San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-25
CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC CAM
pAIGN COMMITTEE.

Calvin Stewart Brice, chairman OF
the democratic campaign committee,
TENDER II, 1915. At thirteen years of
age he entered the preparatory de-
| partment Miami University, Oxford,
| Ohio. The next year he was admitted
q freshman to that institution. He
was in his sixteenth year when, in
April, 1861, he became union soldier.
After year of service, during which
he participated in the Virginia cam
paign of that period in the civil war,
he left the army. Returning to Miami
he finished his college course and was
graduated in June, 1868. The next
year he entered the Union army the
second time. He had served with the
Tween ty-third Army Corps in Tonnes
see, Georgia and the CarOlinas, and
was about to be commissioned lieu
tenant-colonel, when the war ended.
Mr.. Brice's next move was to take
course in the law department. of the
University of Michigan. He receiv ed
his degree of LII b. in 1866, and short
ly after, was admitted to practice at
Cincinnati, Ohio. After earning con-
siderable distinction as a corporation
lawyer, having applied himself earn
estly to the study of the laws affect
ing corporations, Mr.. Brice made up
his mind to devote himself to bust
ness, chiefly railroading. He then
went to New York and made that
city his residence.
Before this time Mr.. Brice had ac-
quired railroad property. The story
is told of its beginning, that this orig
mated in the liking the father of one
of his pupils took to him when, an
almost impecunIous man, ne taught
school as means of livelihood. His
friend let him into growing railroad
enterprise at low cost. 1t succeeded,
and if it had failed Calvin S. Brice
would have been penniless, for he
had put into it every dollar of his
savings.
Now he is very rich man, and the
list of the great enterprises in which
he has interest is quite formidable.
He is President of the Lake Erie and
Western Railroad, is prominently
identified with the New York, Chica-
go and ST. Louis, the Mobile and Bir-
mingham, the Kentucky Central, the
Richmond and West Point Terminal
System NOW including the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia. and
also the Duluth, South Shore and At
lantic, of which he is Vice-PreSident.
He has likewise part in great bank
ing, engineering and express enter
prises.
Mr.. Brice has beautiful home in
New York, where he gratifies his taste
for literature and the arts. One secret
of his extraordinary success in life is
his power of concentration in the or
derby and systematic dispatch of null
hilarious business, and of shutting
down" absolutely after he has applied
himself to affairs for what many New
York men consider brief days work.
He is fresh and vigorous at the begin
ming of every day, because he has
given himself adequate rest and re-
creation.
THIS is presidential campaign year.
AS consequence the democracy stir
up strife with the colored voters. A
great hue and cry is raised of race
troubles" and the colored man is put
OH shot gun diet until after the No
vember elections. The work has al
ready begun in Arkansas, the good
democratic work, and as the press
agents are almost without exception
white men of the democratic persua-
sion, the colored voter has no chance
of having his case properly presented
or pleaded before the bar of an out
ragged public sentiment. This is civil
service reform according to Cleveland;
serving shot gun notice on a civil col
ored man not to approach the polls
under penalty of death. Well might
angels weep and nature shudder at
the spectacle presented in this land of
the free. What an awful crime was
committed by the Infinite creation
when a man with a colOred skin was
evolved from the matriX of creation
The world still asks who did sin, this
man or his parents that he was born
black? and the answer goes thunder
ing down the ages. Neither did this
man sin nor his parents, but that the
dark damnation of democratic cruelty
might be made manifest, was this
man born black.