Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . orce. He is unalterably loyal to his friends, awise, cool counselor, and under all circumstancesa gentleman. He is happily married. ONE day about the third week in the campaign,a medium-sized, slenderly-built gentleman,with dark moustache and keen eyes, joinedthe combination. He was exceedingly modest, andfor a day or two did not meet all of the combina-tion. As he became better known, the sterlingworth of the man became appreciated. He wassecretary of the Republican County Committeeof Centre County, a close and valuable friend


Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . orce. He is unalterably loyal to his friends, awise, cool counselor, and under all circumstancesa gentleman. He is happily married. ONE day about the third week in the campaign,a medium-sized, slenderly-built gentleman,with dark moustache and keen eyes, joinedthe combination. He was exceedingly modest, andfor a day or two did not meet all of the combina-tion. As he became better known, the sterlingworth of the man became appreciated. He wassecretary of the Republican County Committeeof Centre County, a close and valuable friend otGeneral Hastings, as his frequent conferences andthe confidence which the General reposed in himtestified. Such was Wilmer L. Malin, of Belle-fonte, superintendent of the Central PennsylvaniaTelephone and Supply Company, of Williams-port. Mr. Malin, who is a ChCvSter Countian bybirth, is forty-four years of age, and from 1868to 1883 was manager of Pennsylvania Railroadand Western Union Telegraph offices. For adozen years he has been actively interested in 124. Centre County politics. DuringGeneral Hastings preliminarycontest for the nomination, fouryears ago, Mr. Malin visited tencounties in the State in his be-half. He has been the intimatepolitical friend of General Hast-ings for a dozen years. As apolitical worker, his value isshown in the fact that in the tencounties visited by him in behalf of GeneralHastings all of them gave the General theirdelegates or the delegation was divided with of his excellent judgment, his energy,his warm personal friendship, and his absoluteintegrity, he has been one of General Hastingsmost discreet and valuable friends. Wtlmkr L. Malin. flNOTHER valuable friend, whose advice wasfrequently invoked was Major Levi , the Republican leader of ChesterCounty. lyong years of intimate association withMajor McCauley had proven his value not only toGeneral Hastings, but to man}^ members of hisparty. The Major is a man with a histo


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