People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — PATTON IS CHOSEN. [ARTICLE]

PATTON IS CHOSEN.

Gov. Rich Names a Successor to the Late Senator Stockbridge. Lansing, Mich., May 7.—Gov. Rich on Saturday afternoon appointed John Patton, Jr., of Grand Rapids, United States senator to succeed the lata Senator Stockbridge. He was notified of his good fortune but a few minutes before the matter was made public. Mr. Patton is an able and successful lawyer, an orator, and a genial and approachable gentleman who is very popular. He comes from a family of marked ability, his father having represented his district in congress two terms, one in the Thirtyseventh congress and again in the Fiftieth. Gov. Rich says that aside from Patton’s great personal worth he was led to make the appointment because Patton was more generally indorsed than any other candidate and because he came from practically the same section of the state as did Stockbridge. The nomination is generally satisfactory to the party.