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Show t. GLENN T BORN- FIGHTER NORTH CAROLINA QOVERNOR A PlCTURKS-qUI CHARfCTKR. Hai Become Wlelely Know at Reault of Wr With Railroad Company Called -Teo 0nMrti" by HI. ,'mUi Siw York That Hobeit n Olenn, uovi r of -Morth Carolina iad the Uckae to etlek ihmtv Dxht to the flnlh did not mrprbx ih" who know him down In the Tar i I itatf lutii'tt r hla faulta, a itlallu ( ir Oglit Iiik hnd never ben ono of H" m W hi'li once h took the itind right ur wrnnR. that be wnuM n tho Kiiiilhi'rn railway to nb iln niw iU' law limiting the imawim rate tu JVi rente H mile, only atraii" i. Political Po-litical adtcraarlea and corv"i"ii fid low era foretold any outeutne l'H victor), vic-tor), at li'ii.t lm notary, over ti' rail mad Inlereata anil the federal murta (llcnn had lought to get th' liemo eratlc nomination for ajietinr tn t0i fnrclnat the aupport of tl Pr'r IwUtlruitia by pppMlUM airu'lv to thevntire In a campaign trlng every enrm r of North Careli . and then he hail preaawl hla caw .uilimt the Hi publican nomtn'e ao'"iK'll riill) thin he carrletl the alat h Ha fait Democratic fllnHlllty, Lar"' leaa Jhan MWji Hthoug4i In retern mare there haa been a tendency toward He-liubllcanlem, He-liubllcanlem, by reaaon of 'the amwlnl luauufActiirinu lnlorft . .Ilealdee, iiuHily o.rylljr In the atnle had'heHril hla promlae Iftt i the rlrVtlon ' I hnve an nmhllloiii" h fed aald, 'to aliow North, Carolina that a gov ernor ran dn aotm-lhliig'lieaMi'a iar 1on rrlinlnala. With thU naauiHinco, and knowing hl (Uhllng Inttlncte, peplr amiind him wern enpeetlnK "aginetalng to ilmp" nt the II ret opportunitf. That !'( tirliiiilty came when tne geuthern railway nfuaed to obey the rate taw lii'inum of It. whether hla tide la i. mI nr hnd hla nrgmiietile eounil or fuuii). Clonn of North Caralaa hua i nun to he ono of tlio moat talked iiliinit tiii'ii In the United Statl-t Ijvnit la-fore (llenn got U) la governor, gov-ernor, he learned bow to Fight An he , gnw oldt-r, however, Ilia oonbatht- In Mlnrts were limited to the court room and the campaign. Is Mh he haa Ih-oii rarely a loeer. Incidentally, he nerved nh pfMent foe, the tiouthern railway, iwn anlat-ant anlat-ant dltlalon eounael let umo five eara Ago Ha alan repreelnlet the Weaturii Union Telegriuilrjcoapany and other corporatlone. It w as Heard He-ard at the time of hi cletfktn, that tb Houtheru and the raat efU corporation! cor-poration! tejolccii over hi atittelu. They thought be wa on their !. (Iiiv, (llenn u born In Hoet,lnhani riiiini), on Viik 11 ISM Hla father, a furnn r. wi-ll to do and aprung from an ltd family, ai klllvd In the rlvll war Hla mother, who nt n woman of Iwth riilturi- and common at nae, mortgaged mort-gaged the farm to efcnd her aon to col log. He attended a high echool at U-aka vllle and went to Davldann College After thut he took the law ctinrae at rtw llnlveratl) of Virginia Votn the time of hj.,mairlage to Mlaa Nina Di-aderlck In Knnxvllte. Tenn , on Jen... IST8. Mr l)lt-nn prac llccl law In Wlnalnn Halt-m, N C nienn waa elected to the atale legl lature In IMI That waa hie rlrat trial t pollllea and ho haa bt-i-n at It con- ' llf' A TO ?SBk qov. n. o. qiCNN. (North Carolina Executive Who Won Rata Fight with Railroad.) tlnuoualy ever alnot- Ilia term na solicitor, so-licitor, an olflcer who rorn-sionda to dletrlct nttorne) In New York, except that aeveral couiitlna are coveretl, wn In ISIt) lie waa a (Inner Cleveland elector In 1881 and 11-92, and Mr CI tn eland appointed him u Unllcl HlHtt-a dlatrlot attorney A aide Iniereal nit unw bile, waa tho tale tut II t In. and (Ih-un ht-lpetl to upbuild up-build the Wlnalon Halein rlllc-invii, holding iiinimlaaloua n captain nnd major between IHM) and H9. Kven hla blitereat i ni-iuloa call htm honest That he haa im-mlua ha been nltrlbuti-d to bis extii-ine deniocrntlc manner "Too little dignity," one need In referring to him Alwaya clean ahaven, almoat bald, weighing sllgbtl) leas than IOC imiinda, and standing Just under sit foot, (llenn Is the picture of eoclabll tty, almuat Jollity. He talks well, ami Wems to like jieople, Ihougb ha had the repulalluii of neither entertalnlni; lor being entertained before he wni goernor He lias no Imhble In Hid way of diversions, mile long walk! may be dialogued |