The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
venomous and UntruthfuI Charge that
Was Probably Inspired by His
PopuIist Opponent.
BASE ISLANDER EXPOSED
C.. L. HENRY DEFENDED BY SUMMIT
VILE LASS WORKERS.
Republican Meetings Throughout In
diana Well A~ttended-The Hon..
Jesse Overstreet's Campaign.
Special to the Indianapols journal.

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KOKOMO, Ind. Oct. 29.-Up to last week
the congressional race in this district be-
tween Frank Hanly. Republican. and Alonzo
G. Burkhardt, the Populocratic nominee.
was conducted on a high plane and without
personal defamation. and it was hoped that
decency would be observed TO the end of
the campaign. Such is not the case. The
lates. issue Of the Populist organ published
one Of the most brutal, venomous, outrage
ously false charges against Mr.. Hanly that
could be concocted. The sheet, the Union
Dispatch, is printed at Upton, the home
Of Burkhardt, and he probably inspired
the base calumny. The sheet makes the
accusation that Mr.. Hanly permitted his
aged and stricken parents to starve and die
in a public almshodse, and that he refused
and still refuses to reimburse friends and
neighbors for the funeral expenses. This
outrageous SANDER is being peddled all over
the district in the hope Of injuring Mr..
Hanly with the people A more malicious
calumny could not be conceived, and there
Is no possible basis or excuse for the viii
famous attack.
Prior to the congressional convention in
this city, June 6. when Mr.. Hanly was
named as the standard bearer, your corre-
spondent was at much pains to obtain the
record of Mr.. HanIy's past life, obtaining
the Information from the neighborhood
where he had lived, and from sources per-
fectly reliable. 1t Is a record Of which
Hanly may well be proud and his early ca
reer is one that boys of his age, strug-
Cling against poverty and the discouraging
environments, as he was, should emulate.
There is a lesson in il that young men
should profit by. Here is the story of his
life in brief:
April 4, 1859, j. Frank Hanly was born in
a small, rude log cabin in Champaign coun-
~, Illinois, ten miles from the little town
OF sydney. The family had a small clear
ing" in a sparsely settled section and was
wretchedly poor. The father was a victim
OF consumption, unable to work, and the
mother was blind, losing her sight when
Frank was eleven years old. They had no
neighborS and no one to look TO for as
sistance. and from that trying hour Frank
heart ne accepted the charge and went
forth to battle with the world, and for a
boy eleven years of age his struggle was
a heroic one in behalf of his helpless
parents and smaller children He sawed
wood. chopped In the timber, did Chores
and whatever else his boy hands could find
10 do to keep the wolf from the door. The
everlasting struggle for bread and butter
prevented him from obtaining an education
saw the inside of a schoolhouse door. When
six years old he learned 10 read from a
history OF the rebellion some one had given
the family, and the reading of this book
fired his patriotic young heart and created
In him a desire to some day take part in
the affairs of government. This ambition
was laid aside for the more laudable pur-
pose OF supporting the stricken father and
mother. and he accepted the charge cheer
fully. When thirteen years old Frank
walked ten miles barefooted and scantily
clad to hear his first Fourth of July speech,
that being in 1876, when Hon. VIII Cum
back, of Indiana, spoke at Champaign, Ill.
The patriotic words sank deep into the lads
heart. making him more than ever ambi-
tious to attain an education and gain for
himself a name and fame in the world.
But he continued to struggle, permitting
nothing TO stand in the way of his filial
duty, discouraging as the situation was.
From that time up to the death of the
parents young Hanly devoted all his ener-
gies to their maintenance. In that time
he went to school but six weeks. He sawed
wood, ditched, worked as a farm hand and
during the latter years. after a short course
in the Bloomington Academy, taught school
in winter. He was never idle a day. His
father died in 1884, his mother in 1891, and
not until they were lovingly laid away in
the silent tomb did he cease his efforts in
Warren county from Illinois, Frank walk
This is the true story Of the early life
of j. Frank Hanly. who but six years ago
worked in the ditch side by sidS with his
fellow-laborers and is not ashamed OF Ii,
TO support his aged and helpless father and
mother, whom a slanderer would have the
public believe he suffered to starve and die
In the p0Orhouse. A more heartless, dia-
bolical calumny was never uttered by a
human being.