Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — PEN PORTRAITS OF NOTED PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEN PORTRAITS OF NOTED PEOPLE

W. G. Harding, Candidate For Governor of Ohio. k

Warren G. Harding, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, is a newspaper man by profession and has been prominent in Buckeye politics for many years. His public service in-

cludes one term as, lieutenant governor in 1903-06 under Myron T. Herrick and two terms in the Ohio state senate before that.

Born at Corsica. Morrow county. 0., Mr. Harding will be forty-five next November. He got his first education in the public schools of Caledonia, Marion county, where bis father settled in 1871. and was graduated from the old Ohio Central college at Iberia in 1882 with the degree of B. S. In 1882 Warren G. Harding went with his parents to Marion, taught country school for a season, then started the study of law. His newspaper inclinations led him into the publishing business in 1884, in which pursuit he- has since been active. He made the Marion Star a notable newspaper success in the face of many obstacles. Mr. Harding is considered a brilliant speaker. Except for a short interval he has been a supporter of former Senator Joseph Benson Foraker. Sir George Plays Wise Game. Sir George Nicholls, member of parliament, was formerly a traveling peddler. He started business with a donkey and cart and then managed to get enough together to buy a mule. Finally he got up to a horse and cart, with which he worked until he received an offer to become lay pastor of a small church at $3<M) a year. This was a princely salary to him, and he passed the pony cart on to a friend. He refused to sell outright, however, and instead reserved the right to return to his hawker’s business if he was a failure as a preacher. “This,” he says now. “was trusting to the Lord, but not losing sight of the main chance." Governor Carroll of lowa. Governor Beryl F. Carroll of lowa, whose recent indictment on the charge of criminal libel created somewhat of a sensation, was chosen chief executive of the Hawkeye State last year The indictment, which was returned by the grand jury of Polk county, was for alleged libel of John Cownie. former member of the state board of control. whose resignation the governor demanded as a result of an investigation of the State Industrial School For Girls. In his statement before the grand jury Mr. Cownie alleged that

he was libeled by a statement published by the governor in a Des Moines newspaper.

Governor Carroll is a native of lowa, but was educated in Missouri, and the early years of his manhood were spent as a schoolteacher in Missouri. Later he engaged in the live stock business in his native state and in the early nineties became editor of the Davis County Republican. He served several terms as state senator, was postmaster of Bloomfield for several yean and from 1903 until elected governor was auditor of the state.

B. F. CARROLL.