Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-02-27
HETTY IN
POLITICS
Mr.. Green Has Gubernatorial
Aspirations.
IS A SHREWD YWUNG MAN
Will Inherit the Millions Of
His Mother.

Great fame is the store for Hetty Green
She is not altogether unfamiliar tn the pub
lie eyes, as it is, because OF her weakness
fu- millions, lawsuits and shabby clothes
and etc.
Hstty Green ras one other weakness, and
this weakness makes her kin to the rest Of
womankind. Her only son is the weakness
last mentioned. She has a husband and
daughter, but they do not penetrate the ar
mored covering of her affections. She tol-
crates them and that is all. But with he,
son Eddie it is a different matter. If he
asked the old lady to give him ten Of he,
precious millions she would probably do it,
no matter how acutely it would wiring hel
heartstrings. In her confidential moments
she has told her few friends what a cleve,
man her boy Eddie is.
The other day Mrs. Green appeared in a
New York court room with q new feather in
her bonnet, a black silk dress and plush dol.
man. The average WON an would rather
have died outright than wear any of these
clothes, because they were all about ten
years behind the fashion. They were, and
people who were acquainted with Mrs. Green
marveled at her extravaganza.
A G. O. P. BOSS.
Perhaps a reason for it existed in Texas.
Eddie Green is president of the Texas Mid
land Railroad, owned mainly by Mrs. Green.
He makes his headquarters in Dallas, and
has lately been taking an active interest in
politices. He has become q power in the
Republican party of the Lone Star state,
carries the vote Of Kaufman county in his
vest pocket. The straight republican vote
does not amount to much in Eddie Green's
dis. riot, but in these days of unholy alliances
with the populists its value is moi as uncer.
tain as it used to be.
At the recent republican convention of
the Sixth Texas Congressional District, held
in Kaufman for the purpose Of selecting
delegates to the national convention in st.
Louis, there was q clash between two men.
One of them was young Green and the other
was ]. M. Mccormick, of Dallas. 1t ended
in Green and his friends boiling the conven.
ton because their delegates from contested
counties were not allowed to participate in
the primary organization. Two delegations
from this district will therefore 90 to st.
Louis. One will be headed by young Green
and is pledged to support the nomination of
Speaker Reed. The other will be headed
BY Mccormick, and is pledged to support
Mckinley.
1t was pleasant news to Mrs. Green to
hear of her sons political progress, but that
which gave her the most Joy was the posi-
tive information that her son Eddie would
be the next republican candidate for Cover
nor of Texas. He may not win, the Hon.
Harriet acknowledges, but she knows he
will make q stiff fight. He is a boy after
my own hear, and she says the ambition of
her life is to accumulate money enough to
make him the richest man on earth when
she dies. This she gave some time ago as
the reason of her perpetual chase after more
dollhrs.
Young Green's full name is Edward How
land Robinson Green. His paternal grand
father was named Edward Robinson, ard
his raternal grandmother was Miss How
land. Hetty Green. when she aflxes her
signature to any document writes Harriet
Rowland Robinson Green. Her daughter
is Miss Sylvia Rowland Green. Hetty says
hat she regrets that she did not have the
name Robinson tackled in somewhere, for
she is very proud of her family. Her father
left her 100000 when he died, and she
asserts that he was the kindest, incest,
cleverest and best mar that ever lived.
She does not throw many bouquets at her
husband Edward H. Green, She does not
see him very often, sometimes not once q
month. He lives at . quiet New York
hotel, while Hetty lives in various places.
Whenever the tax collector discovers her she
makes q change. Her daughter lives
with her mother, again with her father, but
mosts OF the time with friends. Thus the
family is widely separated.
AN ODD CAREER.
Eddie Green has had an odd career for
the son Of the wealthies woman in the
country. He was born in London about
thirty-two years ago, where his mother and
father were temporarily living. His father
at that time had . large fortune Of his W
and he was . heavy spender. He wal .
big operator in Wall street and 50 was
Hetty. She was invariably on the right
side Of the market and he was on the wrong.
Eventually he lost every dollar he had in
the world, while in . comparatively few
years the fortune of his wife doubled.
, No vast sum Of money wa spent in the
Of Eddie Green. While coasting
when he wal seven years old his knee was
injured. The accident was not deemed to
be serious, and for . long time medical as
sistance was not employed to care for him.
The boy suffered from his leg for . long
time, and finally . Philadelphia specialist
was engaged to doctor him. Every expedi.
ant known to science va resorted to, but
the task Of saving the leg was given up. 1t
was after young Green had attained his ma
jority that the doctors decided the Lex would
have to be amputated. The operation took
place in 4 New York boarding house, and
Stree then the young MAJ has worn . cork
leg.
New Workers who lived in the neighbor-
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