The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-08
THE MAN FOR SENATOR

the greatest Of natural resources and the
best or facilities for using them; the
best of talent and ability for making the
United States the happiesl and most
prosperous nation in the world
We have a government based GA the
great principles Of freedom and equality
The people have the power TO say how
they shall be governed and who shall
serve them. Yet we are misgoverned
we are badly served Our national ser
wants are fanures-too many Of them.
They serve themselves, not us.
What do we need2
We need, to make us prosperous az
people, more men at Washing On who
have been business successes themselves
and conseq uently with ability and talent
and experience to make the nation pros
porous.
Congress has f0undered. The people
have suffered This has been due not
altogether to politics, but because at the
head Of this nation are men incapable Of
wise business action They don't know
" hat TO do. We have the most idiotic
financial methods being enforced by the
executive officers; and a congress that has
been powerless to aid.
think Of a business man who pays his
notes in gold he has earned. gives out
again the same demand notes aud Dor
rows gold to meet them, repeating the
process over and over again, getting him
self deeper and deeper in debt, and with
nothing whatever to show for it,
We must have business men at Wash
ington. In this connection there is one
Kansas ma who stands pre-eminent as
the sman Of the hour a man Of unques-
toned ability. integrity and influence.
He has never held office. He does not
need the Office TO round a successful life,
but he can serve a long suffering people.
He il unassuming and his career of hon
OF in civil and military life has not been
sounded from the house-tops. One Of
the first sketches Of him has just ap-
peared In print It is written by w. Y
Morgan Of Emporia for the North Tope-
ka Mail 1t is copied below and while
it is a splendid tribute to Major Hood it
leaves untold hundreds Of his many good
deeds and gives but passing notice of
invaluable traits Of character for a man
who in public position can help a people
as III private life he has helped individ-
uals:
A marked feature IN politics during the
last few years has been the interes. taken
by business men. This has been espec-
tally true Of Kansas politics. and exceed
iugly SO of Kansas Republican politics.
Up to 1890 the merchant, the real estate
dealer, the mechanic, the banker and the
doctor had rested secure in the knowledge
that Kansas was all right, and while at
presidential elections they grew excited
over New York and swung their hats for
al Z RIof
took little part in the primaries. the con-
ventiOns or in working at the polls cleo
ton day. But when the Popuist party
arose and started to wipe the earth
with the Republican party,( and
came near doing it,, when wild
theories, strange vagaries and IN
patriotic politics seemed to pre-
vail the business men Of Kansas decided
it was time for them to make full hand.
Their patriotism and their common sense
com bined to urge them to action, and for
three years they have worked early and
late, have given their time, their wisdom
aud their cash for the redemption of
Kansas. The Republican party has ap-
pealsd to business men for support has
won its great victory by their help. and
the party must merit the continued back
ing Of these same men to be successful.
The candidacy of Major Calvin Hood
for the United States senate is an out
growth OF this participation Of business
men in active politics He is pre-emi-
nently q representative of business
Kansas business. His interests are
those Of the merchant, the farmer the
mechanic, the banker and all the PEG
pie Of Kansas BY his ability as a 6nan-
cier he has won the confidence and re-
spect Of the eastern capitalists who are
such large factors in the development Of
our state. but ia his financial views he
has never departed from the interests Of
Kansas. Major Hood has always been
s1silver man," favoring the use sof the
white metal as much as possible and be-
Iiewing that the silver from American
mines should be coined free in American
minis.
Major Hood is q man Of personal
ma gnetiam. His friends are enthusiastic
for him. just as he i8 always loyal to his
friends. He is one Of the hardest Of
workers, giving his personal at
tention to ali the branches Of his extern
sive business. He is a man Of culture
and refinement, q speaker Of force and
clearness, a thinker OF vigor and fairness
and business man who has established
. reputation for integrity, honor and sue
cess. The story Of his life is one which
shows his work aud worth in all the
positions in which he has been placed.
Major Hood was born in Erie COUNTY
Pennsylvania, was raised on q farm and
received q common school education.
His father moved to near Adrian. AIichi-
gan. Before young Hood was II years
old he had spent I've years in a dry
goods and hardware store and at work in
a copper mine. In 1852 he took M a
copper mining claim in Wisconsin near
where Superior city now stands and
spent three years IN the region about the
head Of Lake Superior. Then be went
to Adrian. Michigan. where he was mar
ried in 1886; from there to Sturgis, Mich
igan, In 1853, and engaged i'm the mer-
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