People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — A PROSPECTIVE POSTMASTER GENERAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PROSPECTIVE POSTMASTER GENERAL.

Judge James A. Gary, who is talked of for postmaster-general in the McKinley cabinet, is one of the most distinguished Republicans in Maryland. His family came originally from Massachusetts, and the judge cannot be said, therefore, to be a southern man. In politics he was a Whig and placed Henry Clay before him as his ideal of a statesman. He was an abolitionist by instinct, and he was one of the three delegates from Howard county to the big union convention of 1861, which was held at the Maryland Institute.

After the war the Republicans were very scarce in Maryland, but Mr. Gary was true to his convictions. He was a delegate to the convention of 1872 that nominated Grant, and he was the chairman of the Maryland delegation. Since that time'he has served his party with unfailing ardor and has sat in many conventions, state and national, as the representative of the Republicans of the old state. He takes a keen interest in municipal politics. He is a banker, a business man and one of the most polished gentlemen of Maryland.