The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-22
A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRISON.
Bill Nye Writes san4inte-Tictory Account OF
the Next President.
TFrom Golfers Once a Week. |


The candidate Of the Republican par
ty for President this year is Benjamin
Harrison, of Indiana. He is real good
man, and just as soon as be was nomi
mated at Chicago, the leaders of the
Democratic party said that nothing
would please them better than a pure
intellectual parior campaign. He has
risen to be quite prominent man with
out being very well known. He is
self-made man, but has done the most
of it on the sly. Nobody ever got to be
a general in the army or an United
States Senator with SO little job print
ing and colored poster work.
He has a long line Of ancestry ex-
tending back as far as the eye can
reach. Benjamin Harrison, who signed
the Declaration Of Independence, was
born at Berkeley, Charles County, Vir-
ginia, in the year l740, between the
Eel River Road and early candle light.
He was educated at William and Mary
College, and at the age of twenty-four
took prominent part in politics, hay
ing been at that time elected Speaker
Of the House Of Burgesses. Being a
burgess in Virginia in those days was
not very good job. 4 burgess could
only do so very little while each year,
and was only paid for the burgessing
which he actually did. Beside all this,
he had to board himself and get to and
from the meeting place the best way he
could. Sometimes burgess would be
a little late, and the Speaker would
call him.up to give account of himself.
Then he would frequently say that he
started in time for the morning session,
but had to stop in the outskirts of town
to pull the arrows out of himself.
Benjamin Harrison was also men,
Der of the general Congress from l7774 to
III, and liked it firstrate. He was al
ways a very quiet man, and SO are all
the boys. He signed the Declaration
of Independence, first looking on the
other side to see that there was no
promissory note there; and in April,
1871, he died, having, on the ninth of
February, 1773, become the father Of
William Henry Harrison. This oc-
Cured at Berkeley, Charles County,
Virginia.
William Henry Harrison was born
at the residence of his father, Governor
Harrison, of Virginia, referred to above.
He preferred to do so, rather than to
run away from home and be born,
coming home and asking his parents
forgiveness afterward.
That was always the way with the
Harrisons. They did not conceal any
thing whatever from their parents.
William Henry Harrison said afterward
that being born was really nothing to
be ashamed of, and he would just as
soon that his parents knew about it
first as last. Then, if they saw any
thing about his course which deserved
criticism, they could mention it at the
time.
Mr.. Harrison was fortunate enough
to have nine counties named after him,
some seventy towns and villages; and
temperance beverage in Kansas,
which pulls off the petticoats of a
mans stomach, and leaves his digester
looking like storm-swept ballet, is
called the Harrison Still Alarm. Any
body can get it, but it takes a good man
to get over it.
There is also a patent medicine
named after him which will take a
discarded liver, that is all freyed
around the edges, and make it look
almost like new liver. 1t is within
the reach of all. 1t is big thing. Some
of the newspapers indorse it in the
highest terms, and at the highest rates.
William Henry Harrison only drew
pay as President for one month. He
then died. He studied medicine in the
first place, and was familiar with the
whole cornucopia, as well as the prac-
tice of medicine. Physic to him was
perfectly familiar. He has run his
eye along the fur-trimmed tongues of
some of the very best families Of Eir-
@inia.
In l791 he became an ensign in the
army and in 1892 he was lieutenant
on Wayne's staff: In the year l795 he
became captain, and also commanded
the post which is now Cincinnati. Af-
terward he was secretary Of the north
west territory, and the governor of the
territory Of Indiana, also superinten-
dent of Indian affairs. His favorite
methods Of giving the Indian every
possible opportunity for studying the
character and attributes Of the Great
Spirit, was to forward his soul, such as
it was, to more thoroughly spiritual
surroundings. 1t worked well.
He gained the battle of TippecGnoe
in 1911. Battle Grand is the name OF
the town which occupies the site of the
conflict. 1t was on the 7th of Novem-
Der that General Harrison met the In
dian troops of the Department Of the
Wabash, under Prophet, brother Of
Tecumseh, General Harrison first
noticed a movement on the part Of the
sth corps, under Skimnygillions Pete,
to turn his left and knock the tar out
of his wagon trains, by a circuitous
movement around a tree. Hastily
calling to his side an aid-de-kong,
General Harrison wrote out red mes
sage to Colonel Peek-a-boo Arlington,
! who had asked to harass the Cherokee
T., ,,f,,,+r1- from, ba raor rouI1eStinu him