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Show THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. Perhaps few of the younger genera-lion genera-lion of American voters know anything about the nominee of the Democrats for Vice-President, the Hon. Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia. Yet in his day he was a man both famous and prominent, high In the National councils, and higher In the councils of his party. Mr. Davis was born In Washington, D. C, November 16, 1S23, educated at the county schools, but as his father died he went to work at an early age; he became a plantation superintendent, railway man, then merchant and a leading lead-ing coalman, becoming very wealthy. Kc built and was president of two coal roads, was a National banker, and general gen-eral business man. He was a member of successive State Legislatures In West Virginia, and was United States Senator from that State for two terms, 1S71 to 1SS3. He has been a delegate to six National Democratic conventions, was one of the delegates to the Pan-American Congress in the City of Mexico in 1901, and Is a member of the United States Intercontinental Railway Commission. Com-mission. His home is at Elkins, West Virginia. He Is father-in-law of United State Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia. Mr. A. G, Holden, managing man-aging director of the United States Mining Mi-ning and Smelting Company of this place, married a niece of Mr. Davis. Mr, Davis has always been a strong partisan, but it was supposed that he had absolutely retired from political life, on account of extreme age, for he will be 81 years old In November next. But his money Is always now, and a "barrel" Is always a mighty attraction to a Democratic convention. |
