Albert J. Beveridge

Senator from Indiana.

THE STORY OF A CAREER FROM LOGGING-CAMP TO CONGRESS.

ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, was born on a farm in Highland County Ohio, October 6, 1862. His father, having been a soldier in the Civil War, came home to find himself penniless, and with a small family to provide for. He removed to Illinois, where Albert was educated in a country school and worked on a farm in summer. During the day he worked as a boss in the logging-camp, and at night studied to gain the knowledge necessary to prepare himself for college. It was not until he was twenty-one that he was able to enter college at Greencastle, Indiana. At college he maintained himself by working during vacation times, and accepting such remunerative work as he could obtain during the college term. He took several cash prizes during his course. He was a leader not only in the college debating society and athletics, but also in literary work. He was always recognized as a leader on one side or the other of every collegiate and intercollegiate contest. When he left college he had no money and little else than the clothing on his back, and his fare paid to the West. After a year on the ranch in which he regained a strong constitution, he returned to Indianapolis, and accepted a position of reading clerk in the House of Representatives. He, here made enough of money to pay his expenses as a student of law in one of the large offices of that city. In 1889, he was able to open an office for himself. He has met with remarkable success as practicing attorney, and has been employed in many of the great cases that have come before the Indianapolis courts in recent years. Probably no lawyer in Indiana has had more important cases on constitutional law than has Mr. Beveridge.

As an orator he has few equals, and probably this more than anything else has brought him fame throughout the United States.

He is widely known as a public speaker, and is in great demand for many public occasions.

In the election of 1898 in Indiana he took great interest and performed some important work in securing the success of the Republican party in that state. Having many good and influential friends in that party, they organized themselves to secure for him the nomination, and after a spirited contest he was elected to United States Senate, January 17, 1899. His term will expire March 3, 1905. Socially he is charming in his manner, vivacious and good humored. He entered the United States Senate at an age much younger than the average senator, and has a brilliant career before him. His ambition, intellect, tact, and good judgement, together with a fine physical and mental strength will secure for him one of the leading places in that body.

In the summer of 1899 he visited the Philippine Islands and gathered much important information which he used in preparing a speech delivered in United States Senate during the winter of 1900. This attracted attention far and wide, and was listened to with marked attention by his colleagues.

Henry Cabot Lodge.

Author, Statesman and Republican Senator from Massachusetts One of the most distinguished men of the day, known as well for literary and scholarly pursuits as for political acumen, is Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. He received a thorough preparation for college, and graduated with honor from Harvard University in 1871, and in the law department in 1875, receiving the degree of Bachelor of law. Literature being more to his taste, he contributed articles to the "North American Review" and to the "International Review," and has written several volumes of biography and history. He has served in the Legislature of his own state, and represented his district in Congress. In 1893, he was elected to the United States Senate, where he has taken high rank as statesman and orator.

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Orator, Financier, Senator.

CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW was born at Peekskill, New York, April 23, 1834. His remote ancestors were French Huguenots, who founded New Rochelle, in Westchester County. His father, Isaac Depew, was a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Peekskill, and his mother, Martha Mitchell was a representative of the distinguished New England family, one of whose members, Roger Sherman, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

EARLY CAREER.

Mr. Depew spent his boyhood in Peekskill, where he prepared for college. He was a bright student, and at the age of eighteen entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1856, with one of the first honors of his class. In June, 1887, Yale conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. It will be noted that Mr. Depew reached his majority at about the time of the formation of the Republican party. Although of Democratic antecedents, he had been a close student of politics, and his sympathies were with the aims of the new political organization, to which he speedily gave his allegiance.

Mr. Depew studied law in his native village, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In the same year, Vanderbilt became his firm friend. In 1866 Mr. Depew was appointed the attorney of the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, and three Years later, when that road was consolidated with the New York Central, he was made the attorney of the new organization, being afterwards elected a member of the Board of Directors.

As other and extensive roads were added to the system, Mr. Depew, in 1875 was promoted to be general counsel for them all, and elected to a directorship in each of the numerous organizations. The year previous, the Legislature had made him Regent of the State University, and one of the Commissioners to build the Capitol at Albany.

At the National Republican convention in 1888, New York voted solidly for Mr. Depew as its candidate for the Presidency, but he withdrew his name. At the convention at Minneapolis in 1892, he was selected to present the name of President Harrison, and made one of the best speeches of his life. When Mr. Blaine resigned as Secretary of State, President Harrison urged Mr. Depew to accept the place, but after a week's deliberation, he felt obliged to decline the honor.

He was delegate-at-large to the Presidential conventions of 1892 and 1896, and presented the names of Benjamin Harrison for President and of Governor Levi P. Morton for Vice-President, on both occasions. At the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, he was the orator of the occasion, also at the opening of the great World's Fair at Chicago in 1892, he delivered an oration remarkable for its beauty and eloquence. On many other occasions has he also been the popular favorite elected to deliver addresses for a variety of occasions. He is now serving as Senator from the State of New York, his term expiring March 3, 1905.

Joseph Welden Bailey

Congressman and Democratic Leader of the South-West. JOSEPH W. BAILEY is a native of Mississippi, and was born October 6, 1863. When twenty years of age he had completed his education, and been admitted to the practice of the profession of law. He early took an interest in politics and in the campaign of 1884 was an elector for Cleveland and Hendricks. In 1885 he located in Texas, and again served as Democratic elector in 1888. He was elected to the 52nd Congress, and has served in each succeeding Congress, being a member of the present House. At his last election he received 29,942 votes, and his Republican competitor 3,842. He was Democratic nominee for speaker of the House in the 55th Congress. He had been Democratic leader of the House, and is recognized as a man of marked ability, and well informed in all branches of the present day politics.

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Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Diplomat and Secretary of the Interior.

ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior, is a great grandson of Ethan Allen, of Vermont, of revolutionary fame. He was born in Mobile, Alabama, September 19, 1835. After living one year at New Orleans, he removed to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was educated at private schools, completing his course of study in 1855 at the military academy in New Haven, Connecticut. His family were then living in St. Louis, Missouri, where he went to live after completing his education, and engaged in mercantile business. In 1860 he went to China as a representative of Olypant & Co., a commission house having a large trade. His worth was soon recognized, and in 1866 he became a member of the firm. In 1872 he was able to retire from business, and spent two or three years in travel and observation in Europe. He returned to the United States in 1874, and engaged in several business enterprises, including manufacturing, mining and railway adventures, in all of which he was a marked success, and was soon recognized as one of the foremost men in the commercial world of the West. He is a type of the best American citizen, in that he has taken a keen interest in great political questions and at same time been a marked success in the commercial world. He is not a politician by profession, and hence his counsels are valued by his party and his example one to be emulated by all good Americans.

President McKinley recognized his business ability and his fitness to represent the United States in Russia, where our trade was rapidly growing, appointed him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that country. He discharged his duties with signal success, and was the first American Ambassador credited to the Russian port. Upon the resignation of Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss, he was called home to take the portfolio of Department of Interior. He was confirmed on December 21, 1898, and has made a very popular Secretary.