The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-01-13
Hon. BOIES PENROSE,

Hon. John Wanamaker, God-fearing,
law-sbiding citizen and typical Penn
sylvanian. He has risen from the lowest
ranks to be the greatest Postmaster
General the country has ever seen, as
well as the greatest merchant in the
world. He is manufacturer and busi-
ness man. The idle wheels all over this
Commonwealth testify 10 the necessity
for more business men i'm the United
States Senate. Mr.. Wanamaker sent
the first shiPload OF provisions from this
country to the starving of Europe. He
has improved the schools of Philadelphia,
and almost every charitable institution
there is monument to his beneficence
and generosity. He is the choice of
nine-tenths of the people of the State.
Attention should be paid by legislators
to the right of petition. We are the
servants and not the masters Of the peo-
pie. Nominate John Wanamaker and
you viii never have cause TO blush"
Mr.. Wanamaker's nomination was sec
onded by Representative Stewart, the
Father OF the House; Senator William
Finn, OF Pittsburg. and Representative
Young. of Tioga. Then the roll was
called, with the result given above.
Senator Penrose was not in the caucus.
He remained at his hotel and had the re-
suit telephoned to him. When the vote
was announced the Penrose people in
dulged in a display of wild enthusiasm.
When it was over Senator Kaufman
arose and said: ave have fought Won
derfdl fight against tremendous odds, but
we are loyal Republicans. and at the re-
quest of Mr.. Wanamaker and his follow
ers I move to make the nomination of
Senator Penrose unanimous"
Senator Finn seconded the nomina-
ton, and it was made unanimous. Then
the caucus adjourned.
After the caucns Mr.. Wanamaker gave
dinner to the 70 men who had voted for
him. The defeated candidate made a
speech in which he declared that he
would stick by his friends. and that the
business men would keep up their or
ganization.
Boies Penrose now represents the
Sixth district of Philadelphia in the state
senate. lie was born on November /,
1860. He is the eldest son of r. A. +.
Penrose, NJ. d., l. L. D., professor in
the medical department of the Universi-
ty OF Pennsylvania, and a grandson of
Charles B. Penrose, one of the best
known lawyers of the state, speaker of
the state senate for several terms and So
licitor of the United States treasury un-
der Presidents William Henry Harrison
and John Tyler. His grandfather
was Clement Biddle Penrose, who was
educated in France and Switzerland, and
who, on his return to Philadelphia was
appointed by Thomas Jefferson, then
president of the United States. one of the
three commissioners to take charge of the
recently acquired territory of Louisiana.
Boise Penrose was educated by private
tutors at home until, at the age of l6, he
entered Harvard College, from which he
was graduated in 1881. He was one of
the graduates selected 10 deliver an ora
tion at the commencement, and his sub
ject was Martin Van Buren, as a Poiiti-
cian.- He studied law in the Office of
Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker
Bispham. and was admitted To the bar of
Philadelphia in 1883. In 1881 he was
elected TO represent the Eighth Ward of
Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives. and in 1886 the Sixth
District in the Senate May o, 1889. he
was elected president pro tempore of the
Senate, and was reelected January Q,
1891. to the same Office. November 6. 1850,
and again in 1894. he was re-elected to the
State Senate. He is the author, in con-
nection with his law partner, Of history
of the city government OF Philadelphia,
a volume entitled Philadelphia, 16sl-
ISs7,' and History OF Ground Rents in