The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27

Hervey ID. Worries, candidate for re-elec-
ton as superintendent OF public instruc-
tion was born in Johnson county. Indiana,
in 1855. He was reared on farm and
attended tho Northern Indiana school
several years. Has held every position in
the common school work, as teacher or
superintendent, from the district schools
10 state superintendent OF public instruc.
ton.
William A. Peelle, it,. candidate for re-
election as chief of the Indiana bureau OF
statistics, was born in Wayne county in
1910. While still a lad his father moved
TO Winchester, Randolph county, where
young Peelle took position in dry goods
store as a clerk and where he remained
for several years His army record con-
sists OF eighteen months spent in the
depot commissary OF subsistence depart
ment at Nashville, Tenn, he return
ing to Winchester at the close OF
the war in 1865. lie came to this city in
1874 and served two terms as deputy un-
der Secretary OF State NeiI and when the
Hon. John G.. ShAnklin was elected in
1873, Mr.. Peelle continued in the office as
his deputy. lie was assistant C ERIK of the
legislature and afterward elected chief OF
the bureau OF statistics. He was reelected
three times 10 the same position by the
general assembly. In 1890 Mr. Peelle was
chosen by the people for that office.
Jeptha ID. New, candidate for supreme
Judge from the Second district, was born
in Jennings county, Indiana, his father,
Hickman New, being one of the pioneer
members and ministers in the Chris
tian church in southern Indiana.
Jeptha was educated at Bethany col
lege, West Virginia. He was Judge OF the
common pleas court four and Judge OF
the circuit court six years. lie was elected
by the legislature TO the supreme court
commission, and was a member of the
Forty-fourth and Forty-sixth congresses
from a republican district He was unan-
imously nominated to the Fortv-fith con-
gress. but declined.
James McCabe of Willamsport, candidate
for supreme judge from the Third district,
has been very successful in his law prac-
tice and has accumulated thereby enough
OF this worlds goods so that it may be said
he is in easy circumstances. He is now
nominee OF his party for congress.
and both times made speeches
in every township in the district.
He was instrumental in the passage of
our present system for the protection of
the purity OF the ballot. He was mem
Der Of the first state board OF election
commissioners under that system. He
was also a member OF the committee OF
six chosen by the two parties to frame
instructions for the conduct of elections
under the new law.
Timothy Edward Howard, candidate for
supreme judge from the Fifth district, was
born near Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan. q,
1887. He was a farmers boy, taught
school and was elected inspector ofsehools
at twenty-one years of age. In 1889 he
came to Indiana to study law and serve a.
professor of rhetoric and English litera-
ture near South Bend. Early in 1862 he
enlisted in the Twelfth Michigan infantry.
and was shot through the body at Shiloh.
He has been for years member of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Judge George l.. Bernhard, candidate for
appellate judge from the First district,
Is native OF Germany and forty-eight
years old. He came TO this country quito
young, and has resided in Indiana most OF
his lie. At the age of seventeen years he
enlisted as private soldier III the Fif-
teenth Indiana volunteers and carried
musket for more than three years, rartici-
pating in several battles, among them
those OF Shiloh and Stone river. From
1865 until 1865 he was Il student
at Cincinnati and at Miami univer-
sity, Oxford, O. In 1870 he located
In Rockport, where he entered upon the
practice of law and achieved good success.
In 1872 he was candidate for representa-
tive, but was de ted by only seventy-one
votes. In 1876 he was elected prosecut-
ing attorney. and was reelected without
opposition, being placed on the democratic
and republican tickets. In 1884 he was
elected judge of the Second judicial circuit.
In 1890 be was reelected and served until
appointed by Governor Hovey on the APP
pellate court bench, a. one of the two dem
ocratic members of that court.
The Hon. Frank Il. Gavin, candidate for
appellate Judge from the Second district.
is son of James Gavin, who was one of
the authors OF the Gavin & Hord revision
OF the Indiana statutes and colonel of the
Seventh Indiana volunteers. He was
born In Greensburg in 1864, graduated at
Harvard college in 1873 and was admitted
TO the bar in February, 1879, on the day
before he was twenty-one. From this
time forward he has been engaged in the
practice as Greensburg, being in partner
ship with Judge John ID. Miller.
Theodore z. Davis OF Noblesville is the
candidate for the appellate judgeship for
the Third district. He has lived in Ham
ilton county all his life, is forty-seven
years of age, and during the past six
teen years has been one of the fore
most practitioners before the Hamil-
ton county bar. He has been an earnest
worker as an uncompromising democrat.
Judge Davis never was on ticket until
two years ago, when he cut down Harri-
sons majority in the circuit where he
ran for the judgeship over 10 cent. AS
man and an advocate Judge Davis has
most enviable reputation.
Judge y. j. Lott, candidate for appellate
judge, Fourth district, was born in Jay
county In the ffties. He attained lib
eral education before beginning the prac-
tice OF law, profession he has pursued
with success. Judge Lott was appointed
to the vacant judgeship on the Delaware
circuit in 1885, and the next year was
elected for full term as a democrat. He
has eight years experience on the bench.
George L. Ross, candidate for appellate
judge of the Fifth district, is one of the
conspicuously successful lawyers of the
Loganspori bar He was born and raised
in Peru, Ind, and comes from distin-
guished parentage, his father. Judge n. o.
Ross, being one of the ablest jurists among
the older practitioners of the state. Young
Ross was educated at Wabash college and
attended law school at the Indiana state
university.
The PLATFORM.
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assembled, Teaihrm our devotion to