Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-09
THOMAS R. MARSHALL IS
MAN OF WIT AND POWER
Nominee for Vice President Is
Granddaughter of Chief
Justice Marshall

candidate of the Democratic party TOT
vice president of the United States,
was born in North Manchester, Wa
bash county, Indiana, So years ago.
He is a scion of the famous Virginia
family of Marshalls. being a grand
nenhew of the great chief justice OF
the united States, John Marshall
His mother, who was Martha r..
Patterson before her marriage, was a
direct descendant of Charles Carroll
of Carrollton, a signer of the Declare
ton of independence. His father was
Dr. Daniel NJ. Marshall, a weN-to-do
physician, whose comfortable circum-
stances relieved his son of all those
early experiences of grinding poverty
Thought by some to be essential in the
SCHOLARLY LAWYER.
In 1873 Mr.. Marshall was graduated
from the Wabash college at Crawford
willie. receiving the degree of bachelor
of arts. and incidentally achieved a
reputation for scholarship that mas
never been outrivaled in that institu-
ton. During his college course he
became a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Greek letter fraternity, which
was founded by Chief Justice john
Marshall. After his graduation Mr..
Marshall moved to Fort Wayne anu
took up the study Of the law in the
office of Judge Walter DDS. On the
day he was 21 years old, March H.
1875, he was admitted to the bar. He
had, however, moved to Columbia city
Ind, the year previous, where MS
home has been ever since.
It was not long before Mr.. Marshall
began to display legal attachments
that made him conspicuous figure IN
the courts of northern Indiana. Ills
practice grew rapidly and he soon
made himself recognized as one of the
ablest attorneys Of the state
His manner however, has always
been quiet, almost to the point of reti-
cence. But this serene front is only
the calmness of the morally brave ano
the intellectually efficient Hoosier
governor.
BRILLIANT HELPMATE.
Along in the early 90s Mr.. Marshall
while acting as special judge in the cir
cult court of Angela, met Miss Lois
Kimsey. who was acting as a deputy
for her father, who was clerk of the
court. It was not long before the spe'
cial Judge began to turn his attention
to that branch of the law which comes
under the general head of Domestic
Relations" and in 1895 he submitted
his brief to Miss Kimsey. His able pre-
sentation of the case was such that she
was induced to become Mrs. Marshall
of Columbia City She is a brilliant
woman possessing great persona
charm, which qualities have made her g
social favorite, both in Columbia City
and Indianapolis.
This quiet unobtrusive man had pur
sued his course with so little noise thai
when the Democratic party of Indiana
nominated him for governor in 1908 ev
/ AA-ea 1,raIN
| The nomination had come to him un
sought, but since it had come, he wen
| out after the election with an energy
| and frankness which won for him bis
majority over his opponent Represents
! tive Jim" Watson. He was greatly as
sisted in his campaign by his wife, wht
travelled with him wherever he went. II
fact, throughout their entire married
life this devoted couple have not beef
separated for a day.
READ RIOT ACT TO BOSSES.
From the moment he assumed Office a
Indianapolis Mr.. Marshall made 1T en-
| phatically known to the bosses that h
was the governor of all the people o.
Indiana, and that, though a Democrat
believing firmly in Democratic princi
pies, the Office of governor was going t
be administered for the welfare of al
the people.
| -
with all the firmness of his stanch soul
Being a Presbyterian in religious belief
/ he holds that whatever " i'll be, will be
| and though not exactly a fatalist, h
| thinks that nothing can alter the eterna
| decree as to what life shall hold TO
every man and woman. Marshall is alb
| soluteIy sincere in this philosophy, ant
there seems to be nothing that can ex
cite him or disturb his serenity. This
faith, however, does not deter him from
working and fighting for what he con
siders the right.
| He is a Democrat of old lineage will
the modern views of a progressive anC
he presents a striking figure in the ranks
of his party. He believes that the maj
who founded the republic was far ant
away ADLER than any of our modern
their aims and purposes are carried GU
| the country will be safe from the rock
and the quicksands' that line the politi
! cal shore.
NO CENTRALIZED POWER.
AS governor of Indiana he has delineat
ed by message to the legislature, and il
| public speeches, the dangers he thinks
will inevitably follow the Capitalization
of governmental power. Holding that thu
union is a creature Of the states instead
of the states being creatures Of the union
he deprecates every tendency toward &
centralizing of national power.
AS a natural consequence he oppose:
the Aldrich currency plan. Also he thinks
that the states themselves should be
left to regulate the monopolistic corpora
tions within their respective borders.
And he is, first last and all the time
a champion for perfect honesty in pub
lie as well as in private life. In present
Ting his views, in messages and on the
stump, he has endeared himself to the
people by his unusual knack for dry
shrewd expressions. A very good exam
pie is found in the beginning of his
message to the Indiana legislature last