San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-25

BENJAMIN Harrison is the great great
grandson of a signer of the Declara'
ton of ndedendence and grandson
of William Henry Harrison. the
ninth President of the United States,
but his own career has now slipsed
the grandeur of his ancestry. He
will be 9 greater figure in American
history than any Republican Presi-
dent since Lincoln and Grant, whose
great fame was won in the glaring
light of q great war. Harrison will
stand on an imperishable platform OF
personal valor in war, personal SINGER
ity, simplicity and stalwart Republi.
can In politics and peace, strength
and prosperity in governments.
He was born August 20, 1888, at
the home OF his grandfather at North
Bend, Ohio, on the bluff overlooking
the Ohio, fifteen miles from Cinclnna.
ii. He was poor and attended the
old log schoolhouse in his boy hood.
When sixteen years OF age, (Septem-
| O6I, lOSUJ Ito UOC6nO q StuN0bt 90
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He
graduated fourth In class OF sixteen
in June 1852
MARRIED AT 49,
After leaving the university young
Harrison, then in bis 18th year, be-
gan to study law in Judge Bellamy
Storer's Office in Cincinnati where he
remained for two years. He was al.
/ ready in love with Miss Carrie l..
Scott, the daughter o. the Rev. J. w.
| Scott, the principal of The seminary
| at Oxford, Ohio, and they were mar
ried when Harrison was 10 and Miss
Scott Is.
The parsonage to whom Genera
Wallace introduces us in his descrip
ton of Harrison's make upn at the
time his biographer first met him il
q STRIPPING lawyer, married, though
barely out of his teens, who had hung
out his shingle in indianapolis anc
was ready tor clients. General Wal
lace says:
"He was small in stature, of slender
physique and what might he calico
O Dion Q His eyes were gray, tingeC
with bIue, his nair lig mt, reminding
one of what in ancient days along
the Wabash was more truly thar
POLITICALLY described rs stow head.
He was plainly dressed, and in thai
respect gave tokens of indifference t.
the canons O! fashion. He was mod
est in manner, even diffident; but hs
had a pleasant voice and look, and
did not lack for words to express
himself. At first one wondered tina,
q young man apparently so lacking
| in assertion should presume to en-
trust himself SO far from home. Bnt
lit was noticed that everything he
undertook to do ne did with remark
able sincerity and ability, and he
was soon winning suits at,the bar
| I believe IL WAS one of his early pc
culiarities not to cake case he didn't
believe in"
TOO POOR TO HAVE AN OFFICE.
AS soon as he was admitted tC
practice at the bar he located at In
dianspolis. He was too poor to have
an office, and John Fl. Rea, who wal
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 8
email one-story frame dwelling, and
when business was over he wen'
home and sawed the wood for the
cooking stove.
HIS FIRST OFFICE.
His first political convention was IL
1860. He was nominated by the
Republican party for reporter OF the
supreme Court. and elected by ma
ljority of 9,6SS. 1t was during this
canvass that young Harrison first
demonstrated his power as a ready
speaker. Thomas A. Hendricks, the
great Indiana leader, was the Demo
cratic candidate tor Governor. Harri'
son, many years his junior had taken
the stump for the Republican party.
Mr., Hendricks and Daniel w. Voor-
bees were announced to speak atRock.
Vile the same night Harrison was
announced. The Democrats hectered
the Rspu blicans to have their young
man with Hendricks and Voorhees,
in Joint debate. They declared the
Repu blicans were afraid to accept the
challenge.
Harrison met ID with this remark;
I"Hendricks is the head of the Demo
cratic ticket while / am the
tail of the Republican ticket. He is
an experienced public debater, while
I am on my first trip. But If we CAM
get along without showing the white
feather lust tell them we will consent
TO a ioiat meeting" The audience
seemed to pity Harrison when they
saw what kind of o job he had tack
led, He spoke after Hednricks., DE
at opcs launched into the record Of