Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1909 — Indorsed for U. S. Senator. [ARTICLE]

Indorsed for U. S. Senator.

Edwin S. Conway, one of the foremost men in the Chicago Association of Commerce, 1b being promoted for United States senator If Senator Hopkins fails of re-election. In many ways Mr. Conway, who Is vice-president of the Kimball Plano Co., has acted in public capacities. He has been one of the leading spirits in the work* of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and, as vice president of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association, he has been a prominent factor in the waterway crusade since its inception. He has been connected with other great organizations in the Interests of business and public welfare. Since the Chicago Association, of Commerce is a strictly non-partizan organization, the members who are in closest touch with Mr. Conway could speak only their individual apprecia-. tion of their fellow worker. With one accord, however, he was acclaimed a man whom Illinois should be glad to Intrust with the responsibilities of a senator, Edward M. Skinner, presidentelect of the Association of Commerce, speaking on behalf of the business interests with which he is connected, declared every business man in Chicago would give Mr. Conway whole-hearted support. Richard C. Hall, of the Duck Brand Co., retiring president of the Association of Commerce, emphatically endorsed Mr. Conway. “Mr. Conway Is an able man of many vigorous qualities, who would fill most creditably the office of United States Senator,” said Samuel Mcßoberts, treasurer of Armour & Co., and president of the Illinois Tunnel Co. George W. Sheldon, of, Sheldon & Co., and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Commerce, said he knew of no man he .would rather see in that position and spoke of Mr. Conway as follows: “He is a big man and has hosts of friends. I have worked shoulder to shoulder with him for two years In the Association of Commerce work, and I know him to be of truest worth. As a senator his abilities would be harnessed most satisfactorily la the service of his country and state.”