Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . from January 27, 1890, whichposition he resigned to accept his seat in the Senate. That is all. No hint of early struggles, nosuggestion of the vicissitudes that marked hisearly manhood and developed his inherent back-wardness into a rugged self-reliance. His fatherwas a real estate operator, and he gave his chil-dren a thorough education. That was WalterLyons legacy. It was the one talent that wasnot laid away in a napkin, as the w^orld to-dayknows. COLONEL WILLIAM A. vSTONE, who standsto-day in the Congress of the L^nited Stat
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . from January 27, 1890, whichposition he resigned to accept his seat in the Senate. That is all. No hint of early struggles, nosuggestion of the vicissitudes that marked hisearly manhood and developed his inherent back-wardness into a rugged self-reliance. His fatherwas a real estate operator, and he gave his chil-dren a thorough education. That was WalterLyons legacy. It was the one talent that wasnot laid away in a napkin, as the w^orld to-dayknows. COLONEL WILLIAM A. vSTONE, who standsto-day in the Congress of the L^nited Statesas the conspicuous champion of a purerAmericanism, was, for over a week, one of thespellbinders of the campaigning party. Big ofbody and brain, he struck sledge-hammer blows 70 with voice and logic. It is characteristic of Wil-ham A. Stone to deal in facts, and to take theshortest cut to conclusions. No attempt at anec-dote, few metaphors or similes, no hyperbole,no anything but the earnest statement of politicaland economic truth seemed to cross his lips. It. Hon. William A. Stone. was his tower of strength ; he reached men in away others could not. The life story of the suc-cess of this man runs about as follows : Born Tioga County, Pa., April [8, 1846. Three otherbrothers, all in the Union Army. Enlisted in Company A,187th Pennsylvania Volunteers, when not quite eighteen 71 years of age, as a private. Promoted to corj^oral, ser-geant, orderly, and second lieutenant. Mustered out atthe close of the war. Attended Wellsborough Academyand Mansfield State Normal School, graduating in June,1868. Taught Wellsborough Academy and studied lawwith Hon. S. F. Wilson and Hon. Jerome B. Niles. Ad-mitted to the bar 1870. Lieutenant Colonel in the Na-tional Guard and District Attorney Tioga County in 1876, and moved to Pittsburg. In 1880 ap-pointed United States District Attorney. In 1886 was re-moved by President Cleveland for pernicious activity inmaking Republican speeche
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