Show I Y BE PRESIDENT i Governor Lo den of Illinois Leading Republican Candidate Candi- Candi date Had Humble Start t wm OVER MANY ES Schoolmaster at Worked en-Worked Way Through College and Law Law to Politics g His Big f Interest I t Gor Frank O. O Lowden of IllinoIs lone or th prominent ates COl presidential nomina Republican in life b grit ion work Son of a by the of fU tb an enJo web ld es as carn unremitting work and sacrifice sacrifice-It was Dot of beginning to promise brilliant ut b a doD ambition and lev tied Ule obstacles that roso about Ind mide look his war Go lon WU bom on 26 1861 His athel Lowden who shop The rn the e left when Frank was seren years old barely out of the at the school Which Lo helped to and to countr Iowa the elder took up farming The bo I too but did more lIe ma p pI spare time for himself demanded c So well did succeed at fifteen he was muster or school saing his few dollars or At twenty he entered the l or outside work be made money to complete bis course course-at the head of ids class Then be went to He want ed to be n law er By the same program pro pro- gram of ork and sacrifice that had w thus far work work- l ell ay ugh the Union Union- ollege of 11 two ourse I di a aln t head of ls came of hard o lc kt blessed eater rewards e young man known In 1 he W S' S o MI s Florence daughter e of business Four children fC lIN n t in a son r-e r aU n 10 t e n active ini in- in i t in He Helis lis a d l g 1 tile national n th t in inO O Roos als he w s a acan can can- re the H on a combination If Ole Yules forces ledl Lowden took the stump nd his successful Charles S. S i calS later he was elected to greas from the Illinois I retired after I I tto and a half terms On quitting gress he ent to his near and devoted himself to that one of the fine t of its in the I hile an in 1004 he luul e a member of tho Republican na if committee from on he serve until 1912 In 1916 II the gubernatorial primary nominated for that office He Hetu tu fI tell and took his sea t the Col January to begin what h s Olle of the most constructive I administrations II the history of the In the chief e f Govern arc as folloWs 1 Oh VUI 1 Cd JR to comity l University low b 1 s i Graduated law school to Miss Florence law partnership oI e Davs colonel first infantry National Guard for nom nom- tor governor Elected to con ress l from congress E 16 ct d go of |