Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-04
Humorous Autebiographies Of Con-
gressmen in the Directory
THAT WILL APPEAR;NEXT MONDAY
Jerry Simpson Fails to Tell the sPublic
Whether He WearssSockS.
ONE OF THE LIFE STORIES ROMANTIC
..,r,EeRAM no rHE prsrArcH., !,

ators and Representatives. Inc FARMERS
Alliance representatives are especially pos
sessed with the idea that they are LITTLE
Moseses, raised up for the redemption OF
land fast going to ruin.
Among the members of the Kansas dele
CATION John Grsnt Otis causes 1t to be
known that since the war he has been "a
most uncompromising Greenbacker and an
advocate of new American monetary sys-
tenn in the interest of the industrial
classes" Besides, he has always'supPorted
prohibition and equal suffrage.
John Davis, 'tas editor of the Junction
City Tribune, through correspondence in the
Journal of The Eniglts of Labor and other
mediums saws he has become "widely
known as an able and fearless writer on
economic subjects" He also reioices in the
fact that in 1873 he was president of the
first distinctive farmers organization in
Kansas.
What Jerry Simpson Says of Himself.
Jerry Simpson leaves out the most in
teresting portion of his biography by max
ing no reference to his interior pedal deco
rations, and contents himself with saying
that, beginning at the age of IA, he followed
the fresh water seas for % years. During
his life as a sailor he had command OF many
large vessels on the great lakes. He served
in the army until he contracted a disease.
He "drifted" to Kansas in 1873, and for II
wears s:has been voting and afiliating with
The Greenback and Labor Union parties"
William Alfred PETER has been school
teacher, soldier, farmer, LAWYER an
editor, and statesman. He is perhaps the
only soldier on record who ''studied law at
odd times dufing the war, =" and his name
will go down to posterity as the founder OF
the Coffeyville Journal.
MANY write themselves farmers, but 1t
remained for Joseph II. .Beaman to say that
he was brought up on farm and has spent
much of his lie in active participation In
agricultural pursuits.
Senator David Bennett He'll became Gov
ernor in place of Grover Cleveland
William J. Coombs, of Brooklyn, is
zone of the pioneers in the business OF ex-
porting American goods. John Dewitt
Warner, of New York City, "entered
Cornell the first day it opened
Harter Not Ashamed of His Record.
Michael d. Harter, of John Sherman's
town, is not afraid to say that he is mem
Der of the Golden Club, and that he has
used his voice and pen in the interest OF
tariff reform for many years
Eli Thomas StackhoCse, of SouthSCarolina,
has devoted his time since the reconstruc-
tion era in improving his farm and educat-
ing his children. Yet he has found time to
enlighten the world through the agricul-
tural press, and this fact, he modestly as
sumes, caused him to be elected President
of the State Alliance.
John BENJAMIN Long, of Texas, is
Farmers Alliance mogul and Presbvter-
ian ruling elder, but he is first of all
Democrat, and he secured the nomination
over some of the most prominent and best
men of the State" He admits that this
education is ordinary.
b. II. Clover, of Kansas, received his
education in the common schools of his
native State and the school of experience.
And vet he says that 'he was married on
All Fools dav, in 1859, and has seven
children" and he admits that he has twice
been Vice President of the national organi-
cation of the Farmers Alliance.
Herman w Snow, of Illinois writes that
he has travelled extensively in the United
States and is a good Latin, Greek and
French scholar.
Walter C. Newberry, of Chicago, is proud
of the fact that he entered the army as a
private and come out a Brigadier General
by breyet
Palmer's Biography the Longest.
The longest biography in the book is fur
nished by Senator John McAuley Palmer,
of Illinois In 1885 he spent year in col
lege, paying his expenses, which were
small, bv his labor In the Illinois State
Senate he opposed the Nebraska bill, and
left the Democratic party on that issue.
He helped to nominate Fremont, and was
beaten for Congress by the reaction caused
by John Browns raid. After serving |
through the war and reaching the rank of
major general he became Republican Gov |
ernor of his State, and he went out with |
Horace Greely. He was a Democratic "vis- |
iting statesman" to Louisiana in Hayes |
time, and was three times beaten for the |
Senate before his election in 1890.
William McMahon McKaig, of Mary |
land, has knocked about the world bit. |
He has ''boated coal' on the canal, has |
studied law, has ranched, hunted and |
trapped in the Pixies Peak region, has |
kept hotel in Denver, and mined for gold in
California. Then he ran over to South
America, and came home only to fail to get
a nomination for States Attorney
James Sedgwick German, the one-armed |
Michigan member, began his education in
log school house, and developed into "a
practical, everyday farmer"
Byron GRAY Stout exhibits remarkable
case of suspended political animation.
Starting life as a Republican he left the
party to run against Austin Blair He was
Governor OF Michigan, and since then he |
has ran for every Office in the gamut and
has been downed in turn by Senators Con-
ger. Terry and Palmer. Now he has come
to Congress.
A Genuine Romance From Oshkosh.
The most romantic story in the directory
is that of Lucas NJ. Miller, of Oshkosh, the
son of Greek chieftain who was killed by
the Turks during the Greek revolution.
Soon after this his mother died and he yas
cared for by a woman who found him in an
abandoned town, just after a battle had
taken place in its streets. Subsequently
she applied to Colonel J. P. Miller for as
sistance. The Colonel was an American
who Joined the Greek army at the Begin
ming of the revolution; was commissioned
as Colonel, and distinguished himself as a
brave and efficient officer. and rendered very
material service to the Greeks bv securing
the donation of several vessels laden with
provisions and clothing bv the citizens of
this country for the benefit of the destitute
people of Greece. The Colonel learning
the history of the orphan boy, concluded to
adopt him. and when he returned to this
country settled in Montpelier, VT. Lucas
attended the schools of the town until he
was 16, when his father was injured to an
extent to be incapacitated for business,
which was assumed by his adopted son. At
the age of 81 he took out naturalization |
papers, was admitted to the bar and soon
after moved to the Territory of Wisconsin
and settled in Oshkosh in 1S46, and shortly
after engaged in farming. During the
Mexican War he was appointed a
Colonel by Governor Dodge; in 1853 he was
q member of the Wisconsin Legislature \