Show Dick Yates t e Illinois New b Governor ei r Chronicle Chicago 1 Richard Yates will celebrate cel brat his for fortieth birthday on n Q the Ute of December 1 And ADd still stift the older aided residents ent f T ackson 1 TIlle think of ot him as 88 a Dick Yates the I boy He was born in Jacksonville and i ibe he be has always lived there and there ain aint t a creature in the whole of Morgan county whom hom he does not know He lIe I was the son of Richard L Yates the theold old Ok war governor of or Illinois and was the companion of oC his father throughout the latter part of his active career The Theold Theold old Yap YaJI mansion In East State str street et was wa in lit former fonner years one of the sights of j I Jacksonville and a visitor never left Itt the town without having gone round to s see nee e the place where old Governor Yates lived Jived This house was the th center centE of the social as well as political inter interests Interests Interests ests of ot Morgan county and played no small part in the political history of ot the southern part of the state It stood In the center of an Immense yard sur surrounded surrounded rounded by elms and although it stands there still It has hu been altered to con conform conform conform form to the needs of ot the Catholic sis MIs sisters lIsten tern ten hospital to which it has been an annexed need But to t go back to the Dick Yates tates of today he was k as educated in the grammar schools of Jacksonville to tp t en enter enter ter tet Whipple academy in 1873 and to pass MUM from rom there into the Illinois col college college college lege also alao 1110 at Jacksonville in 1876 Dur During lag big the le later years of his school life Ufe h iv hed showed ed a 8 marked tendency to become interested in public affairs with ith the oratorical ability to add weight to his hi carefully studied opinions When he graduated from the classical course of the college he was chosen class orator and made one of the most brilliant speeches 5 ches ever given by a student He Hd H had bad been a contestant in innumerable debates and on more occasions than one had met William J Bryan an un underclassman Underclassman It is a singular comet coincidence coincidence dence deuce that these two men who have figured in the U e just completed campaign campaign were we schoolmates together and as rui such were popular p pul r leaders df de opposing fac factions fa factions in the student body 5 Through school for the time Di k Yates Yate became not a politician but a newspaper reporter getting his first working training from the varied de demands demands demands mands of a newspaper office And he was a a good worker and interested Int rested in everything which was going goingS on and he be made a s 8 reporter and later a capable city editor As reporter on the Jacksonville Courier he earned 10 a u uI aI I I week and by saving as many of his 10 bills as he possibly could he was able to enter the law department d of Ann Arbor university the year following his graduation from the Jacksonville college However he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not enough money to carry him through the school year ear and the next year found him back in Jacksonville and again in the newspaper business He had a good reputation as a news gath gatherer gatherer gatherer in Jacksonville and the position of city editor was offered him He went to work at noon gave out his assign assignments assignments ments meats leaving the most difficult one for himself He was out covering this assignment all afternoon but was ready again at 6 i for the evening work and often would not get into the theoffice theoffice theoffice office until midnight to write his copy cop read and edit what the reporters had gotten together and then th n read proof until the paper was ready to go to press He had hal found time meanwhile m to help with the makeup m keup and ana keep the me mechanical mechanical department In fu working order After this fashion n he managed to tet put in ina ina ina a good siXt ur day at work and to get considerable C ld rab fun tun out of life at atthe atthe the same saie time Buck Buek Hinrichsen a aDem Democrat Dem secretary of state representative representative representative to congresS was wag then city editor of a rival paper and an the two men would go to any end to scoop each other Two years later TV when hen Yates went back baek finish his course at Ann Arbor wrote the following I personal Dick Yates was a news getter aswell as s a brilliant writer and andi i he always had the instincts of a gen gentleman genI I tieman Yates Ya was proud pr ud of his com corn cornI J I I then and he Is proud of o it still and he often reads the scrap of paper which he has careful carefully saved 8 0 0 During his newspaper career Yates made his first political speech taking the stump at the request quest r of the man manager manager manager ager and owner of the Journal When he graduated from Crom the Ann Arbor law school he was better r in matters concerning rw pi tics than t any member ber berof of the school and was w consequently chosen cho en chairman of a mock national nat convention which the students of the university held z zAs As a lawyer admitted to practice pr in both Michigan and Illinois he went back to Jacksonville and opened a law office and a 8 political career It was in ISM ISH that he be Was admitted to practice in the United States circuit court and six years vears later asked permission to practice in the United States supreme court Chief Chef Ch f Justice Melville lI W Fuller granted him special courtesies as one of the promising young members of the southern Illinois bar Justice Fuller was a member twentythree three years be before before fore foce of the legislature which Governor Yates prorogued A year ye r after he be left cOllege c Richard Yates was known as a local politician of or considerable popularity and al although although although though throughout his career as a pub public lic nc office seeker and holder people have said of him He stands on the popularity popularity popularity larity of his father it is a notable fact that he has bas seldom alluded in any way to his father while addressing the pub public public lic lie Rather than presume to call his fathers old friends to his aid ail Mr Yates has been modestly backward in using the help they have offered him He Hegan began gan his Ids political career auspiciously as candidate for city attorney In 1885 1835 His election was a surprise to the city as the east side ward waid which was over overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly Democratic not only gave gaye 1 him aim a solid vote ote but but added add d the i ment of ot yielding y t a fot Q olt f Democratic D no ia ticket ticket In tAl an and J isse thiS tig demonstration of friendliness was repeated rep and in 1893 when Yates Tates ates had retired from the office th tp city elty want wint back to the straight s pam Dem Democratic ticket picket 00 3 In Tie Waa nominated for congressman at large he visited more counties i ind Ad made more speeches than say any y other te in the state And AndI I although he wap w a defeated defeat d he had the satisfaction of 0 knowing he ran over iG CIO votes ahead of the national ticket He was elected judge of Morgan coun county county county ty in 1894 carrying the ticket tI ket to vic victory victory victory tory with him bim by a majority of votes rotes His predecessor in the office was a Democrat elected with a major majority majorIty ity of 1468 1488 votes He was not a candi eandi candidate date for reelection and a Democrat 3 J him hiI Yates wa was a a Me M man from the first but he was wa never sever a and his county constituency supported him blotting Tanner Tann put of the county count plan tan J early eriv last ast fall tail When Yates Yat s talks about his political pol c career carea he talks earnestly for he has given n it his thought and constant at attention attention attention for fifteen en years HI I have earned alt all I ever got in poli politics polities ties tics ti s he be says I have June worked for it itI itI itI I believe in organizing my forces and fighting and I have always tried to todo todo todo do It ItIn t tIn tIn In the first days dava of ot campaigning when county or oi city offices were at stake he used to make house to house canvasses and by riding all night and speaking all aU day he would make a around around around round of every cross roads and post postoffice office in that part of or the country In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way the farmers got to know him and ad to like him and when it tt was an announced announced that Yates would speak sneak they were willing tb give up a good day for plowing to go and hear him Richard Yates has visited every one of the counties in the Ule state during durin the pst past campaign he has visited cities and aDd country towns and road Crossings where there were Here ere no towns to speak sneak of and he h has been b en willing to make e a I speech 8 ee 11 or to shake hands at any time night or day throughout the summer For Por Memorial day and nd d Fourth of July Tuly addresses Mr Yat was one of the most men luen in in the country countr One Oe of requests received for Cor Meo Memorial orial day dav da rad ad Dear Governor Having heard your oratory at the Methodist conference I take the liberty of asking you to de at our school on Memorial day My father is one of the original Yates men and my grand father voted for your father when he was elected governor forty years Ugo Please answer r prom It wa with sincere regret that Mr Yates declined this invitation i 0 S s But there is another side to this mans life and a very veo charming sider which has hs not been touched upon Lit tIe tle Miss Dorothy Dorot y Yates suggested this not long ago when she said id to her grandmother the elder Mrs Yates Grandma do yeu you know who Dick Yates is I Yes I know him said the grand grandmother grandmother grandmother mother He is my my boy No uNo no he grandma insisted the little girl He is my papa The Yates family is one of social prominence in Jacksonville and are popular out of s f t as well w n as s In it They live in a comfortable house in West Yest State street just a few doors from the home of Mrs Mis Catherine Yates the widow widm of the war governor and Dorothys Dorothy s grandmother gr n moth r Richard Yates was married Oct OcL ct 23 1888 to Miss Helen Wadsworth daughter d of one of the oldest of the southern Illinois families The have lived lIed in Jack Tack Jacksonville sonville longer if possible that the Yates and the young people of the two families were always S the best of t Mrs Yates W nothing n of a politician She laughingly declares she does not know how it all is done aone one but she is one of the most charming of hostesses and she entertains a country voter as a pleas pleasantly pleasantly pleasantly antly as u she might a society belle She is a slender woman with very black blackhair blackhair hair hilk and blue eyes and a laughing kindly face which is at least ten years younger looking than th n it ought to be beShe beShe beShe She has been campaigning with her husband huband during the t last two months and an l everywhere she was seen and rec recognized recognized people peole have been heen more enthusiastic enthusiastic about the Republican publican R candidate because of his beautiful wife The Yates family has always alwa s been on the most friendly terms with the Wil William liam Ham Jennings Bryans and Mrs Yates has haa often said proudly of Mrs Bryan Mrs Bryan knows all an about the long rows of figures they add up to tell who is ls elected Needless to say Mrs Yates does not know about the figures but her young youngest est eat t daughter Dorothy undoubtedly will when she grows older and not so very much h older either In talking over the political situation with her aunt not long ag ago Dorothy said Auntie do you know what the governorship means No Dorothy I am not very well wen I posted on politics answered the aunt Well Veil said Dorothy you see you run and run and run until you just cant run any longer r and when you I get there why then it itOn itOn itOn On another occasion and upon another er subject Dorothy philosophized some something so something me thing like this She appeared with her herself herself self and her dog Beauty covered with yellow j paInt int and aDd her nurse scolded Well Wen said Mid Dorothy Beauty just on it and slated on it She said Dorothy wont you OU put some nice paint on me Oh Beauty I cant naughty n ug ty t 1 said Dorothy got to dust du t got to do o it said scid Beauty And Ald so soan an so sol soI I want to fend Beauty an I dust had to put the paint painton on |