I BIOGRAPHY OF THOS. R. MARSHALL HOMARS RILEY MARSHALL, the Democratic nominee was unimpeachable and he had always made a strong | for Vice President, although a Hoosier by birth, is to the homely common sense of American citizenship. He scion of one of the oldest and most notable families a reputation as a trial lawyer of great ability, he was strong { a Old Dominion with the church people of the State and he was well known as e Marshalls of Virginia, from the days of the father of a “sound man” who had always been frank in all cireum. he Chief Justice of that name, have taken rank with stances and who was as incapable of deceiving himself as to Washingtons, the Randolphs, the Lees and other notable what was right or wrong as he was of permitting himself to families whose tories are part of the history of the Stats be deceived by others and of the nts Marshall accepted the nomination and won—won by his In the estimation of his political associates, Tom appeal to the “plain people” and his condemnation of every. is he is called in Indiapa, is & worthy complement thing that savored of political favoritism. His shrewd wit row Wilson as a running mate. Like Gov. Wilson, Gov. Mar aud homely phrasing of what everybody knew, his fearless shall is regarded as an excellent campaigner, and like the New attitude toward the boss and the machine and his frank state- Jersey Governor, he makes his most effective points in caustic ment of the issues won him a plurality of 25,000 or there py r witty epigrams abouts above his ticket His private life is a domestic poem, and his public career Marshall was known at that time, and is yet, as s man of an open book, embracing the administration of State affairs peace. He likes ease, and is opposed to the .strenuous life so Indiana since 1909 far as bis tastes go. He openly avows that he never split Like Wilson, he is the Democratic Goverpor of a normally rails, and says that his favorite exercise is reading. Republican State, He was re-elected on his first term record. This led the party bosses to take a very erroneous view of He was re elected in spite of the machive, and after a decisive Tom Marshall, the Governor-to-be. They classed him as a | victory over the boss, Tom “reformer,” and made capi- Taggart, who has been at tal of the classification. In the head of the Ilandiana his first campaign, when be Den rat machine since was little known, the classi- the days of Vice President fication helped him, Hendricks and Senator A big liquor fight was on. Dauel Voorhees Taggart was lined up with With respects t the liquor interests, but did G vol dare to openly oppose nt « the overwhelming senti. to Gov ment for local option. He hame State be is ut up with a nominee of as of Presiden arshall’s stripe because he well equipped to classed all reformers as the office of mere talkers who could be || esident should the oecca- depended upom to take or arise things easy or give them. I es Ri Marshall was selves up to the advise of bx la: ter, Ind. In nterested friends when the S54 He + 5 ¢ ate at f ame \! ers ' NDEPENDENT IND : p Y NAFRAID id fashioned LE : ol education and the old fash Jn this they were fooled. 4 y ’ 2 ¢ + at : ER Y Lo y ' Ma th ki that J ERC r any who. as President of Wa hing elise that he thinks is bash University, drilled him worth fighting for. He the nrinciples and his does not muster. His fight. ae Republic's ing takes the form of def. tory ho xan pi Bk nite, weilconsidered action ’ Man . that strikes at the root of We studied the Federal. the matter, and takes little ist and “The St te Papers, account of who is hit, or Gibbon, Macaulay and even destroyed, so long as Hume,” he says, “and had the common weal is con- to bejome familiar with the served and pledges are car great American cases, the ried out in the spirit in Dred Scot decision, the which they are given. Dartmouth College case and Marshall said what he such famous cases tii thought and was unafraid drill is calculated to fit me as a candidate, and when to take part in affairs as Thomas Riley Marshall. he took office as Governor merican citizens . - § “He ” eres the founders of the Republic and considers them he began at once to redeem his party's Pltdges and hy at far superior to “the so-called” statesmen of the present day, that the laws are properly executed,” regardiess of what he says, are pigmies in comparison anybod thought was good polities Marshall began life as a country lawyer, and but for his He had returned to hus friends ail the money they had con- ind common sense in refusing to run for Congress on the . . ..3 for his campaign expenses, and was under no obliga Democratic ticket when asked to do so in 1808 would prot tions that could conceivably interfere with his official duty to ably have passed his days Wp comparative obscurity When the people He began to fight from the day he took office. offered the nomination be said ne w- He did it in an impersonal way. He made fewer enemies than He was urged to run on the ground that it was his turn any man in public life who has opposed as he bas such ele to be defeated as every other de ent Democrat In Se ais mons of his own party rict had been”; but he stood firm and said he would not con “There is nothing personal in my politics” be said once, sider politics as a © cation and would mot accept any nomins when questioned intimately as to the reason for this. “Politi- ion k less office than Governor of his State. cal feuds come from men trying personally to aggraadize FORLORN HOPE TO VICTORY themselves, 1 don’t believe a man to be a scoundrel just be In 1908, when the party was searching for a man to lead caus he does not agree wich ne, Fu an appeal 0 he looked like a forlorn hope, his dictum was recalled and patriotism of big men with better resu ny nvited to lead. He was without enemies, his record by tl m————
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