Show GLEW BORN NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR A picturesque CHARACTER has become W dely defy known as result of war with ra road company called too democrat c by H s enem es new york that IS glenn governor ot of north carol na had the backbone to stick through a fight to the finish did not surprise those who knew him down in the tar heel state whatever his faults a dislike br fight ing had never been one of them when once he be tool the stand right or wrong that he N would force the southern railway to obey the new state law limiting the passenger rate to cents 4 mile only strangers po and corporation fol lowers foretold any outcome bit b it vie tory at least temporary orar over the rail road interests and the federal courts glenn had fought to get the demo cratic nomination foi governor in 1905 forcing the sip of the party politicians by appealing directly to the in a campaign cam covering every corner of north carolina and then he had pressed his case against the republican nominee so en ergeti cally that he carried the state by its full democratic plurality barely less than 50 although in recent years there has been a tendency toward re by reason of the growing manufacturing interests besides nearly everybody in the state had heard his promise after the election I 1 have an ambition he be had said to show north carolina that a gov arnor can do something besides par ion don criminals with this assurance and knowing his fighting instincts people around him were expecting something to drop at the first opportunity that opportunity came when the southern railway refused to obey the rate jaw aw because of it whether his side is good or bad his arg imenes sound or fault faulty glenn of north carolina has come to be one of the most talked about men in the united states long before glenn got to be gov arnor he learned bow ow to fight As he grew older however his combative in were limited to the court room and the cami aign aien in both he has been rarely a loser incidentally he S served nis present toe foe the southern railway as an assist ant division counsel less than five years ago he lie also represented the Ye sturn union telegraph company and other corporations it was no se cret at the time of his election that the southern and the rest of the cor po rations rejoiced bover his success They thought he was on the their side gov glenn was born in ro rockingham county on aug 11 1804 ills father a farmer well to do and sprung from an old family waa was killed in the civil war w ar hip III mother who was a woman of both culture and common sense mort the farm to send her son to col lege he attended a high school at leaks ville and went to davidson college after that he took the law course at the university city of virginia from the time of his marriage to miss nina deaderick in knoxville lenn I 1 enn on jan 8 1878 mr glenn law in NA V inston salem N C plenn was elected to the state legis lature liture in fn 1881 that was his first trial at politics and he has been at it con I 1 GOV R B GLENN north carolina who won rate fight w th railroad tenuously ever since his ills term as so lichtor an officer who corresponds por responds to district attorney in new york except that several counties are covered was in he was a grover cleveland elector in 1884 and 1892 and mr air cleveland appointed mm him a united states district af attorney torney A side interest meanwhile was the state militia and glenn helped to up build the winston salem riflemen holding commissions as captain and major between 1890 and even his bitterest enemies call him honest that he has enemies has been attributed to his extreme democratic manner too little dignity one used in referring to him always clean shaven almost bald weighing slightly less Is than pounds and standing just under six feet glenn Is the picture of ity almost jollity he ile talks well viell ano seems to lik like people though he haq hao the reputation of 0 neither entertaining nor being entertained before he wa governor he ile has no hubbies in the way of diversions diversion st 1 unless long tong walks may be catalogued |