The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-10-21
SENATOR RALsT0N
OF INDIANA DIES
SENATOR HAS HAD EVENTroh
CAREER; SERVED HIS STATE
AS GOVERNOR
Rody Taken To Lebanon, His Oio
Home Town For Burial; Death
Was Expected And Relatives
Were Present

indianapolis, Ind.-Samuel M. RAJ
ston, 81, junior United States sena
tor from Indiana, and venerated pa
triarch of Indiana Democracy, died a
his estate, "Hoosier Home" near here
after an illness of six weeks.
Death came to the senator aftel
| twenty-five hours of unconsciousness
climaxing an attack of uraemic poi
soning which had confined the sena
to to his bed since September 5, and
which had impaired his health since
early this year.
Members of his family and more
than a score of intimate friends were
gathered at the home to receive the
news, that death had come Senator
Ralston had known for some weeks
Of his condition and babe his family
and friends farewell before lapsing
into the coma which preceded his
death.
Mine runner in his early youth,
Ralston farmed and taught school be-
fore turning to the study of law,
which opened "a political career for
him and brought him in 1912 to the
governorship of Indiana and in 1922
to the United States senatorship.
After four years in the governors
chair, Ralston had retired from poll
Tics, and it was only at the behest
If close friends that he returned to
he arena in 1922 as the party's nom
nee against Albert ]. Beveridge, Re-
publican candidate, who had defeat
ID Senator Harry New, now Postmast-
# general in the primaries. Raj
tons victory gave an impetus to In
lana Democracy, which put him for
7ard last year as a candidate for
he Democratic presidential nomina-
on.
At the New York convention in
324 his fortunes were in the hands
Thomas Taggart, Democratic lead
and long time personal friend of
lie senator, who insisted in presen-
ton of his name over Ralston's I
vn strenuous objection. When it /;
'peared that his nomination would ,
fer an egress from the McAddo- :
NTH deadlock, however, and support J.
gan to rally to him, Ralston i'm
sdiately ordered withdrawal of his 4
me, confiding to Taggart that his q
alth was SO precarious as to pre- Q
lde the possibility of a strenuous n
mpaign. :
Cor several years Senator Ralston's N
alth had not been sound and he
been compelled to abandon the
'ged outdoor life which he had led fl
ce boyhood. AS late as last July. b;
Vever, he made trips to his farms Ell
which he was in active manage hi
ut until late summer. Several tr
sks ago physicians told him that &C
lie depended upon his remain he
IN bed, and he failed rapidly af- to
he learned that he would be bed.
enator Ralston was a lifelong "a
spyterlan, and revered because of -a
genial honesty and sincerity i9'
en- he radiated A man of power I'd
build, he was known both as gov. 'ns
II and senator for the vigor with n,e
N ne labored, and he was seldom II
mt from session of the senate ass
he was stricken last spring nv pei
developed into his last illness. WEI
rvlvlng him are the widow. =
inter and two sons, a brother q for,
r and a nephew, all of Indian. of
naro, sup
neral arrangements are expected of
rlends of the family to provide rive
nterment at Lebanon, Ind. the are
-or's old home, from which ba con
elected to the governorship. brid
his deathbed the senator who Bin,
deeply religious, wrote to acc,
l. God is good and am His Mur
offit