The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-08
WILSON'S RUNNING MATE.
Governor Grand Nephew of
Chief Justice Marshall.

Though Governor Thomas Riley
Marshall is IS Years old. his present
post as governor of the Hoosier state
is the only public office he has ever
held. He was practically unknown as
a national figure until Indiana's thirty
delegates to the democratic conven-
ton We're instructed by the state con-
v%ention on March 81 last ITO present
to that body the name of Gov. Thomas
Fl. Marshall as the first and only choise
of tho democracy of Indiana for the
nomination for president.
But while his gubernatorial place
was the first political reward that
came to the Indiana candidate. he had.
says the Brooklyn Eagle. been active
in Hoosier politics for many years. Be
cause of this activity he won the sobri-
quet of The Little Giant a term
which is generally applied to him in
the middle west. The title came to
the governor after his vigorous CAM
paisn in the election of 1909. when he
was elected by a majority of $4,000
votes. following a 10000 majority for
Taft in the preceding year in the
state.
Governor Marshall. however. has not
been regarded as a fighter. His friends
have asserted the only trouble with
him is that he is too much afraid of
hurting other people in politics. They
said this after they had hoped thai
their man would end the blossom Of
Tom Tassart in Indiana. only to find
that Taeeart is now more strongly in
trenched than ever as the states DEM
ocratic leader.
But in spite Of this position, Cover
nor Marshall is regarded in his home
state as an enemy to the things Tag
CART stand for. They accept him as
an out-and-out progressive, but as a
progressive who has regard for laws
and tradition. In his campaign for
the e~overnorship in 1909, he preached
nothing more han the absolute neces-
sity of holding to the old-fashioned
J~effersonian doctrine.
In his political beliefs, Governor
Marshall holds to a tariff for revenue
only, strict enforcement of the laws,
governmental economy, state rights.
and conservation, but he is unalterably
opposed to the recall Of judicial de-
cisions and the initiative, referendum
and recall doctrines. He also believes
in the voice of the people as OPP
posed to bossism. and in this respect
his admirers point out that while the
governor has not made any attacks
on Taggart he has not favored him
in any of his appointments and has
almost ignored him.
The Indiana governor also doesn't
think much of the present preferential
primary system. He said several
months age that as at present con-
Quoted preferential primaries permit
ted only wealthy men to run for Of
flee or. what he termed. syndicated
candidates. He declared the system to
be a needless expense, and nothing
more or less than the holding of an
unnecessary election.
BY profession, Governor Marshall is
a lawyer, q member of the law firm
of Marshall, McNagy & Clugston. His
home always has been in Indiana. He
was born in that state, at Winchester,
on March IA, 1854. He was eradu-
was admitted to the bar in 1875, prac-
ticing in Columbia City, Ind, where
his home Is.
he did not marry until he was Al
years old. Lois I. Kimsey of Angola,
Ind, became his wife in 1895. The
couple live now in a rather plain cot
taee, without pretensions of any kind.
The governor is unaffected and sim
Pile in his speech. but can say much
look his 5S years, a talk with him
giving the impression that he has just
passed so. But his c~ountenance jndi-
Gates a vigorous mental power, just as
it shows the man to be a thorough
gentleman and n likely to prove
faithful to whatever trust is reposed
in him.
In religious belief. Governor Mar
shall is a Presbyterian. He is earnest
in his religion. his friends say, as he is
in politics. They also declare that he
carries his religion into his political
activity and believes in success that is
only in the right way and that
can be carried on in the right way.
In this connection is explained the
governors refusal Of the only other
rendered to him aside from
the g~overnorship and the presidency.
This was in 1906, when he was Of
fered the congressional %nninati