Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-03-04

we'll as large all-round man. His
career in Congress was creditable, but,
perhaps, not brilliant.
He is a theoretical bimetalist, with
strong attachment to the gold stand
ard until an international agreement
can be brought up, which makes him
for practical purposes a permanently
devoted gold-standdard man. On the
prohibition questi ion he is said to be in
sympathy with the system which pre-
walls in his State, and is personally a.
strong temperance man. MIR. Wilson
is practical farmer and his estate in
Tama county is said to be worth $50.
900. which signifies pretty good Iowa
farm.
James Wilson was born August 10,
1885, in Ayrshire, Scotland, of parents
belonging to the farming class of the
population. His parents immigrated
to Connecticut in the spring of 1852
and began farming in the vicinity of
Norwich. They came to Iowa in the
fall of 1855, buying government land
in Tama county.
He was member Of the Forty third,
Forty fourth and Forty-eighth Con
crosses.
JAS. A. GARY, POSTMASTER g ENERAL
James A. Gary, of Baltimore, there
seems little doubt, will be Postmaster
General. He is one of the solid bust
| ness men of Baltimore and is the head
of the firm of James S. Gary s. Son,
proprietors OF large cotton mills. He
owns other valuable business proper.
ties in Baltimore and Howard counties
| and has been repeatedly called upon
to share in the management of finan
cial and other business corporations in
Baltimore. He was president for sew
eral years of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association. and is now vice
president of the Consolidated Gas
| Company and vice president OF the
Citizens National Bank. II also holds
directorships in the Savings Bank of
Baltimore, the Warehouse Company,
the American Insurance Company, tile
| Merchants and Manufacturers Insur
ance Company and the Baltimore Trust
and Guarantee Company.
| An ardent UniOnist during tine civil
war, Mr.. Gary has been u republican
ever since. In 1870 the republicans
nominated him for Congress in the
| fifth district, which was democratic at
that time, and he was defeated. In
1879 the republicans nominated him
for Governor. In those days the State
was democratic, and Mr.. Gary failed of
election, although he made an active
canvass. He has been delegate to
every national convention of his party
since 1872, and from 1889 to 1896 repre-
sented Maryland upon the republican
national committee.
McCooK, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
| Mr.. Mckinley, it is said, first selected
John j. McCook, of New York, as his
Attorney General Since then, how
ever, motives of policy, it is stated,
have impelled him to assign Mr.. Nc
Cook to another portfolio, that of Sec.
rotary of the Interior.
Severely wounded at Sandy Grove,
Va, he was brevetted major for gal
lantry in the field, and when the war
ended he was brevetted colonel. He
returned to Kenyon to finish his course,
and then he went to New York. He
has lived there ever since. and for
many years has been a member of the
law firm of Alexander & Green, the
senior being his father in law.
At the time the varions sugar re-
fineries now forming the trust went in
to the combination Colonel McCook
was consulted by various New York
banking houses as to the combination's
finances. The trusts attorney then,
as now, was John E. Parsons. Differ
ent retineries which went into the
combination were represented by vari
GUS lawyers, among them being James
G. Carter and Joseph FL. Chante. But
Colonel McCook, so far as can be learn
ed. was never connected with the sugar
interests in the transaction.
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