Wichita eagle., 1888-07-15

| cock, holdingsthe respective rank OF Cap
tain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel and
| Breyet- Brigadier He was admitted to the
bar after the war.
William C.. Cooper, of Mount Vernon, is
an old stager. He was born at Mount Yer
non, O., in 1892 He has held long list Of
| Offices; was prosecuting attorney January,
1889 63; mayor of the city of Mount Vernon,
! 1S52'64; member of the General Assembly,
! 1S72-'74: Judge Advocate-General of the
! State, 1879 Thus is his second term.
| The Toledo district sends man to Wash
! ington who was once baggage-master
This decidedly American way Of securing
/ self-sovernment has proved its wisdom, for
Hon. Jacob Romeis is man of more than
/ ordinary ability and character; lie makes q
good representative In the committee
room he is level headed, reasonable and in
dustrious. On the floor of the House he
votes right up to the mark with his Repub-
llcan colleagues, and enjoys their esteem.
| He is the man who beat Frank Hura,
| the Frse-Trade John the Baptist, who
came out of the Ohio wilderness to go
up and down the country, educating the
American nottingham III the art Of cut
ting his own throat Mr.. RomeiS was born
in Weisenbach, Bavaria; in 1917 he came
with his parents to Buffalo, n. Y. In 1879 he
was elected mayor of Toledo, and was twice
reelected. This is his second term Ii
Congress-
The Keystone State gives another Con-
gresham to Ohio in the person of Albert
Clifton Thompson, of the Portsmouth dis
trict. He received his education at Jeffer-
son College, was admitted TO the bar in
1854, served on the probate and common
pleas bench twelve years, and before that
was soldier in the Union army, until he
had to be discharged for wounds received
in battle. He entered Congress with the
Fortyninth, and was reelected.
The modest gentleman who represents
the Twelfth district is Jacob J. Pugsley.
He is Duchess County New Yorker about
forty years old. He was brought up in
Ohio and graduated at Miami University.
He has been member of both branches
of the Ohio Legislature. His business is
the law.
An Ohio member who is considered as
marked and coming man is Joseph H.
Cultivate, Of the Columbus district He
is native Of Cleveland, and began life as
high-school teacher in GAINESVILLE. For
three years he was a principal of gram
mar school in Columbus. While support
ing himself by teaching he studied law,
and, for four years until 1871, he practiced
in Osceola, Mo. Returning to Columbus,
he was elected and reelected prosecuting
attorney. Mr.. Cultivate has undertaken,
as chairman of the Pacific Railroads Com
mission, to solve the Governm ent's problem,
how to make the Pacific roads pay their
debts; his labors have not yet reached a
conclusion, but his constituency will, I'M
doubtedly, give him all the time he wants
to work out the puzzle.
Judge Charles P. Wickham, of the Nor
walk district, Illustrated what we are COM
ing to when the American people cease to
migrate from one part Of the country to an
other, and settle down into permanent and
established modes of living. He was born,
reared, educated and elected to Congress
on the same quarter-section in the old and
prosperous town of Norwalk. In early life
he was printer but his mind turned to the
law naturally, and in 1858 he was admitted.
He enlisted as private In 1861, and re-
manned in service until July, 1865, reaching
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was
elected and reelected prosecuting attorney
after the war, and finally he was elevated to
the Common Pleas bench in 1880, being re-
elected il 1850, although the district was