Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-08
PAR TVS NOMINEES
Some Facts About the Republican
County Candidates.
THEY ARE ALI. EXCELLENT MEN
Two Veterans of the Civil War Are
on the Ticket and Their Fellow Can
didates Are Worthy companions-A
Strong Ticket.

on the Ticket and Their Fellow Can.
didates Are Worthy companions-A
Strong Ticket.
The Courier today presents to its
readers sketches of the lives OF the
republican candidates for county OH
ces, as nominated in convention last
Saturday. The men are straightfor-
ward and honest some of them have
held public offices before and know
what the people require of an official,
and they all go together to make up
one of the strongest tickets the repub-
licans of Wapello county have ever put
into the field.
Captain Samuel II. Harper.
S. II. Harper was born in Taylors-
willie, Ohio, in 1915, and came with his
fathers family TO Ottumwa IN 1858.
and nved on a farm one and half
miles southwest of the present city
limits, until 1862, when he enlisted in
the ThiTty-sixth Iowa infantry, and
served three years and seven months
during the war of the rebellion.
After the wan he returned and en-
tered the hardware business III this
city. ana has continued in ii until the
present time. He is the senior mem
Der OF the wholesale hardware house
of Harper {: Mcintira Co. Mr.. Harper
has always taken an interest in polit-
zeal affairs. As . boy of seventeen
he carried a torch with the Lincoln
Widcawakes in 1860, and in 1864 he
carried musket with the Lincoln ac!-
dicrs While he has never held a 20
litical office. eyccnt that Of presiden-
tial elector. TO which position he was
elected last fall on the Mckinlev tick
ct. yet he has aided many republican
friend 70 secure office by personal
work and financial support. In 1889
he was the candidatc for senator.whAn
the county was hnpelessiy democratic,
the whole ticket being defeated.
Mr.. Harner was for three years a
member of the school board. was twice
a delegate to the sound mnney nation
1897 and 1898.
He was for number of years presl-
dent of the Business Mems Assncla-
ton Of this city, and for tho ''"st three
wears h"s baen president of the Wapel-
70 county old settlers association. He
is one of our most public enirited, gen
erors and enterprisirg citizens. No
public enterprise for tho benefit of the
people OF Wanelln has been inaus''r
ated in the pas; thirty years, that he
has rot been orr of the leaders. No
charitable work has been done that he
has not aided most generously with
his purse. MIR. Harper has been a
very busy man nearly all of his life.
vet he is che cf tho most anproachable
men in Wanello county. No man. Wo-
man or child can cay trllthfu]ly that
they ever went TO him OF business or
for advice that they We're not received
with courtesy aud kindness. He is
widely known thron ghout the state
and will make an able and influential
member of the state senate.
Hon. A. w. Buchanan.
! Hon. A. w. Buchanan, nominee for
representative, Was born in New Jer-
sey in lS4S, and, when he was two
years OF age. was taken TO Pfinceville,
Peoria county, H., where he grew to
young manhood. He IVES educated in
the public schools Ut Princeville and
later graduated at the Princeyille
ACADEMY. which was tken one OF the
best schools in tho state OF illinois.
When Mr.. Buchanan was fifteen
years of age. his father enlisted in the
federal army and participated in the
civil war. He was killed in battle and
it devolved upon the son to support
the family, consisting CT the widowed
mother and younger children.
/ In Lao the family removed to Wap-
clio county. and resided on farm in
Highland township until 1878. when
they came to Ottumwa. Since that
time Mr. Buchanan has been a resi-
dent of the fourth ward In the same
year he formed 4 partnership in the
grain and feed business with w. E.
Jones. end is still in that business.
MI Buchanan has served the people
as representative from this county for
the past two years. and has given
Thorough satisfaction III every particu
lar He is Q progressive business
man and has been resident of Wapel
lilo county long enough to know wha:
is needed here He was member OF
the city council in Ottumwa for foul
Years, two of which he put In as chair
man of the street committee. He is {
reliable man who has the confidence
of the entire POPULATION of Wapello
county. and his ability to fill the Office
for which he has been nominated Is
unquestioned.
j n Cremer.
J. H. Cremer, of Eldon. the candi
date for sheriff, was born on a farm
near Old Ashland. in this county, Sep
TENDER "a, 1858. The first thirty years
Of his life were spent there, and he
became one of the prominent farmers
and stock raisers of the county. II
1890 he left the farm and for some
time he was employed by the Rocl
Island railroad company as locomo
tive fireman out of IIldon.
During the past three years MI
Cremer has been city marshall at Ell
don, and he made a record in that ca
pacity of which he may well be proud
He proved himself thoroughly eff
Gent officer. having a cool and col
lected nature and avoiding the use 0
harsh means in handling the prison
ers whom he took in charge. The ar
probation the people had for him al
IAN officer was shown by an advance o