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A Word About the New Governor l'(JUSTUS EVERETT WILLSON, tlie son of Hiram Willson and Ann Calvin (Ennis) Will- son, was born at Maysville, October 13, 1846. lie. graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1869. He is the brother of the poet, Forceythe Willson, the author of “The Old Sergeant,” and other poems. Every man, woman and child in Louisville knows Augustus E. Willson, Kentucky’s new Governor. Al- though a profound lawyer and a man sixty-two years of age, Mr. Willson has the reputation here of being a “good fellow.” He is of a jovial, happy disposition, a golf player, a baseball fiend, a splendid story teller, and loves to sing. Few men can make a better after-dinner speech than he, and if his auditors tire of speechmaking, he can sing them a few songs just as good as can be heard in any of the vaudeville playhouses in the big cities. Old-fashioned melodies are his favorites. The favorite pastime, however, of the new Governor, is golf. He is a. good player, too, and has been known to express more delight over defeating some of his friends at this game than he did when lie was elected Chief Executive of the Commonwealth. Mr. Willson is a civil lawyer and a. member of several clubs, but he cannot be regarded as a club man, as all of his time is either spent at his law office or at his Fourth avenue home, except that which is given to outdoor exercise. Although the new Governor is rather exclusive in bis close friendships and intimate acquaintances, he is one of the plainest of men. Tie always has a pleasant smile, a firm and hearty grasp of the hand and something agreeable to say. Ho has had wide experience in polities, but now as he is suium in as Governor of the State, he enters upon the duties of the first public office he has ever held. He was defeated sev- eral times for Congress, but these defeats never prevented him from taking an active interest in politics, and for thirty years his voice has been raised throughout the Commonwealth in behalf of every man who was nominated by the Republican party. To this, however, there was one exception—when George D. Todd was the Republican nominee for Mayor of Louisville, and made his race on the American Protective Association platform. “A square deal was one of the slogans of his campaign and that he will endeavor to give it, no one doubts. But, at the same time, it can be relied upon that he is a man who will protect the party interests of the Republicans and will see to it that the or- ganization does not suffer. The new Governor’s home life is an ideal one. No man could be more devoted to his home ties or to his wife and kinsmen than Mr. Willson. His residence on Fourth avenue is one of the most beautiful in the city. It is large and roomy, and, although the structure is new, the interior finishings are antique and many re- minders of his Harvard days are to be seen. The Governor and Mrs. Willson had only one child, a son, who died when quite young. Both are very fond of children, par- ticularly Mr. Willson. During his recent campaign, at one place where a mother held up a rosy-cheeked, brown-eyed little boy to shake hands with the gubernatorial nominee, Mr. Willson' in- dulged in no flattery to the mother, but, turning to several news- paper correspondents who accompanied him, said: “I would rather have that boy than be Governor. ’ ’ Mr. Willson usually walks to and from his office, and always takes advantage of the walk through the park to get the fresh air “to brace himself up,” as he says, and Mrs. Willson, who is the first lady of the Commonwealth, “is of a retiring and modest dis- position, and is known only to rather an exclusive circle of ac- quaintances.
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