The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-11
GLENN
HAS BIRTHDAY
TARHEEL EXECUTIVE REACHES
SAITH MILESTONE IN HIS
STRENUOUS CAREER

RALEIGH, N c., Aug. 11.-"Bob"
Glenn, the big. husky chief executive
of the Tarheel state, is today the re-
cipient of congratulations upon having
reer. Not for a generation has a North
Carolina governor attained to such a
Glenn, and when he passes out of the
executive mansion he will leave be-
hind him a record of achievement
equalled by few southern governors in
recent years.
Glenn first became a national figure
by reason Of the vigor and determin-
alton he displayed in defending the
right Of the state to regulate the rail-
roads within it's borders. Arraying
himself squarely against the federal
courts, he entered upon a struggle
which for a time threatened to assume
grave proportions.
1t was due chiefly to the energy and
perseverance Of Governor Glenn that
| will on the first of next year enter the
ranks of the prohibition states Be-
| lieving fervidly in the prohibition
cause, Governor Glenn entered heart
and soul into the fight against the
rum demon" and succeeded in bring
ing a majority of the voters of the
state to his way of thinking. Prior
to the prohibition election, he stumped
the state thoroughly, speaking in
nearly every city and town, and his
eloquence doubtless had much to do
with the decision of the people as reg
istered at the polls.
Governor Glenn was born and raised
a Tarheel and is a native of Rocking
ham. He was educated first in the
high school at Leaksville, and then
went to Davidson college for three
university of Virginia, but he empha-
sizes the fact that it was only because
there was at that time no advanced
college in his own state. He studied
law under Chief Justice Pearson dur
ing 1876 and 1876, and was licensed 70
practise in 1877. At Rocky and then
in Stokes county he spent several
years at the bar. In 1891 he was sent
to the legislature, and four years later
was made district solicitor in the
Ninth Judicial district He was a /
Cleveland elector in 1884 and 1892, and |
substituted as Cleveland elector in
1888, the regular elector having been
kept from acting by an accident. In
1888 he was appointed United States !
district attorney by President Cleve-
land and served for five years. In |
1889 he was state senator and was |
member Of the senate committee thar |
framed the North Carolina consuitu-
tional amendment In 1904 he was
elected governor.
dleIln WAS seven years Old Wnen the !
Civil war broke out. His father, fight
ing for the Confederacy, was killed in
battle, and the sons and their mother
went to live with, the youngsters |
great uncle, who also had raised their |
father But for this relatives assist |
ance, the Glenns undoubtedly would |
have had a pretty hard time of it, in
Coed. AS it was, they had no spare |
cash. the uncle being continually in
debt, and on his death leaving to the
boys a big bunch of promissory notes.
as well as his farm. It was this farm
that the mother mortgaged in order
TO give Bob" a college education. But
before he went to college, the future
governor and his brother toolo~ turns
going to school and running the farm
1t was while he was a farm lad tina
the governor built up his giant-likt
physique. He has said that he owes
his good health to the fact that he
got so much exercise chopping wood
how