Arizona republican., 1902-12-29

est and best politicians of the territory, it Is generally conceded by older poi,- ticians that she was the power that se- cured the nomination for Mcclure. For a month prior to the convention she worked daily for her husband, taking trips over the territory and interview ing the leaders from every county. As a result he was nominated on the third ballot every county voting for him af- ter giving "favorite sons a compli- mentary vote.
 After the convention she was just as zealous, and every part of the cam paign work was overseen by her. Not a day passed that she did not visit the territorial headquarters; she knew per sonally every speaker in the field, and just where each was billed daily dur ing the campaign; she upbraided the campaign managers for their alleged apathy; and she so enthused the wors.- CTS with her personal efforts that a great victory was won.
 If Flynn secures statehood. as he has been assured by the senate committee on territories that he will, then Me Guire must seek another nomination, not for delegate, but for congressman, and must again battle for election. He will have a sure republican district, and the only trouble will come in se- curing the nomination. It will be a stiff campaign and a hardfought one. for Dennis Flynn is a candidate for United States senator, and will make the campaign of his life. thus insuring a lively fgLt in every district.
 Bird s. Mcclure and Thomas B. Fer guson, the governor of Oklahoma, were room mates at the Kansas state normai school at Emporia over twenty years ago. They were members of the same class and "batched it. together. Be tween terms Mcclure taught school and during his second year he earned his board by serving as night clerk in a hotel at Emporia. Before entering the normal Mcclure had been success fully a deckhand on an Arkansas river steamboat and a cowboy on the plains of the territory. At the age or seven teen McGuire accompanied his fathers family from Randolph county, Mis- souri, to Chautauqua county, Kansas, and the strengthened circumstances oi the family at that time made it neces- sary for him to hustle for himself: and he so secul ed place as deckhand or a steamer running between Fort Gib- son and Fort Smith. This was not tC his liking and he soon exchanged it for the life of a cowboy in western Okla homa.
 As the result of two years of cow ! punching Mcclure saved sufficient money to enter the normal He was ar | expert with the lariat, and could breal ! a bronco or throw a steer with the pest of them. To this day it Is tho boast of McGuire that during his ser vice on the steamboat and on the plain: 1 he never touched a drop of liquor. | Two years at Emporia in the norma school were followed with a year at tn, Kansas state university devoted to tn, 1 study of law. He hung out" his shin | gle at Chanute, in Chautauqua county and in 1889 was elected county attor ncy. He was then the youngest count! ! attorney in the state and the younges man ever to hold an office in Chau tauqua county. He led his ticket anC was reelected to a second term. re ceiving more votes than any other can didate on the ticket. He then removed to Sedan, where he was chosen mayor being the only republican elected ther that year.
 Just across the Kansas line in Okla homa is the Osage Indian reservation | and among the cattlement and citizens of that country Mcclure developed large clientele. He removed in 1894 when the Cherokee strip was opened {, settlement, to Pawnee. Oklahoma and at once became active in politics He was appointed assistant Unite, States attorney for Oklahoma within three and a half years after locating a | Pawnee, and held that position unti nominated for congress at Enid las spring.
 He has two hobbies-a love of polite an an extraordinary admiration for Ma poleon Bonaparte. II am in politics be cause l am simply unable>to keep ou of it," he says
 He has read every life of Napoleon written in English, and says: 'I Iik
 Napoleon because he got results H thought it better to think and not talk than to talk without thinking. Whel he had thing to do. he did it'' i Mcclure is a man of striking appear r ance, and has the physique of an ath lete.-New York Commercial
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