St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-12

wherever kDOWn-a man who at seven
teen, when a mere boy, enlisted and
fought as private in the cause of his
country. After three years in the army
he found himself obliged to commence
a struggle with the world, and this he
commenced as common laborer on the
farm, and later on the railroads that
were being built in Northern Mime
sofa.
he was an ambitious, hard working
ana bright young man. and he rapidly
advanced in the estimation of his en-
ployers. and when he retired from rail
road building he was at the head of the
business in that locality. He studied
law during his odd moments and few
years ago was admitted to the bar, where
he has been signally successful.
Under these circumstances it is not at
all surprising that he has been assailed
by the Republicans; he stands too close
TO the common people to please them,
Henry Ii. Hawkins, the Democratic
nominee for lieutenant governor of
Minnesota, was born at Smithport Pa,
on the 3Oth day Of January, 1916. At
the age of nine years he moved to
Spring Lake, in Scott county, Mimi,
and has ever since been a resident of
this state. His father, the Hon. l.. r.
Hawkins. was a lifelong Democrat, cast
ing his first vote for Andrew jackson
for president. He was man of raie
intelligence and ability, ripe scholar
and thorough master Of the science of
political economy. From this sconrce
the subject of this sketch derived his
political principles, to which he has al
ways adhered. At the age of seventeen
years MIR. Hawkins enlisted i'll the Sec
On6 Of
Dec. 80, 1868, and was discharged there
from in May, 1866, taking part with his
regiment in the campaign against the
hostile Sioux Indians throughout Min
neSota and Dakota. From 1866 to 1878
Mr.. Hawkins was engaged in the con-
struction of railroads in Northern Min
nesota, Dakota and Wisconsin, and
filed various positions in that work,
laborer, foreman, contractor and mem
Der of the engineer corps.
AT the general election of 1883 he was
elected county auditor of Carlton coun-
ty, i'll which county he has since contln-
every county Office in the gift of the
people-having been county attorney
for five years, county auditor for six
years, county uperintendent of schools
for one term, register of deeds and dep
uty clerk of the district court for six
years, and county treasurer for one
term. Mr.. Hawkins has also held other
minor official positions, viz: Town
clerk, assessor, justice of the peace,
clerk and treasurer of school district,
president of the council of the village
of Thompson, and chairman of the
board of supervisors. In 1888 he was
heDemocratic candidate for the legis-
lature against Col. G. FL. Graves, of Du-
luth; and in 1890 he was Democratic
and Alliance candidate for state senator
against Capt. w. p. Allen, vice presi-
dent of the G. n. Nelson Lumber COM
pany, and. though defeated, he reduced
the large Republican majority of the six
counties comprising the Fifty-third
senatorial district to 173.
Mr.. Hawkins began the study of law
in 1879, and was admitted to practice in
1885, having completed his studies alone
and unaided, and while attending to his
duties of county officer. thus being in
the full sense of the word a self-made
man, having no advantages of any
kind of school education after he was
twelve years Of age. He was reared On
a farm, and took part in the hard
manual labor in clearing up one of the
pioneer farms of Scott county, and from
MS early experience has become thor
oughly imbued with thu grand principle
that the man who performs the labor,
and through such labor produces the
wealth of the country, has rights as well
as the manufacturer aud capitalist. At
the beginning of his profession as
lawyer, he espoused the cause of the
laborer and producing classes, to whose
interest he mas steadily adhered, and is
known throughout Northern Mime
sofa as the "Workingman'S friend"
which appellation he has justly earned
by his efforts in their behalf, and bears
with honest pride