Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-09-24
Candidate for Auditor General.

Candidate for Auditor General.
His early education was received in
the public schools, in the place of his
birth, and farm work occupied his
time, when not engdgeE in fortifyina
himself with intellectual training
Later in life he attended the Miller
Vile state normal school and Ursinus
College, both well-known Pennsylvania
institutions.
During the winter of '6S and $50 he
taught school, After a course of study
he was graduated as physician in
March, 1875, from the medical depart
ment of the University of Pennsylva-
MIA He returned to Chester county,
Spring City, where he now resides,
and began the practice of medicine
and continued as practitioner until
1886, when he accepted a position as
medical examiner for the relief depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which position he held for
nearly two years, from February, 1885,
He served as postmaster of Spring
City from October, 1888, until August,
1000. otudtOl dCl ei Ndy t'hSh
lively interest in politics, and has
been an active worker in all of the
campaigns of his party. In 1887 he
was nominated for prothonotary OF his
county and was elected by large ma
jority, and served in that Office until
REIMBURSEMENT of the Office he was
made chairman of the county Repub-
lican committee At the county pri-
maries in the fall of 1890, while serv-
ing as prothonotary, he was nominated
for member of the house and was
elected. He was a delegate from Ches-
ter to the Republican state gubernato-
rial convention in 1878 and to the
state convention that nominated Gen
eral James A. Beaver for governor in
1882. In 1892 Mr. Snyder was elected to
the senate. In the session of 1895 he
was chairman of the committee on
health sanitation. and in 1897 chair
man of the committee on railroads.
In 1896 he was reelected to the senate
by nearly 5000 majority, having re-
ceived nearly twice as many votes as
his Democratic and Prohibition oppo-
nents combined.
At the opening of the session of 1899
he was elected president pro tenn, and
filled the position with dignity, credit
and acceptability, as he did in 1901.
During the campaign of 1900 "a deter
mined effort was made by the Demo
Gratis and Independents to defeat Mr..
Snyder for election to a third term,
but he won by plurality of over 100.
WORKED FOR THE FARMERS.
No more popular man sat in the
chair of president pro TEN. of the state
senate. a fact which was attested by
Ger. distinction rarely accorded to a
senator. At the session OF 1908 he was
chairman of the committee of appropria-
tions. During his legislative career Mr..
Snyder was conspicuous as a cham
piCn of the interests of the farmers of
Pennsylvania. He was an ardent, con
sistent and determined advocate of
legislation to protect the pure butter
interests He stood like a stone wall
against the efforts of the oleomarga-
rine trust. and was largely responsible
for the passage of laws advocated by
the butter and dairy men, Were it
not for the efforts of men like Senator
Snyder, the farmers of Pennsylvania
would today be at the mercy of the
0leomargarine trust
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