The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-08-10
THE MINERS
CANDIDATE.
Hon. Elias Davis Candidate For
Sheriff of Schuylkill.
IS BRIGHT PUBLIC LIFE !
The Father of the TwO-Week Pay Bill
Has the United Support of the
Miners and LabOrers.
IS BRIGHT PUBLIC LIFE

Hon. Elias Davis, of New Castle town
ship, candidate for the Republican nom
nation for Sheriff, is so well known to
the voters of Schuylkill county, that it
seems superfluous at this time to relate
either his personal or political history
During the past eight years he has been
almost constantly in public life, the in
tervals between the terms Of his public
service being devoted to commercial pur.
suits, which have brought him in contact
with the whole people of the county and
enabled him to cultivate acquaintance
more extended, perhaps, than any other
candidate on either ticket enjoys.
Mr.. Davis was born in VAUDEVILLE
Schuylkill county, in November, 1866, and
is therefore 80 years OLD. He began work
at the breaker as a alatepiCker in 1868,
when he was but eight years old, and con
tinued to work in and around the mines
until he was elected to the Legislature in
| 1884. In his boyhood he attended school
| in the winter months and acquired a very
| fair common school education, and when
he grew to manhood his knowledge ambi-
| tion and energy made him aleader among
| the wOrkingmen of his district. He ha
been prominently identified with every
| movement inaugurated for the ameliora-
tion of the condition of labor, and has
| always been regarded as a safe, wise and
conservative counsellor on matters of this
| kind.
| Mr.. Davis entered politics in 1856 as the
| representative of the workingmen of this
| district and was supported by them re
| gardless of party. He received the Re
| publican nomination for AssemblymaI
| and was elected by a handsome majority
1 10 pa-alaataH n 1899 and
served with credit to himself and decided
| advantage to his constituents and the
w0rkingmen of the mining districts OF
the state.
Mr.. Davis is one of the very few mel
who have been elected to the Legislator,
as a representative e workingman, and wht
have accomplished anything of advantag,
to their constituents. His knowledge o
mines and mining secured him a position
on the Mines and Mining Committee o
the House during his first term of service
and while in that position he did some
good work in the interest of the peOpl,
he represented.
Mr. Davis is entitled to the full credi
of having framed, introduced and passet
the semi-monthly pay bill, under, whicl
the miners OF the anthracite coal reglOI
now receive their wages every two weeks
The credit of that achievement he doe
not share with anybody. IL was his owl
creation, and it was his own individua
effort that secured its massage. He ais
secured the passage OF eeral other act
of less importance but all advautageOu
to the workingmen of the state, whicl
want of space here forbids us to euumer
ate. Mr.. Davis is a representative Of tn
workingmen of the county in the fulles
and most comprehensive sense of tina
term. He has rendered faithful and valu
able services in their behalf and is full,
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of politics. We look for his nomination
on Monday next on the first ballot, an,
his election in November by sweepiu.
majority.