The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-06-13
From the Ohio Statesman.
The Democratic Candidate for
Governor.

George W. McCook, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio, whose
nomination was ratified by the Conven-
ton of Thursday with such enthusiasm
and unanimitv, was born in Washing
ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1921. His
parents soon afterwards moved to Ohio,
and he was educated at Franklin Col
lege, in this State. After graduating he
studied law at Steubenville with Tappan
and Stanton. He was admitted to the
bar in lS4l, and soon afterwards be-
came the law partner of Edwin NJ STAN
ton. His activity, energy and ability in
the practice of his profession quickly
attained for him eminent rank. In 1916,
on the breaking out of the Mexican
war, NcCook organized company of
volunteers to defend the honor of his
country beyond the Rio Grande. He
was subsequently made Lieutenant Col.
onel Of the Third Ohio volunteers, and
acquired distinction and well merited
honors by his skill as a commanding
officer no less than by his gallantry as
a soldier on the field of battle. After
bis return from Mexico Colonel McCook
was made reporter for the Supreme
Court, and after the expiration of one
one year was elected Attorney General
of Ohio; and neither before or since
has that office been filled with greater
ability and merit.
During the late civil war, at the solic-
itation of the Governor of Ohio, on
several occasions, Colonel McCook left
his large law practice and gave the State
and country the benefit of his skill and
courage in the field. During the war
his father and three brothers were killed
in battle. Colonel Daniel McCook, his
father, was killed during Morgan's raid
through Ohio, in 1868, at Burlington Is
land. His youngest brother, Charles
Morris McCook, aged but eighteen
years, was killed at the first battle of
Bull Run, in 1861 The intrepid Colo
mel Robert L McCook, while commar-
ding the Ninth Ohio Volunteers, was
wounded at the battle o. Mill Spring,
Kentucky, and was afterwards shot and
killed while being conveyed in an am
bulancc in Alabama. Colonel Daniel
McCook, another brother, of the Fifty
second Ohio, was killed while scaling
the ramparts of the enemy at Kenesaw
Mountain, Georgia, during Sherman's
march on Atlanta
This is the record of the "Fighting
McCooks Democrats, devoted
patriots, heroic soldiers. What the
Gracchi were to Rome, the McCooks
have been to Ohio.
Colonel George w. McCook, who
bears the standard of the Democracy in
this canvass, is an accomplished scholar,
a profound statesman, and kind gen.
tleman in all the relations of life
Frank, generous and without
concealments and above all the trickery
of politics,he is the Chevalier Bayard Of
our times and our State. With an es-
cutcheon without stain, and heart
that never knew fear, nature and educa-
ton have alike qualified him for the re-
sponsible and arduous duties of lea
der of the people in the great work of
Reform inaugurated by his nomination
Good men of all parties will rejoice to
learn that such man is to be the next
Governor of Ohio, and his nomination
is guarantee that the people have COM
menced the much need work of refor-
ming our politics from the malign and
destructive influence of professional
politicians and obsequious ofiiceholders.
Thousands of patriotic citizens who
never before voted the Democratic tick
ct will rally to his standard, and aid him
in correcting the many abuses which ex
iSt in our Government,