West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-09-21
GOVERNOR OF IOWA,
And One or the Most Popular Demo.
cratic Statesman OF the
Great West.


Above we present our readers
with a good picture Of lowa's chief
executive and one of the coming
men of the West He has been
talked of as Presidential sossibil.
ity and his enthusiastic friends
gathered at Chicago in great num-
bcrs last year when the Democratic
National Convention was held there
to boom him for the Presidency,
aud he may bo President yet. 1t
was said at the time, that 10000
lowans were III Chicago to boom
their Governor into tho White
House il possible. and the Repub-
licans said that if they could only
hold an election then, they could
carry the State by II safe majority.
lie was first elected Governor i'm
1889 by nearly 1000 plurality.
which was n big victory, az the
State had gone Republican the year
before by about 81, ,00o. lie was
re elected in 1891 by y plurality of
over 5000, and is now making his
third race for Governor and opened
the campaign last week with a big
speech to a very large and enthusi.
asiic audience. His present term
expires January LIST, but he will
undoubtedly be re elected at the
State election November 7th. The
term Of office OF Governor of Iowa
is only two years, and the salary
S3. 600 per year. The Lieutenant
Governor serving with him is IA
Democrat also. and his name is G..
l.. BcstOw. 1t was thought by
many that Gov. Boies would be i'm
President Olcvcland's Cabinet, and
it is said he WAS offered the position
Of Secretary OF Agriculture, but de.
clined it. The New York World
gives the following sketch of his
early life and struggles
Born in 1927 or farm in Erie
county, n. T., Horace Boics was
of II family of six children evenly
divided rs to sex, all of whom work
cd sixteen or eighteen hours a day
grubbing out the stumps on this
sixtY-acre farm. The struggle for
existence seemed against the pio-
nccrs, for such they were at that
time. and finally Horace concluded
that he would strike out for himself.
And here is where his romance
commences. lie was only sixteen
years old, but he nd met n youpg
girl during the winter, when they
went TO school together i'm a log
cabin in the woods, and sat on the
same bench and studied out OF the
same spelling book. From that
winter and for many years this wo-
man made herself felt in oil that
the young man did. IT, was because
he loved this girl that he wanted to
go further West and make fame and
fortune to divide with her. lie
and the young woman together had
concluded that he was fitted TO be
lawyer.
So he went on PROPELLER down
the lakes To Racine, WIs., where nc
secured a job on a farm Mt $40 q
month and his board to get start.
This was probably the most disa.
greeable month be ever put in, for
he was kept digging a ditch in the
mud the entire time and fed like a
pauper, all by himself. But be
made bis escape ut the end Of
month.
Another farmer to whom younp
Boic5 applied for work treated him
better, and he put in several
months Of hard work there. Then
be went back to New York ard his
sweetheart, Miss Adella King.
uere he worked again on his
fathers farm and went TO school =
few months during the wintor at
the district school.
OHb - ""h VIZ DiDWNSu ~ NoMef
and the ambition that thc young
woman's love constantly fed started
young Boise out West again. This
time he went to Illinois, where ne
had an older brother. lie worked
on farm iu the summer and
taught country school iu the
winter.
When he was about twenty years
old he went back 70 bis New York
home. Here tho gentle yet all