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Show J DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR. GOVERNOR OF IOWA. Jeremiah B. Sullivan, Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa, is one of the leading lawyers of that commonwealth. common-wealth. No other lawyer appears, more regularly before the bar of the supreme court of the state and none is listened to "with greater attention and respect than the man who has been made the standard bearer of his party. He is so thorough in the preparation of his cases, so brilliant and fascinating In argument, so logical and convincing in his deductions of law and fact, that the justices of the highest tribunal of Iowa always welcome his appearance i before them. Then, too, he has a sunny temperament and a magnetic personality personal-ity which give him a charm that is one of the finest attributes of the man. . For fifteen years he has been an influential in-fluential and powerful factor in the counsels of his party. He has twice presided over Democratic state conventions. conven-tions. On one occasion he ran for congress con-gress in the Eighth district against Representative Hepburn and made substantial inroads upon the overwhelming over-whelming Republican majority of the district. His nomination for governor was the result of a spontaneous movement In his behalf which seemed to be based upon the conviction that he was the best man in the state to make the race. As a matter of fact, he never had opposition op-position among the delegates after they were assured Mr. Sullivan would accept ac-cept the nomination. The career of this country lawyer furnishes a fine illustration of what a i young American can accomplish for himself if he possesses honesty of purpose, pur-pose, ambition and indomitable energy. Mr. Sullivan's beginning was humble. His father was a poor man. He did not possess the means to send his boy to college, but that made no difference to the boy. He found a way bf gaining knowledge. He read books. He read them with the enthusiasm of the student stu-dent and never forgot their teachings. He loves books still. Wherever you go in his beautiful home in Creston you rind books lying heaped upon the floor, piled upon tables and obtruding from every shelf and niche in the house. |