Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — YOUNG GARFIELD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

YOUNG GARFIELD.

Son of tho Late President to Enter Politics. The nomination for State Senator of James R. Garfield, son of the murdered President, has aroused a great deal of political interest in Ohio. He is a candidate from the Portage Summitt District, comprising the same counties which in 1859 elected his father in the same position. The late James A. Garfield was 28 years old when chosen, and had been married to Lucretia Rudolph but one year. James R. Garfield is nominated at the same age, and he, too, has been married but little more than a year. Another coincidence is that the

nomination came to the younger Garfield on July 2, anniversary of the date on which his father, fourteen years ago, was shot down by Guiteuu. There is, however, no coincidence in the financial condition of the father and son at the time of their respective nominations, The “Jim” Garfield of 1859 was poor. His wife was poor also, but both were well educated, and both brave in tho battle of life The “Jim” Garfield who is entering politics in 1895 is really a rich man. The generosity of the nation made his mother one of the richest women of the Western Reserve, and young “Jim” married the daughter of a millionaire Garfield the elder and Garfield the younger were both graduated from Williams College. Young “Jim” is also a graduate of the Columbia Law School, though he was admitted by examination to practice before tho Supremo Court of Ohio.

There will be no doubt of his election. und from now on there will be another “ Jim” Garfield in the politics of Ohio. He is a young man of ambitious tendencies and is very proud of his father’s name. He wishes to stand on his own merits and not to be held up for popular esteem simply because he is the son of his father. It is no secret that his ambition is to acquire legislative experience in the Ohio Senate, an.l then to take his father’s old place in Congress from the same old Nineteenth District that gave Giddings, Wade and Garfield to the nation.

James A. Garfield, (the late President) As State Senator in 1859.

JAMES R. GARFIELD, (the son) As State Senater in 1895.