The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
TEE Coming CONTEST ron THE
UF1TEEs sTATEs SENATOR
BWEF.
The Candidates in tho Field Tine Fsea-
sssfts Urged by their Friends for
IaEG Election of Each of Them.


Gs1e Election of Each of Them.
tsDeeia1 Correspondence Of the Dsm oorat,l
ST.. L0U1s, Thursday, August 8.
VIC will soon be in the midst Of
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
Hi this State. and the indications are that
At will be an exceedingly lively one. Five or
six State offices are TO be filed, q Legisla-
tttre IL To be- chosen and thirteen Congress-
men are to bs elected. and then there will be-
Town and county elections throughout the
J state. The principal fight will be for the
Legislature, which Is to elect two United
States Senator'S one to succeed Senator Arm
strong and I'LL the unsxpired term Of the lats
Senator Bogy, and the other to serve for the
six years following the expiration Of Senator
BeEy's term.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
) take very little interest in the fight, for their
minority In the Legislature will be so small
that they con hard1y hope to have any infiu-
sac6 OF the election, unless the Democratic
members full 10 give majority vote for any
one candidate The chief contest Is, of course,
Tor tho long term. In fact there is no contest
at oil and will be none over the short term.
GEN. SHIELDS -c5
is BIT present the only man talked Of for the
place. but whoever Ia elected whether 1t be Gen,
Shields Or some one else, will probably be
elected ON The first or second ballot In one
Uf my former letters to the DEMOCRAT gave
the names Of some Of Che candidates for the
long term. 1t is too early yet TO speculate on
the result OF the fight. but 1t may not be- out Of
plae8 70 tsll you something about the princi-
pull candidates.
THOMAS ALLEN
IL an Eastern man by birth and u graduate Of
Union College, New York. He studied law in
MaW York city utter leaving college and was
admitted TO the bar In 1885, when twenty-five
yeHrs old. While preparing himself for the
bar hs edited the Family Magasiue, D. New
York monthly, for year and d half, and as
sisted iii the compilation of digest OF the
laws OF the State. In 1886 he made prepartl-
lions to remove to Few Orleans to enter the
law Office ct Gen g. W. Ripley, his uncle.
VINO WtS in Congress ut the time, but before
the plan could be carried out his uncle was
taken sick and he was sent To the State Of
Illinois to attend to some business for him.
In 1887 he became editor Of the M6ltftso,,iau at
Washington City. and was electsd public prin-
election In 1910 his paper supported the Har-
#T1Hgu anu Tyler ticket Ia 1842 Mr.. Allen re-
moved to st. Louis and commenced the prac-
ties OF law. In t84s he began to take all in
tsrest ID railroad enterprises and was d mem
ber pf the Pacific Railroad convention the
following year. He assisted in building
the Missouri Pacific road and was
afterwards made It's president and
general manager. In 1868 be started the
banking houss Of Allen, Copp 10 Nigbet In
1867 he became sole owner Of the Iron Noun
ttsIn Railroad and ever since then he has
been Known principally as q railroad man
Iha road has been extended two or three hum
dred miles since he came into possession OF it,
several branches have been built and one Or
two other railroads purchased by him, SO that
he now owns and manages neesTy q Thousand
miles Of road, the main ,sgrt ii which Ia called
the st Louis, u iron Mountain and
skin. szssIaaiillftoad Mr.. Allen Is one
sg,d nss cost energetic and enterpris-
Dfueglabgtlr citizens. A few years
Jog olal dowed q professorship Of mining
psar xllutgy ut Washington University. |
alNellished q free library In bis native
ittSlield, Mass. erecting d 100000 |
for 1T ut his own cost. One of
saGiphl street railroads Of 1T. Louis, the |
Nnvsyenne line, was built by Mr.. Allen, and |
ARs armed over 10 his son to manage He |
cen president several times OF Il horti- |
kgl society here, and Ii u metnbe Of G. |
Is OF historical, geographical and scien-
ocletlss III the United States. In 1850 he |
4 elected to the State Senate, but with that |
ption believe he has never held public |
l5s During the war he was q Union man. |
he has never taken u very active part LII |
titles.
HON. SAMUEL z. GLOVER.
ther .aspirant for senatorial honors, is |
Il I've OF kentucky. He received q common |
\ DOL education, studied law and was admit |
4 To the bar in his native State, and then re-
\. ved to Palmyra, Marion county, Mo. In |
4 he came to St. Louis, and has resided
n o ever since: Mr.. Glover stands at the
Of the vt. Louis bar. By many he is
Il isidered the best lawyer In the State. and |
4 one nnd all alike he is looked upon as a
I sFy able man. He ID now sixty three wears
I'D, and his whole life has been one of study.
Ia bis common school education. received
when boy, he has added a fine literary and
4eientific education, acquired at home and In
lbs law office. Perhaps no lawyer In st.
louis merits the name Of scholar SO much as
AZ. Glover And stu he is comparatively
If the people Of st. Louis have never heard of
him, or II they have, 1t has been only in d
vague sort OF way as being associated with
some big law suit or other. He never held d
1MnIG DtllGb III ltl5 llte, ttuu, Wlbn one EXG6U-
don, was never u caudidats for one TIE
EXCEPTION was In 1870, when his
friends tried to secure him seat
ii the United States Senate to fiji
iii unexpired term. He got respectable
vote, but Frank Blair got the seat. His name
was never on ballot cast ut u popular cleo
Ion, and am told that he never made q
speech for O candidate. Although a student
IL politics, he never took an active part in
sleetions, with perhaps one or tive exceptions
n at fot go |
OF ex-Confederates. Although
y Union man during the war, he was one of
;hs first to call for d removal of the political
disabilities OF Southerners and Southern sym
1athiaers after the war. The Drake constitu-
ion uf this State was an object or subject Of
LEGISLATION with him, and he refused to take
oath imposed by itupon lawyers.
holding TINT the clause requiring it was un.
constitutional; that 1t was Ia conflict with
iie constitution OF the United States Mr.
Hover was indicted, tried and fined $500 for
efusinE to take the oath, but he never paid
tie fine. He had the case transferred to the