The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
SENATOR HANsBROUGH.
He Made His Fortune by Following
Horace Greeley's Advice.


Horace Greeley's Advice.
United States Senator Henry G. Hans
brough of South Dakota is to be married.
The prospective bride is Miss Mary Berri
Chapman of Washington, D. c., says
writer in the Chicago Times Herald. She
is talented young woman and very
beautiful. She is a painter, she writes
we'll, and is especially strong as an illus
traitor, She has done a good amount OF
newspaper work of varying strength, and
is popular with the craft. The upper cir
cles OF Washington society know her well.
America is 10 be congratulated that one of
our hand dsomest women has seen fit to
marry an American, not some titled for
eigner, with a load of debts and a speckled
record. Miss Chapman has had ample
opportunity to commit this foolishness.
The legations at Washington contain
many detrimentals who are Just as
blooded. penniless and immoral as any
Churchill O. them all.
Hansbrough is one of the best living
exemplfcations Of the beauty and truth
of old Horace Greeley's admonition,
Young man, go west and grow up with
the country" If he had remained in
Illinois, where he was born. lie would
have been small potatoes and few in hill
to this day. For be it known that men of
talent and energy in this common wealth
are so thick that they bump against each
race is not 10 the swift, but 10 the super
latiyely swift. The average man from
elsew here who comes to Chicago goes 10
the bottom like bullet dropped in the
water. The average Chicago man who
goes elsewhere becomes a whale among
minnows. When Hansbrough went out
to California al an early age he did the
wisest thing possible TO him. He learned
to be a printer while subsisting princi-
pally on glorious climate. Whom he had
learned that much he mad some sort OF
living at his fingers ends.
Even in California the folks were too
strong for him. So he went 10 Dakota,
then a Territory. That move was the
thing. Dakota at that time contained
miners and cattle-raisers and cattle
rustlers and gamblers and many ladies
who belonged to the three grades of free
and easy, freer and easier, and f.eest and
easiest. 1t had no men who cared rap
for political preierment. They were too
busy raising cows of their own, or some
one else's cows, or ''calling the turn on
green baize faro table, or shooting it out
with rival for the smiles of "Deadwood
Moll' 10 care anything about holding
office. Marx that Hansbrough was from
Illinois. Therefore he was an office-seeker
born. II was in 1882 that he made his
last move, and the fact that he has
proudly borne the starry gonfalon of
Illinois in the very thickest of the fray is
evidenced by the further fact that he has
been in Office practically ever since.
No one who knows him can doubt that
he will make an admirable husband, al
though close upon nifty years. He is a
thoroughly respectable and likable man.
Although from a section that wss in it's
day one of the widest and wooliest and
most difficult 10 curry in the United
States, there isn't anything unconven-
tional in his habits or modes of thought.
He is, however, strictly a mediocre man.
lie is not an orator. He is not writer.
He does not shine in conversation. There
is nothing brilliant in his appearance.
He is not of original thought. He is
not especially we'll educated he is Just
such man as one meets and passes
without comment hundred times day
| a good citizen, prompt taxpayer, a loyal
American, sober, reasona5l industrious,
conservative son Of the State. These
men, OF course, are valuable everywhere
1t is of them that the real wealth of the
country consists. But what l wish 10
emphasize is the fact that such q man was
able to 60 to Dakota and leap into the
highest office within the gift of the people.
Why, down in Texas, particularly in the
! nei zhborhood of Tyler, which is q hotbed
of intellect. he would have had TO work
twenty-six years to become a Coroner.
What Dakota was fifteen years ago Ari.
Zona, Utah aud New Mexico now are.
Young man, go West and grow up with
the country.