Delta chief., 1884-09-17
THE STATE TICKET.
A Brief biography OF some OF the Re-
publican Nominees.

1uture omcerS OF the state nave been COM
piled from the Colorado Springs and Denver
papers, and will enable our readers to form
an intelligent idea of the high character and
moral worth of our candidates.
The Hon. Benjamin Harrison Eaton, can
dida.e for Governor, is one of the firm, strong,
velopment of our western life; and the glory
of our western pride. He is just fifty years
of age and just half his life has been associ-
ated with the development of Colorado from
a wilderness of howling and murderous saw
ages to commonwealth of glorious history
and brilliant prospects. Mr.. Eaton is a bar
nacle-a '59er. A farmers son. an Ohio
schoolmaster, q strong, strapping, fearless,
hopeful young man of % he started, on the
breaking out of the Pixies Peak excitement,
to achieve broader fortune than he was born
to in the wild west. A farmers boy, an Ohio
schoolmaster, chatting under the narrow for
tunes which the east holds out to those who
enter the lists without capital or backing, he
dropped the ferule and forsook the plow, and
gathering his little means together joined the
feerless throng of adventurous spirits that
were making for the new Ell Dorado, the lit
tie army of colonists, dauntless. hopeful, per-
sistent, that founded commonwealth in the
desert and opened the treasure house of the
nation in the bowels of the mountains. lie
drove an OK train across the plains and drew
up poor, ragged, foot-weary and pennilcss,
almost on the spot where he was presented by
an aimiriny constituency fer the proud po-
sition of Governor of that State whose heroic
baptism he attended, whose cradle he rocked,
and whose glorious maturity he has the am
bition to direct. 1t is an ambition worthy
alike of tine State and the man. We are
proud commonwealth, glorying in our past,
and grandly conscious of strength TO meet
the ambitious destiny of the future. To be-
come the chief executive of q spirited and
intelligent people Is an ambition that no
man need blush to acknowledge. and Mr..
Eaton's record is worthy of his aspirations.
He is today the richest and most extensive
farmer in Colorado, cultiyatins 1000 acres
of land which he has rescued from the desert
waste. He is worth half million of money,
and every cent of it has been made in the
line OF developing the resources of Colora-
do, and is invested within its borders. One
of the first prospectors Of California gulch,
there has never been time since 1859 when
Mr.. Eaton has not been directly interested in
the development of the mineral as well as the
agricultural resources of the State. He is at
present the chief owner of the famous Snug
gler mine in Boulder county. He has sever
al times represented his district in the State
legislature, and in a sober, solid way has al.
ways exerted q strong and healthy influence
on public affairs. Though no. perhaps a
man OF brilliant parts, he possesses firm,
strong character and = spotless name that has
earned for him among his neishbors the title
of Honest Old Ben. lie has in the village
of Greeley one of the most beautiful homes
in the State, and the hearth is surrounded by
a fine wife and family of beautiful and in.
teresting children.
The Hon. George G. Symes, the candidate
for member of Congress, was born in Ashta-
bula county, Ohio, in 1910, but when he WAS
twelve years of age his parents removed to
Wisconsin, where they followed the occupa-
tion Of farming, and gave their son the adj
vantage of fair education. In 1861 young
Symes shouldcred the gun Of private sold
ier in the Second Wisconsin regiment, and
served in the army Of the Potomac till De-
cember of that year, receiving a wound at
the first battle of Bull Pun. In May. 1882,
he was appointed adjutant Of the Twenty
fifth Wisconsin, in which rank he served till
the close Of the Vicksburg campaign iu 1868,
when he was promoted to y captaincy aud
served in the Atlanta campaign till he WAS
wounded in the battle before
that city, and compelled to retire for time
but when sufficiently recovered to take the
field again he was made colonel Of the Forty.
fourth Wisconsin, and commanded that regi-
ment in the battle Of Nashville, and toward
the close Of the war was placed in charge of
the fort of Paducah, KY, and commanded
the cavalry expeditions that were necessary
to rid western Kentucky and Tennessee Of
bushwhackers and guerillas. The war over,
Colonel Symes was mustered out of service
at Madison, Wis, and at once returned to
Paducuh to practice law, having been admit
ted to the Wisconsin bar just before he en-
tered the army. In 1867 he received the Re-
publican nomination for Congress in the Pa
ducah district, but though apparently elect.
ed, the seat was contested and he never got it.
lie was delegate to the Chicago convention
that nominated Grant in 1865 and was presi-
Dental elector in the First Kentucky district
that year, and stumped the State for the Re-
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