The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-25
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INDIANA In CONGRESS
Long List Of Brainy Men Would
Answer to a HOOsier Roll Call.
Far Western States Represented with
Native Sons of This Commonwealth,
and Some Even in the East.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-If there should
be sounded IN Congress one of these days
a call to arms of Indiana men. a great
many more than the two Senators and
thirteen Representatives would respond. No
State in the Union has many native
IN Congress as Indiana Ohio used to boast
that she had given life to more statesmen
and prominent men than any state in the
Union This was during the Hayes regime
when ''the Ohio man. was the butt of
every political joke. When Arthur was
President New York claimed to have pro-
duced all the statesmen of the country
1t is true that Ohio and New York have
sent to the West and the Southwest, and
the Northwest a great many brainy sons
who have achieved distinction and come to
Congress, but Indiana leads them all, in
proportion to population
These observations were suggested to the
Journal correspondent the other day by the
remark Of Maj. John y. Pickler, South
Dakota Congressman. that both of the
members of the lower House of Congress
from his State were native Hoosiers, while
Indiana had furnished his State one of her
first Senator'S, Judge Gideon C. Moody hay
ing been brought up in the southern part
other day to Representative LATE Pence, of
Denver and remarked that his name was
a familiar one in Indiana and he in person
resembled the Pence colony in the neigh
borhood Of Anderson and Columbus, he
said:
"Oh, yes, I have no doubt look like the
Fences in Indiana for L am of them
myself. 1 was born in Columbus, i'm De-
cember, 1851; was schoOled at Hanover,
studied law with Francis t. Hord, and
went TO Denver to practice law in 1878
Yes. Indiana has furnished about half of
the men who have come to Congress from
Colorado ever since that country was a
Territory"
Maj. John A. Picker, of Faulkton, S. D.,
was born i'm Washington county, Indiana,
Jan. "A, 1874; removed to Iowa, and thence
to South Dakota. His colleague, William
V Lucas, who represents the western dis
trict Of South Dakota in Congress. was
born on a farm rear Delphi, Carroll county
July g. 1885. He was educated in the COM
mon schools of Indiana and emigrated west
ward in 1856.
John l.. Wilson. OF Spokane who repre-
sents the eastern district of Washington
state, was born at Charlottesville Aug :
ico0, ana graduated from Wabash College
diana legislature in 1850, and was induced.
10 emisrate to Washington Territory by
peing appointed receiver of q Tinted
States land office. 1t is likely that Iobn I
wilson will be elected to the United States
Senate from Washington State, probably
vas also born and reared in Montgomery
Scunty, Indiana Wilson is one of the
brightest young men in Congress-
1t Is not generally known that Gen John
y. Didch, OF chicago, Representative at
n dSrge from Illinois. and former resident
OF Danville, of that State, was educated
IA wabash College and spent his early
GAYS In Indiana His colleague. Andrew
). Hunter, another Representative at large
from that State was born i'm C;raencaStfS %
Dec. H. 1881. Allan C. Durborow, ir.. of
chicago. Representative of the Third IL
lno1S district, while a young man lived az
Williamsport, Ind, and received his edue
cation at the State University at Blooming
from the Thirteenth or Springfield district
OF Illinois. was born in Sullivan county
indiana IND May 80. 1896 educated at the Indi-
atla University, studied law at Blooming
ION ana emtgrated TO Illinois in the latter
Mftes Joseph C. Cannon. of the Sixteenth
tlhItols district, Is proud of the fact that
he lived in Indiana while a Young man
while James K. Williams, of Carmi. Rep,
resentative Of the Nineteenth Illinois dis
S ~ Was Drought up and educated at
Kansas is pre-eminently represented by
1hulana men In Congress- William Alfred
HeHsr; the bewhiskered Populst Senator.
lived In st Joseph county until IS5g' al,
though he was born in Pennsylvania. Case
BroderlcK, or Holton. Kan. REPRESENTATIVE
of the First district of that State WIS horn
in Grant county, Sept % 1S5g and fNysi
IN Indiana until 1893. while Edward III.
Funston. of lola, representing the second
Kansas district, used TO live i'm Cass COM
", and entered the war from Indiana n +
Hudson, of Fredonia. Representative of the
Third district OF Kansas was born on an
Indiana farm and lived in that State until
1866, twenty-five years
That way down East State of Massa
chusettS contributes an Indiana man to
Congress in the person of Elijah Adams
Morse, representing the Twelfth MassachII-
sets district. Mr.. Morse was born at south
Bend, May % 1871, and spent his Childhood
in that city, then very small trading
point.
Charles S Hartman. of Bozeman. Repre-
sentative of the State of Montana, was
born at Monticello, March I. 1861, and read
law with Owens & uhl. and lived in Indi-
ana until 1852.
Nebraska contributes native Hoosier
from her Sixth Congressional district in
the person OF Omer Madison Ken. Pop
uIst, of Broken Bow. who was born 10
Wayne county Nov b. 1855. and lived in
Indiana until he had grown TO manhood
Tom l.. Johnson. of Cleveland. represent
ing the Twenty-frst Ohio district, was born
moved TO Evansville, where ne was reared
10 manhood and lived until 1876. He was
th T an man nv When en- ne owned
William r. Ellis, OF Heppner, ore. was
porn near Naveland Montgomery county.
a native Hoosier, and in FACT an indiana
man up 10 this time.
This Is only Incomplete list of native
Hoosiers who have come to Conrress from
other States. Nearly all of them are law
yers, and after receiving their education i'm
their native State went West 10 grow up
with the country. There is not a bTafnier
nor more sterling lot OF men in public life
than these native Hoosiers. who re hon
oring their adopted States. There were n
great many native HOLSTERS from the West
and the Northwest in the Reed Congress-
who have been retired TO private Ife but
they Will be heard from in the future by
me country al large. =. S. III.