Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-22
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May Land In the White House.
VAS FAVoRITE SON.
haps He Will Unite the Dem
 ocratic Hosts.

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 of the Iowa Statesman.
 [e position of Hon Horace Boies of
 is unique in politics. Even if he to make the slightest personal eff he is bound to figure prominently |bresldential possibility. The situa- |nrasses him to the front.
 large majority of the Democrats of rest are for the free coinage of sil- [so is Horace Boies. Naturally they seek to nominate for the presidency man among them who is strongest personal backing" and at the
 time most unfinching in his ad- ice to the free silver idea. To fulfill
 conditions the finger of prescience to point inevitably toward the se- n of the Iowa man.
 be sure, there are others, and tbem Bryan of Nebraska and f of Missouri, each popular in his tate and entitled to due recogni- lt the hands of the silver men, but ,s without saying that the follow |. Boies is many times larger than he others could muster jointly.
 eed, it is admitted by the warm
 ends of other aspirants for presi- M honors, that, since his official
 ement at the recent convention of Democrats and the general ap- | of that action that has come from
 srats all over the west, the strength silver faction of the Democratic al convention at Chicago will Ire the chances of ex-Gevernor [for the presidential nomination.
 view of this contingency people
 lily are beginning to cast about 9:ther knowledge of the man who
 Q destined to wear high national |sl It is not to be inferred that the |-can people are in entire ignorance
 career. The sound of his political
 ements has reverberated far, but
 te date respecting his personality As fife are wanting. To supply this
 ation is the purpose of this article.
 nee Boies was born 69 years ago
 tile country village near Buffalo.
 rents were both American born,
 lfather was of remote French de-
 The elder Boies was private in
 r of 1872. At the close of the married and took up his abode lat was then the frontier in vest kw York. Here he brought up his
 H. There were three boys and
 sirls in the family.
 ng Horace attended school in the and worked on the farm in sum- | When l6 years of age he conclud-
 would better go west. His father
 him passage on lake boat to Wis, where he landed with 75
 He worked i'll that neighborhood |zmers for some months, when he |5a He'd home by his mothers sick |g After short stay he again went nd worked a season or two on the his brother, who had settled in |zss Returning to New York, he
 went to school. He had long t of Studying law, and his ambi-
 Id been encouraged by school t Aurora, Adelia King, who aft became his wife.
 Did Chores and Studied Law.
 he concluded to take the all ant Step, young Boies had only
 roubled about his lack of funds,
 lained his position to a lawyer of vile, N. Y., whose office he en- Tie lawyer sympathized with :1S man and offered to give him ard if he would do the chores he house. The chores consisted of taking care of two cows and
 To IS reason to believe that the Ing young law student found
 t ln the presence of the school Aurora who had spurred his 9n. for she had become an at iat the academy at Springville.
 IS months young Boies applied dlligently to his lawbooks. He
 m Examined very vigorously, ac- ;to the impartial methods of that
 The ordeal of examination lasted
 ays and only of the 13 candi-
 assed the trial successfully. It is z necessary to add that Horace 7as one of the successful four |0I0@ he was admitted to the bar. Just married the girl of his
 o whom he was so deeply in-
 TOT the words of hope and cheer
 aloh she had helped him. At the opmed his office his total assets 0 $l5 and a wife. Shortly seF ne removed to Hamburg,
 ssar Buffalo.
 Attme he was Republican, and
 aos long until he began to attain l, ence In the party. He was public D. and earnest in his advocacy of g cmsidered proper legislation, 1a65 he was rewarded for his q seat in the state legislature.
 q fhat he would probably have |.y eted for the succeeding term had
 county been gerrymandered so
 nx6nt Republican success in his