Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — SEEK HIGH HONORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEEK HIGH HONORS.

MEN WHO WANT TO BE GOVERNORS OF STATES. Democrats, Republicans and Populists—- “ Bad Boy” Peck of Wisconsin, Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee and 8. A, Holcomb of Nebraska—And Others. E. W. Tunnell. E. W. Tunnell, Democratic candidate for Governor of Delaware, is 50 years of age, and one of the prominent

business men of the State. After leaving school he engaged in the mercantile business with his father >at Blackwater. In 1870 he was elected to the Legislature, and in 1872 engaged ,in the drug business with his brother-in-law under th) firm name of Mustard & Co. A number of years ago the Legislature appointed him

a director of the Farmers Bank, Georgetown, and he has been Clerk of the Peace of Kent County. He takes a lively interest in public affairs, both State and national. He has never married. Henry Clay Evans. Henry Clay Evans, whom the Republicans of Tennessee 'have chosen for their leader in the gubernatorial

fight, is a prosperous manufacturer. He is 51 years of age, was born in Juniata County, Pa., fought with the soldiers of Wisconsinduring the war, and has since made his name well known as a business man and politician of Tennessee. After the war he located ini Chattan oog a, engaged in the manufacturing business

and was twice elected. Mayor of the city. Later he was one of Tennessee's Congressmen in the List Congress. Being defeated for a second term, President Harrison appointed him First Assistant Postmaster General. C'lirr. A. C'tilbprgon. Chas. A. Culberson, recently nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Texas, has long been active in law

and in politics. He is a son of David B. Culberson, who is inow serving his tenth term in the House of Representatives. Chas. A. Culberson was born in Dades vllle, Ala., about forty years ago, but has been a ‘ resident of Texas nearly all his life. He was educated in the common schools of Jefferson and the

high school at Gilmer, and in 1870 entered the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, graduating in 1874. In 1877 he was admitted to the lar of Texas. In 1880 he was elected County Attorney of Madison County and is now serving his second term as Attorney General of the State. Thomas J. Majors. Thomas J. Majors, the Republican nominoo for Governor of Nebraska, is

the present Lieutenant Governor. H e was born in Jefferson county, Illinois, 5 5 years’ ago, and attended the common schools until he was 18, and then went to work. In 185!) he removed to Nebaska, where he has since ) remained, except) during the late war,, when lie served three years in the South. When Nebraska be-

came a State, he was sent to the first and seco.-.d t-essions of the Slate Senate. In 1880 he tried to enter Congress, but was defeated, and since then has served two terms in the State Senate and two in the House. Charles A. Bus'.el. Charles A. Busiel is the Republican nominee for Governor of New Hampihire. He was born in Meredith vil-

lage, N. H., in 1842, became a resident of Laconia when onlyfour 3 ears of age and has since lived theie. He learned the hosiery business in his father’s mill and has be: ome wealthy in it. In 1878 and ’79 ne was ■a member of the State Legislature and was the first mayor of Laconia. He is a man ot large interests outside of his

regular business, being a director of the Concord and Montreal and other railroads and president of the Lake Shore railroad. Until 1892 Mr. Busiel was a Democrat, but the tar i f plank in the Democratic platform that year caused him tj jcin the Republicans. Chas. H. Sheldon. Gov. Charles H. Sheldon, of South Dakota, was renominated by the recent Republican State convention. Charles

H. Sheldon was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, in 18 40, and lived there until the war broke out, then he enlisted in the Seventh Vermont Infantry, went with Gen. Butler to Ship Island, and was in some, of the most im-. portant engagements; of the rebellion. He : enlisted as a private, and was mustered out March 14, 18(itt, as

Captain. He then lived in Illinois for eleven years, in Kentucky for three years, and in 1881 removed to Dakota Territory ar.d located on the farm where he nowlhes, near Pierport, S. D. In 1886, he was elected to the territorial council and was permanent chairman of the Republican State c nvention in 18i.fi. He was elected Governor in 1892. Silas A. Holcomb. The Populist nominee for Governor

of Nebraska is Silas A. Holcomb. He is a man of magnificent physique, being G feet 2 inches tall and built in proportion. Mr. Holcomb resides at Broken Bow, but is a native of Indiana, where he was born in 1858. He is a well-known lawyer and Judge of the District Court. Last year the Populists nominated him

for Justice of the Supreme Court, but he met with defeat. Geo. W. P#»ck. Gewexmor George W. Peele, whom

the Wisconsin Democrats nominated for re-election in November next, ia

widely known as the author of “Peck's Bad Boy,” and a humorist of exceptional cleverness. The fight over the Bennett school law first brought him into politics in 1810, when he was chosen Mayor of Milwaukee, on an anti-Bennett platform. Later in 1 the same year, when the issue was trans-

fer! el to State politics, Mayor Peck was made the Democratic candidate for Governor, and was elected to that office in November of the same year. The Democratic voters of Wisconsin are making a strong fight to secure another term in the executive office for the first Democratic Governor of the State since the civil war.

E. W. TUNNELL.

C. A. CULBERSON.

HARLES A. BUSIEL.

S. A. HOLCOMB.

H. CLAY EVANS.

T. J. MAJORS.

C. H. SHELDON.

GEORGE W. PECK.