Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-12-14
THE FLIGHT OF TIME.
Prominent Men of Thirty Years Ago
Are Gone.

Are Gone.
The death OF Col. John ;. Williams.
of Lafayette, reminds the writer that
only two candidates on the democratic
state ticket of 1872 are among the liv-
ing, says the South Bend Times. They
are Judge John G. Robinson, of Spen
Ger and John b. Stoll, of South Bend.
All the others have departed to that
mysterious land "from whence no tray
eler 9ss e'er returned"
The ticket as originally nominated
was composed of Thomas a. Hendricks
for governor Washington G. DePsuw
for lieutenant governor, Michael c.
Kerr and John ). Williams for con-
gresham st-lsrge, Owen NJ Eddy for
secretary of state, John b. Stoll for
auditor of state, James B. Ryan for
treasurer of state, Bayless W. Hanna
for attorney general, John c Robinson
for reporter of the supreme court, Ed
ward +. Price for clerk of the supreme
court and Milton b. Hopkins for sup
erlntendent of public instruction. The
youngest man on the ticket was John
B. Stoll.
Mr.. DePsuw declined the nomina.
tion for lieutenant governor and the
state central committee put Judge
John K. Crsvens, of Madison, In his
place. Both DePsuw and Cravens are
among the dead
The republican ticket was headed by
Gen. Thomas NJ. Browne for governor
Leonldas Seton was the nominee for
lieutenant governor and was elected
Most of the men who composed the
ticket are numbered among the de-
parted. The more prominent ones on
the ticket have been dead for some
years. Among those who are living
are the Rev. VIM. w. Curry, who was
elected secretary of state; John b.
Glover, elected state treasurer, and
James b. Black, reelected reporter of
the supreme court, serving eight years.
Mr.. Curry holds some clerical position
at Washington; Col. Black is a member
of the appellate court; John b. Glover
ls living comfortably at Indianapolis.
The election of 1872 was the closest
In the history of the state. At that
time the state election was held in
October instead of November. 1t was
the year of the celebrated Greeley cam
paign. The anti-Greeley democrats
c'Bourbons') placed a state ticket in
the field, originally headed by Alfred
+. Edgerton, of Ft. Wayne He de-
clIned TO be pitted against Mr.. Hen
bricks and withdrew shortly before the
election. This together with the re-
publican temperance element "cuttinp"
Tom Browne, in all parts of the state,
had the effect of securing the election
of Mr.. Hendricks to the governship by
about 1000 majority. Milton B. Hop.
kins, immensely popular as a minister
In the Christian church, was also
elected by larger majority than that
recorded in Mr.. Hendricks favor.
These two were the only ones elected
on the democratic ticket Eddy and
Stoll were defeated by less than 200
votes. The remainder of the ticket
Cravens, Ryan, Hanna, Robinson, Price
Kerr and Williams suffered defeat by
maj )rities ranging from 400 to 1,5OO
The anti-Greeley democratic ticket
polled about 300 votes, enough to de-
feat Eddy and Stoll. 1t was not defin-
itely known until week after the elec.
tion who had been elected secretary
and auditor of state. At the presiden-
tial election in November Gen. Grant
carried the state by $4,000