The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-21

about Eighteen. Then he concluded
TO study law. He had no money and
no education, beyond Il knowledge OF
reading. That didn't worry INN in thu.
least
After two years Of rather indis-
crininatc law reading. horse racing;
and cocEhghtins. young jackson VAS
licensed to practice law. His sudden
development into fuli-flcdScd attor-
ney was regarded as Il Joke III Sails
bury. the North Carolina town IN
winch nc was living, ana he knew Il
would Dc. of no use TO hang out his
only TO himself. he obtained the APP
po!ntment OF solicitor for n faraway
distrist in the western Wilderness. Tie
made the Journey on horseback and
late October. 1888.
EiSh, years later. Tennessee was
admitted to the Union, ana Jackson
was acni TO represent her In Congress
Tic had made himself the icad.ng cit
zen in the State, and In the following
autumn he vas sent to the Senate.
An appointment as Judge of the SUI
prcme Court followed, with a salary
OF S'no year almost equal TO that OF
the Governor.
All tho outbreak OF the War of 1912.
although lie had suffered some hnan-
cial revcrscs. Jackson was in very
cd home. military hero, lie found
that his estate had dwindicd in value
but he set to work vigorously and
soon recouped himself. After three
years OF strict and most profitable at
tention to his private affairs he was
called TO conduct the Seminole War
In Florida, and then he went home to
tennessee, he resumed his business
.can people wanted Old Hickory for
President.
The other President from Tennessee
James Is. Polk. was at the time of his
death man OF ample fortune. all ac-
CURED through his native ability as a
breadwinncr. Ills beginning was Of
the long-cabin type. but his subsequent
career az breadwinner was mod cied
attef that OF Andrew Jackson, whom
ne admired greatly.
Both of the earlier New York Pres.
dents, Martin Van Buren, and Willard
Fillmore, we're the architects of their
was combination hotclkceper and
fnTmer, and his son never knew power
y. but the latter was no stranger to
the hard lot OF the early pioneer. his
nome was of the humblcst and his
opportunities were of the scantiest.
Both chose the law as a stepping stone
to future independence. Fillmore doing
office work and teaching school 10 nav
ms expenses. neither having the ad-
vantage Of college education but
both becoming winners of large for
tunep.
II was necessary for James buchanan
10 oecomc a brcadwinner, and his
Scotch-1rish ancestry endowed him
with the thrift and energy demanded.
Ills fatncr was poor Scutchman who
came to America about ten years be-
fore the birth of the only pennsyl-
vanie President, but he appreciated
the value of an education as a business
proposition, and determined to make a
scholar out OF his son. He lived to
see his boy graduated with the highest
honors at Dickinson College. at the
ago OF eighteen. In 1872. James Buch-
anan opened n law offcc at Lancaster,
Pa. and from the start clients came
to him in cvcr-incrcasinS numbers
| until at the time of his election TO
| Congress In 1870, he had one OF tho
| largest and most lucrative practices
! in the State. Buchanan was free
spendey, and always kept up large
establishment, bachelor that he &c
! manned to the end OF his days.
| the twcnty-siX men who have won
f: first place in this nation the two whose
efforts AT brcadwinniug UP to the
time they went into the White House.
had proved less successful than all
/ he others were Abraham lincoln and
tlyssc. :, Grant. Both had been moro
or less active In tho pursuit Of fnan-
ctaI Independence, and both had accom-
pl shed great things. hut neither had