Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-05
BRIEF SKETCH OF THOS. MARSHALL New Vice President Has Great Influence in
 Middle West. HE IS A GOOD LAWYER Father Was a Doctor and Mother Des. ceDdant of Signcr of Declaration
 of Independence.
HE IS A GOOD LAWYER

shall, who was formally inducted in- to office today, is one of the most in- fluential men in the Democratic party of the middlewest, ranking close to William Jennings Bryan as leader. .
 He was born and raised in Indiana and in that state he brought his party to victory at the polls. Twice elected governor of the state, he won the es- teem of the people by his practical administration and attracted wide at tenton by reason of his fight against the state bosses At Baltimore his name was placed before the conven- tion as a presidential candidate, with the backing of his state delegation.
 When the popular choice gave the presidential candidacy to Woodrow Wilson, Mir. Marshall accepted his de- feat, stuck to his party and made the difficult choice between the practical obscurity of the vice-presidential to a governor of powerful state without a moments hesitation.
 Vice President Marshall is law yer He was born in North Manches- ter, Wabash county, Ind, fifty mine years ago. He has spent practically all of his life within the borders of his native state, growing up amid a free and neighborly intercourse. But he is neither narrow nor provincial and is at home in any company. His father, Dr. Daniel M Marshall twas one of those old time substantial Family doctors and he enjoyed a good fy practice. His mother was Martha E. Patterson, a direct descendent of Charles Carrell. of Carrolton, a signer of the Declaration of Independ. ,enec albeit an aristocrat.
 After exhausting the possibilities of the public school in his native village, young Marshall entered the Wabash from which institution he graduated in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts From the beginning of his college days he took rank among the first fof scholarship and easily won an election to the Phi Beta Kappa so- ciety.
 On leaving Wabash he went to Fort Wayne to study law in the office of Judge Walter Ods. He was admitted to the bar on March IA, 1875. On that day he also reached his major ity
 Feeling that Fort Wayne did not of- fer the opportunities to practice his profession that the neighboring town, Columbia City did, he moved to the latter place, which has been his home ever since.
 In travelling the circuit of Northern Indiana young Marshall began to at tract the attention of the older law yers and especially of the judges, who noted not only his shrewdness before a jury but also his remarkable grasp of the law and an unusual ability to expound it.
 Tn one of these circuit towns, Ar gola, there was a bright and comedy court stenographer. The young law yer at first attracted to her by her ability and then captivated by her fresh young beauty, quickly drew up a brief of his affections and submit ted his case with forceful but halting argument. He won his case and Miss Lois |. Kimsey became Mrs. Marshall in 1895. Although no children have come to them they have been insep- arabic companies from that day to this.
 In 1898 Mr. Marshall was offered the congressional nomination by the Democrats in his district but he de- clined the honor He had vowed that nothing short of nomination for gov ernor would lure him from his law practice. That came in 1908 when he was elected at the head of his state ticket by 15.000 majority, while Taft received majority in the Hoosler State that year of 10000. Four years before Indiana had gone Republican by S5.000 majority.
 During his first term Governor Marshall had the upper House of the legislature against him, it being over whelmingly Republican,. But he let the people know what legislation ought to be put through They thought he was right and two years later they gave him Democratic legislature from top to bottom. No sooner had 1t convened than he found himself at loggerheads with Tom Taggart and other bosses of the party. The clash was over the selection of United States Senator. The governor man was John w. Kern. who had been Bryan's running mate in 190S. The fight was bitter but Mir. Kern wes sent to tho Senate.
 vice-President Marshall is what might be called qualified progres sive. One of the progressive princi-