St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-09-19

| for three terms a member OF the new
| York Assembly. Mr.. Mckinley repre-
sented his home district for fourteen
wears in Congress. Afterward he was
elected governor of Ohio and was re-
elected to the same office by largely in
creased majority in 1898. He was the
presiding officer of the convention which
nominated his republican predecessor,
| Mr.. Harrison, for President
Mckinley was 26 years of age when
elected prosecuting attorney OF his ma
tive county in Ohio; Mr.. Roosevelt was
% years Of age when he was first elected
a member Of the New York Assembly.
Roosevelt was made assistant secre-
tary of the navy by President Mckinley
in April, 1897. He was elected governor
of New York in 1898.
Mr.. Mckinley was promoted to the
presidency from the governorship Of
Ohio and Mr.. Roosevelt was nominated
for the vice-presidency while governor of
New York.
Both Mckinley and Roosevelt have
war records. Mr.. Mckinley was a SOL
dier in the Twenty third Ohio Volunteers,
which participated in the battles Of
South Mountain, Antietam, Lexington,
Winchester, Fishers Hill and Cedar
Creek Mckinley was one of the young
est men in the regiment, which included
ninety-two members under 81. Roose-
velt's military record in Cuba at San
Juan and on neighboring fighting fields
is of universal public knowledge.
Both Mckinley and Roosevelt are in
teresting and effective public speakers.
Mr.. Mckinley comes from state hav-
ing % electoral votes; Mr.. Roosevelt
| from a state having Sc.
Both candidates upon the republican
national ticket are now in office. Mr..
Mckinley is President of the United
States; Mr.. Roosevelt is governor of the
state of New York.
William J. Bryan is native of Illinois
Adlai E. Stevenson is resident of that
State. Bryan was born at Salem; Stew
enson resides at Bloomington.
Both are LAWYERS. Stevenson is in
active practice.
Bryan was 40 years Of age on the 10th
of March last; Stevenson was IS on the
23d of October.
Both men have been candidates before
| lOl luC ODlSSS W luCy WClO
ated by the Kansas City convention.
The Illinois county of which Bryan is a
native gave him 400 majority in 1896
Christian county, Kentucky, of which
Stevenson is native, is one Of the strong
republican counties of that state. 1t
has large colored population. Goebel
lost it at thel last election by 600 majority.
Stevenson lost it when candidate for Vice
President in 1892. Bloomington, in which
Stevenson resides, gave 2,225 republican
and 2,100 democratic votes in 1892
with Stevenson on the democratic ticket
Both Bryan and Stevenson have been
members of Congress, each for two
terms. Bryan was first elected in 1890;
Stevenson sixteen years earlier.
Stevenson was the tail of the success.
full democratic ticket in 1892; Bryan was
head of the unsuccessful democratic
ticket in 1896.
Nebraska from which Bryan halls has
electoral votes; Illinois, from which
Stevenson comes, has "a.
Bryan was nominated for the pres.
idency in Chicago in 1896 on the fifth
ballot, one of his opponents being
Stevenson. Stevenson was nominated
in the same city for Vice President four
years earlier, on the first ballot, as he
was in Kansas City. His opponents
were Isaac P. Gray Of Indiana, Judge
Morse (who has become republican, OF
Michigan, Henry Watterson and John L.
Mitchell of Wisconsin.
Nebraska has never furnished the
country with President, or Illinois a
Vice President except Stevenson. The
only republican candidate for Vice, Pres
ident nominated from Illinois was de.
feated in 1884.
Bryan and Stevenson were both in the
Fifty-third Congress; Mr., Stevenson
presiding over the Senate and Mr.. Bryan
being member of the ways and means
committee in the House.
Both Bryan and Stevenson are civilians
Stevenson distinctively so. He was
however, a member of the board of visit.
ors to the West Point Military Academy
in ST.