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A Governor's Tribute In Appreciation Of The Life And Works Of Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Moffett Ralston
Roosevelt memorial association of Indiana, 1919
A Governor's Tribute: In Appreciation Of The Life And Works Of Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
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Samuel Moffett Ralston was Democratic politician, the 28th Governor of and a United States Senator from the U. S. state of Indiana.
Background
Samuel Moffett Ralston, one of eight children of Sarah (Scott) Ralston and John Ralston, was born on December 1, 1857 on a farm near New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. A Scotch paternal great-grandfather, Andrew R. Ralston, fought in the American Revolution. His son, David Ralston, moved westward to Ohio and engaged in farming. The third American Ralston, John, father of Samuel, sold his ancestral acres in Ohio, moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he purchased a four-hundred-acre stock farm, lost the property in the panic of 1873, and thereafter mined coal. On the maternal side, Ralston descended from Alexander Scott, an eighteenth-century Irish immigrant.
Education
Endowed with extraordinary vitality and ambition young Ralston farmed, mined, assisted a butcher, and helped support his parents and in addition managed to complete common school, attend Valparaiso Normal School, and finally at the age of twenty-six receive a diploma from the Central Indiana Normal School. He later collected a varied library and spent much time in general reading.
Career
After seven years of teaching he decided to practise law. Poverty limited his preparation to a single year's reading in a law office. After admission to the bar in 1886 he entered practice in Lebanon, Indiana, where for more than a quarter of a century he became increasingly prominent as a vigorous member of the bar, a Presbyterian, and a Democrat.
In 1888 Ralston was defeated for the state Senate and in 1896 and 1898 he was unsuccessful Democratic nominee for secretary of state. In 1908 he sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Indiana but, after a convention deadlock, withdrew and supported Thomas R. Marshall who received the nomination and election. Upon the nomination of Marshall as vice-president in 1912 the Democrats nominated Ralston for governor by acclamation and elected him by the largest plurality ever given a governor of Indiana up to that time.
As governor from 1913 to 1917 he labored quite effectively for economical government, the regulation of lobbying, good roads, conservation, adequate state institutions, banking, labor, and utilities legislation, and greater centralization. He resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis in 1917.
In 1922 he easily won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate and defeated Albert J. Beveridge by approximately thirty thousand votes. A Democratic senator during a Republican administration, handicapped by illness, and with committee assignments of only fair importance, he spoke at length only once in the Senate - on federal taxation. He exerted himself, however, for farm relief, a soldiers' bonus, tax reduction, and the printing of territorial papers in the national archives, and against the cession of the Isle of Pines to Cuba.
When the Democratic national convention in 1924 gave him 1961/2 votes for president on the ninety-third ballot, Thomas Taggart, who had left no stone unturned in an attempt to make him the nominee, telegraphed Ralston that he would be nominated. To the keen disappointment of Taggart, Ralston replied with a telegram ordering his name withdrawn.
Achievements
He was responsible for implementing many progressive era reforms in the state and putting down a violent riot in Indianapolis. He gained the support of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Catholic political positions, and with their support was elected to the United States Senate in 1922.
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Personality
More than six feet in height and approximately three hundred pounds in weight, Ralston was thought to resemble Presidents Cleveland and Taft. He was an earnest, modest man, conservative yet courageous, who regarded public office seriously and made few enemies.
Connections
On December 26, 1881, he married Mary Josephine Backous. She died within a year, and on December 30, 1889, he was married to Jennie Craven, the mother of his two sons and one daughter.