Hancock Henry Brown. Hardin-Michael F. Eggerman. Harrison Jasper N. Lantz. Henry-Dennis D. Donovan. Highland-Jonah Britton. Hocking--Carl H. Buerhaus. Holmes-Thomas Armor. Licking--Samuel L. Blue. Logan-William W. Beatty. Lorain-William A. Braman. Lucas -Charles P. Griffin and James C. Messer. Madison-Daniel Boyd. Mahoning Lemuel C. Ohl. Marion-Boston G. Young. Medina-Thomas Palmer. Meigs-Walter W. Merrick. Miami-Noah H. Albaugh. Montgomery-Wickliffe Belville, Martin Eidemiller and Wilson S. Harper. Morgan-Leroy S. Holcomb. Muskingum Daniel H. Gaumer and John C. Mc Gregor. Noble-Capell L. Weems. Ottawa-William E. Bense. Pickaway-Thaddeus E. Cromley. Pike--John W. Barger. Stark-John E. Monnot and George W. Wilhelm. Trumbull-Mark Ames and Thomas H. Stewart. John Sherman was born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823. Charles Robert Sherman, his father, was a man of great legal ability and in 1823 was elected by the Legislature to the Supreme Court of the State. He served over six years, dying suddenly of cholera, while attending court at Lebanon, June 24, 1829, leaving a widow and eleven children, of whom John was the eighth. After his father's death, John Sherman went to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to live with his cousin, John, a son of his father's brother. It is stated that at this time he was rather a wild and reckless boy with more decided tendencies to belligerency than his brother, the renowned Union General, William Tecumseh Sherman. Though but fourteen years of age, in 1837, he obtained a position as a rodsman on the Government works on the Muskingum river, but was removed after two years' service because he was a Whig. He then went to Mansfield to live with his brother Charles, studied law in his office and was admitted to the bar, May 11, 1844. He was one of the delegates to the Whig National Convention at Philadelphia in 1848, of which he and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, were respectively Secretary and Assistant Secretary. In 1854 he was elected to Congress as an anti-Nebraska Republican from the Thirteenth District, defeating William D. Lindsley for reelection. He was appointed by the Speaker of the House, Nathaniel P. Banks, one of a committee of three to investigate and report on the "Border Ruffian" trouble in Kansas. This Committee visited the Territory and took testimony under great difficulties. The members received rough treatment and at least on one occasion their lives were saved only by the intervention of United States troops. He was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1856, defeating Herman J. Brumback, and to the Thirty-sixth in 1858, defeating S. J. Patrick. In 1859 he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the National House of Representatives, and came within two votes of an election. He was again elected to Congress in 1860, defeating Barnabus Burns, but, on the resignation of Salmon P. Chase to take a Cabinet portfolio, Mr. Sherman was elected to the United States Senate, taking his seat March 23, 1861, Samuel T. Worcester becoming his James A. Garfield's speech so captivated successor in the House. the Convention when naming Mr. Sherman that he himself became the nominee of the party. In 1881 he was again returned to the Senate, vice James A. Garfield declined, and in 1885 was elected President pro tem, and by virtue of his office became acting Vice President. In 1886 he was chosen for the fifth term in the Senate. In 1884 and again in 1888 he was an active aspirant for the Presidency and was the leading candidate in the latter year until the nomination of Benjamin Harrison. In 1892 he was again elected United States Senator for the term of six years from March 4, 1893, but resigned March 4, 1897, to accept the PreHemiership in President McKinley's Cabinet. Mr. Sherman was soon a recognized National authority on finance and scrutinized all Government expenditures closely. The then prevalent custom of making contracts in advance of appropriations was denounced by him as illegal. In 1861, during the recess of Congress, he joined the Ohio volunteer troops then in Philadelphia and was appointed Aide-de-camp to General Robert Patterson, remaining until the meeting of Congress in extra session in July. At the close of this session he returned to Ohio and raised and equipped what was then, and throughout the war, known as "the Sherman Brigade" of volunteer soldiers. intended to resign his seat in the United States Senate and enter the army with these troops, but upon informing President Lincoln and Secretary Chase of this fact they objected so strenuously that he abandoned the idea, remained in Congress and aided in the prosecution of the war in helping to sustain and defend the President's war measures. In 1866 he was elected to the Senate for the second time and for a third term in 1872. In 1867 he introduced a refunding act, which was adopted in 1870, but without the resumption clause. From that time forward until 1896, he was the most conspicuous figure in the financial affairs of the Nation. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Hayes in 1877, and as such officer, on January 1, 1879, had the pleasure of witnessing the crowning triumph of his fiscal policy, despite the dismal forebodings of other acknowledged financiers, in the successful resumption of specie payments by the United States. In 1880 he was the most prominent candidate for the Presidency, but William Cotter Lyon, Lieutenant Governor, was born in Homer, Medina County, Ohio, July 7, 1841, and is of Irish descent. His mother died in Michigan in 1847 and his father was murdered in Putnam County, Ohio, in 1853. He was thus left to shift for himself at the age of twelve years, as well as for the other younger orphan children. He learned the shoemaker's trade, educated himself, and attended Seville Academy at times. In 1861 he enlisted in the famous Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, which has furnished more distinguished men than any other regiment ever known. He served two years as a private before he was made a commissioned officer. commissioned officer. Thirteen months be fore the close of the war he was captured by the Rebels and confined in several of their loathsome prison hells. After his release he was made a Captain. Returning from the war he engaged in the shoe business in Medina County, but removed to Newark, Licking County, in 1870. In 1877 President Hayes appointed him Postmaster of that city, and he was reappointed by President Arthur. He resigned at once after the inauguration of President Cleveland, but a second resignation had to be forwarded before he was relieved of the office. His successor was appointed on January 1, 1886. In 1884 he purchased the Newark American, which he still edits. In 1887 he was nominated and elected by the Republicans to the office of Lieutenant Governor. Ebenezer W. Poe, Auditor of State, was born on a farm near Findlay, Ohio, November 11, 1846. His father being a farmer of but moderate circumstances he had but slight opportunity for early education; but at the close of the war graduated from the high school at Findlay. When but a boy he enlisted in the service of his country, being only eighteen years of age when honorably discharged in 1864. His father was also a soldier for the Union. His first business was as a drygoods merchant in North Baltimore, Wood County. After two years he sold out his stock and became a traveling salesman, or "drummer.” In 1881 he was nominated for County Auditor by the Republicans, was elected and also reelected in 1884. Before the expiraBefore the expiration of his term he received the party nomination for Auditor of State, and was elected in November, 1887. He was again nominated and elected in 1891, serving eight years in all. Since his term of office ended he has been engaged in business in Columbus, where he now makes his home. Franklin J. Dickman, Supreme Judge, is a native of Petersburg, Virginia, and was fitted for college in an institute in his native city. At the age of sixteen he entered Brown University, at Providence, Rhode Island, from which he graduated. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and in 1857 was the candidate for Attorney General of Rhode Island, on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 1858 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and was appointed on the National Board of Visitors to West Point that year by President Buchanan. In 1861, having become a Republican because of the Rebellion, he was elected as a Representative from Cuyahoga County to the General Assembly. In 1867 President Johnson appointed him United States District Attorney for the Northern district of Ohio, and he resigned the office in 1879. In 1883 he was appointed on the Supreme Court Commission, serving two years. In 1886 he was appointed Supreme Judge by Governor Foraker; was elected to the office in 1887 and again in 1889. David Kemper Watson, Attorney General, was born near London, Madison County, Ohio, June 8, 1849. He is the young est of seven children. He attended the country schools in early boyhood and was prepared for college by a private tutor. He graduated at Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from the law school of Boston University. He began practicing his profession in his native town, but in 1875 removed to Columbus. For four years following 1872 he was Assistant United States District Attorney. In 1887 he was elected Attorney General of the State on the Republican ticket, and reelected in 1889. In 1894 he was nominated for Congress in the Twelfth Congressional district, a stronghold of Democracy, and elected; was again a candidate in 1896, but was defeated by the narrow plurality of forty six votes. CHAPTER XXXV. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1888. HE Fiftieth Congress assembled for its THE first session December 5, 1887. The Senate was very close politically, and was composed of 39 Republican and 37 Democratic members, with John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, as President pro tem. In the House there were 168 Democratic, 152 Republican and five Independent Representatives, and John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, was chosen Speaker over Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. In assuming the office Mr. Carlisle made a lengthy address, the burden of which was the necessity of reducing the tariff and the internal revenue taxes in order to prevent "a large and dangerous accumulation of money in the Treasury." President Cleveland, in his annual message, devoted a great deal of attention the same subject, and complained that the excess of revenues over expenditures of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1887, had amounted to over $55.500,000. Taking their cue from these authorities the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee immediately set to work and drafted the Mills Bill, so called after its Chairman, Roger Q. Mills, of Texas. This bill was reported April 2,1888, and ordered printed, together with the minority report submitted by William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio. It was taken up for discussion on April 17th, the debate opened by Mr. Mills, with Will to iam D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in opposition. On May 19th, the general debate was closed with speeches by Speaker Carlisle and Thomas B. Reed for and against the proposed law. The debate under the five-minute rule began on May 31st and closed on July 19th, William McKinley, of Ohio, taking a very prominent part. It passed the House on July 21st with 159 Democrats and three Republicans in the affirmative, and 145 Republicans and four Democrats in the negative. This bill formed the main issue in the Presidential canvass. It was referred to the Finance Committee of the Senate, and the Republican members, under the leadership of William B. Allison, of Iowa, prepared a substitute, which they reported by way of amendment October 3d. The matter was taken up in the Senate on the 8th, Mr. Allison explaining the provisions of the Senate Bill; but it was not very earnestly discussed and no attempt was made to push it to a vote before it to a vote before adjournment. The distinction between the Mills Bill and the Senate substitute, while they both reduced the revenues, was that the former made reductions on almost all articles enumerated, while the latter provided for greatly reduced internal revenue receipts and made tariff reductions mainly on sugar and molasses, which Mr. Mills had touched very slightly. Another important matter dealt with |