Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-17
(, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1892
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.
Benjamin Harrison.

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 has now
eclipsed the grandeur of his ancestry He
will be greater figure in American history
than any Republican president since Lin
coin and Grant, whose great fame was won
in the glazing light of a great war Harr-
son will stand on an imperishable platform
of personal valor i'm war, personal sinceri-
ty and stalwart Republican in politics and
peace, strength and prosperity in govern
ment.
He was born August 20, 1888, at the
home of his grandfather at North Bend, o..
| on the bluff overlooking the Ohio II miles
from Cincinnati. He was poor and attend
ed the old log schOolhOusc in his boyhoOd.
When 16 years of age September, 1850
he became a student at Miami university,
| Oxford, O. He graduated fourth in a
class of rs in June, 1852.
After leaving the university young Har-
rison, then i'm his 18th year. began to study
law in Judge Bellamy Storcr's Office in Gin
cinnati where he remained for two years.
He was already i'm love with Miss Carrie L.
Scott, the daughter of the Rev. j. W.
Scott the principal of the seminary at OK
ford, o., and they were married when IIar-
rison was 80 and Miss Scott Is. As soon
as he was admitted to practice at the bar
he located at indianapolis. He was too
poor to have an office and John ii. Rea,
who was clerk of the United States district
court, offered him a desk, and the young
| attorney won the first case ever extended
to him. The young lawyer and his wife
| kept house in a small one-stOry frame
dwelling
His first political convention was in 1850.
He was nominated by the Republican par
| ty for reporter Of the supreme court, and
elected by majority Of 9GSS. 1t was in
| 1862 that Benjamin Harrison kissed his
| wife and two baby children good-by and
went to the front. He raised a regiment
and was commissioned by Gov Morton to
lead it into action as its colonel. II was at
the battle of ReSaca that Col. Harrison OBJ
tanned an opportunity TO show that he was
a soldier. So great was the vaor he dis
played there that Gen. Hooker rode up to
him on the field and exclaimed: by God !
Ben Harrison, III make you brigadicr
| for this days work. Fighting joe
Hooker kept his word. and Col Harrison
was breyettcd brigadier general shortly aft
err. Ii was here also that he gained the
Noublllltl lIlLlt btlls ny Nul'l Nv l.
| still known to the veterans. Gen. Harri-
son served i'm the field until the war was
ended. He has taken part in every cam
paign of the Republican party since 1850.
Every presidential year has found him on
the stump lending his sterling cloquence
and great popularity to the cause of the
party he believed best calculated to serve
his country's destinies In the campaign
of 1876, al great personal sacrifice. he ac-
cepted the nomination for governor of In
diana, the chief object being To strengthen
his party in the presidential fight. He
lost, but he showed that he was the strong
est and most popular Republican in his
state. He was one of the most earnest adj
vocateS of the election of President Gar
field in 1850, and the following year the leg
islaturc of his state sent him To the United
States Senate. The legislature of his state
having been made Democratic by his gerry
mander he was not reelected, hut his term
had expired only a few months when he
was nominated for the presidency by the
Republican national convention at Chica-
90 in lSSS. His splendid canvass and tri-
umphant election every one remembers.
His browning glory is the splendid admin
iStration he has given the country as its
chief magistrate, an administration which
friend and foe alike admits has never been
surpassed. seldom equalcd in times of
peace in the history of the nation. In the
highest office President Harrison has
shown the fine traits that distinguished
him in boyhood, youth and age--perfecl
sincerity great Independence of character
and the highest sense of duty.