Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-08-30
Governor MarShau'S Wife Has the
Memory for Names.
ROMANCE OF THEIR LIVES
The Notification of the Indiana Ex.
ecutive For Democratic Vice PresL
dency Honors a Record Breaker.
BY j. c. HAMMOND,
OF Democratic National Publicity 81

that thousands of friends of Governor
Thomas Riley Marshall were anxious
ly wanting to shake his hand in con
graduation on his acceptance as can
didate for vice president on the Demo
cratic ticket. smiling woman step
ped before him. and If one could have
heard what she whispered in his ear
1t would have been something like
Nov, hurry in, Tom, and change your
clothes"
And Tom Marshall forgot to shake
hands with tho enthusiastic friends
until he had carried out the orders OF
Mrs. Tom.
Indiana has honored four of her sons
as vice presidential candidates on the
Democratic ticket, but the crowds that
greeted Governor Marshall in the big
coliseum In the state fair grounds. In
dianapolis, on Tuesday were the great
est in the history of tho party.
The west wanted to show the east
what could be done in notification
honors. and, while Mrs. Marshall was
happy, of course, over the honors for
her husband, She was also Worried,
for her husband comes mighty close
to being father. husband, son and part
ner all in one. And when a woman
has that combination on her hands to
care for she has every right to be
worried.
Governor Marshall will never gain
any honors as hammer thrower. He
is not built that way
While all the country was reading
the vigorous words of Governor Mar
shall which told the voters what he
expects Democracy to do in carrying
out the pledges for the next four years
It's worth while to know what part a
woman is taking in the affairs of the
campaign-how Tom Marshall hap
pens to be in the position in which he
stands today.
The good people OF Columbia C.:ys,
Ind. never thought Thomas Riley Mar.
shall was marrying man" For for
ty years he had lived with Lis parents
nursing both his father and mother
who were invalids. which was the rea-
son Governor Marshall was not n mar
rying man. He felt his first duty was
to his parents.
Meeting Mrs. Marshall.
After the death OF his parents Gov.
ernor Marshall dived deeper into his
law practice, and one day an urgent
case took him to Angola, Ind. His du-
ties called him to the county clerks Of
flee. and there lie met Miss Lois Kim
sey. daughter Of the county clerk, who
was assisting her father in the Office.
From that day Governor Marshall
had more business around the country
clerks Office in Angola than any law
yer in half a dozen nearby counties.
Governor Marshall was forty-two
years OF age when he was married.
Mrs Marshall being nearly twenty
years his junior
The Marshalls had been married
only few weeks when the future vice
president was called to an adjoining
county on a case that would consume
some five or six weeks OF his time.
Now. did not want to be starting
off like that" Governor Marshall ex.
planned to friend one day, 80 inst
told Mrs. Marshall that | thought she
should go along. And she did"
Since then Governor Marshall has
never made a trip without Mrs. Mar
shall going along. They have travelled
all over the country together; they 90
to banquets and political meetings to-
gether until the friends of the Indiana
executive refer to him and his wife as
the "pards."
tom Marshall is not overstrong."
explained one OF his friends while
not delicate man. his constitution is
not of the most vigorous type.
when he gets into political battle
he forgets his weakness. He gives all
that Is In him, and that will tell on
any man. Mrs. Marshall soon discov-
cred that the governor would become
heated in making O speech and the
next day his voice would be husky.
She decided that he had better give up
some of the Handwriting and take caro-
of his health first. So when you find
him making a speech, when he has fin
ished he does not stay around to hear
the applause of the audience. Rather.
he hurries to his room and changes
his clothing.
Some people have said that Tom
Marshall is not a Handwriting politi-
clan. He is not. His wife thinks 1t Is
more important to guard his health
than to carry out the old time policy.
and she is correct, as she is in most
all other things"
"Home Air" Prevails.
The Marshall home is typical of the
mistress. 1t is n home of books, and
still one does not feel "bookish." One
of the Marshall friends said he always
felt like eating when he entered the
Marshall home in Columbia City or
the executive mansion at Indianapolis.
Mrs Marshall believes in home
first, and the home air" prevails.
IF Governor Marshall ever occupied
the White House people would not
know that historic institution" de-
ciares an admirer Mrs. Marshall
would hnUa In raoI hama DaNnlo