Word: ralstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the pupil did then is not recorded, but the young teacher, whose name was Samuel Moffet Ralston, began to study law. By and by he became a lawyer and pretty soon he entered politics- the old school of politics, the sams school from which the late Thomas R. Marshall was graduated, an evenminded school of men, not given to demagoguery, fierce invective and cheap chicanery. Conservative and thoroughly regular- that was the old school...
...when Marshall was running for Vice President, Ralston tried again and succeeded. It is generally admitted that he made a very able Governor. He helped to bring Indiana's finances up out of a sea of debt in which they had been floundering for years...
...years later came his second chance. He was nominated for Senator, as a Democrat of course. Albert J. Beveridge had just defeated Senator Harry S. New for the Republican nomination. The disgruntlement of the New men helped to weaken Beveridge in the campaign and Ralston...
After that Ralston had few ambitions. He virtually turned down a nomination for President last year, as the deadlock between McAdoo and Smith broke up in the Democratic Convention. He ordered his name withdrawn as votes began to pile...
This is the story of Samuel M. Ralston's rise in politics. His de- parture from it was equally dignified and calm. Since early in September he had been ill with uremic poisoning. He recognized that he had not long to live; so he bade his family and friends good-by last week at his bedside in his Indianapolis home and one morning slipped into unconsciousness. Twenty-two hours later he died...