Senator from Illinois

SHELBY MOORE CULLOM, son of Richard Northcraft Cullom and Elizabeth Coffey Cullom, was born in Monticello, Wayne county, Ky., November 22, 1829. His father, who was a farmer, removed to Tazewell county, Ill., the following year; he was a prominent and influential Whig in his time, and frequently represented his district in both Houses of the General Assembly. Young Cullom early in life adopted law as his profession and fitted himself at a country academy. In 1855 he began the practice of law at Springfield, Ill.

CULLOM'S GREAT PUBLIC CAREER

In Illinois Senator Cullom has steadily risen from the humble position of a farmer's boy, who at the plow earned his own education to that of a member and Speaker of the lower House of the State Legislature, member of Congress thrice elected, again elected to the Legislature, and again elected Speaker, elected Governor and re-elected to that office-and three times elected United States Senator from his state; he now holds a conspicuous position as one of the foremost men in America.

Advancing steadily without serious protest from any source, he has stood and now stands before the people a poor man in worldly goods, but rich in the confidence and good opinions of his fellowcitizens. Transferred from one high position to another through a life-time of strenuous public labor and acceptable service, maintaining all his friendships, his high unsullied character, his ideals his purity of devotion to the public good, and coping all the while with the vicissitudes of shifting politics, he certainly has possessed and displayed a high order of judgment, temperament, humanity, force and power of leadership, which, combined with wide and profound knowledge pertaining to the history, wants and interests of the country, place him in the first order of statesmen. That statesmanship is exemplified by the things he has done.

Henry Moore Teller

Senator from Colorado-Champion of Free Silver Coinage.

HENRY MOORE TELLER is of Dutch descent and was born at Granger, Allegheny County, N. Y., May 23, 1830. He received a good academic education, and while in attendance at the academy taught school at intervals in order to help to pay the expenses of his education

Having completed his course at the academy, he took up the study of law under the instruction of Judge Martin Grover, and was admitted to the bar January 5, 1858, at Binghampton in his native state. Like many other young men Mr. Teller formed the idea that the West offered a wider field for success. In April, 1861, he emigrated to Colorado, which is still his home. In that territory he found a congenial field for his ability and energy, not only in law, but in business enterprises.

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Although originally a Democrat, Mr. Teller joined the Republican party in 1855, when it was in its infancy. He became a power in politics, commanding the respect and confidence of all classes. He never sought office, and did not seem to care for political honors, but in 1876, upon the admission of Colorado as a state, he was elected one of the first United States Senators. re-elected, and served until April, 1882, when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Arthur, serving until March 3, 1885, when he was again elected to the United States Senate to succeed Nathaniel P. Hill, Republican, His present term expires March 3, 1901.

As a representative of the sentiments of Colorado, Senator Teller, it need hardly be said, is a pronounced "silver man,” as he has proved times without number in warm debates and struggles which have taken place during the last few years in Washington. His ability, forceful logic, and commanding courage have given him a national reputation and a popularity which places him at the head of the champions of his financial ideas, and scarcely a great rival in the great West.

In the convention held at St. Louis, in 1896, Senator Teller was on the Committee on Resolutions and presented a minority report in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver with ratio of 16 to I. In a speech of deep emotion he declared the time had come when if the gold standard was adopted, he should be compelled to leave the party with which he had been associated for thirty-five years. Upon the overwhelming defeat of his report he, with many other silver men, withdrew from the convention, and they were known as Silver Republicans.

Ignatius Donnelly

Candidate for Vice-President on Cincinnati Platform
Author, Politician and Congressman

IGNATIUS DONNELLY has been well known for a number of years in the United States, both as a contributor to current literature on social and political problems, and an author of considerable note. He was born in Philadelphia, November 3, 1831, and in 1857 went to Minnesota, where he made his home and became interested in the politics of the state. He was elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1859, and served in Congress for six years-1863 to 1869, being at that time elected as a Republican. Upon the issues of the tariff and money question, he underwent a decided change of view, and early became connected with the Populist Party in the West, and advocated their most radical doctrines. He has several times been prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency and was the strongest candidate of the convention, which met at Cincinnati, May, 1900. He was there nominated to the second place, with Wharton Barker as a candidate for the Presidency.

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Among his literary works he wrote "Atlantis," "Antediluvian World" and Ragnarok." The best known of his works is the "Great Cryptogram," which was prepared in 1888, in which he tried to prove that Francis Bacon was the author of the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare.

Wharton Barker

Populist Candidate for President-A Man of Distinguished Ancestry and an Authority on Economic and Transportation Questions

WHARTON BARKER was born in Philadelphia, May 1, 1846. His Barker Ancestors came from England to Massachusetts in 1638, and settled near Boston. His Wharton ancestors came over about the same time, and settled in Philadelphia. The Barker, Folger, Hazard, Rodman, Wharton, Fisher, and Redwood families-Puritan and Quaker-were connected by marriage before the great struggle of the American revolution. Wharton Barker and Benjamin Franklin were cousins, mothers of both were Folgers. Jacob Barker was born in 1779 and died in 1872. He was a hard worker and influential man during a long and eventful life; an admirer and follower of Jackson and the intimate friend of Madison and Jackson and ardent supporter of Madison in the British war in 1812, taking in 1814 the major part of the ten million loan. He was the first to nominate Jackson for the Presidency, and gave him aggressive support in his war upon the United States Bank.

Wharton Barker was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving degrees of A. B. in 1866 and A. M. in 1869. He is now an active member of the board of trustees of that institution, member of the American Philosophical Society, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He has been active in letters, in business and in politics for more than twenty-five years. He was the proprietor and publisher of the Pennsylvania Monthly from 1870 to 1880 and the American from 1880 to 1890, and since 1895 its editor and publisher. He has traveled much in England, China and Japan and in all these countries had almost intimate relation with prominent men. In 1876 he was charged by the Russian government with building cruisers in America at Cramps. In 1879 and 1880 he directed a survey of the Donetz coal and iron field of

Southern Russia and made a comprehensive plan of railroad building for the development of that country. In 1879 the Emperor Alexander II, in consideration of this work conferred upon him theorder of St. Stanislaus, a distinction seldom given a foreigner. His Russian associations are still intimate. In 1887 he was called to Washington by the Chinese minister to the United States acting under instruction of Li Hung Chang and consulted about railroad building in China, mines, railroad and factory. He sent engineers and agents to China that year, and the Chinese government sent special envoys to America to confer further with him. Upon proclamation of peace between China and Japan, in 1895 Mr. Barker was called to Peking by high Chinese officials.

In 1890 Barker Brothers & Co., of which firm Wharton Barker was junior partner, met disaster through assaults of the money cliques, who disapproved his views upon finance and transportation.

Since 1876 Wharton Barker has taken an active part in politics. In 1880 he organized and led the campaign that resulted in the nomination of Garfield for president. He worked for the nomination of Harrison in 1884, but supported Blaine when nomination of Harrison was impossible. He was successful in 1888 in his effort to nominate Harrison for President. When Harrison allied himself with the railroad and bank cliques, Wharton Barker concluded there was no hope for re-establishment of equity of opportunity through the Republican party. He gave reluctant though earnest support to Bryan in 1896, and joined the People's Party soon after. Whether supporting Republican, Democratic or People's Party, he has always fought for the plain people, a pure democracy and a government by the people. He is now accepted as high authority on all economic and transportation questions. He urges trade expansion on natural lines, and opposes territorial expansion in the Orient. He was the first advocate of free trade among American countries-an American Zollverein-knowing that natural trade runs along the degrees of longtitude; not along degrees of latitude.