Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — SENATORS FROM NEW STATES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATORS FROM NEW STATES.

The Men .Chosen by South Dakota and Idaho to Reprose it Them. South Dakota has selected J. H. Kyle to take the place of Mr. Moody in the United States Senate. He was chosen as| a compromise candidate by a combiuation of Farmers’ Alliance men and Democrats. The new Sena-

tor is only 38 years, of age, and began life as a Congregational minister. He was born at Xenia, Ohio, and graduated in his twentieth year from Oberlin College in 1873. He then studied theology in the Western Theological Seminary at •Allegheny, Pa., and

came fiut In 1882. He officiated as pastor of a church in Salt Lake City. He went to Dakota five years ago, and is now Financial Secretary of Yankion College. He has taken an active part in politics, and served a term it, the Dakota Senate. Judge William Clagett, the newly elected Senator from Idaho, is likely to have a hard road to travel, owing to the circumstances of his election. The Legislature first elected three instead of two Senators. McConnell and Shoup were elected to fill the long and the short terms and Dubois for that which has just begun. Since then the friends of Judge Clagett effected a coalition with the Democrats a"d elected him in the place of Dubois. Ihe election of Dubois is considered by Senator Edmunds to be legal and

it is probable that the question of the legality of Clagett’s election will be raised! 1 Judge Clagett is a native of Maryland, but has been in the West since 1850. He? was elected delegate to' Congress from Mom 'tana in 1871, defeating the present Governor, t t r rn ‘ t _ i

J. K. Toole, by 481 liam clagett. votes. He has resided in Montana, Navada, Dakota and Idaho. He is a lawyer, but is interested in mining. The Mormons, who have influence in Idaho, supported him against Dubois.

SENATOR J. H. KYLE.

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