Evening star., 1897-03-04

Alex. 8. Clay, Georgia.
Mr.. Harris is somewhat famous as stock
raiser. and as such Is known not only in
this country but abroad. He is a Virginian
by birth and served in the confederate army
during the war. He has been prominent in
kans as since he went to that state to make
his home and he has several times refused
office when in his reach. His election to
the House of Representatives in 1892 was
somewhat unusual in method He had been
Urged to be candidate at the election be-
fore, but had declined. When. in 1892, lie
was again urged to be a candidate. he
again declined. Meanwhile he had gone TO
England. and while he was abroad the pop
ui1st convention met and nominated him in
spite Of mis- decination. When he heard of
this the convention had adjourned and he
Could not avoid acceptance without caus-
ing great trouble to his party. He there
fore accepted and was elected almost with
out effort. He used to be a democrat and
got into the populist party through the
Farmers Alliance and his sympathy with
the movement of the populists in Kansas
TO wipe out all sectional feeling growing out
of the var.
When Mr.. Harris was in the House of
Representatives he especially interested
himself in the Pacific funding bill, which
he fought. He also opposed the Nicaragua
canal bill. He favored the income tax bill
and the tariff bill, wanted in the latter the
sugar bounty to be continued as he looked
upon tiidt DIS d special contract with the
sugar growers for five years He opposed
IRE repeal OF the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law-not that he regarded that
Clause as good legislation. but he wanted
with repeal
In 1894 he was defeated for Congress bv
Gen. Blue. the present representative from
that district. He was resident of Wash
lnSton. ID. c.. when a hoy before the war
His father Also W. A. Harris, had been a
representative before him, and for three
years during the Buchanan administration
was public printer and editor of the Wash
lngton. the administration organ. There
fCre, the younger w. A. Harris, who was
born in Loudoun county, Va. In 1S41 as
boy was much in Washington. His father
was also United States minister to the Ar
genuine Republic for six years during parts
of the Polk and Taylor administrations,
and four years of that time Harris the
boy, passed at Buenos Ayres Later the
older Harris became Interested in the Mic
arasua canal enterprise and his son went
there civil engineer
When the war broke out Mr.. Harris was
in Virginia Military Institute. a pupil of
"Stonewalr' Jackson. He was only nine
teen years old when he enlisted on the side
OF the confederacy. and soon became col
onel and distinguished himself in number
of battles. one of them Gettysburg. In
1863 he was married to Miss Lionberger
and returned to the war. Late in the war 4
he was captured by the federals and taken
to St Louis. where he was paroled. 1t was
then that he came to Kansas and became
a civil engineer in the construction of the
old Kansas Pacific railroad. now a part of
the Union Pacific. Later he was made
resident engineer, with headquarters at
Lawrence.
In 1868 Mr.. Harris settled on a farm,
which he named "Linwood," on the Union
Pacific. twenty-seven miles west of Kansas
City. He has lived there continuously
since.
Daniel W. Voorhees,, the "tall sycamore
of the Wabash" no longer occupies his sea
in the Senate. His successor Charles w.
Fairbanks. is lawyer Of indianapolis who
was formerly journalist. He is one of the
most skillful railroad attorneys in the west
He was born at Unionvile Center Ohio, in
boz and was graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan University at the age of twenty
He practiced journalism and read law at
the same time. and soon after his admis-
sion to the bar he became solicitor for the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad He is now
interested largely in many western rail-
roads. being president and one of the prin-
oipal stockholders of the Terre Haute and
Peoria. He was temporary chairman of the
St Louis republican convention.
He is a man of keenneSs and energy, with
an aptness in dealing with public affairs.
and is familiar with politics and politicians.
He will be recognized as business man in
the Senate.
s. F. Turner. who succeeds Senator Squire
from Washington. Is one of the wearers of
the BOG Grant medals. though he comes to
the Senate as fusion anti-administration
years old, and a native of Missouri Before
he was twenty-one he went to Alabama,
where he figured prominently as a repub!i-
can. He was United States marshal in that
state and a delegate to the convention
where the BOG made their stand for a third
term for Grant. President Arthur appoint
ed him Judge of the supreme and district
court of the territory of Washington, and
he went to that territory in 81 Just be-
fore the close of his term ne resigned
When Washington became a state he was a
delegate to the constitutional convention,
and helped make the constitution of the
new state He Is distinguished as a lawyer
and judge and owns a valuable gold
mine. Until recently he was a republican,
but when the republican party declared for
the present gold standard, he Joined the
opposition. He was elected to the Senate
by the democrats. populists and silver re-
publicans, and Is an earnest silver advo-
cate. He is naturally a protec ZIONIST, but
1t Is uncertain how far the republicans can
count on his support for a tariff bill.
j. b. Foraker is man who cannot fail
20 attract attention in the Senate. He
is a distinguished looking man. with a
dash and vitality about him which attracts
the eye and holds the interest. The tre-
mendous impulsive energy which is char
acteristic of him shows in his face and
in his movements. His appearance sug-
gests that he is the sort of man to dis