The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-10-08
SUPPLEMENT.
A FITTING TRIBUTE.
THE ST, PAUL GLOBES GRACEFUL
COMPLIMENT TO GOV. CLOUGH.

COMPLIMENT TO GOV. CLOUGH.
The Paper Which. rs the Organ OF
Democracy, Opposed Governor
Clough's Election, Pays That Gen
tlemnn n High and Unusual Com
pliment-A Deserving Tribute to
His Own Personal Excrtions an"
Sterling Merit.
Under te caption Of "a Self-Made
Man in a High Place." the st. Paul
Globe of May II, 1895, paid Il high
and unusual tribute to Il man who has
been elected to a position which he
held at the time the article was pub
lished, in spite of the most stringent
opposition Of the paper publishing the
article 1t was the occasion or the
new management OF the paper assum-
ing control. and in that issue it was at
tempted to show, as much as possible
within the compass of one issue of the
paper, the character Of the state, her
resources and her government. and
much that would be of interest to the
people outside of the state. The arti-
Gle devoted to Gov. Clough took up
more than Il page Of the paper, and
the following is extracted from what
the Globe said at that time, when
there was no campaign on, and when
It, as 4 Democratic paper, felt called
upon to pay Il deserved tribute to the
highest citizen of the state and one
who, as it stated. had won his way up
the rounds of prosperity by his own
personal eXertions. The cuts here
used, with more than a dozen others,
were also used by the Globe on the oc-
caSiOn referred to:
The ambitious school boy or the as
piring farmer lad who feels within
him the promptings of superior IA
ture and repeats, after the immortal
Raleigh. "Fain would climb, yet fear
/ to fall,' need only to look at the life
record of the present governor OF
Minnesota, and he will need no guard
ian Elizabeth to whisper hope to his
futtering ambition. or cheer him to
deeds of greater daring with the his
toric injunction: IF thy heart fail
thee, climb not at ALL
American history fairly brstles with
records that start in the furrow. at
the bench. on the tow-path or behind
the counter, and end on the bench, at
the bar. or high in the scale of social.
political and commercial life.
Though but Il boy when he left his
native State of New Hampshire, he
seems to have inherited many of those
characteristics peculiar to the canny
own-Easter, and yet possessed Of a
warm heart and a genial disposition,
he offered a ready soil for the plant
ing of the germs from which grow the
true Westerner.
1t was in 1865 that Elbridge Elihu
Clough. father Of the present govern
or, migrated from the rocky hills Of
New Hampshire and settled upon the
hospitable soil of WaupGca, Wis. Two
years later, when David was ten years
of age. the elder Cloush moved to
Spencer Brook, Isl nti county, this
state, and there began the work Of
opening up farm. III is was in July,
1857, before Minnesota had been adj
mitted into the union of states. and
the principal business of that locality
was that Of numbering.
The Wayside Arcadia.
The Spencer Brook farm Was at that
time a convenient halfway stopping
place between the primitive logging
camps on upper Rum river and it's
tributaries, the West branch, Brad
bury brook and Mile Laos lake and
the down-river supply points. Being
thus associated so intimately with the
lumber business as boy, it was nat
ural that young Clough should adopt
it as his business when he came to
the point Of choosing an avocation. In
his younger days IL d up to the age of
twenty, he worked during the sum-
mer months on his fathers farm, and
when the first snowf1akes f1ecked the
haystacks and the meadows he, in COM
mon with all the other young men of
the neighborhood shouldered his ''tus-
sick" and hied him to the camp Of the
jolly, but Woodworking, lumbermen,
there to spend six months in the hard
est kind of physical toll that is known
In the realm Of manual labor.
No man knows what actual hard
labor is until he has worked in 4 lun-
Der camp, and the hardest part of it
was the part that David Clough seems
to have voluntarily chosen as his as
signment. To bend ones back under
q peavey" and lift every pound that
the tense muscles will bear is Il strain
upon the physical constitution that
none but a robust frame could endure,
and to say that man who works Oh
a landing or skidway Of logs does this
a thousand times day is to give some
slight idea Of the character of the work.
Then, for thirty or forty days in the
spring of the year, comes a still Sc
verer test of physical strength and en-
durance, still greater draught on the
physical resources Of the working lum.
herman. This is when the annual
"drive" occurs
The drive is to the lumberman what
the roundup" is to the ranchman.
The uninitiated imagine that when the
logs are once in the river and the wa
ter begins to run all the lumberman has
to do is to sit still and wait for his
crop to float down to the mill. Moth
ing could be farther from the fact.
Even with the improved facilities, the
great dams and reservoirs and the new
machinery and appliances of the pres.
ent time, the drive is the worst part OF
the logging season. but in the days
when Dave C]ough was one Of the
'shantee boys it was far worse. In
the first place, the logs are piled up
In huge pyramids in and along the
bank of the river, and the work OF
''breaking the rollways" is both labori'