The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-11-03

HON S. r. VAN SAINT.
Republican Candidate for Governor
Samuel R. Van SAINT, Republican
candidate for governor OF Minnesota,
is Of old Holland stock, of Knicker-
Island, ILL.,, May II, 1914. His father,
and repairer of steamboats, and all his
children followed this occupation. He
was an! Abolitionist and during Lin
coins campaign for the United States
Senate his SON Samuel, then fourteen
years of age, took lively interest in
the race of Lincoln against Douglas.
During Lincoln's first campaign for
president the boy was a. "Wideawake."
When the Civil war broke out he was
a student in the Rock Island high
school. He attempted several times
to enlist, but was rejected on account
of his youth, being but seventeen. He
finally got into Company A. Ninth
Illinois cavalry, and served more than
three years as a private, most of the
time in Grierson's famous raiders.
After the war he went to Burnam's
American business college at Hudson,
N Y, where he graduated, and then
attended Knox college, Galesburg, ILL.,.
for two years. He then went into the
boat yard business with his father
at LIE Claire, Iowa, where he built the
first raft boat of large power ever
constructed purposely for the rafting
business. At present he, is engaged
in the transportation business, con-
veying logs and lumber down the
river and operating a dozen or more
steamboats,. He is also a member of
the Carnival City Packet Company,
running steamboats, between Daven-
port and Burlington and Keokuk and
Quincy. In 1888 he moved to Winona,
having been married at LIE Claire in
1868 to Miss Ruth Hall. He served
one term as an alderman of Winona,
and represented that district in the
House of Representatives in 1893, car
rylng Democratic district in which
Cleveland received a majority of $50.
He was reelected to the legislature
and was the distinguished speaker of
the house of 1895. During his first
term he was a member of the state
normal school committee and through
his efforts and those of the chairman
the normal schools were placed on a
permanent foundation. In 1893 he
was elected senior vice department
VI tlS w. "A. VI Mill
nesota, and in 1894 department COM
mander. He was active in securing
the national encampment for St. Paul
in 1896 and was one of the leading
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor in the same year.
He was defeated, however, by Mr..
Eustis. But the strength of the sup
port which he received from the work
ing elements of the party, and the de-
feat of Mr.. Eustis as the result of the
latter's slight acquaintance and popu-
larity. with those elements, pointed
Enthusiastically to Capt. Van SAINT as the
man to head the state ticket in 1900
with the greatest chance of defeating
the willy John Lind. The captain was
therefore nominated with but slight
opposition. He has made an able
canvass. His opponents, unable to
successfully meet him on questions of
state and national import, have, as
usual with them in such cases, resort
ed to personal utilization and abuse.
But such tactics seem altogether like
ly to recoil upon those who have used
them. and to help bring about the
triumph of the Republican nominee
for governor on the ticket with Nc
kinley and Roosevelt,