Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . of Judge Sebring, of Easton, Pa., andthrough her he comes from Revolutionary ances-tors, in consequence of which he is a member ofthe Sons of the Revolution. He was born on the twenty-eighth day of June,1862, at Norristown. He was educated in theprivate schools of Harrisburg and the University of Pennsylvania in 1882,and is a member of the Fraternity of Delta 1886 he was connected in business wdth hisfather until the death of the latter in 1889. Hehas always taken great interest in politics. Hasbeen
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . of Judge Sebring, of Easton, Pa., andthrough her he comes from Revolutionary ances-tors, in consequence of which he is a member ofthe Sons of the Revolution. He was born on the twenty-eighth day of June,1862, at Norristown. He was educated in theprivate schools of Harrisburg and the University of Pennsylvania in 1882,and is a member of the Fraternity of Delta 1886 he was connected in business wdth hisfather until the death of the latter in 1889. Hehas always taken great interest in politics. Hasbeen engaged in many campaigns of recent years,particularly that in Pennsylvania in 1890 ; theone in which William McKinley was elected Gov-ernor of Ohio in 1891; the Presidential campaignof 1892, and again in Ohio in 1893. His speeches have covered a wide territory :Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Yorkand Connecticut, and have re-ceived marked attention and flat-tering notice. Mr. Hartranft isa member of the Union Republi-can and Young Republican Clubsof Philadelphia. 88. Linn Hartranft. Culled from his speeches in the great campaignare the following extracts : In the Peninsula Campaign the gallant old Spaniardwho defended with determined valor, with a garrison of6000 men, the Citadel of Ciudad Rodrigo, against Mar-shal Massenas army of 70,000 veteran French troops,managed after six weeks desperate defence, with a worn-out garrison and shattered walls, to get through the linesof the besiegers a note to the Duke of Wellington, whichcontained these words only: O, come! Now! now!to the succor of this place. And two days later, in thelast extremity, another, which repeated, Now ! now !For the last time. From thousands of workshops, whose hearths are coldand machinery rusting ; from hundreds of thousands ofhomes, once the abode of plenty and contentment, whosebread-winners are now idle, and whose women and chil-dren sit with gaunt and anxious faces, comes to you, toall of us, my fellow-citizen
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