The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-16
Republican State Candidates.
GEORGE WALLACE DELAMATER.

George Wallace Delamater, candi.
date for Governor, was born in Mead
willie, Crawford county, March 31st,
1S49. He was graduated from Allie.
gheny College in his native town in
his twentieth year, and afterward en-
tered the Harvard Law School. After
having finished thorough course in
law he entered the Office of L. II.
Richmond & Sons, of Meadville, and
was shortly afterward admitted TO
practice at the bar. He spent about
three years in active professional life,
at the end of which period he engaged
In various business enterprises to
which he has since devoted his time
and energy with reasonable success.
He is q member of the banking house
of Delamater & Co., of Meadville, a
director of the Merchants National
Bank, president and owner of a con-
trolling interest in the Meadville and
Linesville railway company, president
of the Meadville fuel gas company,
and actively connected with many
other local enterprises. He has
always been a staunch Republican,
Aetive in promoting the interests of
his party. He was mayor of Mead.
Vile in 1876, Senatorial delegate to
the State convention in 1878, chair
man of the Republican county com.
mittee in the campaigns of 1878 and
1879, and in 1880 he was one of the
Garfield Presidential electors for
Pennsylvania. He was elected to the
State Senate in 1886. Senator Della.
mater has proved his capacity for po.
litical leadership by his remarkable
success in uniting the Republicans of
the Northwestern part of the State in
one unfaltering phalanx for the sup
port of Republican candidates in State
campaigns in the past few years. His
leadership and management of party
affairs in his section of the State have
been wise and discreet. His ability
and executive capacity and his extra.
ordinary faculty for organization were
recognized by Senator Quay, chairman
of the Republican National Commit.
tee, who called him TO his side in the
Presidential campaign of 1888, and it
has been universally acknowledged
that the services rendered the Nation.
al chairman by the Crawford county
leader in New York and elsewhere
contributed in very material degree
to the success of the Presidential cam
paigD. During his career in the State
Senate, while be has been modest and
always courteous, his practical knowl'
edge Of the needs Of the people of the
State, together with his industry and
constant attention to his duties, com
bined with marked force of character
and strong will, won for him the rec
ognition of his associates, and hC
easily became the acknowledged leader
of that body. 1t is accordingly no
alone by reason of his education, ex
perience, ability aud character estab
lished in private life, but also becaus
of his valuable services to the Repub
lican party in its State aud Nationa
campaigns, and his successful caree
as Il legislator that he is entitled t
and commands recognition and homo
among the people Of his native State
LOUIS ARTHUR wATREs.
Louis Arthur Watres, the choice c
the Republicans of Pennsylvania 70
Lieutenant Governor, since his eleC
tion to the State Senate, he has bee
in the field as an active candidate fo
that Office Senator Watres was bor
at Mt. Vernon, Lackawanna county
April 21, 1851. He is one Of til
most successful young men in bushes
and politics in that section of tn
State. He started in life at the bot
tom round of the ladder. He pickle
coal on the culm dumps Of the anthr'
cite region, then drove a team, clerke
in a store, worked on farm, weighe
coal for the Delaware d Hudson Cot
Company and filled the position
postmaster's clerk, deputy sheriff an
teller and cashier in a bank. II
studied law with John Handy and vi
admitted 10 the bar in 1878. He hi
been County Solicitor of Lackawnan