New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-06
PRESIDENT BEN. HARRISON
DISTINGUISHED CAREER OF THE
REPUBLICAN LEADER,

Success Honesty Won as Lawyer,
Soldier and Statesman--DIsad-
vantages of a Great Name
Overcome by Force OF
Sheer Merit.
Benjamin Harrison is the great great
grandson OF a signer of the Declaration OF
independence and grandson OF William
Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the
United States, but his own career bias now
ecllpsed the grandeur of his ancestry. He
will be a greater figure in America his
tory than any Republican President since
Lincoln and Grant, whose great fame was
won IN the glaring light of a great war.
HARRISON will stand on an imperishable
platform OF personal valor in war, person
al sincerity, simplicity and stalwart Re-
publican IN politics and peace, strength
and prosperity in government
He was born August 20, 1888, at thehome
the bluff overl boxing the Ohio, fifteen miles
rom Cincinnati. He was poor and attend
ed the old log school house in his boy
hood. " hen sixteen years of age (Septem-
per- lS50) be became a student at Miami
University, Oxford Ohio. He graduated
1ourth IN class Of sixteen in June 1852.
MARRIED AT 10.
Alter leaving the university young Har-
rison, then in his eighteenth year, began to
study law in Judge Bellanly Storer's office
IN Cincinnati where he remained for two
years. He was already in love with Miss
Carrie L. Scott the daughter of Rev. ]. w.
Scott, the principal of the seminary at Ok
ford, Ohio, and they were married when
Harrison was 10 and Miss Scott Is.
The parsonage to whom General Wallace
introduces us in his description of Har-
rison's make up at the time his biograph-
married, though barely out of his teens,
who had hung out his single in Indian
apolls and was ready for clients. General
Wallace says:
He was small in stature. oflslender
physique and whaamight be called blond.
hair light reminding one of what in
ancient days along the Wabash was more
truly than POLITICALLY described as a tow
head" He was plainly dressed, ana in
that respect gave tokens of indifference to
the canons OF fashion. He was modest in
manner, even dlffident; but he had
pleasant voice and look, and did not lack.
Tor words to express himself. AT first one
wondered that young man apparently so
lacking in assertion should presume to en-
trust himselfso arfron home. But it was
noticed that everything he undertook to do
he did with remarkable sincerity and abii-
{ lty, and he was soon winning suits at the
& bar. l believe it was one of his early pc
S eullarities not TO take case he didn't be-
lieVe in.n
TOO POOR TO HAVE AN OFFICE.
An soon as he was admitted to practice
atthe bar he located at indianapolis. He
was too poor to have an office, and John III.
Rea, who was clerk ofthe United States
District Court, offered him desk, and the
young attorney won the first case ever ex-
tended to him. The young lawyer and his
wife kept house in small one-story frame
dwelling, and when business was over he
& Went home and sawed the wood for the
! cooking stove.
HIS FIRST OFFICE.
His first political convention was in 1860
He was nominated by the Republican
party for reporter ofthe Supreme Court.
and elected by a majority of9 ,6SS. It was
during this canvass that young Harrison
first demonstrated his power rs a ready
speaker. Thomas A. Hendricks, the great
Indiana leader, was the Democratic candi-
date for Governor. Harrison, many years
his junior had taken the stump for the
Daniel w. Voorhees, were announced to
speak at Rockville the same night Harrison
was announced. The Democrats hectered
the Republicans to have their young man
with Hendricks and VOORHEES, in joint de-
bate. They declared the Republicans were
afraid to accept the challenge.
Harrison met it with this remark:
Hendricks is the head ofthe Democratic
ticketsswhile am the tail of the Republi-
can ticket. He is an experienced public
uSDdtcI Wulle i am lily llrSt IIlp. DuG
If we can't get along without showing the
white feather just tell them we will consent
to Joint meeting" The audience seemed
to pity Harrison when they saw what kind
of job he had tackled. He spoke after
Hendricks. He at once launched into the
record of the Democratic party, and
charged that every Democrat in Indiana
had but few years ago conceded the
truth Of the proposition they now deny"
voorhees, was on his feet in an instant
with denial. Harrison stopped for mo-
zen" he said, 4 should have said every
Democrat, Mr.. VOORHEES,. He was then
Wing"
A shout of applause swept over the
audience and Harrison was the victor in
the nights contest Ifyou chance to meet
Rockville Republican even now who was
there he willrub his hands and break in
to EXPLANATIONS Such drubbing as the
little man did give them! And he was SO
clean about it. No abuse; no black
guarding. | would walk hundred miles
to see it done over"
WAR TINES HOW HE WENT TO THE FRONT
It was in 1862 that Benjamin Harrison
B.. kissed his wife and two baby children
goodby and went to the front. He raised
aregiment and was commissioned by Gov
ernor Morton to lead it into action as its
colonel. rhe interview with Governor
Morton was ashort one.
regiment. walked out of the Executive
Mansion into hat store, bought Military
cap, and gathered his men together with
his characteristic promptness. The regi-
ment was known as the Seventeenth Indi-
ana Volunteers. 1t was at the battle of Re-
SAGA that Colonel Harrison first obtained
an opportunity to show tbatle was u sol
der. So great was the yalor he displayed
there that Gen. Hooker rode up to him on
the field and exclaimed: BY God! Ben
Harrison, I'll make you brigadier for this
days work. Fighting joe Hookerkept
his word, and Colonel Harrison was brevet-
ed brigadier-ge general shortly after. 1t was
here also that he gained the soubriauet
'LittleBen." by which he is still known to
theYeterans.
Mr.. G.. McLain, Appointment Grand Army
man who lost his arm at Resaea while fol- 4
lowing Gen. Harrison's lead, says of him. /
No man was dearer to the boys of the
line than General Harrison, and it rose
from one single element in the mans char
acter, his entire sincerity in his work, his
determination to take the leading part in
whatever he asked his men to do. / shall /