Show SENATOR RALSTON OF liml INENA DIES SENATOR HAS HAD EVENTFUL CAREER SERVED HIS STATE AS GOVERNOR GOVERNO if body taken to TB lebanon NJ hl old hon home me town for far B burial 11 death was expected and relative were present I 1 Ital lill poll ind 14 samuel S ems I 1 M sol ral junior united B stated ator ena W ton 67 used jed it indiana and venerated pa of judis indiana democracy died at 1 his to tale to hoot hoosier home near here after ate an illanes of ax weeks death mine came to the senior benator aitner twenty two hours ot of unconsciousness climaxing on an attack of arsenic pol pat boniar onto if which had confined the sena to to him bed bad at since september 5 6 and which had bad impaired his loulah since early this year members 0 of f his fi family leall and ad more or chaa a coro 0 of f intimate friends we were gathered at the home to receive ili the news that death had so come senator ralston had known tor far some weeks wre I 1 ot of him hia cural condition and ad bad bade his hill fatally family and friends far farewell eu irlon lapsing into to the coma which preceded his hia death deal mine runner 1 in his him early youth ralston formed farmed and taught school be fore turning to the study ot of 11 law which up opened it a political career f tor him and brought him in 1112 to the i governorship of indiana and in 1922 to the united states stales alter after tour four y years a me to the th governor if 8 chair ralston had bad retired fro from poll pet ties and it it was waa only at the bh behest I 1 of close friends friend that he returned d to the arena in 1922 as the party part a nom beveridge jose sigar against ourt albert I 1 R rei publican candidate who had defeat ed ad senator harty harry new now patt Poat mast er at general in the primaries ral rad at abona a victory gave an impetus pe to in akimi dlana democracy which it pu put t alm f tor or ward last year as a candidate lor for i the democratic presidential dentral nomina use hip aioo at the new york c convention on in bovent 1924 his fortunes were 1 in the bands ot of thomas taggart democratic lead er J and d long time personal friend of the senator who insisted I 1 in press presen of his him name me over a hotel ralston B own strenuous abl objection tim when it appeared that his nominate nomination on would a offer or an a car egress from the mcadoo smith deadlock deadio cl however and support began to rally to on him ralston lm fin me mediately y ordered withdraws withdrawal of his hia name confiding alding to taggart his bis ca h health it was so precarious as to pre elude clude the possibility of a strenuous campaign for far several beveral years senator ralston aalt s health had not been sound and it h he had bad been compelled to abandon head th the rugged outdoor life which he be had led since boyhood A As late as last july however he anade trips to his farms ada of which he wae in active manage go ment until late summer several a weeks ago physicians told him that his Is life depended upon his remain ing in bed on and he failed rapidly of at to ter he learned that at he be we would old be bed fast 0 senator r R balaton to w was a lifelong pr presbyterian a lorl and ro revered I 1 d 11 because of f the genial honesty and ad sincerity ty which he radiated A man so of power ful fill build he we wax known knew b bolli tb a as e gov v with arnor and senator tor for the vigor ig r with which he labored and he be a was seldom absent from a flis session ralso of the senate note until he was stricken last spring by what but developed into 1 hie last joel slora surviving i ing him are the widow a daughter e and two zone ions a brother is a sister and a nephew all of indian apolis poll funeral are expected by friends of the family to provide tor far interment at 11 lebanon I 1 ind d th the senator a old home from w which it h he was tested elected to the g governorship on h hla 1 deathbed the senator who was as 4 deeply P 1 religious bisone isone I Sone wrote to a friend 0 god d 1 ie good and I 1 am his child |