Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-07-18

STEPHEN J. w. TABOR.
@ Last Saturday. the Republican
Convention of Buchanan county, with 8
degree of unanimity such as is very rare
ly seen, even in the most harmonious con.
ventions, selected this gentleman as their
candidate for County Judge. On the Is,
and informal ballot. when every delegate
voted according to his individual prefer
ence. without reference to any after
result. Mr.. Tabor received As votes out
of 48 !! This is a just compliment to his
known integrity and popularity-especi.
ally as be is the only man prominent in
the party in this county who could al
this time. and this crisis, have secured
80 unanimous an endorsement.
Although Mr.. TABoR's course in this
county has been well known, and is such
as to secure him the general confidence
and respect; though his reputation for
honesty integrity and independence Of
character, is beyond question - and
though his judgment and ability is freely
acknowledged. and his record in Buchan-
an county clear and spotless, yet we do
not deem it amiss to go back little, and
trace his course through the past, con-
scious that it can and will prove a fit pre-.
face to his present and future position.
Mr.. TABOR, like so many of the bold
and enterprising spirits who have made
the West their home, is self-made and
self-educated man. He was not born in
opulence, or rocked in the cradle oil
wealth. The son of an honest and worthy
mechanic, his earliest recollections are
associated with necessary and honorable
industry. and his sympathies have ever
been, and are with the sons of hard hand
ed and ennobling toll. His father he
lost when only eight years of age. and
his mother followed her husband to
the tomb three years after, leaving him
alone in the world, with but meagre
pittance Of property. and without father,
mother. sister or brother. At the early
age Of eleven commenced his "battle oil
life." and the knowledge he has acquired,
and the position he has attained, such as
lis. must be placed entirely to his own
exertions. Left his own master at an
early age. he had to guide his own bark
during all the insxperience and all the
passions incident to youth. But be
stunned the quick-sands and rocks OF
vice and immortality. and the delegates
who nominated him last Saturday, may
challenge the keenest scrutiny into his
past and present life. and if any blot can
DO found upon the escutcheon of his hon
or. or any stain upon his integrity. moral
uprightness, or worth as man and a citi-
zen. he is willing to have his name with
drawn from the canvass.
We shall not go into any specific bio
graphy of Mr.. TABOR. but shall merely
present an extremely summary account
of his life before be became an inhabi-
tsnt of this county. BY his own exer-
tons be obtained ! thorough English
education. and was well grounded in clas-
steal knowledge. adding an acquaintance
with the French and German languages.
What assistance he received in these
studies he drew from the Academy in
Bradford. Orange county, VT. of which
State he is native. and there are in this
county and from that town. persons of
the most intelligent and respectable char
acter, who are conversant with these facts,
and know Mr.. TABoR's family from the
start. In 1886, while in his twentieth
year. he went to New York City, and
was engaged by Benz. H. DAY, now the
publisher of the Brother Jonathan, but
then the publisher OF the New York Dali
~ Sun. to succeed Rich'd Adams LOCKE.
an eminent and excellent writer, as editor
OF the Sun newspaper. which then had
'1'ooo subscribers. This post he filed
ac0ep.aoiy to his employer and the pub
TIC till the spring Of 1897. when i'll health
ool'ged nun to leave the city. and be
went to Ash6eld. Franklin county. Mas
sachusetts.' whore he studied Medicine
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