| Show SENATOR JOHN W DANIEL temporary clairann of if he demo cratic national cori convention one of the molt sti kliu ud aud in one i en p ino anol at con invin ling figures usurps at file i nemo critic it at vai zellator hc Sel lator john W of virginia whom the lie filc silver nien men iu in the hie convention made tc nip cli chilt man thus refusing to accept the chalcy elic itce of tile the national committee sen david 15 senator daniel was born iu in lynchburg bur va in n ile ho served in alir confederate aminy of northern during the alar and receded a abound that lins has since sinca been to him the source of constant pain lie ile was nas ruling riding ills horse when a cannon ball took awny away a por pir lien of his thigh lie ile fell and lay for time in the midst of tilt battle until one of hiis on om n soldiers who va ii also wounded dragged hirn him behind a I 1 ia log thoro there the two lay together for more than half an hour nith ith the bullets flying the shells bursting tida and till alie ittle bittle b going on all about them when tile the fight was d panic daniel 1 wa carried if to tile hospital the surgeon sald tile ho would ile die tout but a section of the thigh bone wis was cut away anil and liis ills youthful vitality was such that lie he recovered lie HP lias has today to day siv indies inches of lione out of one of hla legand still lie he manages to do good NN work ork though lie Is ic in constant pain after leaving the service lie studied law and has pi practiced it since I ile 1803 from IS isaio to 1872 lie served in the lie virginia house of delegates legalos Dc and from 1875 I 1 diep X jj g it to I 1 JOUN JOHN IV DANIEL to 1881 in the state senate in 1840 lie was it a democratic elector at large ind and was a member of the democratic atle conventions vent ions of ISSO ind and jass ile he was a member of the forty ninth congress Con gresi and was elected to tile united states state senate to succeed william ilariono ila liono lie ile was reelected elected re and ills hla terni of office will expire in as W senator daniel Is one of tile ablest speakers in the south and is called cil leil tile silver tongued orator ile ho lias has a remarkably mar kably striking and cultured face |
