Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — GUBERNATORIAL WINNERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUBERNATORIAL WINNERS.

Governor Cleave* of Maine, and General Clark of Arkansas. Governor H. B. Cleavea, of Mainja, re - eleected by the Republicans, was born in Bridgeton silty-three

years ago. He was educated in the public schools and at the Bridgeton Academy. He worked on the farm and as a lumberman, and in 1862 enlisted as a private in Company B of the Twanty-thira Maine Volunteers. At the_ expiration of his term' of enlistment he reenlisted in the Thirtieth Maine Veteran Volunteers, and a few

months later was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company F. He was mustered out of service at the close of the war, having won the reputation of being a brave officer. He returned to his native State, studied law and has since practiced his profession. In 1875 and To he was a meinbor of the Legislature, and for two years thereafter was City Solicitor of Portland. From 1880 to 1885 Mr. Cleaves served the State as Att irney General. The Governor is unmarried. . General James I’. Clark, Democrat, newly-elected governor of Arkansas, is the most aggressive man in that

Slate. Although he is only 38 years of age, he has been succe sively ’ active in the lower house of I tho Legislature, the State Senate, of which he was president, and finally as Attorney General of the State. From this latter office he next [steps into the Democratic nomination for governor, which, in Arkansas, is equiva-

JAMES P. CLARK.

lent to an election. He is the ideal Southern gentleman, firm, deeded, aggressive and indomitable, and as a result of the three qualities, perhaps, uniformly successful He already aspires to the seat in tho United States Senate now held by Senator Jones, whose term expires in it 97. Dnring the preliminary canvass, Mr. Clarke declared that he could beat any man in Arkansas for governor and he entered upon an exceedingly vigorous campaign to prove the soundness of this statement. The Democrats elected their enlire State ticket, and Clark, for govern r, had nearly 20,000 majority.

H. B. CLEAVES.