Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
YOUNG CONGRESSMAN.
A Chat About Those Who Have Not Ye
Reached the Forty Year Limit.

ISSN1
A Chat About Those Who Have Not Yet
Reached the Forty Year Limit.
The Fiftieth Congress has a lot of
young men. Thirty have not yet
reached tho forty-year limit, and of
that number sixteen, or more than one
half, are thirty-five or under. 1t fresh
ems up the rows of faces for the look
ers on from the gallery. this infusion
of fresh young blood. and makes the
contrast with white locks stronger than
ever. Ben Shively. of Indiana, the
youngest Of the lot, has been in Con-
gress before, not in the Forty ninth,
but back in the Forty-eighth. when he
had just little sniff Of public life in
the filing out of the term of w. Fl.
Calkins. who resigned. Shively is
just thirty-one, and so he has quite a
little lead on 'Oid JIM Phelan. as
they used to call the Tennessee man
from the Memphis district when he
was running for Congress. But
Phelan's face is adorned with
soft heavy dark brown
beard. which makes him look
quite five years older than B ,b Vance
of Come ct:cut and Bob La Toilette of
Wisconsin. who had only year the
start. The latter had slight mus
tache last year and a short, full beard
this, but he has shaved both off and
now, with his hair brushed straight up
from his forehead in Pompadour style.
he looks quite as youthful as when he
captured all the prizes for speaking
which were offered within 400 miles Of
Wisconsin State University. Repre-
sentatives Sherman. of Utica who
used to be mayor there. and Simmons,
of North Carolina, the man who de-
feated OHara, the negro member of
the Fortr-ninth Congress. are the 9TH
or two who make up the quartette of
thirty-two-year youngsters. Sherman
is broad-shouldered and stalwart, and
with his spectacles looks thirty-seven,
in spite of his rosy cheeks.
Bourke Cochran stands alone in tn.
thirty-three class, but for his bump
tious ways, the gray streaks in his
dark hair would make observers VOW
that he was ten years older There is
just one quartettc in the thirty-four
class. too. Bob Yost. of Virginia; Con-
gresham Russell, of Connecticut; Nc
Adoo, of Jersey City: and Charley
Voorhees, are in it. They are slim,
and q 200-yard dash between them
would be a pretty sigh. Voorhees,
ought TO be the best cross-country
traveller. coming. as he does, from
Washington Territory, but McAdoo
has very good wind. There are four
who own to thirty-fve years. Perry
Belmont is one, and this is after he
has seen three Congresses spring up,
flourish and die. Harry Welles Rusl, of
Baltimore, is another with John
Kean, j., of New jersey. and Hastler
Dubois. of Idaho. The quartette
would probably make very
nice melody together if it
was wound up right. The Yale men
would take the tenor. the Southerner
the bass. while Mr.. Belmont could
carry the air gracefully. Four more
of them are Lloyd Bryce. of the New
York delegation. who has just come
out rs q young literary man in a novel
which treats of the divorce question.
and is named Paradise" and who
heads the group. McRae. of Arkan-
sas. and Taulpee. the young Ken
tuckian, who had his training in y
divinity school, and William E Mason,
of Chicago, complete this coterie.
Mason is one of the most wide-awake
men from the big Western town, if he
is newcomer. He is short and roly-
poly. curly haired and always moving.
If is avoirdupois were not distributed
quite so much, and his face were rud-
dier in hue. a stranger wouldn't have
much difficulty in mistaking him for
Captain Christie, of the Senate. Henry
Cabot Lodge. the biographer of Wash
ington. Hamilton and Webster. and
Isadore Ruyther, of Baltimore, are the
two Congressman of thirty-seven
wears.
As the two-score line is approached
the groups grow. There are five at
thirty-eight. Newton Blanchard, of
louisiana, is one; Farmer Burnett, of
Massachusetts,, is another; Melbourne
Ford and Tim Tarsney. of Michigan.
and Hemphill, of South Carolina, both
belong here. Judge Grain. Of Texas.
is thirty mine; Enloe. Of Tennessee,
the man who wants TO cut the unde-
livered speeches out of the Congress
sional Record; G. Newton, of Batrop,
La, and Stone, of Missouri, are as
Young. There are several men who.
through modesty or a desire of Sc
crecy. have not answered the clerk
question as to their age. Stockbridge.
Of Michigan; Neal, of Tennessee;
Heard, of Missouri; Butler, of Ten
nessee; Hutton, of Missouri, and
Pugslev. of Ohio, arc in this category.
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