Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-14

the next congress. He Is a lawyer of
high character, has been district judge,
and is famous locally for the relentless
war he made on gambling in San An
tonic.
FROM MISSOURI.
When the returns from the state of
Missouri were received last Novem-
bers the last note of despair was the
report of the defeat of Silver Dick"
Bland and Orator Champ Clark. Then
the chairman of the state committee
threw up his hands in the air and ex-
claimed:
''To think of it! Dick Bland beat by
a horse doctor and Champ Clark by a
piano tuner"
William NJ. Treloar. who defeated
Champ Clark, is popularity understood
to be piano tuner and travelling
music teacher, who was given the re-
publican nomination because no one
else wanted it, and because it would
fall in with his line of business to make
the canvass, without an outlay of
money.
Mr.. Clark says that this does an in
justice to his successor. Mr.. Clark
says: 1.-The man who succeeds me is
Prof. William NJ. Treloar, of Mexico.
While he has had little to do with pol
itics. he is man of fair capacity and
good manners. The newspapers have
done him great injustice by represent
| ing him as a banjo player or piano
tuner. He is nothing of the sort. He
| is, and for many years has been, pro-
fessor of music in Hardin college, one
of the foremost educational institu-
tions of the west. He is also a COM
poser of music of some reputation. The
republican nomination, SO l am in
| formed, went begging for some time,
and Prof. Treloar was the fifth man to
| whom it was offered. In 1892 l re-
ceived 2,59o plurality. In 1894 Treloar
beat me 1872 votes, because $500 demo-
| Gratis, thinking everything was safe,
stayed at home. Prof. Treloar is a
| bright and enthusiastic mason. His
| wife-formerly Miss Annie Silver
comes from good old Maryland demo-
| cratic stock"
DIR. Joel d. Hubbard, who beat
| Bland, is represented as an itinerant
| doctor, horse doctor" and peddler
| of patent medicine. He was born in
| 1850, and graduated in medicine in
| 1888. He gave up medicine to go to
| railroading, and, as his biographer
| says, returned after time to the
practice of medicine, and succeeded
| admirably" Among the Missouri dele
cation he is known as having served
| through two or three terms as county
clerk, and as having been the president
| of the Morgan county bank, and at
present being the editor of the States
man."
His election to congress was no less
a surprise to him than to anyone else.
He took the nomination to fill out the
ticket, all other prominent repu blicans
having declined to make the hope
less race against Bland.
THE YOUNGEST MEMBER.
Norman A. Mosely, who defeated
Representative Arnold, of Missouri,
will probably be the youngest man in
| the house, among a great number of
young men. He was born in 1866, and
worked on the farm where he was born
until he was p years old. He has been
in Missouri since 1887 teaching school
| and practicing law.
There are two new members from
Iowa-S. NJ. Clark. from Keolluk, and
VI. SuI LiS, SIdEh ID d
man who will rival Wheeler, of Ala
| bama. in nervousness and diminutive-
| ness of stature. He is scholar of fine
attachments, perfect bundle of nerves
quick. bright, with keen perception
and ready undertaking. During Presi-
dent Harrison's term he was sent to
Europe to make an inspection of
school systems. He will at once drop
into bookish society in Washing
| ton. He is about so years old
and a widower. Curtis is spoken
! of as lone of the boys" or good fell
low. six feet tall, with plenty of brains
and cash. He is expected to be popu-
lar and successful in the house. He is
a very rich lumber manufacturer, who
comes to congress as republican from
the one district in Iowa which it was
thought could never be carried by any
but d democrat. He is one of those men
who looks savage and isn't. In appear
ancc he is a pirate of romance. His
friends speak of him as the pirate, ;"
because of his tall and athletic figure,
his fierce black mustache, swarthy
complexion, and very full black eyes.
GOLD BUG FROM KANSAS.
There is one man elected to the next
house who has tried to demonstrate
that even a Kansas man can get along
without being demagogue. W. A.
Calderhead, who defeated Davis, the
populist, for congress, is re-
publican who was nominated
on a free-coinage platform, and
who, Immediately Oh accepting
| the nomination, declared that he
would not accept the platform. He
said that he believed in single gold
standard, and that he favored trusts
and combinations because they served
| to cheaper production. His friends
| were very much alarmed lest these
| frank utterances would cause his de-
| feat. and they tried to make him sup
press them, but he refused to do So.
| He said they were his sentiments, and
| that he would rather be defeated on
! the platform of his own making than
| to be elected on any demagogical chat
| ter about free silver and abuse of
trusts. To the great establishment OF
his opponents he was elected. He is a
| tall, spare man, with iron gray beard
| and hair, with firm expression OF
countenance, a strong partisan, and
| prides himself on never trying to de-
| ceive anybody as to his opinions.
| Jerry Simpson, surnamed the Sock
less, is succeeded by very dressy
young man of about 81, who is at
tentive to his personal appearance,
as to carriage, speech and manner, as
well as to dress. He is young lawyer
of Medicine Lodge, who has dabbled a