The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-03

Men OF Mark
Colonel a. NJ. Hardy, who beat Mr.
Bretz in the Second district, drifted
into Indiana as rabble rousing speaker
during a political campaign and is a
man Of some talent, though with little
experience in practical politics Hon.
Jesse Overstreet of Franklin, who de-
feated Mr. Cooper. author of the bill
for taxing greenbacks. is the newest
man IN the delegation, the highest DO
sition he has hitherto held being that Of
bookkeeper in the United States mar
shal's Office Hon. George W Steele Of
the Eleventh district is an old member
Of congress and a man of great ability.
Mr. Faris, the new man from the
Eighth. Is a railroad official Of marked
ability and great experience. All the
others are very new indeed Over the
river. as they say in Indiana, several
of the changes are more surprising still.
Hon. Walter Evans, who comes from
the Louisville district, is one of the
men Of whom his party has high hopes,
and Hon. J. NJ Kendall dem of the
Tenth district was a mem Der of the FIT
ty-second congress, elected to succeed
his father, who died while a member
In the Eleventh district there is a real
Republican comedy. Mr.. Adams, pres
ent member. jocularly known as 1.-The
most innocentest man on the road, - OBJ
tanned the nomination, but was defeat
ed by an Independent Republican candi-
date, Mr. David G.. Colson. There was
still another boiling Republican candi-
date, but he withdrew just before the
election.
A Farrago of Filth.
Mr.. NJ. w Howard, the only PopuIist
from Alabama in the face of the returns
Io ~
break the ranks of a solid Democracy
in that state-wil probably be the youn-
gest man IN the next house and certain
~ the most uncomfortable man in it
if any part Of his happiness depends on
social recognition He lived here a short
time and wrote a farragO of filth and
nonsense, thinly disguised as a novel,
entitled IF Christ Came to Congress. =
The style is Of that middling kind which
Horace tells US gods and men despise,
and names and places are given with
such minuteness as to give color to the
charge that the book was really written
for a directory, and that the author was
subsidized by the women named in it.
All this with the horrible picture on
the cover, caused the book to be put IN
der ban by the authorities for a short
time and in Anthony Comstock's do
main it never would have been tolerat-
ed. Mr. Howard is a tall apd rather
raWbOned southerner, with smooth face
and rather bright gray eyes, but as to
his talent for statesmenship nothing is
to be said as yet.
There are some others of whom their
defeated opponents speak very highly,
and Of whom much is expected by their
party associates. Mr.. Winfield Scott
Kerr Of Mansfield, o., who viii succeed
Mr.. Harter, is pronounced typical
American of the self made sort - He
began life as a railroad brakeman and
lost one arm by an accident, which
caused him to study law. As much to
his own surprise as that Of others, he
made a brilliant success in the practice,
made considerable money and in addi-
ton became very popular as a speaker.
1t is a curious coincidence that the
Democrat he defeated has but one arm
It is now conceded that Judge NoOnan
viii. be seated as representative of the
Twelfth Texas. the only Republican
from that state. He is a native of New
Jersey, and Hon. T. NJ. Paschal, whom
he succeeds, gives him a very high
character, both for talent and upright
ness. OF the new men from the south
who claim seats in the next house, de
spite the fact that Democrats have the
certificates on the face of the returns,
most appear to be large farmers and ac-
tive business men, with fair sprinl1ling
of preachers, and some young lawyers
whose memory does not run back to war
times and whose politics are of a decid-
eddy modern sort.
An Eccentric Music Teacher.
The new men from the Atlantic states
are generally well spoken of, and the
hOldOver Republicans. especially from
New York, are emphatically IN luck. Tt
is curious to notice how good and evil,
speaking from a party standpoint, have
worked together for their rapid promo
tion. The fearful slaughter of Republic
ans in 1890 and 1892 compelled the
speaker to place many Of the compare
lively new men of that party we'll up
on the committees, because there were
so few of them compared with the Dem
ocrats, and now they will be at tho
heads Of their committees. Mr.. Burrows
would Of course be chairman Of the
ways and means, but If he succeeds in
getting into the senate the place will
20 to Hon. Serene E. Payne of the
Twenty eighth New York. who viii
thus, If seniority prevails, Outrank Hon
John Dalzen on that committee. It is
assumed, Of course, that Mr.. Reed viii
be speaker, and SO promotion in the
ways and means will be very rapid in
deed. The mortality list of the commit
tee on agriculture is simply fearful, ev-
cry Dem ocrat but two being swept away
and with them Jere Simpson, while
AIessrs. Funston of Kansas, Waugh Of
Indiana and funk Of Illinois, Republic
ans. were not renominated- The com
mittee on appropriations shows equal
mortality Breckenridge was not renom-