The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-25
MISS BROWN WAS AMBITIOUS,
That is How Her Father Came to be Nomi
mated for Governor.

That is How Her Father Came to be Nomi.
mated for Governor.
A pretty story goes with the nomination
of John Young Brown to be the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Kentucky in the
coming campaign. The nomination was
made last week, and according to a Ken
lucky man who was at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, says the New York Times, the begin
ming Of the boom for MIR. Brown was made
by his daughter, a pretty girl of eighteen or
twenty years. This ia the story: Mr..
Brown vas in politics in his earlier life and
ably represented a district of the Blue Grass
State in Congress. After serving with
credit he declined to accept another nomi-
nation, and settled dow in the practice of
law.
HE said at the time that he was done
with politics, for he could not afford to do
vote the best years of his life to office hold
ING. For years he kept to his determine
ton and, though personally popular all
over his state, and standing high in the
councils of his party, he would neither ask
nor accept any position within the gift of
the people. But he has a daughter who
was 2 little Glrl when he was in congress.
While he has beeE practiclng law she has
been growing to be a woman and has fallen
desperately in lovc with her father.
she IL devoted to him and is very at
t%ractive, with all the spi it md beauty that
go with the traditional Kentucky girl. She
was ambitious, not alone for herself. al
though the social prominence that would
necessarily come to the family of one who
held a high office was to hcr liking, but she
wanted her father to shine amongthe public
men of the state once more. She begged him
to become a candidate either for a slate
office or for congress-, and brought all her
tire persuasive powers to bear upon him in
that direction. She waged an incessaut
campaign. but he put her OIL, joking her
upon her ambitions and declaring at the
same time that he had had his dav i'll poll
tics when she was u little girl and he must
STAY at home now aud practice his pro-
fession.
But she gave him no peace, and each
morning ut breakfast she bewitched him
with her arguments. AT last he said he
could not resist her appeals, but he had not
the time to work up n boom: he would leave
that to her. He told her to outline the mi
tial campaign and start him on the road for
such Office rs to her seemed best. Then no
laughed at her and went to his law office for
the day. Next morning at breakfast the
FAIR campaiener handed him a sheet of
dehcate note piper OH which she had writ
ton u note ready for his signature. IL was
an announcement that the undersigned WIS
willing to aecome n candidate for governor.
lie laughed at her and signed tho document.
He did not know just how s%erious tho
affair WAS getting. but he had promised has
daughter and he kept his word like n true
Kentucky man. Tint dav the young LADY
took the note to Louisville and with 1t went
to the editorial rooms of the Courier-Jour-
nal and to MIR. Watterson's own office. She
showed him the note and explained that
her father had promised to he II candidate.
partially because she had asked il.
Tile letter bearing his signature was doe
umcntary evidence. Editor Wattorson was