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Show i''B H UOILS Ol ll)A. IraR ' I' IIonACU lloiea, of Waterloo, Iowa, 'r lUIl ! haa been coniplcuoualy lfoto the rub- I'JW ',.', llodurlnglhelait lew daji. He waa i '"He' ) loru '" 1'1'" c"unJ'p 'cw York, De. y & j camber 7, 1SST. Ha la of I'renoh de a1 L Bb acent. Hla father waa a very loor Hi farmer, and while iforace waaeta ,(!' K f 1 boy got Into aarlous financial eml ar- fi raaamenta. riilacauaud joung lloiea ES BS' L to Jeare home, to atek hla fortune .V HJCc ' further weaU He went aa far aa Ha. HglBr ' j sine, Wlaionaln, where he worked on Il'iI' Kt Ik I a farm for a abort time, undergoing Wfjj, IB' I ,1 iv moat tyrannical treatment. He dl I kid's Iw ) uotuven get inough to eut. Alter AiSiKf I I wraethnehe hearil that hla mother jtatiilaj - I waa on the point of death, and he ro. B&jBj ' . turned to hla father'a liume In New VaTw Vork. The mother recovered. Hon ifjIj jli aoereuialued with hla fathtr and went nt Wl i towork 011 the firm lu the winter o Bfifl J? j 'j Ibtl.lie went to achool. Thelollowin; nl ! aummer he went to Ililnola, remained SI jj tluro aluut two yeira, working In iTl in lumtuer an I leaching achool during ill j the winter moniha He relumed once I I J t more to hla father'a home lu Krli. yl 1. County, and went to achool at the H ' 1 1'' town o Auroia. rl 'U J.Teraluce boyhooJ he entertained H ( l an ambition to becomoa lawyer, llelng f, II " no a young man of 2J ur S3, lie W thoiuht that If hit cherlehod Idea fr '1 ooulilbo at all pit Into practice, the rj time haj come to do It. Ho repaired h to ttHlogvllle, a ,m,u Ti, lu)t from hie father'a homo. Hera he contracted con-tracted with a lawyer to do chorea for tho privilege of reading law la the lat tei'aortloe. He atu lied hard, and after eighteen mjnlha waa admlltodtolhe bar. 'HeruarrlaJ a young lady named King, a playmate ot hla, and then opened a law oDIce with a III rary con-alatlngof con-alatlngof fifteen d ollaia' worth of booka He toon acquired a refutation for In, duatry, conaclrnttomneta, and devo. tloutotholnlereitaoMila cllenta. He moved b Hamburg, a town near Iluf falo. About thla time the new lie. bllcan 1 arty waa making ipjlte a allr. Young lbln biclne one of Ita nmt active apullps. In I8S) he en tared the HtaUi Lcglalature aa a fullllelgej nepubllcaii. Tho young pollt clan did 11 t enjoy Ida honora very long. The district unlerwent a gerrymandering meter, and In the next election lloiea waaoueted. Finally he moved to lluflalo,and aoon acquired fame aa a lawyer. In 1901 drover Ulov.lanJ waa the nomluoe of the Democratic jarty for County Allotmy. Mr. Ilolee waa a canJIdate on the lie-publican lie-publican th kat for the aarae ofllce, aud loitthe nomination by two votea. In 1 607 Mr. Ililea moved from llullalo to Waterloo, Iowa. He la now aken of eiclutlvely ai a wratern man, though forty yeire of hla life were epent In New York. Hla fl ret move lu Iowa waa toaecure aa much landaahecoulJ poaalbly get held uf. He uonil Inid farming with the ractlce of law. He owua 1,610 acrra, which are all cultivated uojir Ida Immediate auiiervlaloii. Until 18S0 Mr. Ilolee had toen a Itepubllcauofthe moat stalwart tye. I'romlBTOIa lbS9 the Ilopubllcane of Iowa In their couventlo'ia Invariably demanded larirrreform. In 1SSH tho National llepubllcan convention adoptel n atroug proteotlon lank. Holes among othera aevorely crllUed the action of hla 1 arty, but did not leave It. In lbSt the rohlbltlou craai atruok Iowa. rheltepub1lcauaadot-ed rheltepub1lcauaadot-ed It, Holer, though a man who Laa nevtr amoked, uor drank alcoholic llpiora of any klud, repudiated prohibition. pro-hibition. A atate campaign waa pend-lug, pend-lug, and a lelilaturu to bu choaen. Ilulea worked egatuat the prohibition lataanJ Ite'ubllcaue combined. They triumphed and he waa no longer re-ganled re-ganled aa of thu party. Ho male a cloae review nf hla olltlcal co nvlcllona. He found blmaolf oppoaed to euni'lu ary lawa, to high tariff, to vaat cipendltures of utile- moneya. In fart bo found hluiaelf a Uemicrat, and openly proclaimed blraaelfaa audi In lbs I. He took tho atump for Clove land. He rould have no hope for polltltal oftlce, btcauao at that tlmu Iowa waa ao overwhelmingly lie ubll-onn, ubll-onn, that It waa olaaaed aa Irretrievably an I perpetually of that party. In 1SST, however, the Detuoirata made ejtne headway, in l&al they made more ai d In 15S3 they electtd lloraco lloiea, governor ot Iowa, by a (lurallty of Mil In a total vote of S.0W larger than In the preceding election for governor. gov-ernor. In lSDdthe Deuocrata earrled alx of the eleven Congreaaloual die-IrlcU die-IrlcU In Iowa. In 1891 lloiea waa renominated re-nominated for governor. He waa elnted by a plurality of 821(1 In a total vote of aM.OOO, aa agalntt 101,000 lu the I'realdentlal election or 16SS. Mr. ltolee, according to a preaa dia-patch, dia-patch, doea not feel over aaugulnr that the Democratic ticket Will to elected next November. |
