Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — DEATH OF GOV. WILLIAMS. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF GOV. WILLIAMS.

It leaks out that Hon. H. H. Had--1 v, an Indopcn '.ent Republican, is th.? man who did a lively business it) the (bath'd Mi rey-Chinese letter affair. - fie eral Garfiel l’s clear m joii’y in lowa la only 44,789. This ;s *’’= < nough, but some < f the Republicans have been doing a considt ruble tun Hint of “blowing” over the repot t that it wtt- <:vr 80,000, At the late election in Nevada the voters were expected express theii views by ballot on the question ol Chinese immigration. «tory count} returns 13 in favor to 5,111 against the presence of the Celestials. ...

Ono Hancock elector was Ohosen i: this State, D. W. Chambers defoatinp B. 8. Parker through a republics blunder in making up the tickets.Thc latter was substituted for Gen Bennett, of Richmond, just befo • the election Dr. Mary Waker tried to vote at Oswego. N. Y., last weea.and warned the inspectors, who refused to !•*- eeive her ballot, that she should prosecute. Her argument was: “I am a fe-male citizen, and therefore t male citizen.” Don Piatt, lit the Capitol, declares that the command of the Mediterranean squadron was given to an officer who presentod Secretary Thonip son with a Persian carpo, and that n scandal lurks beneath the promotion of paymaster Stevenson. The late David N. Lord, of New York, bequeathed 550.000 each the American Bible Society. Board o f Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, New York Society for the Belief of the Ruptured and Crippled, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Governor Williams, died at Indianapolis last Saturday, shortly aftei noon, The sad intelligence rapidly spread throughout th® State and country and was received with unfeigned sorrow by all who knew him. .Tames Douglas Williams, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, January IG, 1808, making his age at th® time of death nearly seventy-three yens. His parents were of Scotch-Irish and Welsh-Englisn blood, and from them ho inherited the marked physical strength and rugged honesty which so distinguished him t! roughout his long public career. His ancestors were farmers, and at an early age his father, George Williams, emigrated to this State and located in Knox county, and there the homestead of the father and son has remained to present day. The facilities for edu. cation, were extremely limited in his yont li and early manhood, and James grew up an honest yeoman, plain in speech and dress, hard-flsted incorruptible and honest. In 1831 he mar. lied Miss Honey Huffman, the naugh ter of one of his neighbors, and the young couple settled upon a quarter section of land embraced inhis present homestead, near what is known as Wheatland. She died, only a few months since, after a protracted ill ness. With the exception of one unfilled term in Congress, Governor Williams.» long public career was exclusively identified with State affairs. His first office was justice of the peace, to which he was elected in 1937. In 1843 he represented his county in the State Legislature, and altogether he served nine terms in the Housj and eleven in For many years lie was also ideptilisd with the State Board of Agriculture, beginning his connection therewith in 1855 and continueing sixteen years, four years of which he served as president. In 1372 he was the caucus nominee of the Democracy to succeed Governor Morton in U. 8. Senate. In 1874 he succeeded Hon. William E. Niblack ns member of Congress from the Second congressional district; bu before the conclusion oi his term he was elected Governor of Indiana, being nominated in 1876 by the democracy. In this gubeanatorlal race General Ben Harrison was hi® com petitor. and the canvas® ended by a plurality in favor of Williams by over 5. COO votes. An incident in his polititcel career, heretofor® overlook ed, is the fact that his career as Governor is familiar to the people of this great State.