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The following brief sketch of Hon. Chas. H. Smith, of Jackson. is taken frotn the Jackson Citizen, and we commend the sentiments expressed therein to all our readers : "Kb other candidate on any ticket can compare with Charles H. Smith for the important office of state senator. His qualifications for the office are of the highest degree, his knowledge of public afiairs is broad and thorough, his zeal and energy unlimited and tireless. At the recent republican senatorial convention held in Jackson Mr. Smith was the unanimous choice of the delegates and his popularity is so wide spread that his election is already assured by a majority which will run above 2,000. "Charles H. Smith is a product of Jackson county, born in 1857, one mile north of the village of Leoni, where the early vears of his life we re passed. He resided in Leoni township until the deatli of his father, Fancis B Smith, who was a soldier and was killed in the awful battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864. ".At this time Charles H., when but 7 years old was called to face the problems of life, commencing at the bottom round of the ladder. With the faniily lie removed to Waterloo, tliis county, and assisted as best he could in earning a liying until 1872, wlien he went to Grass Lake and entered the high school where he remained four years. He tauglit school four years in the township of Henrietta and then took up the study of law 111 Jackson, where he has since resided, climbing steadily the ladder of faine. He is now tlie senior member of the well known law firm of Smith & Ware, who enjoy a large practice in all the courts. Mr. Smith was admitted to the bar in 1880. In all the years of early struggle he supported himself and earned money to curry him througli school by hard labor on farms in the county during the summer time, tilling the soil, reaping the harvest, cutting hay on the trackless marshes oi the Portage, and perforining every variety of farm work, thereby learniug in those formative years to syrnpathize intelligently with those who toil and earn a living according to tlie Misaic law. "This early struggle naturally directed Mr. Smith's attention to labor problems, of which he has made a careful study and with which he is thoroughly familiar. He has at present the largest library of books relating to labor and money questions to be found in Jackson county. His views on these questions, reached through profound study, render him a safe represeñtative of the wbole people, and he has the courage to champion bis honest convictions."