Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-06
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

g. F. REINHARDT.
For Railroad Commissioner,
s. B. CRANE.
Something About the Men Nomi
mated.
Fred E. White, the candidate for
governor, was born near the villr ge
( of Guldlauter, Prussia, in 1S43. He
lived there until he was IA years of
age, when he removed with his ar.
ents to America, and IN 1867 local ed
with them in Keokuk county,near the
town of Webster. For four years he
hired out as farm hand to farmers
in the neighborhood, and was Occur
pied the greater portion of the time
in driving oxen to breaking plows,
that portion of the state having just
opened up to settlement. In 1861 he
enlisted as a private in Company I,
Thirteenth Iowa infantry, and served
to the close of the war. He was under
Grant and Sherman throughout the
four years of his enlistment, and went
through the Vicksburg and Atlanta
campaigns, and was with Sherman on
his march to the sea. He has refused
to accept pension, although entitled
to one. At the close of the war he
returned to Keokuk county and
purchased small tract of land which
he grubbed and cleared, and since
that time has lived on it. He and his
sons are now owners of 400 acres of
land. Mr.. White has never invested
dollar in any other bushes and
does not own any other property than
his farm. He was married in 1866 and
has four children. Soon after his re-
turn from the war, he took a fancy to
politics, and repeatedly canvassed
his county for friends who were can
didates for office, but never allowed
his name to be presented as q candi-
date for office, although frequently
pressed to do 80, until 1890, when he
was nominated for and elected to
congress on the democratic ticket
from the Sixth district. He made a
brilliant record in congress, deliver
Ing two of the most notable speech
es Of the long session. The first one
was on the tariff question, and more
copies of it were distributed by the
democratic national committee than
of any other political document of
recent years, His other great speech
was on the naval appropriation, and
is still used rs tract by the interna-
tional arbitration society and by
those who do not think it longer
necessary for civilized nations to go
to war. He was candidate of his
party for reelection in 1892, but was
defeated, and was again defeated for
the same place last year.
B. A. Plummer, the candidate for
lieutenant governor, is one of the best
known business men in northern
Iowa. He is q resident of Forest City,
where he is president of the First
National bank, with which institu-
ton he has been connected for TWEEN
ty years. He enjoys the distinction
of being one of the very few national
bankers who advocate free coinage
of silver at 16 to 1. He served five
Years in the war and located at Forest
: City almost Immediately after he was
mustered out. He is accredited to the
silver republicans, although ex-Chair-
man Anderson of the populist. COM
mittee is authority for the statement
that it has been the belief in Forest
City for some time that he is a popu-
list.
Judge L. G. Kline was born in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, November s, 1916. There
he received his early education in the
public schools and began reading law.
In 1865 he removed to Mendoza, Ill.,,
where he continued to study law for
q year. He entered the University of
Michigan law school in 1866, gradu-
ating in the spring of 1868. For one
year he practiced law in Mendoza,
ILL.,, removing in 1869 to Toledo, Ia,
where he resided until his removal to
Des Moines IN 1894. Judge Kline was
a candidate for governor on the demo-
cratic ticket in 1881 and 1888. In 1884
he was nominated for United States
senator by by the democrats and re-
ceived the largest vote ever given a
democrat up to that time. He was
elected to the district bench in 1887
in 1890. After serving one
year he was elected in 1891 to the su-
preme bench: He is now acting ua-
der appointment as one of the COM
from Iowa on uniform
in the several states.
g. F. Rinehart, for superintendent
Il public instruction, and 8. B. Crane
or railroad commissioner, are both
,en we'll qualified for their respect
70 positions. !
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