The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-03-28

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Hon. AIonzo Craig shuford.
been high sheriff of Lincoln county
in the olden time, when the best Of
men were selected to hold that
flee; and in 1906, 1912, 1913, 1915,
1916 and 1920 was senator in~~the
General Assembly from his district
David took to wife Elizabeth Ram
seur, of the historic line SO named d,
and on every side the young Con-
gressman is allied to the best and
Oldest families of the Valley of the
| Catawba. His father, George 2.
Shuford, was a leading citizen of
this county, and for years was chair
man of the then county court.
| At fourteen the lad went to Hick-
cry and began business education
in the store of his brother-in-law,
A. s. Abernethy. After year or
two he went back to continue his
schooling at the Catawba College in
| Newton. On his return to Hickory
in 1875, or thereabouts. he entered
the large store of Hall Bros, and re-
manned with them as clerk and book
keeper several years. Naturally
quick-witted and alert to learn, he
accumulated while thus engaged a
very considerable stock of useful
knowledge, both of men and of af-
fairs, which has stood him in good
stead since. In 1882 he married
Miss Willie E, daughter of Lieut.
Col. Thomas Lowe of the 29th North
Carolina Infantry, who had been
brought back from his post in Vir-
ginia during the war to be buried at
home. Having bought one of the
shares in the Lowe farm, he begun
his life as farmer, and has been de-
seryedly successful. l am told he
made fifteen hundred bushels of corn
this year. Some ten years ago he
Joined the German Reformed church,
of which he remains a useful and
worthy member, specially jealous in
Sunday-school work. In 1889, hav-
ing joined the Farmers Alliance, he
was soon made a county lecturer,
later district lecturer; then in 1892
he was elected delegate to the labor
conference in February of that year,
which met at st. Louis; and also a
delegate for the state at large to the
fap,ous Omaha convention, and at
the last session, held at Greensboro,
was elected Vice President Of the
North Carolina Farmers State
Alliance. From a friends descrip-
tion and recent photograph, it
seems that Mr.. Shuford is we'll
built, native man of middle height,
slightly bald, with oval face, dark
eyes and moustache and has a ke ten,
quick look, denoting unusual powers
Of observation. His bearing is
frank and manly, and his manners
courteous ard engaging. VIII in
, formed in the history and politics of
the country fully approaching the
demands Of the people and tn: care
less way in which some of their So
, called representatives have met
them. he showed himself upon the
! stump far better equipped fer the
! ! contest than his antagonist had given
him credit for beipg. He never
i, hesitated to meet any opponent, but
! gained the reputation of being an
= excellent debater. Country boy as
he was, without the manifold advan.
j, tages of his veteran competitor, hav
p ing arrayed against him the patron
. age of the government, the newspa
> ptrs and the federal office-hoid iders
- he yet attacked and defeated in {
y short, but brilliant campaign, The
senior representative of the State.
He is ''our member" now. Wha
= is to his credit is to our credit; what
:. hurts him hurts US. For the mex
two years he will have in charge oul
interests in the great council Ct th'
J. nation, and as we uphold him, h'
> will help US. So far then as we Cal
= approve of his course; by all mean
i let us say so, and whenever he doe
: things worthy of praise, let US prais'
: him and be proud he belongs to us
;. A man Of his stamp, who can in 1
!. few months volutionize the poll
!, tics of great district, and send Johl
!. S. Henderson back from the head O
- a large committee to his law books
a. a. is not to be disregarded nor moGke,
- at. He has earned respectful recog
milton and it can do his cor stituent
DO harm to accord it to him.
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