The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-20

or the Grind Lodge OF MaSonS OF Indiana during
1882 and 1888, a position which he filed with
credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the
fraternity. Mr.. Carr is eminently a son of the
soil, a typical Hoosier boy, and has made his
way by his own eXertions. lie is full Of vim
and push, a good mixer, a general favorite, and
will be found very near the head of the Repub-
lican column as it marches on to victory next
November. Mr.. Carr is specially strong among
the commercial travellers of Indiana, and as the
fraternity scatter over the State with their grip
sacks, they will be found to be able missionaries
in advancing the interests of their brother trav-
eler.
HON. ROGER r. sHIEL.
Roger R. Shiel, the nominee for Treasurer, is
the son of Irish parents, who were born in Ire
land, and is a native of Hamilton county, and is
forty years of age. When a boy he worked with
his father, with horse and cart, in the bitches
and on the railroad during the construction of
the l., p. & c.. road from this city to Peru. He
was, therefore, during his boyhood, subjected to
deep privations, his father being "a newer of
wood and a drawer of water in the fullest
sense. At the early age of seventeen he enlist
ed in the Thirty ninth Indiana volunteers. and
remained with it in all of its battles and brilliant
services throughout the war. He was wounded
at Chiekamauga and at Black River. AT Shiloh
his escape from death was marvellous. He was
COlOF-D6afer IOr TWO wears, ana WAS lS1L Oh UnS
field wounded; at an opportune moment he raised
the old flag he was wont to carry, and Union sol
diers seeing it, came to his rescue and saved his
life. Mr.. Shells family and relatives were Dem
ocrats, but his war services, at so early a period
in life. caused him to examine the questions
thatdivide the Democracy and the Republicans
and he chose the Republican party and voted as
he shot, and has always been an active, uncom-
promising Republican, full of energy for the
cause in every campaign. He, by his own eff
forts, obtained a good business education from
active experience, and by his own e~xertions and
integrity has risen to prominence among COM
merclal men. He is q member of the firm OF
Jeffrey, Herriott & Co, general dealers in live
stock. He is also a member of the Commercial
Travelling Mems Association.
Mr.. Shiel has an extensive acquaintance in
Indiana. and is president of the Irish Republican
club of this city, which contains several hun
bred Irish Republicans, and his nomination will
be popular with Irishmen throughout Indiana
everywhere.
HON. WILLIAM G. WILSON.
William c. Wilson, the nominee for Attorney
general was born at Charlottesville in 1927, and
is next to the Oldest man on the ticket. He
graduated in classics at Wabash College in 1916,
and from the law department of the State Uni
versity in 1S4s. He studied law with Judge D..
Mace, then representative in Congress of the old
Ninth district. He went out as major of the
Tenth Indiana Volunteers, in the three months
service of 1861, and was wounded at Rich
Mountain, West Virginia. Afterward he was
commissioned colonel of the Fortieth Indiana,
which regiment he commanded until the close
of the war. He is a member of the law firm of
Wilson & Adams, of Lafayette, and is accounted
among the most eloquent speakers of the State.
HON. EDWIN P.
Edwin P. Hammond, nominated by acclama-
ton for Judge of the Supreme Court, holds that
position at present, having been appointed by
Governor Porter to fill the vacancy oeeasioned
by the promotion of Judge Woods to the District
Court of the United States, vice Gresham, made
Postmaster general. In 1865 Judge Hammond
opened a law Office at Rensselaer,, in this State,
and so won the hearts of his eountrymen that
they elected him to the Thirty-sixth judicial
circuit, his name appearing on the Democratic,
Greenback and Republican tickets. He had
been appointed to that position by Governor
>Thos. A. Hendricks on the creation of a new
circuit by the abolition of the Common Pleas
Courts. The ~non-partisan selection of the former
was, as has been said, unanimously Endorsed by
the voters of the district at the ensuing election.
The Judge is a graduate in law of Albany He
was also elected, without any opposition. as re-
preventative for the counties of Newton Jasper
and Pulaski in the Legislature of 1862. He en-
listed as a private in the Ninth Indiana Volun-
teers, on the call for three months troops,
and was promoted during the campaign in
West Virginia to the Office of first lieutenant.
HON. WILLIAM NJ. HoGGATT.
William NJ. Hoggatt, the nominee for Re-
porter of the Supreme Court, was born at Paoli,
in Orange county, on December 5, 1889, and his
boyhood was spent there, He entered Asbury
University, at Greeneastle. when seventeen
years old, and graduated in 1868. He
afterward took the course in law at
the State University, at Bloomington,
n $3.50 NJ
Vernon and began the practice of law. In 1866
he was elected district attorney for the district
composed of Posey, Vanderburg, Warwick and
Gibson. During his practice at Mt. Vernon he
entered into partnership with General William
Harrow, and they continued together as the firm
Harrow was killed by being thrown
from the cars. Mr.. Hoggatt removed
to Boonville in 1877, where he has
devoted himself since to his profession. He
is one of the most successful practitioners in the
southwestern part of the State, and he has the
well merited reputation of being a lawyer of ex-
c~eptional ability. He has been a Republican
since he was a voter, and he has been an earnest,
the success of the party. For several
years he was chairman of the Posey and
Warrick county campaign committee, and there
have been few of the State conventions of the
party that he has not participated in the pro-
ceeedings of. He is a man of fine appearance
and is a good speaker. The nomination is a good
one and is a wellmerited recognition of the
services of a faithful Republican. He will add
to the strength of the ticket in the part of the
State where he lives.
HON. c. HOBBS.
Hon. Barnabas C. Hobbs, the nominee for
superintendent of Public instruction, has twice
before held that position, once by appointment,
and again by election, in 1870. He is one of the
distinguished educators of the State, and for
many years was president of Earlham College,
near Richmond, Ind. He has been a lifelong
member of the Society of Friends, and has
been prominent in various reform move
ments, especially that for the establish
ment of an international peace commission.
When Mr.. Hobbs was Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction before, he did very much to build
up the schools of the State, and made an excel
lent record for efficiency and official industry.