The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-11-21

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"HOMAS RILEY MARSHALL,
vice president elect. although a
Hoosier by birth, Is scion of
one of the oldest families of the
Old Dominion. The Marshalls of Vir-
ginia, from the days of the father of
the great chief justice Of that name.
have taken rank with the Washing
tons, the Randolphs. the Lees and 9TH
er families whose histories are part of
the history of the state and of the
country.
Tom Marshall. as he is called in In
diana. is a worthy complement to
Woodrow Wilson. Like Governor Will
son, Governor Marshall is regarded as
a good campaigner. and. like the presi-
dent elect. he makes his most effective
points in caustic and witty epigrams.
Governor Marshall was born in
North Manchester. Wabash county.
Ind, ffty-eight years ago. His father
was DR.. Daniel NJ. Marshall. a physi-
clan in comfortable circumstances
His mother, who was Martha e. Pat
terson before her marriage. was a di-
rect descendant of Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration
of independence.
In 1873 Marshall was graduated from
the Wabash college at Charlottesville.
Ind. receiving the degree Of bachelor
of arts. At college he achieved a re-
markable reputation for scholarship.
qualifying easily for Phi Beta Kappa.
After his graduation Mr.. Marshall
moved to Fort Wayne and took up
the study of law in the Office of Judge
Walter DDS. On the day he was twen-
ty-one years old, March IA, 1875. he
was admitted to the bar. Meanwhile
he had settled in Columbia City, Ind.
and he has made his home at Coium-
bia City ever since
A Conspicuous Figure.
1t was not long before Marshall be-
gan to display unusual legal ability
and became conspicuous figure in the
courts of northern Indiana.
1t was while playing the role Of a
country lawyer that Marshall wooed
and won Miss Lois l. Kimsey Of Ar
COLA, Ind. in 1895 BE and his wife
have been inseparable companions.
though no children have been born to
them.
Marshall might have remained a
country lawyer but for his sound COM
mon sense in refusing to run for con-
gress on the Des2ocratic ticket when
asked to do so in 1898. He was offered
the nomination, but he said no.
He was urged to run on the ground
that it was his turn to be elected, as
every other decent Democrat in the
and said that he would not consider
politics as vocation and would not ac-
cept any nomination for less Office
than governor
Governor Marshall's friends call him
progressive with the brakes set"
He has been lndiana's governor since
1853. receiving a majority of $4,000 at
the same time that the Hoosier State
went for Taft by 10000 His election
WAS al! the more noteworthy inasmuch
as in 1904 Indiana had gone Republi-
can by more than $4,000.
Not a Politician.
The governor is short. slender. wiry
Min with a keen eye There is little Of
the politician about him. In fact. from
the moment that he became the nomi-
nee for governor he was the despair of
the party leaders throughout the state
He did his campaigning in his OWE
way. journeying from town to town
with Mrs. Marshall. and calmly tellin:
the voters what they might expect il
they elected him.
In his first term of Office Marshal
was handicapped by the fact that the
upper house in Indiana was Republican
he made himself so popular with tn.
people Of the state. however, that the
gave him in 1910 a solid Democrats
legislature. It was then that he too
stand against Tom Taggart, Demo
cratic boss of the state, on the Que>s
ton of choosing United States SEM
tor-and won out. His candidate. JON;
W. Kern, who had been Bryan's rue
ming mate in 1908. was Endorsed by II,
Democratic state convention and la
elected senator from Indiana.
Some of the more important pie,l
Of legislation enacted during his -
ond term were:
Ratification Of the income tax anne