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Show NEW MEN OF NO IE. ' Y rirrnl Trio hi Illinois Congressmen with Records to Make. There seerus to bo no end to the sur- r.riw nnl complications resulting from thd lata election. Perhaps the most intpnso interest is in Illinois, (ion. John M. P.ilnier is tha clioiro of the Democrats for United fct.-itf3 stniitorj he was. contrary to cus torn, dominated at the Ix-ginning and the cnn;uii(;n was fought through on that r.);'i rstar.ding. Tlie legislature oa jjiut ballot stands, Ke' ublicans 101, 0 fH COCKHXr.L, MOORE. TACliK.NKCK. 1 Democrats 100. Farmers' Mutual Benefit Allinnce 8. With two of these the Ito-public-itis can elect a Henatcr; to elect rainier tho Democrats must have all three. The chances are for u tie, 102 to 102. if these fanners vote according to jirevions political afiiliations. But they may stand out anil compel . one of the other partios to join them lu electing a FarniHrs' Alliance man. Th three gentlemen who hold snch powera are much cultivated just now. At their head is Dr. Uosea H. Moore, of Wayne county, who is president of tho national assembly of the F. M. B, A. lie is a native of Illinois, 47 years old, a gradu- ate of tho Ann Arbor Medical college, mini of means and of character nnd ability. abili-ty. Jlowasa Democrat, and the question ques-tion of the hour is, will he vote for : rainier? James Cockrell, of Marlon comity, was also a Democrat, but has been nn inde-jiendent inde-jiendent since 1878. He is 50 years old, bom on the farm where ho now lives ' declares that he has no bias toward either of the old parties and thinks the F. A. men should seize the occasion to pnt their own candidate in the senate. Some twenty miles southeast of Terra Haute, in a thriving community of German Ger-man farmers, lives Herman M Taube-iieck, Taube-iieck, third of this important trio. II is a native of the county he represents i Clarke some UO years old, of a Repub-licnu Repub-licnu family, but a ''Greenbacker" from the first and now an Alliance man, a man of great intelligence and good character, char-acter, j Another prominent niinoisan is Uol Herbert Waller Snow, who defeated tha Hon. Lewis E. Payson in the Ninth district, dis-trict, though the latter hud 2,888 major- 1 ity over him two years ago. Col. Snow is a native of Laporte county, Ind., M l i CAni.E. Itll.LF.B. SXOW. BABBITT. ;-ear old, a farmer and a lawyer, a thoroughly self made man and a soldier with a brilliant record lie was a Re-uhilc.m Re-uhilc.m tintil tbe tariff issue bocume proinineut. The "Oshkosh Greek," as he Is called, trill be another prominent man in tha S'ifty-seor.n I congress. He was born, a near as can be detertninod, iu Greece in :tiX Hit 1'it'ier wiw slain in battle w:.ti the Turks, his mother died of grief and exposure, and the infant boy was found upon the battlefield by an American Ameri-can named Miller. He brought the child norue, named biin Lucas Miltiades Wilier, fc'ave him a good education and a clunoe to start in law practice. The lad settled at Oshkosh in 1S40 and became cn active and prominent citizen. As an cCfk'trof the territorial militia he acquired ac-quired the title of colonel, has served iu the legislature and held other important cnicea. Hie nomination for congress by tho Democrats was considered a mere compliment, yet he defeated the present member, Hon. G. B. Clark, who had a majority of 8,701 in iS88. Another brilliant success Is that of Hon. Btn T. Cable, of Rock Island, who will represent the Eleventh Illinois district dis-trict as a Democrat, though it is usually strongly Republican. He is a native lllinoisan, 3ti years old and a graduate cf Ann Arbor university. A much greater surprise was the election of Hon. Clinton Clin-ton Babbitt from the First Wisconsin district, as tho Republican majority ia n.u;illy some 4,000. Ho is the only son cf Judgo Nathan Babbitt, of Cheehira county, N. U., where tlie future con-gresMuan con-gresMuan was born iu 1831. He has held few minor offices, but has taken a very : active part in agricultural organizations. : |
