Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-12
FORMER SENATOR
DAVIS dead At
THE AGE OF 93
~,
Remarkable Career of West
Virginian Terminates in
Washington.
BORN IN POVERTY:
DIES MILLIONAIRE
Declined Democratic Nomination for
/ Vic, Presidency in 1884 When Cfeye-
/ land Was Elected; Parker's Run
: ming Mate i'm 1904.

& Washington, March 11.-Former
United States Senator Henry Gass-
9away Eavis Of West Virginia and vice
gpresidential candidate on the DEM
fccratic ticket in 1904. died here ear!H
s'scday after a brief illness, aged SO
years.
1 Henry GassaWay Daviss remark
cable career is distinct encourage
.Rment to the cugenists who believe
Emen should live in health century.
AWhen he ran for the vice presidency,
ssthe Oldest candidate eyer known for
Ftha5 office, here was some criticism
ton this scoress .If.Alr. Davis had been
felected, the end Of his tenn woull
Ehave found him strong mentally and
physically. and, indeed. q second and
even third term of office would have
@passed with his mind and body still
undaunted
Mr.. Davis was born in baltimore.
November Is, 1928, and received q
meagre education in public schools.
A. very early age he was hard at
work. He was the eldest of five chill
Sdren. and the death of his father:
lgCaleb Dav S, made him the family
breadwinner.
Farm Hand at 10.
e While the younger children con-
tinued in school. he toiled with his
hands, and later with his brains, to-
support them. At nineteen he was
only a farm hand on Maryland
plantation. A few years later he had
advanced to a brakeman on the print
tive freight train of that time. His
in l~np Il To
was soon master of transportation
and is said to have been the first
man to risk sending out trains be-
Tween Baltimore and Cumberland, at
night.
Young Davis saved his money and
became merchant and coal land
operator. His many ventures pros
pered exceedingly. His coal lands
rose to almost fabulous values.
lie was also successful a railroad
builder. Two of his lines were the
west Virginia Central and Pittsburgh
z railway, VIII oh he sold TO the Wabash
in 1902, and the Coal and Coke rail-
way of West Virginia.
As FAR back as 1865, the year the
civil war ended, he entered public life
gHe was member of the house OF
delegates Of the newly created loyal
state carved out of seeding Virgin; a.
lie was a member of the West Vir1
glnla senate IN 1851 and then the
commonwealth sent him to the United
states senate for II years. His SER
vices in the senate Terminated in
: 1883. when he had declined further
term.
Declined to Run With Cleveland.
lie also declined chance to be-
come candidate for vice president
4 on the Cleveland ticket IN 1884; but
twenty years later. in 1904 he became
{ Aiton 3. Parker's running mate. De-
spite his vast wealth, senator Davis
was Democrat at heart and he said
When accepting the nomination that
Imperialism is hurtful and abhorrent
IN q free government" s$3 9
Nssix national Democratic conyen-
liens Senator Davis led the delegates
ifum West Virginia and always
proved factor TO be reckoned with
ne was also delegate to the first
ana second Pan-American congress
and chAiTman of Delegates TO ihe
second. He was a member Of the
United States permanent Pan-Ameri
can railway commission.
senator Davis possessed a heard Of
political Lore, for he had, liYed, an,,
worked with the leaders 81 America
icr three quarters Of "a century. His
efforts .No assist the. peoples inter.
ests were always becognized. In his
senate service he was known as the
Mcessant advocate Of an agricultural
hank.
Although he never. was able to Pr