The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-08-15
CHAIRMAN CALVIN eRIeg.
sketch OF the Active worker who wi

Sketch of the Active Worker Who VIII
Lead Us to victory.
The Democrats have got the start of
their opponents, and there is every in
dication that they will hold it. Calvin
Stewart Brice, of Ohio, the young and
ardent worker chosen by the national
Democratic committee as their chairman,
has already put the national headquarters,
at no no West Twenty ninth street. New
York city. in a condition for splendid
work. has already received preliminary
reports from several states and set the
workers to work whore they will do tho
most good. Bis record for work and good
Judgment gives assurance of success.
Calvin s. Brice was born ia Denmark,
o., Sept. II, 1915. the son of n Presbyte-
rian minister, and was educated at Miami
university. In the year afterward he was
admitted to the freshman class of that
institution In April. 1861, when only 10
years of age, he left the university to
enter the Union sze
army After a %SS ;aeSSS&
years service he SSssA
was mustered out
and returned to ~ @Ssp S4SSsA
the Miami uni 81 pY
versity to com ufs NJ
plete his educa-
tion. III e. C om sc -
tplet ed llis course NJ s AI@
u j tIife, 1905, md sss5<
graduated W it Ii @fza4 W. ESSE-N
distinction. Then TZYi N,ES\#
early he noXt EVN|E
year he organized IL Nh
Company L of the
1SOth Ohio infan CALVIN S. BRICE.
try. and served throughout the remainder
of the war with the Twenty third array
corps in Tennessee, Georgia and the Ca, D
linas. llc was promoted on the field for
personal bravery, but the war ended be-
fore he received his commission as lieu
tenant colonel
Shortly after his return home from the
war he entered the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Ie received his degreo in 1866 and be was
Immediately admitted to practice in the
state. United States, district and circuit
courts. Ho then settled in Lima for the
practice of his profession. lie mado a
speciality of corporation law, and eyentu-
ally devoted himself to railroad develop
mont. lie is now the official head of the
Lalso Eric and Western, and in addition
hc has largo pecuniary interests in tho
New York, Chicago and st. Louis railroad.
the Mobile and Birmingham, the Ken
tucly Central, the Richmond and West
Point Terminal system, which now in
eludes the East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia, and also the Duluth, South Shore
and Atlantic, of which he is vice presi-
dent
AS an organizer he has no superior. The
very tones of his voice and his terses cpl
grammatic sentences create confidence
lie is reserved in giving his opinion till
he has examined the evidence, and then
he never says perhaps so;'' his answer
is II plain and emphatic ..yes" or mo. .
The Democratic headquarters in New
York is located between Broadway and
Fifth avenue, ON Twenty ninth street, in
the social and political center of the city
On the first floor are reception ROOM
reading room and rooms for reporters; on
the second foor are the committee rooms
proper. and op the third the rooms of the
Secretaries nnd the clerks who mail docu
ments. Out of those rooms will go many
thousand packages OF the ammunition
that will rout the cohorts of free whisky
aud excessive taxation, and they will go
to the right spot. for Mr. Erice is on the
record as having never failed in any i'm
portapt enterprise he enlisted in.