perhaps not to be compared with successes involved in the municipal growth of Chicago. The growth of that city from 60,000 to nearly 2,000,000 of people gave full employment to his energies, both in relation to the many social and economic problems incidental to such a development and to the enormous expansion of business affairs of the bank to which he was related.

He organized the Chicago Clearing House Association, was its president for a number of years, and always a member of the Executive Committee. He has three times been President of the American Bankers' Association, and President of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a strong organization limited in number to sixty and composed only of representative business men.

He has contributed much by his pen to the public causes in which he has been interested. When in the early seventies the growth of the greenback movement became pronounced, he was active in organizing the Honest Money League which began a campaign of education against the rapidly spreading movement for a permanent paper currency. widely circulated, and doubtless contributed much toward arresting the spread of the movement. He is a clear writer, and his style. possesses much literary merit. He has the happy faculty of stating

His writings at that time were

the truth attractively and convincingly.

The National Treasury is so closely identified with the business life of the country that it needs must have at its head a careful and experienced financier. When at the close of the memorable campaign of 1896, during which questions relating to the currency of the country overwhelmed all other issues, resulting in the election of President McKinley, Mr. Gage was called upon to preside over the Treasury Department, there was universal agreement that the selection was one which could not have been more fittingly made. He is a philosopher and a student of social and moral problems as they affect the nation's life, and he possesses still that force of intellect which has made him, for a quarter of a century, a leading citizen of one of America's greatest cities.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman

Senator from South Carolina.

BENJAMIN RYAN TILLMAN was born in Edgefield County, S. C., August 11, 1847. His father was a successful planter of more than ordinary intelligence, and a very influential citizen. Reared on the farm, young Tillman was properly instructed in the management of a large plantation, and was given such educational advantages as the common schools of the county afforded. The boy

was bright and apt, full of vitality and imbued with all the characteristics of the Southern youth of that day. He was fond of reading, and, though his school days were abruptly ended in 1864, his education did not stop.

After the close of the Civil War the subject of this sketch, having recovered from a severe illness, set himself resolutely to the task of building up the shattered family estates, and to the still more difficult task of redeeming his neighborhood and county from utter ruin. In this he was not alone; but Ben Tillman was a leader. His good judgment, steady nerve and unfaltering determination in the face of difficulties made him a leader. He took the best papers and periodicals, studied human nature closely, and was unflinching in the solution of problems and the settling of questions that made other men hesitate.

In the trying days of '76, when the intelligent people of South Carolina determined to rid the state of the fearful octopus that had been sucking her life since '65, Ben Tillman, now Captain Tillman, found ample opportunities for the exercise of his varied powers.

The state redeemed and in the hands of the intelligent and property-owning element of the commonwealth, Captain Tillman settled down to the routine of his farm life.

A close student of current events and of life in all its phases, and now thoroughly convinced that the prime trouble with his people was a lack of industrial and technical education, Captain Tillman

in October, 1885, wrote a series of articles for the Charleston News and Courier, which attracted wide-spread attention.

In January, 1890, B. R. Tillman and E. B. Gary were declared the farmers' candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, Then the leading papers of the state tried to rule the farmers out of the Democratic party.

A red hot campaign followed. out any riot or serious bloodshed.

But the campaign ended withTillman swept the State. Tillman and his followers would not be ruled out of the Democratic party. They proposed to make a canvass of the state, then go into the regular September convention and whip the fight, and they did it. In that convention Tillman was nominated Governor with a full state ticket made up of his supporters. As the government was in the hands of the white people, a nomination at this convention was tantamount to an election.

Opposition to Governor Tillman during his first term of office was bitter and strong, and at the end of two years a full opposition state ticket was put in the field. This was known as the Conservative ticket and was made up of strong men with Colonel John C. Sheppard at the head. Another bitter campaign followed, Governor Tillman and his ticket winning the second time by a large majority. Governor Tillman advocated a canvass of the state by candidates for seats in the United States Senate. He believed that the people had a right to hear and know the views of men aspiring to positions of trust and responsibility. General M. C. Butler's third term of United States Senator expiring as Governor Tillman's second term as Governor ended, the Governor declared himself a candidate for General Butler's seat in the Senate. Again a canvass of the state was made and again was Tillman the winner. Senator Tillman's record as a national law maker is known and read of all men who care to know the sayings and doings of the leaders of the nation. He is unquestionably He is unquestionably a man of wonderful clearness, directness, and effectiveness of

brain power, and in

speech he has few equals in America.