Show Van Sant Is a Fighter Mann Man Who Proposes to Hill Has Many Victories Vict ries to His Credit locum Slocum ocum te to Philadelphia North American Tt Jt has baa Deen sato salo by the Cie bet best legal talent in be east that James Jmes J 1 Hill will win the contest content which is now on be bt tween tw n and ana the an uv u n I v u h peseta neota But the best legal talent does not know Captain Ca Sam Bam Van Sant The very verv name sounds BOunds like ike a fight and the owner of that name has taken part pan In every of battle known to tho th western type of which w ich he is a perfect He has his f fought with bare fists lists with muskets mu bayonet short swords nowie r knives revolvers revolver hand handspikes handspikes spikes ropes ends lie he has fought with eloquence tae t le weapon of Henry and d w h forceful argument the Ule argument of ofa a 8 Webster tie ile has bas fought on land and andon andon andon on water he has nas even fought pitched bat tie in the tho th water he began to fight before he be h could walk and he has said that he experts ts to continue fighting as long lon as all he lives This man iliaD Nut has has never been Mea ped r His HM first ant Impo important fight wa with Grant at Fort Fon last hat was as With tb the ate e Republicans of Minnesota against Governor Fighting John LInd and his hosts of or Democratic Democratic sup eup supporters supporters porters Everyone knows what happened at Donelson The young volunteer was le 16 1 years year old then theu years later he carried his hie tau state which I i bad had cone gone heavily Democratic two years before by upwards of 1000 99 votes rotes for very every year that he had bad lived JIved Nor has haa Governor G Van Sant failed in that struggle in which Mr Hill BUI has bas been preeminent the accumulation of or wealth Both men began begs life Ufe at a dollar a day they started arted ev e n and both have accum accumulated accumulated d large lUKe fortunes fortu e The one om has bas not outstripped the other as far as one who I reads roads daily dally of the railroad magnate and his wealth might suppose sup There ere are many large fortunes In the west besides those thou which are controlled by railroad ra i builders But it has been said Jim TIm Hill also never DeVitt loot Joet a fight I ht That Is the very circumstance which ch renders the pending contest an event of supreme interest to those tho who know the thet t two o men o V Q It is clear that financiers in the east accustomed as u they are to witnessing the spectacular achievements of Mr X r Hilt Hill and his colleagues consider the apposition of ot I Governor van Vaa Sant Sent as little more than an ane episode e almost a ludicrous episode This is an annor error It la Ia to be a straggle between Titans It will lw pe e a fight to the death be between between between tween two men have have bave never lost a fight fl ht Let it be understood that Governor Van Sant is possessed of oI great resources as well wen as marvelous vitality He will wUl not die easily eu y Governor Samuel R B Van Sant was for Cor formerly formerly merly an Iowa boy At U the see age Ee of 15 16 years he ran away from tro home and en enlisted enlisted listed in the Union army He served under General Grant Gr nt I At the dose elo e war he be matriculated at Knox college Illinois but was unable able to finish his course He was compelled to I return to his home in a small Iowa town and enter his fathers employ as an ap apprentice apprentice apprentice prentice ship carpenter He learned the trade trade At length he built a small craft propelled by steam power The work was done at idle moments It was a queer craft small and of no considerable horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power There was however no fault with the workmanship in fact it was nothing noting less than genius which construct constructed ed a steam vessel out of material which the future governor could at that th time secure One day he be stowed a sack tack of Sour flour and a aside aside i iside side of bacon eon in an unoccupied u corner of the tug aUld and a started s up rap p the Mississippi i river When Who his fuel supply ran low ow he I went ashore cut down tree chopped It into fuel also sise and r refilled his bis bUnkers hunkers I Within the course of ft a week h he has reached the rafting works of the upper up r Mississippi sippi He told the l hd p that he could tow their rafts nom from place to place plue with his steamer They laughed at him hat they rave e him a chance Today Captain Van Sant Sent owns the finest fleet of rafting vessels ve sels on OD the Mis Mississippi ppl river For twenty years year y 1 or more he has hu annually towed more be between between between tween Lake St Croix an aa and than any other steamboat owner OB oa tine the river His steamers are floating paa This is the way one of Governor Govern Gove Van I pilots once summed up his ht em employers employers career Captain Sammy win the Use game of life because he held a flat fist of o trumps trump but because he played placed a poor hand well The political activity of this began lets less le than ten years ago now Re tie e is governor of the state S Republican leaders in the city of Wi Winona Winona nona noun a beautiful city of inhabitants inhabit inhabitants inhabitants ants situated on the banks of the Mis Mississippi MississippI river In southern Minnesota ota found themselves in consequence of a series of local complications face to face with certain defeat In the pending ending contest con ron contest test for a legislative representative re They asked Captain Van Sant Bant to un undertake undertake undertake the fight He had up to that period of his life me voted regularly since I passing his majority and be had hur bur hurrahed hurrahed d for Grant for Gar Garfield field for James I G 0 Blaine and for tot a few other glorious Republican leaders But that was the I extent of his hie knowledge of politics polities I Nevertheless he be accepted d a nomina nomination nomination nomination tion and aDd with undisguised pleasure He I said lAde nothing about the honor being thrust thrust upon Y n him bm nothing about a aM M ense of duty impelling im him to accept I It He simply imply said Boys its a new kind dad of et f fight for me but I like a fight of at any aDY kind and I think we can lick then them 01 He de turned his steamboat business over overto overto overto to a 8 junior partner and made success in that political fight the sole Iole object of his life From Prom dawn until midnight every even everyday day of cf the week w k except Sundays he was wason wason wason on the battlefield He was introduced J to every voter In the district He visited sited nearly every home in the district gave I the tare he children new dimes and told the good i wives what fine men their husband husbands were wert Captain Van Sant was elected I ted a member of or the legislature 0 g His Hip record during the session was not marked by any extraordinary achieve achievement ment there was no opportunity But his hi popularity with his associates developed deveo d to such extraordinary proportions that he be was waa unanimously elected speaker of the house bouse when the next legislature con convened an unprecedented occurrence in Minnesota and a thing thinK which has probably probably ably bly never happened in any other state stale of the Union His record as al speaker placed him in h line for the e governorship and aud be he went before the next state convention as a I candidate Hit His support was strong but out at t it was decided that William Henry Heary Bus tiL former fonne mayor of Minneapolis former I member of the legislature I a politician of or o thirty years pears standing had elder eider if not stronger stranger claims to the nomination He was ices named Darned by the con convention veatteR Captain Ca Van Iran Sant Sent sal said thai it it was wu w all aU right t that there WeB was plenty of or time for r him bias he be took the stump for Cor his rival He s spent nearly two tiro months traveling ever aver the state speak speaking speak speaking s k kIng ing several times tiDIes daily But Eustis lost loet to Lind by a large majority C 0 Two rears fears later Captain Van r Sant was unanimously nominated n and easily easily elect eJect elected eJected e t ted ed Captain Van Vu tat Sant Sent an Irishman took the Scandinavian vote away from John Lind the Scandinavian leader of the he state In his home borne Ufo life this fighter this pu pugilist pugilist pugilist of war of business s and of politics polities is Ii as tender and gentle as a child His affection for his wife Wite and his only son sonis sonIs sonis is something which one must witness s sith with ith the deepest dee feelings of admiration He in turn Is IB worshiped by the one and andis I is a guiding c star a to the e a other o Governor G Van van Sant t Is to Ise Isa a total i abstainer It is the boast of most that I they drink individually enough whisky every twelve months to float a steam steamboat steamboat steamboat boat The captains record prior to his hiB sons birth is not written but when he assumed the responsibilities re of father fatherhood fatherhood fatherhood hood he made a vow that he would never dring thing liquor That vow he has never broken His Ria beautiful home in iD beautiful WI Wl Winona nona DOD is a mecca for tor the tramp the bro bee and aDd the mothers of O f hungry families As At from the home bome of Goldsmiths village preacher no DO one 0 w is wever ever turned awa away for fer |