The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-06-28
some ELEMENTS PLAIN LUCK
Seem Apparent In His Remark.
able Career-POpular and
Able Man.
AN OLD-FAsHIONED DEMOCRAT

| SOlll wal Sldll. Tie ltNtlNtu DlS
bachelors degree from Wabash Col
lege in 1873 and his masters degree
in 1876, and has received doctor S
degrees from Notre Dame Universe
ty, University of Pennsylvania, Uni
versity of North Carolina and the
University of Maine. He married
Lois |. Kinsey, of Angola, Ind, Oc-
tober 2, 1895.
He was admitted to the bar in
1876 and practiced at Columbia
l'City, Ind, until his election to pub
lie Office necessitated his devoting
his entire time to the service of his
country. He was Governor of Indi-
ana from 1909 to 1918, when he
became Vice President of the United
States.
Vice President Marshall is a trus-
tee of Wabash College, a Presbyter-
ian, and thirty-third degree Ma
son.
The denomination of Vice Presi-
dent Marshall at the st. Louis con-
vention is another step in a political
career that has been fraught with
unusual and picturesque incidents,
and one that. in a very few years,
has brought him from an obscure
country lawyer, at Columbia City,
Ind, to a national figure, Perhaps
his rise has been more rapid than
that of any other person. His ca
reer has not been without its ele-
ment of luck, and the Vice President
admits it.
you had better stick by me, for
I'm the luckiest Democrat in India
na," is the remark credited to Mar
shall at the time he was personally
interested in getting State convent
tion to take action in which he was
vitality interested. 1t was when the
Legislature elected the United States
Senators, and before the present
constitutional amendment providing
for their direct election became eff
fective.
Marshall was Governor of Indiana
and believed the principles ofDemoc-
racy required the party to take
stand in its convention to indicate
who the Legislature would elect to
the United States Senate if it con-
trolled the legislative branch of the
Government. There was strong op-
position to his plan by prominent
men in the party, but Marshall won,
and the convention nominated John
w. Kern for Senator The Demo-
Gratis carried the Legislature and
Kern was elected, and after the con-
vention did as Marshall wished, he
proclaimed himself the luckiest
Democrat.
1t was about that time his boom !
for President started, and it kept
going until the 1912 convention at
Baltimore. Hoosier-like, the India
ma delegation stood by Marshall for
President through the long and ex-
citing balloting, and would not
break from him until the leaders got
the assurance that If he could not |
be nominated for President he be
given the Vice Presidential nomina-
ton.
His nomination as the party's can
didate for Governor in 1908 was
example of his good luck.
NJ. Ralston, the present Gov
ernor, was in a hopeless deadlock
with l.. Ert Slack. The forces of
neither candidate could collect the
required number of votes to get
in the, convention. Mar
shall, supported by the Northern In
diana delegates, was hopeless
third choice. Then the break began,
and as the Ralston forces started to
waver the Slack contingent followed
suit and there was a general scram-
Bile for the third wagon" Marshall
was nominated in a hurry-a dark
horse pure and simple.
Mr.. Marshall has often referred to
himself as an old-fashioned Demo-
'rat, and his friends hold that this
S true. He is old-fashioned In many
ways, and yet it cannot be said that
ne is lacking in any Of the advanced
Democratic ideals. He is one of the
believers in Jeffersonfan
principles the State has ever pro-
iuced.
When Mr.. Marshall was Governor
II Indiana he committed the death
sentence OF a negro prisoner at the
Michigan City penitentiary to life
Imprisonment, and attached a most
unusual proviso to the commuta-