Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — LAWRENCE T. NEAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAWRENCE T. NEAL.

the Democratic Nominee for Governor oi Ohio. Lawrence T. Neal, whom the Democrats of Ohio have nominated for Governor, was born in Parkersburg, Va,, on September 2, 1844. In 1864 he removed to Chillicotbe, Ohio, where he studied law, and in 1866 he was admitted to the bar there. He held several minor offices and was a member of the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, since which time he has been a prominent figure in national politics. After serving two terms he returned from Wash ington in 1877 to resume his practice of the law. The political complexion of his former Congressional district having been changed he was with difficulty induced by his party in 1882 to accept a nomination, and, after a memorable campaign, reduced the ordinary Republican majority of 2,000 to ten votes. In 1888 he was again nominated for Congress in the same district against his positive refusal and made over fifty speeches for the Presidential ticket. In this contest he again cut down the usual majority. Since his retirement from Congress in 1877 he has been continuously engaged in the legal practice, but has always taken a lively interest in political affairs and in advancing the success of the Democratic party. He has represented his State in every National Democratic convention since 1880. In the St Louis convention of 1898, which renominated Mr. Cleveland, when Senator Gorman and Henry Watterson in the Committee on Resolutions wrangled a whole day as to the tariff declara-

tion of the platform, Lawrence T. Neal, the Ohio member of the committee, brought the contending elements together and framed the plank as it was accepted by the committee and ratified by the convention. He was a member of the Platform Committee of the Chicago convention and proposed the amendment which was finally adopted as the tariff policy ol the party upon which to make the campaign.