The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-13
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: From Washington Press.

convention last week, IS q native Arkansian, having been born and reared in Columbia county. He is but thirty-four years of age and was the youngest aspirant for the honor; and his success over the four distinguished gentlemen of riper age and gr eater experience in public life who contested the nomination with him, easily won though it was, is a mark of distinc- tion and a compliment from the people worthy the highest esteem. No man of his years, and few of more advanced age, in the State has won so fair a fame or establish ed himself in the estimation ot the people.
 It is pleasant to contemplate the career of one so successful and so deserving of success as MT. McRae. No suspicion lies against him for ever having been of Fortune's fay. orite. Whatever of success he has achieved in life, and he has achieved much, has been wrung by hard and unremitting efforts from her unwilling hands. Born of pa. rents most highly esteemed in their community, but plain and poor, the death Ot his father threw upon his boy shoulders heavy burdens and stern responsibilities that strong men find most difficult task to perform. Managing the farm and working between the blow handles himself, he was the strength and support, tho counsellor and pro- tector, of the widowed and orphan. ed family. To this severe training which developed those sterling traits of manly and self-reliaht character, MT. McRae owes much of his success in after life, as many another man has found before him. Improving every opportunity for study, he found friend later when he could be spared from home, in the father of the eloquent orator his .schoOl,mate and bOyhood friend who, in the most beautiful, brilliant and touching speech of the occas- sion, placed him Tn nomination for Congress. before the convention last week. Supplied with means from this kindly Source, MT. Me Rae attended the law school of Washington and Lee University, where he graduated in 1872, we believe, under the instruction of that eminent legal scholar, Hon. John Randolph Tucker, who, now member of Congross himself, fills the exalted position of chairman of the Judiciary committee of the House and ranks as the most pro. found and learned lawyer of that distinguished body.
 In his profession, MT. McRae has been eminently successful, not only in pecuniary way, but in gaining rank as one of the foremost lawyers of this section. He is close student, safe counsellor and a strong advocate. As citizen he is liberal and public spirited. He is a man of the purest moral character, free from vice and eX. cess, of the strictest integrity, an active member of the Methodist church and of numerous benevo- lent societies. It can be truly said of him that those who know him best like him most With strong friends in almost every nook and corner of the State, his truest and
 most steadfast ones are those at his own home; and those who differ |from him politically-and political differences have run high there bear him the warmest friendship and rejoice in his success.
 In temperament Mr. McRac is hot a sanguine man. He has little respect for brilliant air castles and still less faith in what the world | calls luck. His success in life has not como to him in that way: Rather has he had to fight for it, and fight hard. Having learned to rely upon h's own deter mined efforts alone, he prefers to take an active part himself in shaping the future, rather than leave it all to chance. Forming his plans with the greatest delib. eration and care, he goes about their execution with an earnest vim and a whofe.hearted determi.
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