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Michigan By. H. G. Wells
J. Wright Gordon, acting Governor of Michigan after the resignation of William Woodbridge, was deemed an able lawyer and faithfully discharged all the duties of this and many other political positions conferred upon him by the people.
John S. Barry served several terms as Governor—a dark-eyed, dark-complexioned, heavy man. Whenever any one imagined that he was a public officer to be used for purposes of private gain, he was mistaken. When you put your hand upon him for any such purpose, he was cold as the dorsal fin of a big fish in deep water, on Christmas day, out near Newfoundland. Your honeyed words did not mislead him. Your web of sophistry did not entangle him. He never took money out of the treasury that did not belong to him, and he did not intend that any one else should do so. If an official had thrust his hand into the treasury and drawn out, without sanction of the law, a sum of money, John S. Barry would have followed him the whole length of Grand River with a shot-gun and put a charge of duck-shot in him, unless he had dropped the money.
BIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES.
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