The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-06-29
THREEYOUNG CONGRESSMAN
They are From North Carolina, Ala
balla and Tennessee.
THOMAS SETTLE THE YOUNGEST
All OF Them Under 80 Years-Short
Sketches of the Three Representa-
tives-SettIe an Orator of Great
AbiIity-The Number of Votes He
and Williams Received.

tives-SettIe an Orator of Great
AbiIi;y-The Number of Votes He
and Williams Received.
WASHINGTON, d. O., June 20, 1898
There are three Congressman under
b years of age-Thomas Settle, of
North C5,ralina; CASTOR a. Robbins,
of Alabama, and Joseph w. Bailey,
of Texas.
Themas Settle is the youngest mem
Der He was born in Rockingham
county, n. O., March 10th, 1865, and
viii be IS years old on the 10th of next
March. He was educated at George
town College, the famous Jesuit
school near this city. He was admit
| ted to the bar in October, 1885. The
Republican party made him its candI-
| date for solicitor of the judicial dis
| trict Of North Carolina in 1886, and
| he was elected over r. b. Glenn,
owing to the bitter personal contro-
Yersy between james w. Reid, the
| Democratic nominee for Congress in
i the Fifth congressional district, and
| Joseph Bradfield. who violently and
successfully assailed Mr.. Reid through
| the columns of Webster'S Weekly. Mr..
Settle was reelected solicitor in 1890,
and was nominated by the Republi-
cans of the Fifth North Carolina dis
trict for Congress in 1892.
According to the returns he re-
ceived IA, $50 votes, against ID, 746 for
A. II. A. Williams, Democrat; 1858
for w. r. Lindsay. POpulist, and 434
for VIM. Love, Prohibitionist. Mr..
Settle belongs to race of orators.
His grandfather, Thomas Settle, was
elected solicitor at the age of q, and
became a member of Congress at 26.
He was afterwards for many years a
Judge of the Superior Court. Thomas
Settle the second was elected solicitor
at q, and was afterwards judge Of
the Supreme Court of North Carolina
and later judge of the United States
district court of Florida. The second
Judge Settle was one of the most
thoroughly accomplished politicians
of the South. Thomas Settle the
third is also an orator of great ability.
CASTOR A. Robbins, of Dallas, Ala.
was born September 26, 1869, at Selma,
Alabama. His father, who was a
brother OF Hon. w. NJ. Robbins, of
North Carolina, was killed in the Con-
federate service in 1861, and the fam
lily returned to the Robbins farm in
Randolph county, N. G. Robbins at
tended Trinity College and the Uni
versity of North Carolina, graduating
at the latter in 1879. He then stud
led law with billiard & Dick at Green's
boro, and was admitted to the bar in
1880. He then returned to Alabama
and was Presidential electOr on the
Cleveland ticket in 1884. He was
elected to the SD Congress from the
Fourth district of Alabama as a Dem
| Ocrat in 1892.
Joseph W. Bailey, of Greenville,
Texas, was born in Copiah county,
| Miss, October 6, 1863. He was an
elector on the Cleveland ticket in
1884. He moved to Texas in 1885, and
| located at Gainesville, where he now
resides He was elector-at-large on
| the Cleveland ticket in 1888, and was
| elected to the sd and reelected tC
| the sd Congress as Democrat. II
! Settle meets his match in Robbins or
Bailey l shall be well pleased. n.