Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-27
COLONEL HOMER 8. sPnAcUE.

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A Former New Haven Man of Note
Senatorshfp-AG glimpse of the Sit |
uation-CoIonel Sprague,s Attitude |
In the Case.
A few words. about Colonel Homer B.
Sprague, former New Haven man, and
his attitude regarding his proposed candi-
dacy for the position of United States SEN
alter, viii interest many people here
Colonel Sprague is Yale graduate, class
of '52, and well known here. he has
very brilliant record. When at Yale he
was distinguished in his class for both
oratory and scholarship. He studied law
at Yale law school, and after admission to
the bar practised for while in Worces
ter, Mass, but the field Of education was
| to him most tempting. He became prin-
cipal of the high school in Worcester,
and later of the Webster school, New Ha-
| ven. Later he was at the head of the
Connecticut Normal school. He served in
the Connecticut legislature, and was one
| Of the leading and ablest men in the gene
raj assembly. Other positions he has
filed ar professor of rhetoric and English
Adelphi school at Brooklyn, N. Y, princi-
pal Of a girls school in Boston, and princi-
pal of Mills college at Berkele, Cal. His
| present position is president of North Da-
kota university. He served, also, in the
war as lieutenant colonel Of the old Thir-
teenth regiment, Connecticut volunteers.
Colonel Sprague has issued the following
card in reference to his proposed entering
the political arena:
AcARD FROM PRESIDENT sPRAaUE.
Several Of my most valued friends, some of
them generally recognized as leaders of Ameri-
can thought, have for years requested me to
take active steps to secure nomination and
q election to the national senate. Prominent
newspapers of the state where have lived,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New York o Cali i
Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, ETC., have spoken
favorably Of me in that connection. My position
sented, beg leave to state my attitude in de-
Ginning to accede to that request
l. OF course ! would like to be senator; but, az
parties and factions are now constituted and
manipulated, the eager pursuit of so sacred and
responsible an Office, by the only methods likely
to secure it, seems presumptive if not conclusive
evidence that the aspirant is not fit for it.
2. # it were rendered to me in honorable fash
ion, without any other pledge than that,I should
faithfully, to the best Of my ability. serve my
state and the nation, should gladly accept
} 8. To get it can engage in no, scramble, no in
trigue, no bargain, no fight; shall neglect nj
present duty, make no speeches, curry no favor
pay no money fling no mud and tell no lies
am not for sale. us, aoME sso 3. SpRAauE.
The Langdon Democrat, the oficia
: county paper in Cavalier county, Nortl
Dakota, comes out for Colonel Sprague il
i | a column and half editorial and com
mends him highly without partisan com
FUNCTIONS The, Democrat goes on t,
pithiIy comment on what it says, is tn
I | fact, that to get seat in the United State
senate man must be millionaire ant
pave his way there with gold eagles
: North Dakota has two such men ther
now, it adds.
IL Disqualification of the paper thel
sums up the candidates in the field for tn
r eminent positions in view and adds. "Bu
. there is one man in the republican rank
whom we can heartily endorse. He is a
honest, intelligent, educated man-and
: | would be well to remember that tn
/ | species of honest, intelligent republica
/ officials has become well-high ez
4 tinct in these degenerate days. He come
: to us recommended by every educations
/ institution in every state in which he ha
r resided. That man is Homer B. Spragut
: president of the University of Mort
: Dakota. Broad gauged in his ideal
s liberal in his views, tolerant in his part
q ldieA, oiuiloaGy QutsAiuco ny I'LL cAtonoo
t course of legal training, of scholarly an
executive ability, he would be fit repr'
' sentative from the North Star state an
himself would be bright and shinin
star among the galaxy of geniuses gail
It cred at the nations capital. In all tt
s attainments attributed to his opp,
r nents he is their superior-exceI
: one. And that is in their pushin
. and scrambling for the office for tt
Doodle they can get out of it. In his car
g published elsewhere he lays down his pla
T form. 1t is declaration of princip1,
It which will commend themselves to Il
minds Of all free American citizens
whatever party, creed or faith. We thin
II North Dakota has brilliant chance
n serve her own interests and at the san
| time teach a lesson to older states by NAL
y ing Homer B. Sprague senator, thu
g showing them that there is one man
least in the United States senate who
controlled by his own judgment and h
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