The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-18
HAS WON HIS WAY
Rise of J. Frank HanIy From Cabin to
Governor Chair.
BORN TO POVERTY AND PRlVATION
His Steady Rise to Eminence the Re-
suit of His Own Arduous and I'm.
ceasing Endeavor.

ceasng Endeavor.
On the 4th of April forty-one years
ago the Republican candidate for gov
ernor of the great state of Indiana was
born. At that moment there was
nothing to justify a prediction that he
would ever be known beyond the mar
row region in which he lived or that
he would ever rise beyond the limita-
tions that extreme poverty often fixes
to the aspirations of men.
The father was cooper; tenant
in a poor rural community known as
"Shake Rag" near ST. Joseph, Cham
paign county, Illinois. One of tho
neighbors very aptly expressed the
condition when he said that "1f ever
a boy came up out of the ground and
got great it was Frank Hanly."
A mile from the cabin home was
Rowdy Bend schoolhouse. This the
young Hanly attended for six months.
This was the sum of Frank Hanly's
experience in what is ordinarily called
schooling. But the mental cOnstitu-
ton, supplemented and sustained by
an excellent physique, matriculated
this boy in the greatest of all educa-
tional institutions, the university Of
life. In this he has been always a
| faithful and dilgent worker, and out
of it all he has acquired what few &C
quire from the institutions of learning
| that are supposed to fit young men
| for the battle of life.
Frank TOOK to books says a
| brother He had set out to be a law
yer and an orator. Fortunately the
| father was in touch with the young
mans aspirations. Often, it is said,
the father would take the boy by the
hand and walk to Champaign, ten
miles away, in order that the boy
might hear the great orators Of the day
on the political platforms.
When Frank was sixteen years old
blindness came to the mother to add
to the other misfortunes of the fam
lily. The father then sacrificed the
little that he had in the vain hope OF
restoring the mothers eyesight. The
children, four in number, were sepa
rated. Frank went to Williamsport
Warren county, Indiana, to saw wood
FOR IS cents day, and soon his father
and mother rented a farm in that
neighborhood and settled upon it to be
near the son.
But Frank HanIy in those days was
doing something besides saving wood
His leisure hours were devoted tC
study. He bought books and reaG
them with the avidity that only ar
eager, hungry mind can know. The
preference was given, of course. tc
books of law, though he gave sufficient
attention to schAol textbooks to DUAL
lily him for teaching school. At nine
teen he became the teacher of a coun
try district school in Warren county
Then in the summer he abandoned tn,
saw-buck for the ditch. 1t is said tina
he has dug more bitches in Warner
county than any other man in It, No
only this, but he soon became know,
as the best ditch-digger in the county
In the meantime he had attended va
rious debates in the neighborhood an,
soon had become known as the ditch
digging orator and debater
e After young Hanly became a teache
e he was married to MISC Eva Simme,
y the daughter of a farmer 1t is sal
), that here he started his library wit
a secondhand copy of "The Life G
Garfield" very appropriate as we
as very inspiring volume for youn
man fighting his way to fame and fol