The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-10

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where he spent three years in business
enterprises. Havin studied law at an
early age he set up Office and began to
practice in this prof sion He served in
the civil war as captain OF the Fourth In
diana cavalry, but owing to feeble health
he was obliged to retire. Subsequently
he recruited the One Hundred and Forty
seventh Indiana infantry Governor
GRAY was first Wing, then g Republican,
but since 1871 he has been acting with the
Democrats. In 1868 be was elected to the
Indiana state senate, serving four years.
AT the end of that period he was selected
as a delegate TO the Liberal Republican
convention. In 1876 he was chosen Lieu
tenant and eight years after
filled the CHIEF Office, governor of Indiana.
This was the famous Cleveland and
Hendricks campaign. When the cam
paign ended, the election held and the
votes counted, it was recorded that Gray.
for governor, had run ahead OF the pIesl-
dental ticket, Tilden and Hendricks.
They received a majority over Blaine and
Logan of 6, 5l2 votes, while Gray beat his
opponent, CaIkins, z 1892. He served his
term as governor. and after that resumed
the practice of law in Indianapolis.
He made an admirable governor of In
diana. There were no exploitings of
favorite ideas or fads-all that he accom-
plished was done in quiet, unostenta-
ticus. statesmanlille manner, and was the
result Of matured thought and observa
ton.
Ex-General Gray lacks two inches of
being six feet high. He is we'll proper
toned and stands erect, with semi
military carriage and weighs about $50
hounds. His hair was black and slightly
inclined to curl, but it is now somewhat
tiDged with gray. He has prominent
forehead, with q full, frank, open and
plump face, strongly indicative of high
order of intelligence, and light-D eyes
beaming with good nature. His face is
unbearded except with small chin whisk-
ers.
He IS suave and courteous in his ad-
dress. OF a kind and benevolent DISPOSE
tor. always pleasant and cordial even
with strangers, and extremely sociable
among his friends and acquaintance.
He enjoys their society, and perhaps one
Of the elements of his great popularity
and steadfRst hold upon people is his free-
dom FROM any cold or aristrocratic reserve,
and yet no one has a keener sense of the
demands Of true dignity. he is person
of great decision of character and pro-
nounced frnness, yet always respectful
and generous toward those who may diff
fer with him.
Governor Gray knows Indiana and her
people perhaps better than any other man
living. Senator Voorhees, is more thor
oughly familiar, perhaps, with southern
and western Indiana than Gray, but the
latter has traTersed and canvassed the en-
tire commonwealth from the Ohio to
Lake Michigan so frequently and ex-
haustively that it is safe to say that he
stands today without a peer in his knowl-
edge and estimate OF the people of In
diana.
Indiana completely changes her appear
ance in q presidential year. As soon as
the national conventions make their NOM
nations the din and racket begin, and
they never cease until the ballots fat is
announced and the yictors have their crow
over the result.
When Blue Jeans Williams made his
famous canvass for the governorship
against General Harrison, he was piloted
bv Senator VOORHEES,. The combination
was one Of the most drawing ones that the