The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-11
THE NEW SENATOR'S.

The new United States Senator from New
York belongs to well-known political family,
and has been for many years in the public SER
vice as n Representative. The father of MIR.
Conkling, the Hon. A. Conkling, was Minister
to Mexico in 1852, under Fllmore's administra-
tion,and Representative from New York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress. His brother, Frede-
rick A. Conkling, represented the State eff
GENTLY in the Thirty-seveuth Congress. The Hon.
Roscoe Conkling will graduate from his seat in
the present House of Representatives to place
in the Senate, having served his State ably
and faithfully for three terms in the former
body. He was born in Albany in 1925 and has
not quite attained his torty-ninth year. Having
adopted the profession of the law, in which his
father, Judge Conkling, was distinguished as
the author of a learned treatise on Admiralty,
he pursued 1t with energy, and in ls49 was ap-
pointed District Attorney for Oneida county.
In 1858 he BECAME Mayor of the city OF Utica,
and at the close of his period OF Office, having
governed the city to the great satisfaction OF all
classes OF his lellow-cltiZens, he was elected
Representative TO the Thirty-siXth Congress by
majority large enough to signify his great local
popularity and personal worth. In this Con-
gress he served with credit as q member Of the
Committee on the District of Columbia; but
after his reelection to the succeeding Con-
gress, he became prominently known to the
country as the Chairman of the Committee on the
District. He was reelected to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, wherein he has acted with conspI }uous
vigOr on most OF the leaIing questions of the
udy. his snare IN the unusual WORK OF the OOm-
mlttee on Ways and Means has been consider.
able, and his part in measures affecting Recon-
structiOn and the public economy is well known.
At the present time, Mr.. Conkling Is still a
m ember of the Committee ou Ways and Means,
and at the last general election was chosen to
SIT in the Fortieth Congress. The favor of tue
public, as manifested in his case, has been in
cessant and unmistakable but through years of
diligent effort in the public behalf Mr.. Conkling
has continued to merit the approval of his con-
| stituents and his State
Hon. Simon Cameron, OF Pennsylvania.
The Hon. Simon Cameron, who was yesterday
nominated as Republican candidate for the
United State Senate by the Republican caucus
of the Pennsylvania Legislature for the term
| beginning March 4, 1867 was born in Lancaster
| county, Pennsylvania, in 1893, and is therefore
! 6S years of age. When nine years of age he was
| lett an orphan. He is one of the many eminent
Americans who began life as journeymen
| printers, and while employed as a compositor in
| the newspaper offices OF Harrisburg and
Washington, he supplied the want of early
school discipline by a severe course of study.
| Before he was twenty-five he had been chosen
| as the editor of The Pennsylvania I1tetltqeaceT,
published at Doylestown, and ut that age esta-
blished Democratic journal at Harrisburg,
which he edited for some time. In the conduct
| of this paper he gave especial attention to the
interests OF the State, and early displayed those
financial abilities for which he has since been
distinguished. In 1882 he established the Mid
dletown Bank of Pennsy ylvania acting as cashier.
The railroad interests OF the State soon engaged
his attention, and he has for many years been
one of the largest stockholders and most active
managers in the leading Pennsylvania roads.
He was appointed Adjutant-Gereral of the
State. In politics he has always been deeply
lnt6 rested, and in lS45 was first elected to
the United States Senate, in which he served
till lS49. In 1857 be was re elected for
the term expiring in 1863, but resigned in 1861 to
accept the Secretaryship OF War in Mr.. Lncoln's
Cabinet. In 1860 Mr.. Cameron was spoken of
as a candidate for he Presidency. While in the
Cabinet he early advocated the emancipation o
the slaves as a necessary military measure. Ii
1860 he resigned the secretaryship, and was ap
pointed Minister to Russia. After his return tC
this country, Mr.. Cameron assumed no office
but was earnest and energetic in urging the
support of the war. In 1864 he was delegate
TO the Baltimore Convention which renominateC
Mr.. Lincoln. Rec emily he has said little pub
licly upon national subjects, but is we'll known
to be radical in his opinions.
Hon. O. ID. Drake, of Missouri.
The Hon. Charles D. Drake, the newly
nominated United States Senator from Missouri
is a lawyer by profession, Democrat by educa
ton, and leader by nature. He first became
prominent in politics during the Presidential
campaign OF 1860, by warmly advocating the
elec tion of Mr.. Douglas, and being among the
first to characterize the Breckenridge move
ment as a plot to disrupt the Union. 1t wa
generally conceded at the close of the campaign
that through his efforts, almost alone, the votl
OF the State was secured lor MIR. Douglas agains
Breckenridge.
i
the South was determined upon secession, Mr.
t Drake broke loose from all party ties and took
occasion, in a speech delivered in the State
House of Representatives in January of tina
{ year, to denouLce secession, aud declare him
q self no longer Democrat, but an unconditional
Union man.
t In February, 1862 in an address delivered In
s.. Louis, remarkable as being the first speecl
=. | OF the kind ever made in Missouri he CHARGE
? slavery with being the cause OF the Rebellion
aad declared that between the life of his coun
l. Try and the death of slavery, he would no NOR
= hesitate to destroy the latter than in view o
d ath he "would balance between eternal life
D and eternal peTdtion." Two months later in
sTeech at Mercantile Library Hall in the sam
cJy, he took ground for emancipation in Mis-
|. s. uTi, and from that hour has devoted himsel
, with untiring zeal TO the great work of maxim
0 Missouri in law and TACT free State. In May
+ 1854 he was chosen member oil the State Con
a yention, and the present tree State Constitutio
is The work of his pen.
! During the last Presidential campaign MI
!, Drake warmly advocated the reelection &
l. President Lincoln, and was chosen member {
l. the Electoral College from the State at large
e Through the late warm and bitter political cor
= test in Missouri no man did more or abler sci
2 vice for the cause OF the people, or NOR
7. untiringly upheld and indorsed Congress in 1t
t resistance TO Executive apostacy and usurpi
It ton, and the radical majority OF twenty thol
# sand in Missouri was due largely to his effort
l. on the stump and In the press.
That so long and honorable record shoul
Is meet with recognition and reward was but
It question OF time, and we congratulate the Unlo
e men OF Missouri, and the lovers OF hHman rlgh
l. everywhere, that at this time, when the eXigel
II Giles OF both State and nation demand the be
a and truest representatives, Charles ID. Drak
G J should have been called into the public service