The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-06-13
FOR VICE-FRESlDENT.

With all the controversy about
who shall be nominated for Pres
ident. we have heard but little
heretofore in Democratic circles
about who shall be nominated TOR
Vice-President. Just before the
adjournment OF Congress there
was, however, a boom started Tor
Congressman Francis Burton
Harrison, that seems to be now
assuming large dimensions. AS
democratic voters will be anxious
to know all about one who Is
quite likely to be nominated lot
Vice-President, a short sketch OF
his life will be of interest to our
readers.
Francis Burton Harrison is the
eighth in decent, on both his
fathers and mothers side, of old
Virginia stock. The family fur
nished many statesmen to the
Colony Of Virginia in the past.
His father, the late Burton n.
Harrison, who was for four years
Of the Confederacy the private
secretary of Jefferson Davis, and,
upon the downfall Of the Confed-
crate Government, was captured
with Mr.. Davis, and imprisoned
for nine months in solitary con-
finement as a prisoner at war in a
northern prison. He was married
in New York shortly after the war
to Miss Constance Carrie, of Vir-
ginia, who with her two cousins
was known as the "Ca.rie Invin-
cibles". These three young ladies
made the three first Confederate
battle flags from their dresses and
also sang at Beauregaro's Camp
for the first time the stirring solg
Of s.Maryland, My MarylaAd".
Spriaging from s,.ch stock,
Francis Burton Harrison could be
but Democratic to the core.
Mr.. Harrison was graduated
from the Yale University number
three in a class of 25O. He took
the same high rank at the New
York Law School and was in con-
sequence appointed instructor in
the law school after his graduation
where his term of service was in
terrupted by the outbreak of the
war with Spain, he enlisting as a
private in Troop A. N. Y. Vol.
Cavalry. He was commissioned
Captain and Assistant ANjutant
General of Volunteers in 1898. In
1902, he was nominated as the
Democratic candidate in the
strongest Republican Congress
sional District in the city Of New
York aid managed to carry it by
1900 majority. Two years later
he was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, but was
defeated together with all the
other Democratic candidates by
the tidal wave for Roosevelt. In
1906 he was again elected to Con-
gress from New York.
Speaking of Mr.. Harrison's work
in Congress, John Sharp Will
liams, the Democratic leader of the
House of Representatives, said:
Gas a member of Committees he
has shown a notable disposition
to forget that he is rich and need
not work; but to do the work that
presents itself to him as a member
Of the Committee to which assign
him, with all his heart, and mind
and strength and will. 1t is SO
rare to find a rich man who is
willing to work and who thinks
that God made him to do some-
thing, except to fill d mitch in a
hall Of luxury, that when one does
present himself, he ought, in my
opinion, 10 be more highly honor
ed than the man who was forced
to excel by the necessities of
environment and fortune"
Champ Clark, Of Missouri, said:
Harrison has made a great record
in Congress and is deserving Of
any honor the party may see fit to
bestow upon him." Mr.. Harrison
is also endorsed by AZ other
Democratic members of Congress
in similar terms.
The following touching epic
from an unknown pen is old, yet
ever new: st. Peter sits by the
heavenly gate, his hands on the
cfrinno ~ q 1vro arI ho Sims a