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PROMINENT mm DEMOCRATS. ADLAI E. STEVENSON. Tb? Record of > Long end Active Public Career. No man in the Democratic party is more popular than is Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. Even his enemies admit that, however vigorous his antagonism, the manner of the man is charming. His geniality is his strongest personal characteristic, and it is needless to add that the possession of it has been of great social, political and peIn Kim Mia lifo hftS VUUiOij auf cuiiugv %v **?*??? mm# ?.. . bean a full and busy one?a life of affairs. And yet he has found time to spend a good many hours in the enjoyment of home and social pleasures. His career, though laden with incident and successful undertaking, may be epitomized in a paragraph or two. Hft was born on a farm in Christian county, Ky., Oct 23, 1835, and removed with his father's family to Bloomington, Ills., in 1852. His father was John Turner Stevenson, a native of North Carolina. A year after his removal to Illinois Adlai Stevenson entered Center oollege, Danville, Ky., and worked his way through the course, graduating in 1855. During vacations he taught school. In term time he added to his support by doing odd jobs outside of recitation hours. He was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1858, became district attorney in 1864, and in 1874 was elected to oongress. In 1886 he was appointed first assistant postmaster general. After the expiration of his term of nffirv* h? rpjtnmad to the nractioe of his profession until he was returned to public life in 1892.. Mr. Stevenson has a moet interesting family, consisting of a wife and four children. The person of Mr. Stevenson is built on a generous plan. His height is 6 feet 2 in his stockings, and he weighs more than 200 pounds. He stands as straight as a Norwegian pine in his polished boots, and his big blond head is fastened to his broad shoulders by a strong, firm neck. His arms and legs are long. His chest is broad and full, and his shoulders are well thrown back. His complexion is clear, and he looks like a man whose blood is pure and who knows not that he has a stomach. The popularity of Mr. Stevenson among old time Eentuokians is boundloss, and his ready fund of quip and anecdote furnishes them endless themes for admiring reminiscences of his occasional visits among them. JOHN T. MORGAN. A "Grand Old Man" and a Devout Christian. Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama was the originator of the ludicrous title of "cuckoos." He fixed it upon the single gold standard Democrats during the long drawn out debate on the silver question when the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was being considered in the senate. Senator Morgan may not be as accurate in his scholarship as other men in public life, but he knows a great deal about every thing. In this respect he resembles England's "Grand Old Man," Gladstone. He also resembles him mnch in the grace with which he carries his age, for he is 72 years old, but is as vigorous mentally and physically as most men at 50. He was born in the little town of Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824. Although his early education was meager, having left school at the age of 9 years, his retentive memory is today the wonder and the admiration of the United States senate. He never stepped his foot upon a college campus until one day during the war, when he had occasion to take his regiment behind the brick walls of William and Mary college to find protection from the minie balls and rifle ballets that were flying in their direction. At an early age he made up his mind that the Democratic party was the party of the constitution, and so he espoused its cause. His first entrance into public life was as a presidential elector for Breckinridge and Lane. Returning home after the war, he found the savings of his lifetime swept away, and he had to begin life over again. In 1876 he was made an elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket, and when the legislature met the fol- ? lowing January he was elected to the * United States senate, where he has * served ever since. His term expires in 1 1901. The subjects with which he is c most familiar are flnanoe, foreign af- 4 fairs and naval matters. He is and al- \ ways has been an ardent friend of the ^ free coinage of silver, believing in it as ? a principle upon which depends the prosperity of the nation. Hehasnosym- * pathy with the manipulation of a poli- 8 tician and would have politics as clean * as his own private life. He sincerely 1 and unostentatiously believes in the tenets of the Christian religion. "I believe, "said he the other day, "in the Holy Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, and I know that without Chris (llOUltJ XU UUl ^VTCIUUICUV lliU vtajvsav fabric of onr institutions would fall to the ground." JOHN W. DANIEL. An Orator of the Old School, but Up to Date on Politic*. John Warwick Daniel, the Virginia senator who is one of the props of the Democracy in the Old Dominion, is a man of unique personality and peculiar gifts. As a typical, picturesque southern politician he has few superiors. His eloquence is of that stately old school style that made Patrick Henry famous, and yet, while Blightly grandiloquent in his method, the matter of his talk is strong and generally effective. Senator Daniel is a native of Lynch ? J i I? 1 CM O C7a DtLrg, va.f ailU wtuj uuru 1U received his education at Lynchburg a oollege and at Dr. Gessner Harrison's 8 University schooL He served in the Con- a federate Army of Northern Virginia c throughout the war and became adjutant f general on General Early's staff. He t studied law in the University of Vir- jj ginia, was admitted to the bar in 1866 E and has practioed ever sinoe. He has ^ served in both branches of the Virginia legislature. In 1881 he was run for y governor and defeated by W. R Cam- y eron, Readjustee His friends next put E him forward for higher honors, and he e was elected to the Forty-ninth congress. E On March 4, 1887, he took his seat in j the United States senate, succeeding E William Mahone, and was re-elected by t unanimous vote in 1891. His term of j office will not expire until March 8, 0 IfiftO -i In feature Senator Daniel is considered to resemble the late Edwin Booth, ^ and there is, indeed, a suggestion of the 8 theatrical in his methods, as there was ^ in the half purpose he onoe had of retir- j ing from public life and going into the 0 field as a preacher of the gospeL How- fc ever, his oratory in the senate of the United States has been notably fine and has won for him a national reputation. CHARLES ^\_CRISP. . * A. Man Who Believes the Nation Can Take Care of IUelf. ? Personal angles make a crank; roundness, a statesman. Charles Frederick . Crisp of Georgia is round, not angular. He has grown so gradually until he has t a national reputation. He has calmness and clear judgment. He is simple and ^ unostentatious, and he is a family ., man from the crown of his bald head to . the soles of his easy fitting shoes. He was born in England in 1845 and came . to this country when a child. His par- ^ enta were actors, and so was young Crisp for awhile, and a mighty poor one, it is said. He served in the Confederate army and afterward studied law and practiced for six years. He was made solicitor general and afterward a judge ol the superior conn, dux. gave up mo judicial office to accept an election in the Georgia legislature. In 1888 he was elected to congress and was a hardworking member of a that body for several years. "While \ speaker of the house he declined the ap- 2 pointment as senator to succeed Colquitt a because he thought he could bo of more use to his party where he was. He was c considered a fair and impartial speaker, a and the conservative Democrats were C well pleased with him, although he per- e sonally leans toward the radical ele- i ment on the silver question and some c other issues. He believes this nation is t big enough and rich enough to take care i of itself. He fancies also that it is wise e enough to devise some equable monetary t system that would put us on a sound as 1 well as satisfactory basis; that there is not gold enough to give us the currency t that we absolutely need. Mr. Crisp is a i dignified and impressive speaker. His i voice is clear and ringing, and during i all the controversies when he was lead- t ir and speaker of the house he never for p i moment lost his temper or his head. J le married Clara Bell Burton, and ai Urs. Crisp herself says she has never vi egretted one-sixteen-hundredth part G if a second that she married him, al- ti hough her parents strongly opposed it It tlr. and Mrs. Crisp have had seven chilIren, of whom four are living. Conpressman Amos Cummings has said c hat Mr. Crisp is absolutely the only democrat whom Speaker Reed never uoceeded in disconcerting in the house. ,] le will take an active part in the com- < ng campaign. RICHARD PARKS BLAND. ? ketch of One of the Flrat ud Moat Ar- 01 dent Silver Champion*. h< Richard Parks Bland, the apostle of ^ ree silver, is a Kentnckian by birth, ^ at moat of his 61 years he has spent A rest of the Mississippi. He went to n dissouri when he was 20, and after ten to ears spent in roaming settled down at lollo and commenced the practice of aw, with his brother as a partner. Four 'ears later he removed to Lebanon, and ds home has been there ever since, alii crugh he has spent most of the time or the last twenty odd years in Washngton. , Mr. Bland was elected to congress in 872, but his term did not begin until darch, 1878, not quite one month after he demonetization of silver. From that \ I lay to this he has steadily sought to re- K tore and keep the white metal on the (edestal of its former glory. He has ^ teen so persistent in his speechmaking ^ ind bill drafting in the interests of free ilyer that his name has become almost jc , household word, and he has Rained not ?ly a national bnt an international " tune as a ohampion of silver. During i he 11 terms which he has served he tas never let up for an instant and is iow looked upon as the most reliable ^ eheel horse in the free silver team. Mr. Bland is not one of those men pho "have "made politics pay." He finds a eiy little time to give to his law busi- ^ less, and it is largely owing to the enrgy of his wife that his 400 acre farm tear Lebanon is not a complete failure. D) le has a large family and lives in very ^ aodest style. Mr. Bland himself is ^ horoughly democratic. When at home, t is his custom to ride into town Once ^ r twice a week astride an ancient pony, iollie by name. ^ He spends most of his time when at ,, iome in a small, plainly furnished , tudy in one corner of the house. There ^ ie writes exhaustive speeches about ^ [nance and "the crime of *73" and reoiuM viio Tritritnrs with nasv irrace and lomely hospitality. CLAUDE MATTHEWS. 1m Farmer Governor of Indiana and HU Very Interesting Career. ^ Claude Matthews, the farmer governr of Indiana, is one of the striking . igures in western politics. He is no c lection day agriculturist, but an actual armer, and, like Cincinnatus, he vir- . nally left the plow to take a hand in J* he political affairs of the common- ^ wealth. He is a strong, resolute man, a the prime of life, and his personal tegrity and statesmanlike capacity iave made him the most popular as /ell as the most respected Democrat in he Hoosier State. This fact has been videnced by the wonderful manner in chich he has repeatedly reduced Retublican majorities. Governor Matthews is a Kentuckian ,nd a son of the soil of the "Dark and lloody Ground." Bethel, Bath county, ras the scene of his birth and Dec. 24, 845, the date of the interesting event, le attended Center college and at the ige of 28 married Miss Martha R. h Vhitcomb, the only child of Governor ci ramps Whitcomb. who governed Indi- P tna from 1843 to 1846. t< In 1869 he removed to Vermilion b ounty, Ind., and devoted himself to tgricultural pursuits three miles from d Clinton. He was an enthusiastic and h uccessful tiller of the soil and became t* jarticularly conspicuous in his locality d is a stock breeder. He is a member of n he Farmers' Mutual Benefit association n rnd lived on his farm until he was " sleeted governor. In 1876 he became ci he first Democratic representative from u Vermilion county. si In 1890 he was chosen by a Demo- ci sratio convention as secretary of state p ind carried Indiana by a plurality of tJ learly 20,000. In April, 1892, he was ^ lominated for governor of Indiana on tl ;he first ballot. He was elected by a o: lurality of 6,976, and his term expires an. 9, 1897. In 1898, when the local : athorities and the attorney general ere defied by the Roby prizefighters, overnor Matthews called ont the milia and suppressed the Columbian Ath:tic club. HORACE BOIES. areer of a Farmer, a Lawyer and a States- , man. Horace Boies, who looms up among le Democratic possibilities as Iowa's ivorite son, is a stanch adherent of J ee silver and tariff reform. He was ( orn about 68 years ago in a little vilige near Bufifala He was brought up j n a farm and at tVifi no? rvf 16 left ome to make a fortune for himself in ( le wide west He landed in Racine, rts., with just 75 cents in his pocket. , iter working for farmers for awhile he ( )turned to New York without a for- 1 me, but with a determination to get ; w a education. Supporting himself by sing chores for a lawyer, he attended le academy at Springville, N. Y., and pplied himself diligently to the study f law. In 1852 young Boies was admitted to le bar, took a wife and settled in the >wn of Hamburg, near Buffalo. At that me he was an active Republican and as rewarded by being sent to the state gislature. He had become one of the lost prominent lawyers in the western ' art of the state and removed to Bufilo, where he met Grover Cleveland, . ion district attorney. In 1887 Mr. Boies removed to Water- ( >0, la., the home of his wife's parents. .6 bought a large tract of land and ac- 1 aired considerable political prestige, p to 1882 he had been an ardent Re- ' nblican, but in that year he came out , ir Mr. Cleveland, stumping Iowa in , le interests of the latter and tariff re- j >rm. This made something of a sensa- . on, and when in 1889 the Iowa Demo- ; ate nominated him for governor he as elected, it being the first time the ?rty had won a state election in Iowa I >r 40 years. In 1891 Mr. Boies was Terminated, but was defeated. Since that . me he has lived quietly at Waterloo, here be carries on an extensive law , ractice and manages a farm of 2,600 sres in extent Mr. Boies is a very popular man in , is party. He is what politicians call a mixer," meeting all men on the same lane ard extending cordial sympathy : a cheery greeting to high and low like. JAMES E. CAMPBELL. I>0 Ohio Mascot and His Wonderful CamIn a RannhlIran fitatfl. James Edwin Campbell, one of the ( emocratio political giants of Ohio, , )mes of good old Scotch ancestry and . aces his family tree away back to the J an Oampbell of the highlands. He | as born in Middletown, O., on July 7, , 348, and is consequently in his fifty- J lird year. In his youth he longed to ?come a sailor, and in 1868 his ambion was gratified. At the age of 20 he ( . I ecame a master's mate on the gunboats Ilk and Naiad, serving in the Missisippi and Red river flotillas, and was jpeatedly under fire. After the war he studied law and was , imitted to the bar. He was elected rosecuting attorney in Butler county 1 l 1875 and re-elected in 1877. Three ' mes he was elected to congress in a 1 lepublican district and was looked npq as a political mascot by the Demorats. His wonderful strength and his reat popularity led to his nomination )r the governorship in 1889. He made ne of his vigorous and well managed unpaigns and was elected governor^ a 1891 he came to the front again as a indidate, and after a spirited cam- 1 aign, that attracted the interested atjntion of the entire country, he was eaten by the Hon. William McKinley. ' In August 1895, the Democracy was J etermined to again place him at the ead of the ticket He was equally dejrmined to remain out of tho fight and uring the convention, when the nomi- i ation was being forced upon him, he lade one of his characteristic speeches. I will tell you that I have made five 1 ampaigns in the last ten years, always | nder the most unfavorable circum- ; tances," he said. "These are the cirn??otanfloa wrVonVi KftVO TTIA ' UUiOVUUWO nu*vu UM ? V V>W|?W.VW . hysically and financially, and I may Bay iat if I had not been very careful they i ould have depleted me morally. If lis convention is composed of friends f mine. I ask them not to nominate me." His request was ignored. He was nominated, and he met defeat at the November election. < Ex-Governor Campbell is a clear, logical speaker, an excellent lawyer and a wonderful "hustler" in a campaign. JAMES K. JONES. rhe Self Made Man From Arkansas Whoee Work Does Him Credit. Senator James Kimbrough Jones of < Arkansas went into public life by the ] sheer force of his native ability. He is ; me of the self made men, and no j great fault could be found with his ] handiwork. His successes have been of < the steadily growing, cumulative kind ] that come to those who deserve them, t He is at all times a prominent figure in j the Democratic party, and just now, as ] one of the leaders of the Democracy of the south, his position is distinctly commanding. Mr. Jones is a native of the state of Mississippi and was born Sept. 29, 1839, in Marshall county. His parents, however, were residents of Tennessee, [n 1848 the family moved to Arkansas and settled in Dallas county. They were In comfortable circumstances, living on i good plantation and owning negroes. Ho served through the war as a ConFederate soldier and afterward settled iown to the practice of law. His first political potdtion was as member of the state senate, to which he was elected in 1873. He was re-elected to the same 1 body the next year and in 1875. In 1 1877 he was elected president of the ' senate and served in that capacity one 1 apaaimv He was elected to the Forty-seventh ; ingress and was re-elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth congresses. 1 thereafter he was elected to the United 1 3tates senate to succeed James D. Wal- i ker and took his seat in 1885. He was ' re-elected in 1890, and his term of office will not expire nntil March 8, 1897. Senator Jones is a poor man. He has always been a poor, plodding country ' lawyer, satisfied with a limited practice and small fees. He went modestly into the senate without any tooting of 1 trumpets. He seldom appeared in de- 1 bate, but made himself felt in the com- 1 mittee room, and was soon recognized as a man of exceptional ability, to whom ' weighty matters were referred with en- : tire confidence in his capability in the ' management of them. JOSEPH C. S. BLACKBURN. J 4 Few Words About the Kentucky Cham plon of Silver. ] Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn is the unabbreviated name of that bold Kentnckian who has championed the cause of silver in the teeth of fiercest opposition and carried the day in many hard Fought battles. From a Democratic standpoint Senator Blackburn has long been one of Kentucky's favorite sons, and his recent successful piloting of the silver issue has carried him to a position of still greater popularity. Joe Blackburn, as he is familiarly called all over his native state, was horn in Woodford county, Ky., Oct. 1, 1838. After attending Sayres institute at Frankfort, Ky., be entered Center college, at Danville, Ky., and was graduated in 1857. He studied law in Lexington, Ky., was admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Chicago until 1861. During the civil war he served in the Confederate army. In 1865 he resumed the practice of law in Kentucky. He was a member of the Kentucky leg- | islature in 1871 and 1878. In 1874 he ' was chosen a member of congress as a 1 Democrat and served by re-election tin- 1 til 1885. In that year he was elected UDited States senator to succeed John S. Williams, took his seat March 4, 1885, and was re-elected in 1890. He has served on the most important senate committees and is an eloquent debater, although inclined to become ' 'long winded" when talking on some subject j in which he is particularly interested. There is nothing artificial about Sen- . ator Blackburn, and his quiet country life when at home is in keeping with j the simplicity and wholesomeness of his character. He lives in a pleasant old 1 country house on Rose Hill, the princi- 1 pal residence thoroughfare in Versailles, without any attempt at ostentation or even style. Every member of his family idolizes him, and even the servants have a worshipful regard for him. J His habits of dress are also unconven- ' tional, and anybody would know him t for a Kentuckian at sight c WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Duetr of on Eloquent Champion of Froo Ulm. It has been said that William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska "won fame in J in hour" by his address on the tariff in J jongress in March, 1892, but his race 1 for fame began 12 years prior to that J late, for he was a student of political * sconomy at a very early age and was on the stump before he was old enough to rote. Mr. Bryan was born, in Salem, [lis., March 19, 1860. Hisfather was a prominent lawyer and a circuit court judge. Young Bryan graduated at the J Illinois college and at the Union Law J college; then he married Miss Mary E. - | Baird and put out his shingle as an at- ? torney. His total income for the first six months was $68; after that he had a fine ufl practice. His wife has also been admit ted to the bar, and she is in mare senses than wives usually are a helpmeet to tier husband. They have a delightful little home and several bright children. Mr. Bryan is a smooth faced, 6lean ' rot, handsome man, a fine speaker and a ready debater. He is an ardent tariff reformer. Sinoe his retirement' from rongress he has been active upon ooca- >., nons in spreading tne iree hutht prupa- . n ganda all over the great west and down 1 Into New Mexico. He never fails to se- J rare converts. He began his ccmgresrional career by carrying an overwhelm* 1 ingly Republican district by 7,000 ma |ority. Although his views on finance I are at variance with those of some of I the great Democratic statesmen, recent I ievelopments have shown that he is in advance rather than in the rear of 1 Democratic progress. As long ago as I May, 1895, in a speech in Missouri, Mr. 1 Bryan said he believed the Democratic * 1 party would take its position at the I next national convention and deolare in Its platform for the free coinage of sil* 4 J rer at 16 to L M JOHN R. M'LEAN. I 4 Man of Pluck and Boilnta and PolltS? ? cal Activity. 1 John R. McLean is plucky in every* - 1 thing he undertakes. He was a baseball j catcher at one time, and a more deter- fl mined one never faced a pitoher. Harry. n Wright was one of the men be caught Jj For, and that was before the days of 1 masks and stomach pads. After his base- .. I ball enthusiasm was partially kndbked 1 ont by a fonl tip, which took him to a 1 Hta mnnlhu rfmftir Ml 1 impaired eye, his next ambition was to * v. print the best newspaper in Ohio. He inherited the Cincinnati Enquirer * from his father, and while there may be some question as to the realization of I bis efforts he has certainly succeeded ^ j in building up an extremely influential I and profitable newspaper. Then he fell j a victim to the wiles of Cupid and mar- j tied Hiss Mary T. Beale, daughter of I General Edward F. Beale of Washing- I ton. The bride was about 25 years old I at that time and the groom ten years 1 her senior. He has one of the swellest of the swell houses in Washington, en- * tertains handsomely and has among his guests the biggest men of both the Republican and Democratic parties. Two i or three years ago he said he would not accept any political position, but preferred the life of a private citizen. His name, however, has been prominently mentioned as a factor at the Ohi oago convention, and his pluck and en- ** terprise would give decided picturesquecess to the political contest He is an ?vnwftd adherent to the free silver theory, and bis paper, The Enquirer, is a stanch supporter of the causa His experience with the New York Journal Dot long since was not entirely as he could have wished, but he forsook the enterprise manfully and without a shadow upon his business and profesisonal capacity. Mr. McLean is very wealthy. Some people estimate that he is worth $20,000,000. He is a large bolder of real estate in Oinoinnati, a heavy owner of street railway stock in Washington and the ohief stockholder * in the principal gas plant of that cityBe is about 45 years of age, handsome, % practical and farseeing in a business sense. IFrance taxes bicycles at the rate >f about $2.25 each per year; the tax + fields about $400,000 per annum. 'Pedaleurs" and "pedaleuses" are the erms which Parisians now employ to lesignate cyclists of the two sexes. p