Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 5, 1898, Page 7

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS Of the Men Who Lead the Allied Marties te the State Campaign of 1898—Pint- forms Adopted at the Conventions ut Whici They Were Nominated, us JOHN LIND. i4 in public life in this state, should @ twice nominated by two of its political paity organizations for the highest office it can honor him with is no small tribute te the man, That the second of these nominations tame not only unsolicited, but after he had a commission in the army and while he wasa thousand miles away, but ac- pentuates the confidence which is reposed sn the nominee of the allied parties by the | people who have watched his course since | he came to this state. tt Of John Lind it may truly be said that ft he has risen to his present position through his own untiring industry. John Lind was born in 1854 at Kanna, \ Smaland, Sweden, and early removed to i America with his family which settled in Goodhue county, this state, lost his left arm by an unfortunate accident, but in just such measure as this calamity made {t difficult for the boy to make his way in the world physically he was so much the ¢ more insistent on fitting himself to bea nseful member of society. Mr. Lind’s first public service was in the modest ca- pacity of a public school teacher in Sibley county when only 16 years of age. There- after moving to New Ulm, which has since been his home, he was admitted to the bar at the early age of 32. During the year following he was elected superinten- dent of schools of Brown county, a posi- tion which 1881 he was appointed receiver of the land ‘ vilice at Tracy, a position which he held = mntil the advent of the Democratic ad- ; ministration. In 1836 he was elected to congress, representing the old Second dis- trict, comprising practically all of what is generally known as Southwestern Min- nesota, and so well did he serve his con- stituency during his first session that two later he was re-elected by a mag- ficent majority. In 1890 John Lind was elected for a third term in congress, in 1892 declined to ‘become a candidate before the Mankato * convention and his mantle fell on Pro- | fessor J. T. McCleary. In 1893 Governor Nelson appointed Mr. Lind to the honorary position of a regent of the university. The drawing of a clear line of demarca- tion between the Republican and Demo- cratic parties in 1896, found Mr. Lind’s former party adherents reading him out of their company on account of his very positive views on the silver question. When President McKinley issued the first call for volunteers, Governor Clough commissioned Mr. Lind quartermaster of | the Twelfth regiment of Minnesota vol- unteers, with the rank of lieutenant. If Lieutenant Lind is elected governor of Minnesota, his friends predict an ad- ministration of the affairs of state char- acterized by the same eminent ability | with which he served his lesser constitu- ency in the halls of congress. MAJOR J. M. BOWLER, The candidate of the allied parties for lieutenant governor, was born at Lee; { Maine, on January 10,1838. He was edu- i cated inthe common schools, the Lee Normal academy and the Westbrook sem- | inary. Taught school in Maine until em- igrating to Wisconsin in May, 1857, where | he taught school until April, 1859, when j he again removed to St. Anthony and worked in the printing office of Croffut & Clark until December, 1859. Soon after quitting the printing office he began teaching in Nininger, where he lived and farmed until 1871. During this year he took up a homestead in Renville county upon which he still resides and which he In April, 1861, he i has farmed ever since. enlisted in Company E, First Minnesota = in@ntry volunteers, for three months as x t a private. September, 1861, he enlisted as private in Company F, Third Minne- sota infantry volunteers. He was ap- pointed corporal and then sergeant, and then commander of the company, and commanded at the battle of Wood Lake Sept. 23, 1862 In October, 1862, he was commissioned second lieutenant and Dec. 1, 1862, captain of the same company, and gerved as such until April1, 1865, when ke was commissioned major of the One Hundred and Thirteenth United States colored infantry, and was mustered out with that regiment in April, 186. He has held some town and school district he held for two years. In | aisathenipaniigaat seinen Seewrelsrigt STANDARD BEARERS .offices, and in 1877 was elected representa - tive to the legislature from his county. He ran for the senate in 1878, but was de- feated. The major was a Republican from the casting of his first vote until 1872, when he became a Democrat, influenced thereto by his: free trade convictions. He thinks that the office should seek theman instead of the man seeking the office, and feeling that the times were such as to warrant the birth of a new party, he Joined the Populists in 1890, and has been working with them since that time. Major Bowler is a strong man intellect- ually, morally and physically, and would make an officer of whom this state would justly be proud. JULIUS J. HEINRICH. Julius J. Heinrich, the candidate of the allied parties for secretary of state, was born at Prairie du Chien, Wis., in 1859, and came to Minneapolis in 1965, of which place he has ever since been a resident. Mr. Heinrich was a candidate for legis- lative honors in 1888, and was elected reg- ister of deeds for Hennepin county in| 1890, in whith capacity he served two years. In his political affiliations Mr. Heinrich has been a life long Democrat. An energetic business man, the voters of the allied parties may well unite on Mr. Heinrich as a fitting candidate for an office he is so well qualified to fill. HON. ALEXANDER M’KINNON Hon. Alexander McKinnon, the candi- date of the allied parties for the position of state treasurer, widely and favorably known throughout the state, was born in Glengarry county, Ontario, March 5, 1854, He has been a resident of the United States since 1868. In 1878 he located at Crookston, Polk county, Minn., where he has since resided, having been engaged in the manufacture of farm implements and carriages. Although Mr. McKinnon has never | been an officesecker, he has been fre- quently honored with positions, both appointive and elective. He was appointed postmaster at Crook- ston, Minn., during Mr. Cleveland’s first administration and served for six years aud then resigned. He was twice elected tothe position of Mayor of Crookston, | Minn., and the last term had no opposi- tion, being an incident without precedent in that city. He wasa delegate from the Seventh congressional district to the na- tional Democratic convention in 1892 at the time Cleveland was nominated for president. In the year 1890 he was the Democratic nominee for state senator from his district and ran over 1,000 votes ahead of his ticket. In 1896, without so- licitation on his part, he wasthe candi- date of the allied forces in this state for the position of state treasurer, receiving 150,000 votes, which was over 2,300 votes more than any Democratic candidate ever received in this state before. At the late convention at Minneapolis , he was again selected forthe position of state treasurer by the allied forces, and if elected noman in the state will have cause to regret the choice. His friends confidently predict his election. GEORGE N. LAMPHERE. George N. Lamphere of Moorhead, Clay county, Minnesota, nominee for state auditor by the allied parties, was-born in 1845, in the state of Connecticut, of Amer- ican parentage. In boyhood and youth he attended school and worked on a farm. In 1861 he entered a newspaper office in Hartford, Conn. He enlistedasa volun- teer soldier in. the Sixteenth rogiment, Connecticut volunteers, in July, 1862, and served with the regiment until wounded | and taken prisoner in April, 1851. He — was a prisoner of war six months, during | which time the rebels amputated his left armasa result of his wound, was ex- changed late in the fall of 1864, and hon- orably discharged in February, 1866. After his discharge Mr. Lamphere went to Washington and secured employment asaclirk inthe quartermaster’s depart- nde helmet satis mom eres: ment and was promoted to the quarter master office. He served as a clerk in th sus office in 1870-71. On, competitive examination he was app ed clerk, class one, in the office of the sec- retary of the treasury in July, 1872; was rapidly promoted by successive grades to be chief of appointment division, secre- tary’s office, which position he resigned in December, 1881. Mr. Lamphere came west to Moorhead in March, 1882, and in April, 1838. bought the Moorhead News, which he has ever since owned, edited and published, daily end weekly. Formerly a Republican, and prominent in the councils of that party, he disagreed with its currency policy and since 1892 has not affiliated with it. Mr. Lamphere seryed as a member of the Minnesota Board of World’s Fair managers and also was for two yearsa member of the stat normal school board, In 1896 Mr. Lamphere was a delegate to the national Populist convention at St. Louis. Aman of sterling worth, the allied ies may well take pride in naming im for an important place on the state ticket. JOHN F. KELLY. John F. Kelly, the candidate of the al- Ned parties for attorney general, was born in Maryland in 1848, and afterwards removed to Virginia. He entered the Fed- eral army telegraph corpsin 1861. Re- suming his collegiate studies in 1864, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1869 and to the United States supreme court in 1872. He practiced law in West Virginia, compiled the statutes of that state and served in congressand on the bench. Mr. Kelly came to Minnesota in 1886 and was admitted to the Duluth bar in 1887. He settled in St. Paul in 1888 and compiled the Minnesota statutes, known as the ‘General Statutes of 1891” “Kelly’s Statutes.” Mr. Kelly is the author of the following law books: “Contracts of Married Women,” ‘‘Code Pleading and Practice,” “Institutes of Law” and others. He is! also a contributor to some of the leading law publications of the United States and | Great Britain, and has assisted in the compilation and revision of the Statutes | of Tennessee, Kansas, Wisconsin, Mis- souri and Ohio. Mr. Kelly framed the defeated meas- ures introduced in the Minnesota legisla- ture of 1893 and 1895, to enforce the con- stitutional provisions; art. 4, sec 35, for the freedom of the markets in food prod- ucts; art. 10, sec. 4, requiring common j carriers to furnish facilities and carry on equal and reasonable terms; art. 1, sec. 4, abrogating the assumed power of courts to direct verdicts; art. 1, sec. 12, art 9, sec. | 8, providing for the exemption of a poor man’s wages and home; art. 9, sec. 2, lim iting the expenses of the state govern: ment to ordinary, current governmental | expenses, which would prevent schemes and could be defrayed by taxing corpora- | tions, franchises, inheritances, etc., in ad- | dition to the gross earnings tax. Mr. Kelly also framed the rejected tariff plank in the Tilden Democratic conyen- tion, to confine import duties to undevel- oped industries and products; and the re- jected money plank in the 1834 Demo- cratic convention, that the constitutional power to coin money and that no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender, meant the unrestrict- ed coinage of silver and gold and empow- ered states to make silver a legal tender and that instead of bonds the government should issue certificates of indebtedness, | current as money. { Mr. Kelly’s standing as a lawyer and his wide experience stamp him asa man particularly well fitted for the official po- sition for which he is nominated. Z. H. AUSTIN. Z. H. Austin, the candidate of the al- lied parties for clerk of supreme court, | was born in Callaway county, Missouri, Jan. 9, 1863. By profession a teacher, | Mr. Austin lived in that state until 1888, holding some of the best principalships | and superintendencies in Missouri. He removed to Duluth in 1888 to become principal of the Duluth high school, which | position he held for two years, leaving it | toengage in real estate and insurance; business. | Mr. Austin has always taken an active part in politics, becoming an anti-Cleve- landite and leaving the Democratic party | in 1894 to get away from the gold stand- ard joining the People’s party at that/ time. He was chairman of the People’s ; party congressional committee of the Sixth district in 1895 and is now chair- | man of the same committee ‘and also of the city committee of Duluth. | spon chagucimig rece santana fan aon ek IGKET NOMINEES OF DEMOCRATIC, PEOPLES AND SILVER REPUBLICAN PARTIES HON. THOMAS CANTY, Of Hennepin County. WR WSS WARN WN SS ANS AK SS SS SSSsc SS SS SS = = SSS SSS HON. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Of Winona County. HON. DANIEL BUCK, Of Blue Earth County. JUDGE THOMAS CANTY. Judge Thomas Canty is forty-four years old. He spent his boyhood im Detroit, Mich., near Lodi, Wis., and im Clayton county, Iowa. He attended school regularly until he was nine years of age. After that he attended two or three months in the winter un- til he was fourteea, and worked on the farm the rest of the time. But he loved books and learned rapidly. In fact, the way he learned everything in every book in the school when he was yet a mere child was the wonder of the community. He was especially Strong in mathematics, and when twelve years of age “went through” the Third Part arithmetic; when he was thirteen, he “went through” the Higher arithmetic in two mouths. At the age of fifteen he passed a rigid examination and received a first-grade certificate to teacha public school, and taught most of the time for the next seven years. During this time he worked incessantly at his studies and obtained a college education without ever seeing the inside of a college. Then he studied law. Mr. Canty arrived in Minneapolis in October, 1880, without friends or mon- ey. He was admitted to the bar in that city in February, 1881, and com- menced -the practice of the law. He rose rapidly in his profession. The stylish young lawyers who made fun of him because ie wore store clothes and looked green when he first com- menced the practice, were often after- ward made to feel their infériority when they met him in a legal battle. Tom Canty \-as a fighter, and many of his greatest battles were in defense of the poor. One of the most noted of these occurred at the time of the street car strike in Minneapolis in 1889, when he sued out writs of habeas corpus and released from the workhouse @ large number of men who had been sentenced to six months each at hard labor for standing on the street corner and hollering “scab.” In 1890 Mr. Canty was nominated by the Democrats for judge of the district court, and though the four counties which then composed the district gave usually a Republican majority of 10,- 000, he carried the district by more than 5,000 majority. In 1892 he was nominated by the Democratic and Peo ple’s parties for judge of the supreme court, was elected, and is now serving his fifth year on the supreme bench. Judge Canty’s decisions in the great cases which haye been recently before the supreme court, notably the Steen erson rate case, the constitutionality of the Anderson railway tax law, are part of the future history of the com mcpwealth, they are the renewed hope of the producers of the state. JUDGE WILLIAM MITCHELL, Judge William Mitchell has been » resident of Minnesota for nearly forty- two years, and is now in his eighteenth year of continuous service on the sue preme bench of this state. He was born Novy. 19, 1832, in the old Niagara district of upper Canada, now Outario, but came to the United States when fifteen years of age. He was educated at Jefferson College, Pa., from which he graduated in 1853. He subsequent- ly studied law in Morgantown, Va. Upon his admission to the bar, in the early spring of 1857, he removed to Mirnesota, settling in Winona. Here |-he practiced law until his election to the district bench of the Third Judicial district in the fall of 1873. In 1859-60 Judge Mitchell served as a member of the state legislature, and was yveral times member of the city council of his city; with these excep- tions, he never held, nor was a candi- date for any public office except judi- cial ones. He was twice elected judge of the Third district, each time without opposition, both the Democratic and Republican parties supporting him. He resigned, March, 1881, before the close of his second term, to accept ap- pointment, by Gov. John S. Pillsbury, to the office of associate justice of the supreme court. Judge Mitchell’s able record is too well known to require comment. here, He is regarded as an able jurist, an@ his decisions stand high with the bar and bench of other states, while those of so great recent importance, like the Steenerson and Anderson law cases, especially commend him to the people, JUDGE DANIEL BUCK. Judge Daniel Buck, the fhird of the Union candidates for supreme judge, has been for thirty years a resident of Minnesota. He was a native of New York;, born in Booneville, in 1829. His early education was received at Rome and Louvell Academies. Locatig in the city of Mankato, Blue Earth coun- ty, in 1857, he, as a young man, took prominent standing at the bar. He was twice elected prosecuting attor- ney of Blue Earth county. .In 1892 he was elected associate justice of the su- preme court for the term commencing January, 1894. He is, therefore, upon his fifth year of the present term. Like his associates on the Union ticket, Judge Buck's decisions have been on the side of the people in those cases of so vital importance which have recently been before the court, such as the Steenérson rate case, An- edrson law, etc. His general opinions while on the bench have commanded universal respect. His whole profes- sional career has been such as tendea to elevate the bar, and as a-jurist he ranks with the highest. The charac- teristic of his dispensation of justice nnd law may be said to be adherence to the golden rule. He believes in the fellowship of man, and the tecognition of man’s duty to his fellow man. Judge Buck is perhaps one of the best known jurists and citizens of the state, having a wide acquaintance, al- though spending much of his time in laborious literary work. As showing scrupulous care to avoid possibility of. undue influence, it is known of Judge Buck that. he never travels. on free passes, and it is said that since his, service on the bench he has paid well toward. $1,000 for rail- wey fares between his Mankato home and the state capitol. TA { en ee i } } ‘ : i +