme desire of political friend and foe alike to do something for him as the shadows of night began to gather around his head. To my mind he was one of Indiana’s great and illustrious citizens whose life, when read by the schoolboy of to-day, will help to sweeten, glorify and adorn the public service of to-morrow.

It were impious here to speak of his beautiful home life. He was great in the counsels of his party{ix} but in his home he transcended the common mortal and became a demigod of love and good will. The Indianian will know him and love him even more, if possible, when this biography is read and it is remembered that it is the free-will offering of a man who saw our dear, dead statesman and citizen in his hours of exultation, in his moments of depression, when his soul was bare to the inspection of a man who knew when he saw what he saw.

 

The life of John Worth Kern 1st Table of contents:

I—Childhood and Early Youth

II—Kokomo Days—Lawyer and Citizen

III—As Democratic Leader in Howard, 1870-1884

IV—Reporter of the Supreme Court, 1884-1889

V—Leader in the Indiana Senate, ’93 and ’95

VI—Europe and the Campaign of ’96

VII—Gubernatorial Battles

VIII—Europe and Asheville: An Interlude

IX—Running With Bryan

X—Battle for the Senate

XI—Kern’s First Congress

XII—Kern’s Fight Against Lorimerism

XIII—Kern’s Position at the Baltimore Convention

XIV—Election to Leadership of the Senate

XV—Kern’s Fight Against Feudalism in West Virginia

XVI—Senatorial Battles for Social Justice

XVII—In the Role of Senate Leader

XVIII—The Last Battle

XIX—The Closing of a Career

XX—The Real Kern: A Composite Portrait

XXI—At Kerncliffe

 

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