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THOS. R. MARSHALL
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Democratic Candidate For Vice President
i Was Born In Manchester, Ind., In 1854,
Was Graduated From an Indiana
fir - College and Has Practiced
Law Since 1875.
THOMAS RILEY MARSHALL
was born in Manchester, Ind..
March 14, 1854. He was grad
uated from Wabash college and
was admitted to the bar in 1875. He
began the practice of law in Columbia
City, Ind., and that city is still Ills
home, though of course while he is
governor of the state his official resi
dence is In Indianapolis.
Governor Marshall is an alert, spare
man, with smooth, iron gray hair, a
gray mustache and a pair of largo
bright eyes, which look keenly through
gold rimmed spectacles. He has a jaw
which overhangs his collar on either
side and reveals a disposition of ag
gressiveness. He is a man who speaks
his mind like the brisk Hoosler law
yer that he is.
Tom Marshall (as they call him In
his home town) lives in an Indiana
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THOMAS EILEY MABSHALL.
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home, the kind which makes tears well
up in the eyes and lumps adhere to
the throat of such a Hoosier gentle
man as James Whitcomb Riley." From
rooms full of real chairs made to sit
in and bookshelves full of real book?
to read one looks out of wide windows
on a turfy lawn with growing shrubs
and real trees down the Columbia City
main street, whicii has branches inter
laced for the three squares between
Tom Marshall's house and Tom Mar
shall's office.
As Judge Marshall he went Whit
tier's unhappy jurist one better. He
married the girl he met on the sum
mer's day. She was Miss Lois Kim
sey, who was taking notes of the trial
over which Judge Marshall was pre
siding at Steuben in 1895. Her father
was clerk of the court, and during the
trial it was frequently noted that the
judge came off the bench and visited
the desk of the clerk. Not so long
after Miss Kimsey became Mrs. Thom
as Riley Marshall of Columbia City.
Conflicts With Machine.
Governor Marshall was elected to his
present office in 1908. One remarkable
feature of his administration lies in
the fact that he has twice been in open
conflict with the Democratic state ma
chine under the leadership of Thomas
Taggart, has twice defeated it and yet
has in each instance brought his party
with a united front to the polls at the
succeeding election. In 1910 he forced
the state convention to nominate John
W. Kern as the party candidate for
the United States senate to succeed
Albert J. Beveridge. A campaign on
this issue was waged throughout the
state, and the governor won by a ma
jority of only-thirty in a convention of
1,750 delegates. The Democrats car
ried the state after a fight which won
countrywide recognition for its inten
sity, and Mr. Kern was elected. The
other conflict occurred when he was
first elected, because as governor he in
sisted on making his own appointments
to office. While some of the old ma
chine politicians questioned the politi
cal value of the appointees, neither
Republican or Democrat ever ques
tioned their fitness for the office for
which they were chosen.
Another Scholar In Politioa.
Although possessing more practical
knowledge of politics, because of his
experience in Indiana affairs, than
Governor Wilson of New Jersey, Gov
ernor Marshall is, like his distinguish
ed running mate, something of the
•Ww ia bo UUca. Education la one
of his hobbles, and his public docu
ments have won him something of
literary fame. He is a trustee of Wa t
bash college, Indiana, and has the de
gree of doctor of laws from Wabash
Notre Dame university, the University
of Alabama and the University of
Pennsylvania. He is not a "mixer" in
the political sense of that term, but
he is an amiable, genial, generous and
kind gentleman, who has no difficulty
In attracting friendships of the most
loyal and self sacrificing character.
His friends point to the doings of
the legislature of 1911, which was
Democratic in both houses, as repre I
senting pretty fairly his views on pub
lic questions. This record in Its im
portant details was as follows:
It ratified the income tax amend
ment to the federal constitution; It pe
titioned coneress to submit to the
amcfiuuient pro
7iding for the direct election of Unitec
States senators; it passed a corrupt
practices and campaign publicity law
An employers liability bill was enacted
on liberal the worklngman may
sue and does not contribute and tht
law abolishes the worklngman's waive)
and the fellow servant rule.
The railroad commission was em
powered to fix rates, and the tax boartf
was given enlarged power in such di
rection as the valuation of expres>
companies. Child labor laws were
strengthened; a cold storage limltatioi
was imposed; a standard of weight."-
and measures was established; sanitar;
schoolhouses with medical Inspection
of pupils were required; the block slg
nal was rendered obligatory on al
steam and electric railroads; a bureai
of inspection for factories, mines anf
boilers was established; a commissloi
to advance agricultural and industri»
education was formed; building an
loan associations were brought unde
state control; a system of uniform pub
lie accounting for air offices, large oi
small, throughout the state was per
fected.
Governor Marshall believes In a tarifl
tor revenue only. "Whenever con
-jress," he says, "under the guise of
raising money, makes an enactmenl
that in reality raises no money, but
simply makes you and me dig into
our pockets and hand over our small
coin to the protected manufacturers, 11
has ceased to be a government of
equal rights and fair play. Any sys
tem of tariff legislation now or here
after enacted, which Is so devised as
to enable a larger or smaller portion
of the American people to take tribute
of the residue of the American people,
is not conducive to the common good.''
Initiative, Referendum and Recall.
Governor Marshall has decided views
with respect to the initiative, refer
endum and recall. He would employ
the initiative and referendum only is
a last resort in remedying the known
evils of representative government,
placing his reliance first In an improve
ment of the standard of public service.
To the proposed recall of judges he Is
unalterably opposed.
In discussing the question of the In
sular possessions Governor Marshall
said:
"I never made but one speech on im
perialistic doctrine, and that time my
friends acted as though I had given
them a dose of hasheesh. The people
care as much about the yellow brother
{ as about Rameses III."
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MARSHALL'S THBORIEB
ABOUT GOVERNMENT.
As an old style Democrat, I'm
opposed to the government go
ing into business except as a last
resort. I believe that aome wis
dom on the part of the yallroads
will make such action unneces
sary. Government ownership of
railroads and telegraph and tele
phone lines is the last thing I
want to see.
Governments were not institut
ed to do business. Governments
were instituted to see that you,
if you are a corporation, can't
skin me, and that I can't sjtin
you. They were not instituted to
confiscate railroads. If govern
ment is to be plain business it's
time that the American people
knew it The crying need of this
hour and of this people is an im
mediate divorce of government
and business.
I am an income taxer. Person
ally I would much prefer to
have the income tax for the ben
efit of the state. However, I am
in favor of giving this power to
the national government, so that
those who have Incomes may
take son e of the burdens from
those who have none.
I do not approve of a ship sub
sidy. Payment of $100,000,000
per annum will not equal the At
lantic traffic alone. The way to
build up our merchant marine is
to change our navigation and
traffic laws. If you're going to
have ship subsidy, why not have
, Illinois put a duty on oranges,
so that Illinois owners of hot
i houses can go into the orange
] business? Or close up all the
j windows of this statebouse that
the electric light company can
I make money, or kill the horses
4 so as to force the use of automo
| biles?
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Broke Low Weight Record.
Until a dozen years ago Governoi
Marshall was r>o per cent up and 50
per cent down physically, but he prac
ticed law continuously and had a
large business for "a country lawyer.'
as he calls himself. He had sciatica,
dyspepsia and malaria intermittently,
md his weight during a period of flf
leen years was 101 pounds, some
ounces less and some ounces more at
times.
"Once after a lively run of typhoid
fever," he said, "I broke all the adult
records in the neighborhood by bal
ancing the beam at eight-eight pounds
scant. I doctored for years with regu
lars, specialists, old women and quacks
and then bought a fifty cent bottle of
mediciue and was cured."
GOVERNOR MARSHALL
AS SEEN BY HIMSELF.
I don't shoot I wouldn't step
on a worm If I could help it.
Seven years ago I established a
reputation as a fisherman. We
were on the lake at Petesky.
Mrs. Marshall caught a fine
string of perch and pike. 1 caught
five dogfish. I have never fished
since. I shall never fish again.
It is well that I didn't run for
governor at the age of forty-five,
instead of nearly ten years later.
In all probability I would have
ruined myself. Deficient In phi
losophy and in balance, 1 would
have spent all my accumulations
In a headlong struggle to win.
As it was, the state committee
asked me for SI,BOO. My stump
ing tour cost me sl,7oo—railroad
fare, hotel bills and a few cigars
for the boys. So Thomas R.
Marshall was elected governor of
Indiana In 1908 at a personal out
lay of only $3,500.
> I am a fatalist In lawsuits
t- and everything else I do all that
't I can while I am in the fight but
' I never worry about the out
-0 come. I am not responsible for
> results. If my client is accused
- of murder and the jury Is out I
1 go to bed and to sleep and get
the news after breakfast in thf
i morning. What is to be will be,
and staying awake will not
i change It
« MORALITY OF THE ELEPHANT
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He Makes a Cat's Paw of Boy's Hand
to Steal the Unhuaked
J Rice.
i Singular as It may seem, elephants
«' which have associated with men en
> tertain the notion that, under special
> circumstances, they are not responsi
' ble if they utilize another to commit
an illegal act The following Is an In
» stance of this elephantine morality:
> A man in Rangoon bought three
young elephants to eend to England.
They were tame and playful, but cun-
I nlng. Knowing that it was wrong to
steal paddy (unhusked rice) —the Idea
f had doubtless been Impressed upon
t them by punishment fbr stealing—
t - they would not touch It themselves
c Rut If a boy went to see them, he
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| An Indian Day.
In the dew-bespangled sunrise, while
.he air was caressingly cool, we weat
forth to ride along the river bank
8 &nd beside fields of yellow mustard or
a Jun stubble; then, on our return to
e the shadowed tents, a bath, breakfast,
|| and the day's occupations; then again,
In the swift dusk of evening, when fur
tive jackals rent the twilight stillness
s with walling and demoniac laughter,
■- or the silver bark of little foxes
y echoed over the mist-veiled rice-fields,
s white under the moon, we gathered In
a somfortable deck chairs in a great,
iim aisle of the mango grove, whil#
>- the tents shone orange In the lamp
s. light, to tell sad stories of the deaths
s 9f kinds, or listen to the Police Chota
Sahib, who had a pretty, sentimental
i- tenor, singing "The Long Indian
I] Day."—Charles Johnston, la the AX-
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lORY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912
HE DEPENDED ON HIS WIFE '
How the Nearsighted Old Msn Al
most Slept Himself to Death,
Never Eating.
It seems that an old man with some
property had married an elderly lady.
The lady was a sprightly dame, execu
tive, lively and keen. The bridegroom
could not see more than an inch be
rond his nose, and he was pretty hard
of hearing, too. So he depended a good
deal on his wife, you understand. He'd
wake up In the morning and wonder If
it wasn't time to get up for breakfast.
So he'd slide out of bed and look into
his wife's room. If she was up, he'd
begin dressing; if she was still in the
hay, he'd go back and have another
nap! Well, the lady got on to this habit
of his- She fixed up a dummy out of
bedclothes one morning Just before
she went downstairs. The old man
came Into the room an hour later,
squinted at the bed and said, "Anna's
still asleep," and went right back to
the feathers. •*- After he had slept
awhile he took another observation.
Same business.
It was ten days before he found out
how Jiis wife had been fooling him. He
blame near slept himself to death,
meanwhile. He never had a meal and
he got weaker and weaker, but he
sever get up. He didn't know it was
morning yet And the old lady had
the time of her life; she had saved
$14.36 In groceries alone.
Higglns, the driver of the pie wag
on, told us this. And he swears it's
true, but we swear not at all.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Kindly Scribe.
"The editor of the Weekly Plain
dealer is a charitable sort of feller,"
:ommented Farmer Hornbeck, In the
nidat. of his perusa) of the village
lewspaper, wherein he had encoun
ered an example of the linotype's
>ecullar perversity, says Puck. "In
ils article on the death of Lafe' Dab
sack, who. betwixt me and you,
ladn't much to recommend him ex
ept that he wasn't quite as bad some
ime as he wae others, he says teat
the deceased was generally regarded
s hljjdytcmfwypvbgkbgkbgbgkbzzhrr
irtdyshrdlu!"
"And I guess that's about as nenr
a anybody could get to making an es
lmate of the departed without hurt?
og his relatives' feelings."
Beware of Cousinsl
Cousins sre not as simple as they
seem. The very fact of being a cousin,
or having a cousin, is complicated.
The laissez-faire of cousinship is both,
eluding and deluding—cousins will be
cousins, even If you did not choose „
them. They can borrow money from
you, visit you without being asked, tell
people they belong to your family,
contest your will, even fall in love
with you—and a cousin once removed
is twice as apt to. Never completely
'rust a cousin—never depend on his
not 4olng any of these things. Never
take him for granted. The "cousinly
kiss" may or may not mean whit it
means. And cousins always do ki*s—
it's part of being cousins.
(Not thst cousins need necessarily
prove perilous. Once In a blus uioon
they invite you to Europe, or leave
fou money, but that almost always
an aunt or an uncle.) —Atlantic.
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White Goods, Laces
Figured Lawns Embroideries
Summer Silks Silk Hosiery
Waists Skirts
Kimonos and Gowns Muslin Underwear
Ladies' Shoes, Black, Tan and White
.
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Ribbons, Hair Bow Ribbons, in excellent quality at low prices.
For men we have
. Ties, Underwear, Suspenders, Hosiery, Cuff Buttons,
Collar Buttons, Stick Pins, Watch Fobs and Chains
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favors, and solicit a continuance of same for the coming season. It is our desire to
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