Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — SUPREME COURT CLERK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUPREME COURT CLERK

O. 'to. Welman, Editor op the bvLLivAN Times and County Superintendent, a Candidate. “U. W. Welman, of Sullivan, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Clerk of the Supreme Court, and will be a strong candidate. He has a large ac quantance over the state, ana is in every way fitted for the position. He is editor of the Sullivan Times, and prominent and popular m newspaper circles. He is presi* dent of the Indiana Democratic

Editorial Association, and a member of the Southern Indiana Press Association; was a delegate to the National Editorial Association at Detroit in 1889. Boston in 1890, and Chicago in 1893;. and is also County Superintendent of Sullivan County and is a member of the County Superintendents’ Association He is a brilliant writer, a forcible, eloquent speaker, and has done good service for bis party. Mr. welman was born in Crawford county, Indiana, Sept. 18, 1858; removed with his parents to Gibson couity, where the latter still reride, in 1860 His grandfather was a pioneer of Indiana, and his father was born in Orange county in 1826. He attended the High school at Fort Branch and the Not them Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, and taught school in Gibson and Vanderburgh Counties from 1878 to 1885; engaged in the newspaper business, editing various local papers, and took charge of the Sullivan Times in 1888, which paper he continues to ably edit. He was elected County Superintendent of schools in 1891 and re-elected in 1893. At the first meeting of the County Superintendents after his election he electrified the association by a bnlltant defense of the Su - perintendents against an attack by a speaker. He is held in high esteem by school officers and other educators of the state, with whom he enjoys a large acquaintance. He is prominent, locally, in secret society work, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and Improved Order of Red Men. The nomination of Mr. Welman will add stiength to the ticket, especially in this district where Sullivan county must tarnish the majority to elect a con - gross man. The Gazette wishes him success.”- Terre Haute Gazette.