Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — GOOD MEN AND TRUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD MEN AND TRUE.

INDIANA STATE OFFICIALS ARE POPULAR. Their Srrrleee Hare Been Invaluable, and They Will Be Renominated by tho Democratic Convention Wliat They Have Done lor the State. May Be Governor. Indianapolis correspondence: Time out of mind in Indiana it has been customary to reward with a second mminatiou tho falthfuf public servant who has borne the heat and burden of one campaign for office, and the present Democratic State officers are therefore looking with a good deal of oomplaeenoy upon the approaching State convention, for they feel that their culling by the party, whatever may be the result of the olection, Is sure. In the present instance custom has been doubly strengthened by the personal popularity of the men who will ask rcnoniiuations at the hands of the party, and tho doubt Is not whethor each will be nominated for his present, position by acclamation, but whether the Secretary

of State, who headed the ticket two years ago, will not be tuken from the list and nominated for the governorship. Tills would be to break the custom, but it. would bo suoh an innovation as the party would deem it .wise to make, undone, certainly, to which the bone-

floiary could not In conscience objeot. As it is,. Claude Matthews is a candidate for Secretary of State, and 1o him tho Domination is conceded to belong. He was chosen two years ago as a representative farmer, and in obedience to the demands of his class, who have long olaimed that their interests have suffered by reason of tho fact that Stato positions of honor and emolument were not open to tho farming classes. Matthews is not only a farmer but Is one of the very, best in tho State. A Capable* Au<lltor. J. O. Henderson, Auditor of the State, is a native Hoosler, having born born in

Howard County fortytwo years ngo, and lived there continuously till he was elootod to his present position. His father founded the Kokomo Dispatch, In 1870 the son entered upon an active oureer of Jour-' nalism that has made him ono of the hostknown newspaper, men in the .State,

About the mime time ho entered Into politics, and for ton years past has boon regarded as one of the brightest young loaders of the Indiana Democracy. For sovoral years he was Chairman of the County Committee of Howard County, and in IHBS was appointed by President Cleveland os Internal Revenue Collector for the Eleventh Indiana District. Mr. Henderson possesses in a rare degree those qualles which muko men favorites with all they moot; Abundantly QuiiIIIImI. State Treasurer Albert Gall Is a Gor-man-American citizen, and for a number of years haft been known throughout the State as a business man of tnoro than ordinary popularity. Ho was educated

in tho public schools of this city, and in 1864 engaged in the carp, t and drapery business, which he still carries ou (j having been remarkably successful , and having made a ’■large number of friends throughout the State. He novor aspired to office till some of his

friends brought him out as a oundidato for State Treasurer in 1890. Thougli there were several candidates beforo tho convention, lie was nominated on tho i second ballot, and proved as popular as | a candidate us ho hud beeu as a business man. A. G. Smith, Attorney General, is ' possibly tho best known of the several ' State officers, for the reason that he has I been beforo the State more prominently than any of tho others. In 1884 he was ' elected Senator from Jennings and ! Jackson Counties, and was one of the most energetic members of the Judi-

ciary Committee during that sosslon. Before tho Senate adjourned he was chosen President pro tem. of the body. This opened up an entirely unexpected field, and led lo some of the most sensa-J tional scenes that were over enacted In a legislative body. In 1886 Lieut. Gov. Manson * ■resigned to accept a

government appointment, fund In the election that year R. S. Robortson was chosen to succeed him. Tho Democrats denied that a lieutenant governor could be elected to fill a vacancy, and whon Robertson appeared to preside over the Senate hts claims were ignored and he was ejected from the Senate chamber by order of Smith, who was presiding. The case was carried into the courts, but the Senate refused to surrender its prerogative of Judging of the qualifications'of its own members, and Robertson never had the honor of (residing over the body. Mr. Smith has done more, perhaps, than any other man In the. State to unearth the taxables of cor* porations, and is now engaged In alegal fight to prevent the law from being declared unconstitutional. Other Office, in LI tlgutlon. William A. Peelle, Jr., Chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, is a native of Wayne County and has lived in this city since 1874. When Neff was elected

Secretary of State Id that yoar Peelle came here as his deputy and served two terms under J. G. Shanklin, who succeeded Neff in 1878. In 1883 Peelle was-elected Chief of .the Statistical Bureau by the Legislature, anil re-elected in 1885, 1887, and 1889. In the latter year Gov.

Hovey denied the right of the Legislature to elect the Statistician, and suit was brought by his appointee for the office. The litigation thus inaugurated dragged on for two years, when the Supreme Court decided that the office should be filled by popular election. Peelle was nominated in 1890 and elected in November of that year. In a criminal lately beheaded in France the beats of the heart were noted during more than six minutes, and experiments were made, to demonstrate the independence of the ventricular and articular contractions; this is the first time such observations were ever made on man. Statisticians estimate that there are over 3,000,000 women in this country who are engaged in work which is not domestic. Of this number 275 are ministers and 75 lawyers.

SEC. MATTHEWS.

AUDITOR HENDERSON

TREASURER GALL.

ATTORNEY GENERAL SMITH.

W. A. FEELLE, JR.