Evening star., 1925-06-01

N-pi'tiiAdti IIOlll T. DSL fdSe.l
College. at Charlottesville. Ind. at 70
years, he read law and was admitted
10 the bar at Columbia City, Ind. in
1875, upon his 21st birthday. The
story of his life from then on until
he was elected Governor of Indiana.
which opened the way for him TO
become a national figure. is a plain
narrative, his entire time being de-
voted TO the practice of law.
Defeated in First Race.
The first and only office ever sought
by Mr. Marshall was that of proseCut-
ing attorney, back in 1880. in Re
publican stronghold. In this attempt
he was defeated. Then. nearly 80
years later. in 1908. when the Demo.
Gratis in Indiana were nearly in a
hopeless minority, he was conscripted
TO stand as his party's candidate for
the governorShip.
His friends had suggested that he
become a candidate for Congress from
the twelfth Indiana district. He de
clined, however, explaining he was
afraid he might be elected. When it
was suggested that he seek the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination
in Indiana, Mr.. Marshall replied that
governor of his home State, he would
do nothing to attain the nomination,
although his friends could do what
they pleased. When the State con-
Vention was held in INDIANAPOLIS
later he was selected as a com
promise candidate between the forces
of Thomas Taggart, former United
States Senator, and the anti-Taggart
forces, and won in the bitter 1908
campaign, in which he carried the
State by 10000, while President Taft
carried it by $4,000.
Aided Unfortunates.
During four years as governor his
administration was Chara acteriZed
especially by the enactment of legis-
latiOn looking to the moral and physi-
cal welfare of the States unfortu-
mates. One policy inaugurated by him
was that of never allowing a child
to be born in prison or a person to
die behind the bars if there was a
home to which they could GO
Human welfare was the guiding
principle of Marshall's administration
as Governor of Indiana. His service
as governor shows that he has ini-
tiated and stood behind laws which
aimed at the social and physical bet
terment of the people of Indiana. En-
acted by the Democratic Legislature
during the session of 1911. at the in
stance of Gov. Marshall were the fol-
lowing important acts: To curtaiI
child labor, to regulate the sale of
cold storage products, to require hy-
gieniC sChoolhouses and to permit
medical examinations of school chill
dren, to prevent blindness at birth, to
regulate the sale of cocaine and other
n To
hydrophobia, to establish public play
grounds. to strengthen the pure food
act, to protect against loan sharks,
to provide police court matrons, to
establish uniform weights and meas
ures, to prevent traffic in white
slaves, to permit night schools in
cities, to investigate industrial and
agricultural education, to require
medical supplies as part of q train
equipment, etc.
Backed Labor Laws.
The following laws, intended to pro-
tect the toilers, were also championed
by him: To create n bureau of inspec-
ton for factories, workshops, mines
and boilers; to establish free employ
ment agencies. to require full train
crews, to require safety devices on
switch engines, 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 of voters were enacted; block sys-
TENS were made compulsory on rail-
roads and electric railways. and law
to abolish the doctrine Of assumed risk
and fellow w-servant doctrine and to reg
ulate the contributory negligence de-
fense was made as strong as the con
stitution of the State would permit.
Nominated at Baltimore.
Mr.. Marshall was nominated for the
vice presidency in Baltimore in 1912
after his name had been before the
convention for a number of ballots
as a presidential candidate with the
Indiana delegation solidly behind him
He was again renominated with Presi
dent Wilson at st. Louis in 1916.
Mr.. Marshall prided himself on the
fact that he had always been just
a plain everyday average American