The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-08
ROMANCE OF A SENATOR.
THE STORY OF LELAND STAN
FORD'S PRIVATE CAREER.

FoRD'S PRIVATE CAREER.
Cording Wood-Burned Out at Scaw.
Boss of Mining Camp-Map Gov
ernor - University Founder - His
Great Vineyard and What He Eas
Done for the Wine Growing Indus
tries.
From the Netc York World.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O-''To habits of
bodily toll and the example of my father
and his whole family l place whatever
credit attaches TO my life" said Leland
Stanford to the writer on Sunday, Jan Is.
"How many were in your family, gov
ernorT"
''Seven brothers, six Of whom preceded
me to California. and was the last TO go
there in 1852 Our sister died early; our
only sister. 1t was a man family. Still
can hear my fathers voice say out: Tm of
for the woods. boys; all that are ready come
alougr and we followed as we could. There
was one fellow who gave me good deal of
trouble by his steady method. de would
drive the team right up TO the wood pile,
never lift his eyes off the box or seat. and
get at the end Of that wood pile and begin.
When he lifted his eyes the last stick of
wood would be in the wagon. AT Is /
couldn't keep up with him. My back and
shoulders would give out. At II he couldn't
keep up to me. The example Of that man,
the pride it was to overtake him, have been
my humble standards of endeavor."
what was the necessity, governor, of
loading so much woodF
Father contracted to sell IL TO the steam
boats at Albany before the Delaware and
Hudson canal brought out coal to the river
as a substitute. Eight dollars and half
per cord was the price for yellow pitch
pine. Father had large tract of il, 200
to 800 acres l think. We had 800 cords
cut and corded when the competition of
coal brought it down to S4-a loss of nearly
$500 to our family. So disappointments
have never made me despond.'
IN THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE.
The speaker was sitting bathed in the
afternoon sunlight which streamed in his
Office window across Farragut square The
white house was visible through the deep
embrasured bays, K street showed its stately
line of new dwellings, the statue Of Farragut
was among the trees and blooms. and the
sunlight disclosed above the middle door
Bonnet's small portrait Of Stanford, and
upon the Sidewalk the pale, intellectual, pre-
cociously good and fated boy whose atlix
of 'junior" will be almost everlasting in
the university of his name that is to be
opened next October. Seeing my eyes rest
upon that lads face, who died at IS, the
father said in his slow, measured yet affable
voice:
81 think he took that fever in Constanti-
nople. 1t developed into the typhoid in
Rome. We hurried him. to Florence for
better air there, but it was too late.n
The fathers birth was ia 1924 the sons
In 1883 Everything came slowly to Stan
ford, and a farmer-hke gravity in which is
kindness. like the juice in winter apple,
marks his settled years. He married at 26
tine daughter of Dyer Lathrop, an Albany
merchant. They were eighteen years wait
ing for the marvellous boy. the sleepless
soul that persisted in his pride" He stayed
till 1874 and ended the line. His father and
mother were both large, long-lived people
TO look upon. The death of Leland had
nearly been fatal to them both until
the idea that lit was not all of life to
live nor all Of death to die" occurred to tine
father. He firmly believes that he heard
his unburied sons voice say, though in a
dream: Father, don't say you have moth
ing to live for. You have a great deal to
live for.n In that dream the university of
the sons name was born. 1t is perfectly
unique among universities. suggesting that
first one of all in Moorish Spain, 10 which
the Franks and Goths went for the earliest
common-sense and secular knowledge. A
great mission, as it seems, with Moorish
courts and gates, and the burial chapel of
the son central 20 all The wide foundation
teaches that caliphs and caliphates the ar
chitects, the very race may die. but the
things of beauty they created are joyous
forever.
PATRIOTISM AND PIETY.
The governors two points of creed are
the declaration of independence, and equal
ity and the doctrine of the souls immor-
tally. His political economy is that the
earth is full of riches and knowledge and
diligence are the keys thereto He thinks
that education ought to be the cheapest
thing to be sold, and that extravaganza and
snobbery are poor beginnings for an Ameri-
can career and if postponed will never be
required later in life.
No demagoguery, however, is in his mer-
chants assortment He believes in the re-
finements of the home, in regard for the
arts, and would have old Benvenuto Cellini
to make him saltcellars if he were here and
original still. The eminent men of tue
country and their well-meaning sons he
likes; Gen. Grant and Fred Grant, President
Harrison and the Presidents daug hter, and
his entertainments are beyond the influence
of Mrs. Grundy or Seckless Skeggs.
Silence under attack, patience as the best
salve, neither retaliation nor recrimination,
and manliness have re-made him United
States senator almost by reclamation, while
his first election was in the nature of sur
prise party.
81 am pretty good ;" said the senator. al
the age of 66, "above the hips
Below the hips the rheumatism has got me
some. However, manage to get three
quarters of an hours exercise before break
fast, and last year l got off twenty-on,
pounds of flesh, to the great relief of my
heart and vital organs.n
Mr. Stanford is well-dressed man, anC
his broad and solid port gave him the air o.
natural, almost of hereditary ru Q. Dress
ing in a black cloth coat, his complexion
reddish, with weather marks in it, his hal
hardly turned, and thick and of brown
tint, his beard gray and brownish black
few men IN this country make more the i'm
preston of weight, mental and physica
power and something between parental an,
legal authority. | could understand wha
he said and the probability of its truth whe
he remarked:
Back somewhere, a good while ago, b.
fore we were Americans, there was a Spar
ish cross IN our stock"
HE HAS TEMPER.
The tone, the slowness, the judicial re
solve of Stanford suggest the word "Wa ash
ingtonn TO many people. With all b
quality of power, the genuine humility
those who rightfully rule is honestly visibl
in his demeanor. He will be interrupte
and ne will listen as long as his visitor
impatient. Then resuming, his hands folk
his mind ar1umentatiyely speaks his Drt