The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-09
GOV. HANLY COMING.
Subject win Be '9The Patriotism
of Peace
Governor HOch to Preside at
This Meeting.

Many of the delegates in attendance
upon the general conference of the
United Brethren church have arrived
already. Colonel Robert Cowden. gen
eral secretary of the Sunday school
board, has opened headquarters at the
state house where a number of the
meetings will be held. Thursday morn
ing the general boards of missions and
church erection will open headquarters
at the state house in rooms which yet
remain to be designated. The session
will open Thursday at the state house.
This evening the special delegation of
the dignitaries of the church will ar
rive from Dayton, Ohio, and New York
in special cars attached to No. of the
Santa Fe. The local entertainment
committee consisting of DR.. Critics of
the First United Brethren church, D.
L. Hoatsone and Prof. c.. H. Kutz will
60 to Kansas City to meet the delega-
tion.
The delegation will number approx
mately about 400, this will be the Iarg-
est special delegation to arrive in one
body. Others will continue to come in
until Thursday noon when it is expect
ed that the entire number of the dele
gates viii have arrived in the city. A
number of those who arrive this even
lL6 Will 1GdNe IOI E1OELO0 on W e0QGS-
day to attend the sessions of the wom-
! ans general missionary board meeting
which Will convene at that place for
the next two days.
One Of the events of the conference
/ will be the presence here of Governor
! Hanly Of Indiana next Tuesday. who
/ will make an address in the Auditorium
on the evening of that day. His sub
/ Ject will be, The Patriotism of Peace. -
( Governor E w. Hoch will preside at
Z this n4Raffno n h14c In 4
( Kansas will exchange greetings through
4 their splendid governors.
About Gov. HanIy.
No man in Indiana, so say political
/ observers, ever marched from obscurity
/ into the hmelight of public attention
I with such rapid strides as J. Frank
I Hanly. The gates of publicity were not
open before him; he had to unlatch and
swing them back himself.
/ The life story of the present governor
| of Indiana is that of a strenuous Amer
/ tcan He is not of the silver spoon
| tribe. He was born in st. Joe, Illinois,
/ April 4, 1863 Life had nothing to offer
when it began for him, but he has made
! life dance to ambitions music His
1 progress has been hindered by adversity.
! enmity and sorrow, but he has marched
steadily on until today he occupies. the
! governors chair of the state of Indiana.
The Indianapolis Morning Star saws
of the convention that nominated him
for governor: There is but one ex-
PLANTATION of j. Frank Hanly's victory
of yesterday. The people-that is. the
mass of Republicans-We for him.
I Politicians might scheme till doomsday
| but they could not stem the overwheln-
/ ing tide of sentiment that swept the
convention like a cyclone
Mr.. Hanly's opportunities have been
/ meager. His education was limited to
/ three months at a district school and
one or two terms at a normal school
but there probably is not a man in
! indiana who can handle the English
language with greater accuracy and
effect than he. One of the most in fer
esdng periods of his life was when he
served as a ditcher. This extended
over several years. In the winter he
taught school and in the summer he
/ dug bitches.
He was in the ditch business wher
he was married at the age of nineteen
He dug more miles of ditch in Warren
county than any man that ever lived
in it. He learned the science of levels
SO that he was able to make water
4 flow under adverse conditions and he
became known as an expert ditch
digger.
Mr.. Hanly's youth was spent IL
\ poverty. His father was a renter il
n poor and humble circumstances To :
certain Judge Rabb of Williamsport
., Indiana, he owes much of life's aftel
success. When mere lad he walked
to Williamsport and secured his frs
. employment at saving wood ant
Judge Rabb often repeats the story o.
his first meeting with young Hanly
r The young man was clad in thin anC
j tattered garments and with fee
wrapped in rags was industriousH
. pulling away at one end of a cross-cu
saw.
Mr.. Hanly might be termed a. poo
man. All that he owns is his owl
home free from debt and a partnership
in the law firm of Hanly & Woods
His habits are exemplary. Like ever
j man of force and conviction he ha
r some enemies, but even they must ad
nit that his private life is withou
blemish. He is a teetotaler and neve
sets foot in a saloon. He does not us
tobacco in any form. He is a firm be
lever in six daVs, work with one da