The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-28

Mr.. Henry L. Stimson, Picked by the P
for Governor
love or enthusiasm or virile effective
ness or fear of being in minority? If
the trend of public opinion is against
US we will change it.
If old supporters of our party have
/ turned under some idea that they can
| do better elsewhere, we will show them
! they are wrong. We will win.
I'VE will gain the support of the peo-
pie of this state by deserving it.
! I'VE will stand together continued
4 the chairman, 'the minority and ma
/ jOrity of yesterday and tomorrow viii
stand together, doing our duty, Loyalty
demonstrating our fitness for con-
] fidence and we will fight on, no matter
! what we are told the signs of the times
may be putting ourselves right and
fighting for that right, not for our
! selves alone, not for the candidates
alone, but for other Republicans of the
state and land for other Republicans in
| days to come, for other candidates to
be nominated in 1912 and 1916 and in
many and many year to follow, not
for our candidates alone, but for our
| country"
Chairman Roots speech was heartily
| cheered.
Mr.. Prendergast of Kings read to the
convention the report of the resolu-
tions.
References to President Taft and
Governor Hughes created rounds of ap-
plause.
Speaker Wadsworth moved a minor
ity report which he said contained a
substitute for the direct primary plank
i the majority report The minority
report was made public last night.
4 Jacob Gould Schurman, president OF
Cornell university asked that the toi-
lowing sentence be added TO the md
jority report:
''It being understood that the dele
gate conventions may be retained ana
that candidates for assemblymen ana
senators shall at the earliest date be Sc
lected by direct nominations
A motion to limit the debate on the
platform to two hours was carried
whereupon many spectators and some
of the delegates left the hall
Platform Is Adopted.
The amendment proposed by Presl-
dent Schurman to the majority repoi
was defeated.
! ed by a decisive vote.
something About Mr. Stimson.
Henry Lewis Stfmson is of English
! descent, and both his parents trace
their genealogical line back TO the
early settlers of the country HIS fath-
! er was Lewis Atterbury Sunson
whose progenitors settled in Dedham
Mass. about the middle of the seven
: teenth century. His grandmother was
! BOuQlnOI, RrdlluuduSIlI6i VI liz NAi-'
tinguished Judge BOudiLAt' whose
l brother was Provost General Boudlnot
His mother was born Candace WheeI-
. . er, and her ancestors came from the
county of Delaware, New YORK, sew
, eral centuries ago
! Young Stimson's education was care
fully attended to. When he left the
! public schools he was sent to the no
I ted Phillips academy, OF AndoVer
Mass, from which, after a course o.
J,a
= 1883. He was then entered in Yale un'
= iversity, whence he was graduated II
1885 His law education began at Har-
' ward law school, from which he was
: with the degree of M. A.
, In 1880 Mr.. Stimson came to New
} York and was admitted to the bar II
: 1891 In November of the same yea
he entered the Office of the frm o
| which one of the most noted lawyer
of the country-Elihu Root-Was
T member. the firm of Root & Clark Mr.
| Stimson's ability as a lawyer wa
i shown in such marked degree that il
l | 1898 he had been advanced to a mem
| bership in the firm In the conduct o
I the business committed to him by thl
{ firm he came in touch with some OF tn
u most important and noteworthy case
= before the courts Mr.. Stimson remain
y ed as a partner in the firm of Root
Il | Howard. Winthrop & Stimson uhu
1897 when Mr.. Root retired. In MAY
! 1901. the name of the firm was chang
= ed to Winthrop & Stimson. and tn
. firm enjoyed a high reputation, with
Il large measure of business in genera
practice. !,
Among the important cases tried D
n Mr. Stimson was that against the Suga
= Trust the first one begun against re
batting. A judgment for $16S,0OO wa
t obtained. being four times larger tina
t any other. The New ork Central ais
o was worsted. These cases were trie
IS in the first year after Mr. Stimson
= appointment. other cases were tn
Il notable ores of the New York HeT
= aid and James Gordon Bennett. an
/ the one in which z. H Hartman wa
Y compelled to answer. The office as
8 has so far won all the trachoma case
: against the steamship companies. Goo
h LAWYERS are connected with the offic'
e which is a fighting one in every re
;. spect.
/ Mr. Stimson was married July
It 1893. to Miss Mabel Wellington Whit
a daughter of Charles Atwood White,
/ Noted lawyer of New Haven, Conn.
y Mr.. Stimson is a Trustee of b
Alma Mater, Phillips Academy, Al
dover. and also a Director of the Law
c yers' Mortgage company of New Yorl
; He is a member of the New Yor
# state Bar Association and of the Ne
e York City Bar Association. He ht
n longs to the following clubs: The Ce1
n +,,rI- Association the University Clu