The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-22
A PRETTY POLITICIAN.
JOHN YOUNG BROWN NOMINATED
BY his DAUGHTER.

JOHN YOUNG BROWN NOMINATED
BY his DAUGHTER.
In Love With Her Popular Father.
Gaining HIS Consent and Capturing
an Editor-A Boom Ratified by the
Convention.
From the st. Louis Republic.
NEW York, May 1s.-A pretty story gees
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 ac-
cording to Kentucky man who was at the
the boom for Mr.. Brown was made by his
daughter, pretty girl Of Is or 20 years.
This is the story:
"Mr. Brown was 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 a renom-
nation and settled down to the practice of
law. -
HE said at the time that he was done
with politics, for he could not afford to
devote the best years of his life to Office
holding. For years he kept to his determi-
nation, and, though personally popular all
over his state and standing high in the
councils Of his party, he would neither ask
nor accept any place within the gift Of the
people. But he has a daugter, who was a
little girl when he was in congress. and
while lie has been practcing law she has
been growing to be woman and has fallen
desperately in love with her father.
''She is devoted to him and is very at
tractivc, with ali the spirit and beauty of
the traditional Kentucky girl. She was
ambitious, not alone for herself, although
the social prominence that would neces-
sarily come to the family Of one who held a
high Office was to her liking, but she wanted
her father to shine among the public men
of the state once more. She begged him to
become candidate either for state office
or for congress. and brought all her fine
persuasive powers to bear upon him in that
direction. She waged an incessant cam
paign, but he put her off, joking her upon
her ambitions and declaring at the same
time that he had had his day in politics
when she was little girl, and that he must
stay at home now and practice his profess
sion.
but she gave him no peace, and each
morning at 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 boom; he would
leave that to her. He told her to outline
the initial campaign and start him on the
road for any Office as to her seemed best.
Then he laughed at her and went to his la W
office for the day. Next morning at break
fast the fair campaigner handed him sheet
OF delicate note paper, on which she had
written note ready for his signature. 1t
was an announcement that the undersigned
was willing to become a candidate for
governor. He laughed at her and signed
her document.
He did not know just how serious the
affair was getting, but he had promised his
daughter and he kept his word like a true
Kentucky man. That day the young lady
took the note to Louisville and with it
went to the editorial rooms of the Courier
Journal and to Mr.. Watterson's own office
She showed him the note and explained
that her father had promised to be a candi
date, partially because she had asked 1t.
1.-The letter bearing his signature was
documentary evidence. Editor Watterson
was charmed. He was the personal and
political friend of MIR. Brown, and if any
thing had been wanting to insure his sup
port of his candidacy the young lady capt
ured him. The romance of the whole affair
pleased him. If John Young Brown says
he will be a candidate aud you are his
daughter, he will get the support of my
payer said the editor, and the young lady
"OAAO away AdEOJs
"She went home the next morning and
told her father that she had his campaign
we'll started, and insisted. with laughing
eyes, that be must not recede bit from the
pledge he had made. She wanted him to
be one of the men whom all Kentuckians
honor. and to be in a position such as she
knew he deserved She did not tell him
just how she had started his boom, but said
il was in good condition, and she would see
that it was brought out in proper time.
"Kentuckians say that the backing of
Watterson and his paper for any man for
state office before the convention is as good
as the nomination, and the nomination by a
democratic convention is as good as an
election in that state. The pretty politician
knew this, apparently, for she told her
father with serious look that she had him
already nominanated. few DAYS later.
when Mr.. Watterson in an editorial an.
nounced that John Young Brown had con-
sented to be a candidate for governor, and
that his nomination would be a wise one.
all Kentucky democrats took it as an Off
cial declaration. Mr.. Watterson kept his
promise and supported Mr.. Brown.
There is no evidence that the latter
showed any disposition to withdraw from
his position. At any rate he did not do SO.
He accepted the situation. His daughter
was as happy as the day is long and trusted
to the natural course of events and her
fathers popularity to bring him his nomi-
nation. The democrats of the convention
did their part of the story and secured a
good candidate for governor and probably
made one young lady happier than she ever
was in her life before when they nominated
John Young Brown last Friday afternoon. y