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Show Iv I'rCsldeuf.lsoino inpScs Toft and i Sve so far been "rficf macistTacv. nomination i?n crnrio of our eu-tI,e-a ffit of Martin for President bv n,c ,wv in spite of Vn&s below tho nVfor that office ,J penitentiary com-fivc com-fivc rear term lor mlcr. ' Piston was ar?"So in -Memphis. Kelvins c""'ll" became an electric af'Gohlfield, cv., So there, three ac ohp of the ofbeers ?f Vorkcrs, acted While so encaced imon Bilva. a salooir- cd and con-f con-f t second decree tic Nevada state - on Mav 20, W07. five year 'term. The fir "who I'laced his -it the recent cou-vasn;(l cou-vasn;(l that it made ifcr Prcsron was bo-"eonlittions bo-"eonlittions arc not the people lor s Because a Felon, ion bv nominating thcr deterrent- hat. he eves of the luff, . rights of a citizen 'ted for lew lb" even o penitentiary was ist Luboritcs accept c category of mar-Havwood, mar-Havwood, recently in the murder of re, was elevated bv u. Hie .Socialists ii that the strike as the protector of raced the ri-staurant out to kill Preston, him in self-defense, je, the jpiry thought ro has boon oxem-rions oxem-rions and intelligent itcnanec," ihe war-iary war-iary informs me in irv concerning this life in orison. Per; efton will make of in Valjean. Let us ke3 cood after sur-ncc sur-ncc he will perform inn winning. :i Prcs-Vith Prcs-Vith Prison Record, with a prison rec-he rec-he is proud is Ku-isain Ku-isain named for the Socialists proper, as ; asio bv the same irs ago by the ' So-)ebs. So-)ebs. who is now 5.1. Haute. Tud., where cr receiving a eoni-ii eoni-ii he became n loco-the loco-the Terrc Haute & 1 v;hen only .10, and the engines of that lie entered a whole anil there worked inr interested him-via him-via elected city clerk ring four years, and id wont to" the letris-tcK-d ihc Brothcr-ive Brothcr-ive Firemen while id. lie 'had "romniupd mion, aud when 2." jrand secretary and ishion he held until clinscn president of ay Union. The year came the grent rnil-aco. rnil-aco. when President mt the federal troops ted States mails. It tier controversy and that Debs came into &na;er of the strike. Iiroress he was nr-ispiracv, nr-ispiracv, but acquitting acquit-ting for contempt of :ian injunction. On ie served the term in s which has since m-lhc eyes of n cer-c cer-c population. Hp is agitator of the fire-ulready fire-ulready being heard a Self-Made Man. residential nominee. n i a man of big wn far more widely He is of Quaker o of Theodore Jioosc- revolutionary Gov Mr. Watson's anees-me anees-me sat in the revolu-1 revolu-1 of the state. But il his parents, and they saved after o. in the groat panic were dnvpu from the eia plantations, belli be-lli and the Ogeechoe. free 1: c-faccd lad. hud a tuition from a Bap-."jo Bap-."jo 'poor and do- the latter's endow-. endow-. Ins parcut3 wera f. Pay his hoard lie Js ;lo i work. Xexl he school, one of wi,0go isfoCrcd a,,d - the skin not "'to bo o abused otherwise." written by tho trus, Marnor District L.n 11 abusive Ian-"JOS Ian-"JOS and swearing ia 1 t i,hcrc hh'M 1,0 l l ,,lU, 1,0 "o climb-t climb-t in cm, i No indent --llliSlipolor on there way too or from school, nor no news to be carried too or from school." Was a Fanh Laborer. Between terms at this "Centrinl Ac-endnmy" Ac-endnmy" Tom Watson worked as a farm laborer and durintr sessions boarded board-ed with a. farmer who lent -him the money to buy his first lavf book, which he studied by the glare of this friend's pine knot lire. In spite of these handicaps han-dicaps he was admitted to the bar at 1J) and at twenty returned home and opened an office. Up now had not a do-j do-j cent change of clothinjr to his back, I but one of his former schoolmasters, li. IT. Pearec. gave him his lirst lift by offering to-trust him for a whole year's board. The receipts of Tom Watson's first yar us an attorney were 212, and the first $20 that came in he sent to his mother. The second year he re-established his parents, brothers and sisters I in one of the old family homes which had gone beneath the shorift'Vhaninicr, and from here, witli his dinner Nu ' a kettle, he walked three miles to ofiicc every morning, also three miles back each afternoon. Before, long he was earning $12,000 a year and had bought back several thousands of acres of the ancestral estate. His political debut, made when but twenty-four, was a fiery speech delivered on tho minority side of a hot debate in a Democratic State convention. The frail, red-headed rustic lawyer was unknown wlion he rose. At lirst he was greeted with groans, but before he had finished his audience cheered with delight, and every one asked his name. Two ycar3 later his ueiglfbors "sent him to' the Legislature, and in 1SSS ho stumped for Cleveland, aud was a Democratic elcc-tor-'at -large. ' Next he led a fight against .tho juto bagging trust, and in reward for this tho farmers elected him to Congress. But after his election he camo out as a Populist. This disgusted his Democratic friends, who when he was a candidate again in 1S02 and 1S9'J. counted him out, he claims, and deliberatclv gave tho certificate of election to his opponent, op-ponent, Steadfastly claiming those two elections, he carried his contest to the House of Beprcsentaf ives, but there lost. During his term in tho House he secure'd the first appropriation for rural mail delivery over passed by Congress, Con-gress, aud in 1S9U, two years after his final contest for a seat in the House, he was nominated for Vice-President on the Populist ticket with Bryan. After thai strenuous campaign he again accused ac-cused the Democrats of unfair treatment. treat-ment. Four years ago the Populists nominated him for President, and ho started an -active campaign to revive tho parly. Sis he wilL do again this autumn, following his second nomination nomina-tion for the highest ofiicc. Mr. Watson s real life work, not com-meiicpd com-meiicpd until after the campaign of ST I JS9G. has been the writing of history, lu two years he produced his "Story of France." aud two years later Ins "Life of Jefferson," whilo in two years moro his pen has produced his ''Napoleon," ''Na-poleon," which has been followed by another book ou Jefferson, besides a novel, ''Dcthany, a Story of the Old I South." Ilo has published four maca zincs has two on the stalls now. Ilo has written poems and still plays tho fiddle. Wallace Putnam Reed ouco said that his slight figure and llashiug eyes suggested "a soul of flame in a body of gauze." 4 He is still a lean and hungry Cassias, and already is upon tho hustings bitterly attacking his former runuing-mato and present rival for the Presidency, Air. Bryan. lie will have celebrated his fif ty-socond birthday birth-day on rlio cvo of tho publication of this article. Began as Clothing Storo Clerk. Another presidential nominee who came into local fame by chasing the m:: test ' I octopus is "Honest Tom'-' Hisgen, known in his family Biblo as Thomas L, He is three years younger than !Mr. Debs, and two years younger than Mr. Watson will be an even fiftv a few weeks before election day. This leader of Mr. Hearst's independence ticket is the son of William Hisgen, a German' immigrant, who settled in Alban', N. Y., and later ran a country atoro in Pittsburg, Tin., where "Honest Tom" was born. Some genius-hath lately said that "Indiana is a great. State io come from," and young Hisgon evidently shared this view", for at the age of sixteen he left Hoosierdom nnd returned to Albany, his father's original stopping stop-ping place. Being tho fifth of cloven children, his father did not buy him a Pullman ticket. Kcaching tho capital of the Empire State, ho went to work in a clothing blore. Next, he drifted to Massachusetts and entered politics, waging wag-ing a biti'',r Iwcnlyycar war on tho Standard Oil company, which slrugglo naturally endeared him to Mr. Hearst, on whoso Independence league ticket he ran for Governor a year ago, polling more votes than the regular Democratic candidate. Temperance Candidate Prom Beer Land. I The oldest presidential candidate of j all thosi' in I ho running this year is En-j En-j gene W. Cliafiu, tho prohibition nominee. nomi-nee. Two daj's boforo election ho will celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday. This i reformer's career gives support to tho I theory that hobby is a reaction against ; environment, for Wisconsin, in addition 1 to being tho great, beer state, is also now famous for having given tho temperance tem-perance Candida to to tho Union. Ho first saw the daylight thorn in tho town of East Trov, aiid after finishing at tho public schools was graduated from the law department of the State university. Moving to Waukesha, he practiced law thoro for twenty-four years, all tho whilo speaking at temperance meetings, pleading with tho German element, to turn dowu their stcinrs and organizing temperance societies among the citizens in "cnfrnl throughout tho beer bell aud elsewhere. Ho was also an activo spirit in tho Goorl Templars, a temperance brotherhood, and his state society ma do him ils grand chief twenty-two years I ago. Four years before that the- prohibitionists pro-hibitionists in his district nominated him for Congress, again for attorney-gouoral attorney-gouoral in 1SSG, and 1'or governor in 3900. In 1902, a year after his removal to Chicago to become superintendent of the Washington homo, he received an-othor an-othor congressional nomination from tho prohibitionists of his now district there, and in the year of tho Roosevelt-Parker campaign ho ran ou the "dry" ticket for attorney-general of Illinois, in which state he was tho same year elected grand chief of tho Good Templars, tho samo ofiico that ho had held in Wisconsin. Wis-consin. Whilo nearly his entire life has been devoted to pounding away at temperance, tem-perance, hammer and tongs, lie has given some time to side enterprises, as, for example, the publication of what ho I calls his ''President-Cabinet History Cards;" also a book, "Lives of the Presidents." I This nominee has had a streuuons tunc since e came iuto tho national limelight thin summer. August S, whilo swimming in the Y. M. C. A. pool at Mr. Bryan 's homo city, Lincoln, Neb., ho narrowly escaped drowning and was rescued by'lhrec young mon. Fivo dnyn later, while a certain element of Springfield. Spring-field. 111., were paving tho way for Abraham Lincoln's cenlcnnary by lynching a negro and shooting a few others within tho shadow of the emancipator's emanci-pator's tomb, Mr. Chalin happened, to bo addressing a prohibition meeting near th6 scene. A. terrified negro, llcc-ing llcc-ing from his bloodthirsty pursuers, ran into tho meeting place .and took refuge upon the. very stand upon which tho candidate, well along in his speech, was standing. Tho mob rushed in after their would-be victim, aud it looked for a timo as though the temperance meeting meet-ing would bc turned into a shambles. But if any of the uninitiated think that a man must be any less virile because of being a temperance reformer, ho should have seen Mr. Chafiu on that sen-Rational sen-Rational occasion. Willi his hand in his hip pocket, where prohibitionists aro not supposed 1o have anything concealed, tho nominee stepped in front of the oh-rushing oh-rushing mob and cried: "Stand back, gentlemen, or J Ml shoot, every one of you who touches this man." Tho bluff worked. The candidate's pockot. was cmpt3" at least of firearms and the mob retired after the nominee had been struck in tho face with n -brick. A sample of this nominco's wit was given after his escape from drowning in tho pool: "Wouldn't it have been awful aw-ful had C come to my death In- water. I wouldn't have minded for myself, but it would have been tough on tho prohibition prohibi-tion party to lose its head in that way." JOHN ELFUETir W ATKINS. |