The Indiana State sentinel., 1888-06-13

2 That we sincerely deplore his death
and here tender TO Mrs. Hancock our respect
full and earnest sympathy in her irreparable
loss.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
THE vIcE-PREsIDENTIAL NOMINEE.
The Hon. Allen q. Thurman of Ohio-His
Birth-Details of His Life.
Allen G. Thurman was born in Lynch
burg, Va, Nov. Is, 1918. His father was a
minister, and his uncle was the famous
"Rise Up" William Allen of Ohio, who
was a native of North Carolina. Mr..
Thurman came TO Chillicothe, O., early IN
the nineteenth century, and was admitted
to the bar shortly after passing his ma
jority. Chillicothe was the original capi-
tai of Ohio. 1t was there that the first
state constitution was prepared, and in
this pioneer city Mr.. Thurman achieved
distinction in his profession in COM
munity where the giants of Ohio S
early bar naturally gathered. The first
Office of importance to which he was
elected was that of a representative in the
Twenty-seventh congress. A few years
after he was elected to the supreme court
OF Ohio and became its chief justice. His
opinions are more frequently cited than
those of any other jurist conspicuous in
0hio's courts His exhaustive opinions
on the Sunday common labor law, an en-
actment which obtains in nearly all the
states, have become the standard author
itv in practice evervwhere
In 1869 he was elected to the U. S. sem
ate, and reelected. He served on the
monetary conference at Paris with Evsrts.
After his return he announced, in all sim
cerity his determination to retire from
public life. During his term as a U. S.
senator he exposed the immense donations
of land made under republican admins
trations and the country was startled to
learn that the amount equalled more than
the territory occupied by the original thir-
teen states.
Mr.. Thurman has always been consid-
cred the most eminent lawyer in Ohio,
and in party councils the reverence paid
him was never divided until the occasion
of the Payne-Pendleton senatorial con-
test, but that that episode has been for
gotten is evidenced by the fact that last
fall the whole party desired by acclamation
to nominate him for governor, a wish
which he blockaded by an emphatic de
clination couched in no Blaine-like OBJ
scurity of language.
Senator Thurman served upon the
electoral commission, but was forced to
retire from ill-health before the final vote
was taken. He was opposed to its forma-
ton but Welded when it was positively
asserted that Samuel J. Tilden acquiesced
in this method of settlement.
Ex-senator Thurman was named in the
convention of 1884 as a candidate for pres
ident, and though Mr. Cleveland and Mr..
Bayard alone led him in the vote first cast,
Ohio's representatives diverted a portion
of their vote to a hopeless candidate and
thus destroyed the chances OF Mr.. Thur
mans nomination. He has lived almost
in exclusive retirement for the past four
years until it was briefly broken by the
venerable mans appearance as one of the
attorneys for the prosecution of the Col
umbus tally-sheet fOrgers. His boom for
the vice-presidency came recently, and for
a long time he endeavored to oppose it,
but finally yielded to the persuasion of
his friends and admirers. 1t was not that
he had developed any new qualities with
in the past few months or years that he
was proposed by friends for the second
place on the ticket. His fitness for the
position, his unquestioned integrity, the
honor which has been accorded him uni
versally, and without regard to party by
his countrymen, at once attracted to his
name the support of prominent party
leaders, who saw in the ticket named at
St Louis a combination that would ap-
peal alike to the honesty and patriotism
OF the American people. His record on
the Chinese question, on the Pacific rail
way monopolies, and on other questions
in which the western coast is especially
interested is trusted to carry much weight
in Oregon, Nevada and California The
only objection urged against nomination
is his age. His friends, however, as an
offset to this cite the examples of Bismarck,
Van Moltke, Gladstone, Bright, Goethe,
Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Thur
low Weed and other remarkable charac-
ters who seemed at their best at from six
ty-five to seventy-fve years of age.