 Politics was his meat and drink, and nothing so delighted him as the opportunity to engage in political discussion in which he was apt to engross most of the time.On the stump he was a formidable antagonist and his experiences in this respect has probably never been equaled in Perry County.His knowledge of the roads, streams and by paths, the ravings and hollows, the school houses and places of public resort in Perry county was surpassed by no one.