NINETEENTH DISTRICT.

Ashtabula, Geauga, Portage, Summit and Trumbull,

CHARLES DICK, Republican, of Akron, was born at Akron, November 3, 1858; educated in Public Schools; was store clerk, bank book-keeper and teller; later, grain commission merchant; in 1894 was admitted to Ohio bar; served two terms as Auditor, Summit County; was long Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, being subsequently elected Brigadier-General and now serving as Major-General; was several years member and three times Chairman Republican County Committee, Summit County, Ohio; Secretary Republican National Committee from March, 1897-July, 1900; served as Chairman of the Ohio State Executive Committee in campaigns of 1892, '93, '94. '99 and 1900; in campaign of 1896 served as Secretary at Chicago headquarters of Republican National Committee; was closely associated with Senator Hanna in preliminary canvass for McKinley's nomination and subsequent general campaign. He was engaged in active service with his regiment during the Spanish-American War, and returning from Cuba, upon the death of Hon. S. A. Northway in 1898, he was elected to Congress from the Nineteenth Ohio District, for the short and long terms; in 1900 was reelected for the term 1901-1903. Address, Akron, Ohio.

TWENTIETH DISTRICT.

Counties Lake, Medina, and the townships of Bedford, Breckville, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Dover, East Cleveland, Euclid, Independence, Mayfield, Newburg, Olmstead, Orange, Parma, Rockport, Royalton, Solon, Strongsville, and Warrensville, of Cuyahoga County, and. the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Wards of the city of Cleveland.

JACOB A. BEIDLER, Republican, of Willoughby, born in Chester County, Pa., November 2, 1852; was the son of Israel Beidler, a Mennonite minister; was educated in the country schools of that vicinity, and attended Locke's Seminary at Norristown, Pa., for four years, after which time he moved to Ohio and started in the coal business and is still engaged as coal operator; was married to Hannah M. Rhoades, of Phoenixville, Pa., September 14, 1876; nominated for Congressman on the Republican ticket of the Twentieth District of Ohio on May 10, 1900. The vote received by each nominee was as follows: Jacob A. Beidler, Republican, 22,776; H. B. Harrington, Democrat, 22,087; John C. Hardenbergh, Union Reform, 164; John Kircher, Socialistic Labor, 344; Thomas H. Madden, Socialistic Democrat, 405; William B. Gould, Independent Republican, 38; Fremont O. Phillips, Independent Republican, 3973; giving a plurality of 689.