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Show ranyor of Colntuhns far some time and I city attorney four yeata lie was elected to the Fifty-first congress, receiving I 1S.210 votes against 17,506 for Henry Clay Duncan, Republican, and over 1,000 votes for other candidates. I Of his contest with Commissioner Raum he says that he aims to be "th ' champion both of the soldier and the i taxpayer," and though an unusually i strong fight was ma le against him in 1890 he was re-elected by a greatly in-I in-I creased majority. CONGRESSMAN COOPER'S RECORD. Something; Abont Mas Now Conspicuous Conspicu-ous In Pnblie Life. The Hon. Goorge W. Conper, of Indiana, Indi-ana, who has recently enjoyed himself bo greatly by having a "monkey-and-parrot time" with Pension Commissioner Raum, has been in his way a fighter from youth. In fact the surroundings of his early life in south central Indiana wade it necessary that he should fight bis way up if he was to go up at all. He was born May 21, 1851, in Bartholomew Bartholo-mew county, and had just reached the declaiming age in the common school vhen the war broke out. Indiana is always al-ways intensely political. During the war it was fiercely political, the southern south-ern half of it peculiarly so, and the regions re-gions around Columbus rao,t political of itU. The youth, therefore, gained an early reputation for political oratory, j Entering the Indiana university at Bloomington in 1868, Mr. Cooper took high rank from the start as a ready j speaker and a good scholar in tho cla- ! eics. The Hon. V. D. Bynum was in ' the senior class while Mr. Cooper was a : freshman, and their classmate say that i 9 (mm! w mm HO!f. GEOEOE W. COOPER. both had their aim fixed era congress then I as determinedly as at any subsequent time. Mr. Cooper's father was a merchant in Colnmbns, where the son still resides. Since graduating in 1872 he has been in the actire practice of the law, with politics poli-tics as a frequent diversion, and having got rid of the harsher features of his early oratory he has been a most effect-I effect-I ive speaker before the people and a "bad i man to run against" in politics. After beiuz yrouecutintf attorney four years, |