The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
Who the New Wyoming Senators
Are and How They Look.
wARRBN'S BIG STOCK INTERESTS.
Estate-yiews of the Farmers
Alliance.

wAsH1SGToN, Dec. Q. $780, Special cor
respondenceo Of The HERALD. The United
States Senate opens this year with two full
grown babies. These ase the twin Senators
from the new state Of Wyoming They
are both bright fellows and they promise
well Senators Carey and Warren are of
the same age, both were born in the east,
both have made money in western stock
raising, and both came from the capital of
the new state, Cheyenne. Senator Carey
has q good standing here as a territorial
delegate. He mas served five years in Con
gross, and he is as straight as string and
as bright as button. He has studied the
machinery OF Congress ional legislation,
and he goes into the Senate well equipped
for his duties.
SENATOR WARREN.
The most interesting of the new Senators,
however, IS Governor Warren, he is en-
tirely new TO Washington, and his only
political service has been as governor of
Wyoming territory, mayor Of Cheyenne,
and as one OF the leading politicians OF
his section. Re is man with history
and his life has been typicaily American.
His father was a Massachusetts farmer
who believed that all the learning a boy
needed was comprised in the mastery Of
the three Rs-readin', ritln,' 'rithmetic.
When young Warren was thirteen years
old he had 10 q certain extent mastered
these and ne wanted more schooling. His
father told him that If he got it he would
have to earn it and he let him have his
time for himself From that age until now
Warren mas made his own living. He got
good education by working in the sum
mers and going 10 school in the winters,
and the most of his lessons were studied
by the light OF tailow dip away up under
the roof IN his attic room in his grand
fathers house where he boarded. He pro-
crossed well IN his academical studies when
the war broke out, and he was at this
time about sixteen years old. He wanted
TO enlist at once but his father sent him
word forbiding il and according to the laws
OF Massachusetts he had to be considerably
older before he could GO without his
fathers consent. He was under contract
to work for his master until he was eigh-
teen. But on his eighteenth birthday, the
23rd, Of June, 1862, he came in to town with
q load of cheese, determined TO go to the
war. There was a meeting in the town hall
that night for recruits and Senator Warren
tells me that when he went in he saw his
father there, and he was afraid he might
prevent his enlistment, He was also back
ward because a bounty of $3.50 had been
offered for volunteers, aud feared it would
be thoughthe went into the army for the
bounty. When the request for recruits
was made however, he found himself or
his feet before he knew it, and as he started
up for the front, his father stood by his
side and took his arm and walked witt
him, saying that he had not wanted him
TO go before; but that he was man now,
and confidently expected to find him here
and that he went with his consent anC
his blessing.
Well. so young Warren started out Il
battle. He was only in service about
year and had been offered a commission
when sickness drove him home to Massa
chusetts. He had here for a time charge
of the largest dairy farm in that part o.
the country and was making high salary
for New England when he decided to e
west. He stopped in Iowa, worked Their,