Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-05
SOME OF THE CANDIDATES
Men Who Are Running for Gubernatorial
H0nors.
The States That Will Choose Their
Governors NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Men On the Tickets.

Men ON the Tickets.
Ohio. Kentucky. Maryland. Massachu.
sets. New Jersey, Iowa, Mississippi and
Utah elect governors today.
James E. Campbell, nominated for gov
ernor of Ohio by the Democrats. was born
at Middletown. Ohio, July Z, 1913. He
served in the navy during the civil war
After the close of the war he studied law
and was admitted to practice in Butler
county, Ohio, ard from 1876 to 1880 was
prosecuting attorney there. He was mem
Der of the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congresses, and voted for the Mills
tariff bill. In 1859 he was elected governor
of Ohio. serving a term of two years.
Gen. Asa s. Bushnell. the republican Can
dldate for governor of Ohio. is a New
Yorker by birth. He removed to Ohio in
boyhOod, and, after spending some years in
commercial pursuits, became iuentifled with
the manufacturing industries of Spring
teid, Ohio. and was successful. During the
war he served with distinction in the Shen
andoah valley and elsewhere.
William OConneil Bradley, the nominee
OF the republican party Tor governor OF
Kentucky. was born in Girard, KY. fifty
years ago. He enlisted in the federal army
at eighteen years of age and serN ed until
the close of the civil war. He was admitted
to the bar before he was twenty one by a
commenced the practice Of his profession.
He has served two terms in the legislature.
He ran for governor about eight years ago,
and received large vote. He Is good
stump speaker and political organizer. He
resides in Lancaster.
+. Wat Hardin. the nominee of the dem
ccratic party for governor OF Kentucky,
was born June g. 1872 in Adair county
Ky. He is the second son of Parker g.
and Caroline w. Hardin. Gen. Hardin re-
ceived his education in the schools of Adair
county. He studied law with his father
and admitted to the bar in 1860. In
1879 he was nominated by the democratic
state convention for attorney general OF
kentucky; was elected, reelected in 1883
and again in 1887. In 1891 he was a candt-
date for governor. and after hot contest
was defeated by MIR. John Young Brown.
John E. Hurst. who has been nominated
by the democrats of Maryland for governor,
was born in Cambridge, Md, October u,
1881 He is wealthy dry goods merchant,
being the senior member of the firm of
Hurst, Purnell 4 Co.. Of Baltimore. Md.
When he was eighteen years old he was
employed in a wholesale dry goods house
IN Baltimore, where he remained until 1851,
when he founded the firm of Hurst & Co
He is interested in many other business en-
terprises in Baltimore. Is trustee of
Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a member of
several clubs. In 1850 he married Miss
Mary r. Bell of Baltimore.
Lloyd Lowndes, the republican candidate
is one of the foremost business men OF
Maryland, being al the head of number OF
banks. mining companies, etc. In 1877 he
was elected to the Forty-tnird Congress
from the sixth Maryland district when
only twenty-eight years old. the youngest
n ember of that body.
Frederic T. Greenhalge nominated by the
republicans of Massachusetts, for governor,
Is an Englishman by birth. but was brought
to this country by his parents when he was
two years old. He has served In both
branches of the legislature and in Congress.
He is a lawyer by profession. ana mas
opk,ia oipep a
This will be the governors third term, IL he
is reelected.
George F. Williams, who has been NOM
mated by the democrats of Massachusetts
for governor is Il native of that state, and
resides at Dedha He Is a member of the
bar. and has a large practice in Boston and
throughout tie state. He has served one
term in Congress, where he became con-
spicuous an advocate of tariff reform.
John w. Grggs the nominee for governor
of New Jersey on the republican ticket, was
born in Newton, Sussex county, n. j., July
| 10. 1910. He graduated from Lafayette Col
| lege In 1868. and was admitted to the bar in
| 1871. He was elected to the assembly in
1876. and to the senate in 1Ss2 and 1SS1. and
since then has devoted himself exclusively
to his lucrative law practice.
Alexander T. McGill. nominated for gov
ernor of New Jersey by the democrats, was
born at Pittsburg, Pa. about fifty years
ago. He came to New Jersey in 1854. when
his father accepted professorship at
Princeton College. Chancellor McGill grad
uated from Princeton in 1854. and two years
later from Columbia Law School. He stud
led law with Judge Scudder at Trenton. and
was admitted to the bar in 1S's'. He was a
member of the legislature in 1910, and was
judge of the court of common pleas in 1878.
On March ~. 1887, he was appointed chan
cellor by Gov. Green, and was reapponted
by Gov WertZ
Judge w. F. Babb. ominated for governor
by the democrats of Iowa. was born in Des
Moines county, Iowa. forty-eight years ago.
He entered Iowa Wesleyan University, at
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. and in 1862 entered and
served two years in the Union army. Re
turning. he finished his university course
studied law and settled down to practice his
profession in Mt. Pleasant. where he has
since lived. He has been successful at the
bar and has twice been elected to the
bench in district strongly republican, be-
| cause of his personal popularity He IS
| widely known in Iowa through his work in
connection with the Methodist Church He
is for sound money.
Gen. Francis Marion Drake republican
candidate for governor of Iowa, was born
| in Rushville. Schuyler county, Ill. Decem-
Der 30, 1890 He removed with his parents
to Davis county, Iowa, where his father
founded the town of Drakevile Shortly af
ter he made trip to California, going by
the overland route returning to his home in
1893. When the war broke cut he helped to
organize regiment, and became its ma jor
He rose to the rank of brigadier general and
was mustered out of service at the end of
the war Since that time Gen Drake has
peeA eHsdSe'l III railroad projects and mer-
camille pursuits, besides being a lawyer H..
Is a widower.
In Mississippi the fight Is between Senator
A. j. McLaurn. democrat, who has been a
member of both branches of the legislatu
and who filled an unexpired term as United
states Senator, and Frank Beckett the pop-
ulist, who has served in the state Iegisla-
ture first as a democrat and afterward as A
republican Both candidates are lawyers.
In Utah the battle is between ex-Congress-
man John Il. Game, democrat. and Heber NJ
| Wells, republican The church Question and
woman suffrage are leading issues in the
contest.