The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-30

senator from Maryland from 1881 to
1899 and is now serving a term from
1908 to 1909.
John Sharp Williams, who has shown
his capacity as minority leader during
the last congress, is a conspicuous man
wherever he may be found. He is a
native of Memphis, Tenn, born July
80, 1854 He is a noted scholar. having
studied at the universities of the South.
Virginia and Heidelberg. He is a law
yer. He removed to Yazoo City in
1878 and went into the cotton raising
business. MI Williams was a dele
gate to the Democratic national con-
vention Of 1892. He has been a member
of congress from the Fifth Mississippi
district since 1898.
David Bennett Hill was a prominent
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton in the Democratic convention OF
1892, and he will be an influential man
at St. Louis. Mr.. Hill is a native of the
Empire State, born at Havana, Aug
%, 1913. He has been a lawyer for
forty years, member of the assembly
once. chairman of state conventions
twice alderman and mayor of Elmira.
lieutenant governor and governor OF
his state and United States senator for
six years.
Nelson Appleton Miles, lieutenant
general (retired) of the United States
army, has been mentioned in connec-
ton with the presidential nomination.
He is sixty-1ve years Of age. General
Miles entered the army as a volunteer
in 1851. At the age of twenty-five he
was in command of an army corps.
After the civil war he entered the reg
ular service and won much reputation
as an Indian fighter. He was in com
mand OF the army in the war with
Spain and in 1900 was made lieutenant
"a he
tired.
Edward G. Wall of wisconsin has
been Endorsed for first place by the
convention of his state. He was for
over ten years chairman of the state
committee and served several years az
Wisconsin member of the national com
mittee. He is a native of milwaukee,
and is ffty-hve years of age
Francis Marion Cockrell and Joseph
Wingate Folk are two noted AIfssou-
rians The former has been United
states senator from his native state for
nearly thirty years. He was born in
Johnson county Oct 1, 1884 He re-
ceived his education in Missouri in
situations and began the practice OF
law at Warrensburg. During the civil
war Senator Cockrel served as briga-
der general in the Confederate army.
He has been chairman of many impor-
tant committees in the senate. Mr.
Folk was born at Brownsville, Tenn.
Oct. %. 1869. He is a graduate OF
Vanderbilt university. Nashville, and
was admitted to the bar in 1880. He
removed to St. Louis and later was
made circuit attorney. He has achiev-
ed much distinction from the success
full prosecution Of bribery cases and
this year in the primaries won the
gubernatorial nomination.
The young mayor of New York
George Brinton Mcclellan. is also a
man who may have hOnOrs thrust on
him. The fact that he was born in
Dresden. Germany. will not make inn
possible his acceptance of the greatest
honor which the convention might be
I inclined TO bestow on him, for he has
never been anything but an American
citizen. He was born while his parents
were on a visit to Saxony. He was
graduated from Princeton in 1885 and
went into journalism. He was admit
ted to the bar in 1892. in 1895 was
elected to congress and last year re-
signed to become mayor of New York.
CLAIMING A. BARLOW.