The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-08-05
JAMES GAVEN FIELD.
The Candidate For Vice President on the
Peoples Party Ticket Inter.
viewed on His History.
q AM NOT A GENERAL" SAID FIELD,
Born In Virginia in the Shadows Of the
Homes of Madison and JefFer.
somehow He Lost Ills Leg.


somehow lie Lost Ills Leg.
We find ia the columns Of the Watch
man Of Washington, d. c., the follow
ing interview with James G. Field,
which will be read with much interest:
Hon. James Gaven Field, the nomi-
nee Of the peoples party, for the high
office of vice-president, was born Ia
Culepepper county, Virginia, February
81, 1926, and consequently is in his e.
year. General Field lives at Gordons-
Vile, Va, ninety seven miles south of
Washington. He has charming
family and lives on his farm which
consists of several hundred acres. He
is practical farmer and has his place
stocked with fine sheep and cattle.
James Gaven Field is descended
from English ancestors, who, with pro-
pagandist energy and rifle compass,
blAzed their way when the country
was new. One of these ancestors,
John Field was q noted scientist in his
day and and was knighted for his as
Economical discoveries. Cyrus Field
Just dead and Justice Stephen ID. Field
Of the United States supreme court are
Ineal descendants of the same family
as the subject of this sketch, and so
WIS General Charles W. Field who dis
tinguished himself as II division COM
mander in the army of Northern Vir-
gina.
The Virginia family naturally sided
with the colonies in their Struggle for
ind pendence and the name figures
prominently in the record of the con.
ference held at williamsburg to pro-
test against the oppressors of the
mother country.
In both the war of 1912 and the
Mexican war Of AS, the family of
Fields contributed its quota of dlstin-
guished soldiers, and in the civil war
three members of the family were
slain in combat, and two others were
manned by wounds.
~ AN NOT A GENERAL"
81 see the newspapers are beginning
to call me general" remarked MIR,
Field, langhingly. THAT IS misnO-
mer, | never attained greater rank
than major and in that capacity was
attached to General \. P, Hills staff
during the war.
"How did lose my leg?"
"Welt, quite naturally, like mary an,
ether soldier. l left it at Slaughter
Mountain, or, as the federa4s call it,
Cedar Run
"a. Z. Hills light division had a
sharp combat there just prior to the
second battle OF Manassas, and the
federal artillery was sweeping of
everything above the soldiers heads.
was mounted, AMI piece of shell
plowed its way through my horses
shoulder. cut my stinup feathers and
crushed my leg below the knee. An
amputation followed, and that's the
whole story"
Mr.. Field has never been politician
in the sense Of seeking preferment.
He returned to his law office at Cul.
pepper, after the war and took an ac-
tive part in the politics of his county
and state acting always with the
democratic party. In 1877 Governor
Kemper selected hiin to ill the unex.
pired term rs attorney general and he
was afterward candidate for this Of
tice and was elected on the ticket that
made Holiday, democrat, the COVER.
nor; beyond this Mr.. Field has sough;
no office but has seemed to prefer the
quiet and contentment of his home
circle.
Located as l am" he remarked,
with Monticello, the home of Jeffer-
son, on one side of me, and Montpelier,
the estate of Madison, on the other
have, from the very nature of my sur
roundings, rs well as from choice
affiliated with the democratic party
but my idea is that the democracy ha,
Outlived its usefulness So it is with
the republicans. The cucus has taker
possession of their representatives il
congress, and the two parties have
surrendered whatever Of principles
they once claimed to represent. The
war has been ended a quarter of I
century. and yet we find these ole
party commanders lighting their battle
over again rs vigorously as ever. an(
elimination and recriIuination is TIN
order instead Of fraternity and gOoC
will. | see in the birth Of new part,
the dawn Of a new and brighter err
for both sections tangible some
thing that means something more sub
stantial than platitudes and promises
IL have never been an alliance maj
because my occupation as 4 lawye
barred my admission into that order
but have been IN touch with them a
II farmer and l believe | was anon;
the first who sympathized with then
aud advised them 10 organize into
new party and demand their rights
Without organization they could &C