The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-18

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political prominence in the State. His
mother took this view of the situation
and as Allen had more confidence 10
her wisdom than in that of anybody
else, he entered the law Office of the
man who was afterwards to be known
all the country over as "Uncle Bill
Allen" Congressman, Governor, and
twice United States Senator from
Ohio. He remained with his uncle
three years, leaving his Office to &C
cept the position IF private secretary
to Gov. Lucas. This place was not a
sinecure. The Governor was in his
Office every morning at s o'clock. and
was in the habit of remaining until 3
at night. But the young secre airy
stuck to the hard work and at The
same time managed TO read law under
the direction of Judge Swayne, a dis
tinguished jurIst and practitioner,
whose Office he had entered. His in-
dustry was at last rewarded by admis-
sion to the Bar, when he again return
ed to his uncle's Office in Chi licothe,
not as a student or a clerk, but as a
partner. The practice was large, SO
that through bis family connections
Allen q. Thurman had the legal road
smoothed for him from the boulders
that usually beset the path of the
struggling young attorney. But, at
the same time, his good fortune and
success were the well-wOn rewards of
his own industry, perse verance and
ability. He Was only 22 years old at
the time of his admission to the Bar
ia 1885.
PLUNGING INTO POLITICS.
Uncle "Bill" Allen had been in
Congress two years at this time and
the demands of public life began to be
more pressing every year. The result
was that the nephew soon found HIM
self managing nearly the entire law
business of his partner and uncle.
But he also found time to dip into
politics himself. How could he have
kept out, with the example and sue
cess of his distinguished relative be.
fore him? Mr.. Thurman managed his
cards so well that In 1874 he was elec:.
ed representative to the Twenty
ninth Congress, while in the same
body Uncle Allen was at the other
end of the Capitol as q Senator.
In 1851 Mr.. Thurman was elected
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio
and he'd the position of Chief Justice
froom 1854 to 1856. Mr. Thurman
had been educated in the school of
strict Jacksonian Democracy, and
when the republican party arose and
swept Ohio the democrats of that state
were for many years wanderers in the
political wilderness. In 1867 Mr..
Thurman was induced to accept the
of the democracy for
Governor. He polled $4,000 more
votes than had ever been given in the
state for democratic candidate, but
the prize was carried off by Ruther-
ford B. Hayes by the slender majori-
ty of less than three thousand votes.
1t is a curious coincidence that eight
years later, when Uncle "Bll" Alien
and Mr.. Hayes were competitors for
the same Office, Hayes won by less
than six thousand votes. These fig
ures ccnclusively establish the i'm
meuse popularity at that time of
uncle and nephew In Ohio.
ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATE
SENATE.
But though the democrats were
defeated ON the governorship of. 1867
hey carried both branches of the leg
and two years later Mr..
Thurman was elected TO the United
States Senate as the successor of the
Did republican "war horse" Benjamin
F. Wade. There were far more able |
men in the senate then than there are |
now, which makes the compliment of |
Mr.. Blaine, above quoted. all The
greater. Oliver Z. Morton was there |
from Indiana, the "Leonine Morton"
IS he used to be called, who never
spoke without arresting the attention
Of everyone. Trumbull was there
from Illinois, and she has never had
B better representative since. Fessen-
len, one of the best debaters ever in
was there from Maine. Bay
ard represented the "blue hen chick
ems" of Delaware, and Summer thun-
dered for Massachusetts,. By his side,
politically, stood the scholarly Schurz,
from Missouri. and from the same