Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — YIELDS TO DEATH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

YIELDS TO DEATH.

Claude Matthews, Former Indiana Governor, Pusses Away. Former Governor of Indiana Claud* Matthews, who was stricken with paralysis just after addressing an old settlers’ meeting in Tippecanoe County, died Sunday morning, without having regained consciousness. Mr. Matthews was born in Kentucky in 1846. He received a common school edu-

cation and then entered ('enter College at Danville. After getting his diploma at Danville he removed to Indiana, and not, long afterward married the daughter and only child of .James Whitcomb, one of the most illustrious of the early statesmen of the Hoosier State. He became an influence in his own locality almost immediately. It wns in 18'30 that Mr. Matthews was found to lie the man of the hour by lloosierdom Democracy. Both political parties were casting about for available candidates., He wns nominated, and the people of Indiana sent him to the State capital with « Majority of 20,000. He served as Secretary of State for two years and made considerable reputation as a member of the State board of tax commissioners, holding out stoutly for a heavy increase in the assessment of railroad, telegraph and other corporate property. His popularity among all classes nod his satisfactory conduct of his official affairs threw him into the foreground as a candidate for Governor in 1802. His administration was marked by the same energy that he displayed in his canvass, ami he proved one of the hardest workers that have ever been in the gubernatorial office in Indiana.

EX-GOV. MATTHEWS.