Evening star., 1916-11-10
lone OFFICE SOUGHT
BY VICE PRESIDENT
Mr.. Marshall Wanted to Be
Prosecuting Attorney in
1880, But Was Defeated.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER

Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. was born in
North Manchester. Ind. March IA. 1854.
He is a lawyer by profession, having
been admitted to the bar in 1875 He
is Presbyterian. a thirty-third degree
Mason and has served as a trustee of
| Wabash College.
The frst and only Office ever sought
| by Mr.. Marshall was that of prosecut-
ing attorney, back in 1880. In this at
tempt he was defeated. Then. nearly
thirty years later. in 1908, when the
| democrats in Indiana were nearly in q
hopeless minority. he was conscripted
to stand as his partys candidate for
the governorship.
Human welfare was the guiding
principle Of Marshalrs administration
| as Governor Of Indiana. His service ae
governor shows that he has initiated
and stood behind laws which aimed at
the social and physical betterment of
| the people of Indiana. Enacted by the
democratic legislature during the ses-
sion of 1911, at the instance Of Gov.
Marshall, were the following important
| acts: To curtail child labor; to regu-
late the sale of cold storage products:
to require hygienic schoolhouses and
| to permit medical examination of school
children; to prevent blindness at birth
to regulate the sale Of cocaine and 9TH
er drugs; to provide free treatment for
| hyurophobia; to establish public play.
grounds: to strengthen the pure food
act: to protect against loan sharks:
| to provide police court matrons: to es-
| tablish uniform weights and measures;
to prevent traffic in white slaves: to
permit night schools in cities: to inves-
tigate industrial and agricultural edu-
cation; to require medical supplies as
part of train equipment. etc.
The following laws. intended to pro-
| tect the toilers, were also champion ed
by him: To create bureau of inspec-
ton for factories, workshops, mines and
| boilers; to establish free employment
agencies; to require full train crews
to require safety devices on switch en-
gines; to provide efficient headlights on
locomotives; to require inspection Of
| locomotive boilers; to require standard
cabooses; to require full switching
crews: to require storm windows for
locomotives; to provide a weekly wage,
etc.
The income tax amendment also was
\ ratified at this session; also laws to
| prevent corrupt practices at elections
and to provide for general registra-
ton or voters were enacted: block sys-
TENS were made compulsory on rail-
roads and electric railways, and a law
! to abolish the doctrine of assumed risk
and fellow-servant doctrine and to reg
| uIdtc tHe negligence de-
| Tense was made as strong as the con-
stitution of the state would permit.
Now Well Known Here.
| Mr.. Marshall is now we'll known in
Washington. after four years service
| as presiding officer of the Senate. He
is an active. alert figure as he sits
amid the dignif1ed splendor of the
Senate. But see him more relaxed in
the privacy of his offices in the Senate
| Office building and he is a more home
ly individual The government pro-
vides for him a magnificent show Office
in the Senate wing of the Capitol,
into which the Capitol guides permit
their charges to peek and in which the
Vice President sits on ccasions, but
his real work is done over in the office
building.
There he has the usual allotment of
TWO ofhceS given to q senator, and in
the inner one Of these, overlooking the
grassy court. he sits and receives his
visitors and handles his big correspond
ence. Vice President has a big cor
respondence, and has many visitors
| besides the regular run of senators
who must consult him.
Seated, the short stature of the Vice
PRESIDENT Is not apparent. He has a
thoughtful face, lined and grave at
times, but the lines about the eyes are
not those of care, but rather of merri-
ment A keen sense of humor is one
OF his possessions. An outthrust law
marks the fighter, for in Indiana they
know him as one of the scrappiest
governors that state of active politics
ever had
That he finds satisfaction in life-the
satisfaction of the we'll stored mind in
a healthy body-ts evident. Kindly ewes
that belle the jutting jaw, pink, healthy
SKIN. mark him as a man at peace
with his fellows.