Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — SENATOR JOHN W. DANIEL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR JOHN W. DANIEL.

Temporary Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. One of the most striking and In one sense most coinman ling figures at the Democratic convention at Chicago was Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, whom the free silver men in the convention made temporary chairman, thus refusing to accept the choice of the national committee, Senator David B. Hill. Senator Daniel was born in Lynchburg, Va., In 1842. He served in the

Confederate army of Northern Virginia during the war and received a wound that has since been to him the source of constant pain. He was riding his horse when a cannon ball took away a portion of his thigh. He fell and’lay for some time In the midst of the battle until one of his own soldiers, who was alsp wounded, dragged him behind a log. There , the two lay together for more than hglf an hour with the bullets flying,,tjig.shells bursting and the battle going on all about them. When the fight was finished Daniel was carried to the hospital. The surgeon said he would die, but a section of the thigh bone was cut away and his youthful vitality was such that he recovered. He has to-day six inches of bone out of one of his legs, and still he manages to do good work, though he is in constant pain. After leaving the service he studied law and has practiced It since 1866. From 1869 to 1872 he served in the Virginia House of Relegates and from 1875 to 1881 in the State Senate. In 18T0 he .was a Democratic eleetor-at-large and was a member of the Democratic conventions of 1880 and 1888. He was a member of the Forty-ninth Congress and was elected to the United States Senate to'succeed William Mahone. He was re-elected and his present term of offleo will expire in Mat., Senator Daniel js one of the ablest speakers in the’ South and is called the silver-tongued orator. He has a remarkably striking and cultured face. -

JOHN W. DANIEL.