Arizona republican., 1898-12-21
Statesmen of the Next HonSe

who sits in the front row on the demo
 cratic side Of the center aisle, fell out
 side the breastworks. The pOpulis'5s
 rer Cminatod him, but the fTeemen e.
 -bleeding Kansas" in deserting tht
 pcPulist standard, rallied to the suppor
 Of ". J. Baifey, and hatgentleman VII supersede the Rev. MT. RCtkin. Two ! years ago, al-er a very successful ca rear as a MstlodIst pTe2cler, ln whicf
 he had figured as 9 presiding elder fer
 six years, he defeated the voluminous I''Dick" Blue by over 10000 votes. MT
 Botkin has been far less noisy Tn the
 house than was MT. Blue whCGe politi-
 cal ideas often prompted him to inter
 pose his heavy vo.ce and giant form before the wheels Of legislation.
 But still anC.her preacher fell out
 side at the elections-Represen entative
 CharIes H. Martin of the Sixth worth Carolina district. It is rather corspic-
 Uous that the representatives of the pulp4l in the house, should have both 1 been FOpulists, but such is the fact. l MT. Martin, of PClktcn, is 8 great
 grandson Of Nathaniel Macon, who
 served for fifty-seven years as repre-
 sentative in congress and United States senator. MT. Martin was well educated
 at the University of Virginia, and after becoming in turn a professor of Latin in North Carolina and a practising lawyer, embraced 'cte Christian religion
 and felt himself imPelIed to preach the gospel. He graduated from Baptist t4eological school and pursued the calling Of a pastor, from which he was
 chosen, without solicitation, to repre- sent populists in congress.
 These two populis. divines terminate
 their polIlical careers, for a time at
 least, after March f. but in the next
 house there will be another Methodist
 divine, Of the republican failh, in the person of Rev. Washington Gardner, of Albion, in the Third Michigan district. Albert M Todd, of Kalamazoo, the rich peppermint manufacturer, once prohi-
 bitten candidate for governor in the state, a man slightly under the medi- um size, who dresses in smart style and has a dapper look, now represents the district as 8 fusionist. MT. Todd got a renomination, but Rev. MT. Gardner beat him at the polls.
 Mir. Gardner is a picturesque political preacher and is at present secretary of state of Michigan. He parts his hair in the middle and wears Q full beard, styllsnly cropped. He is tall and rather slender, but has the air of a man with iCts of go" in him. MT. Gardner is what people sometimes call q joiner He is fond of afiiliating with secret sO- cietics and fraternites, and takes an inpo. ant part in their councils He has been president twice of the Michi- gan Sunday-sckOoI Association, and was a member Of the worlds Sunday school convention, held not very long ago. He fias been regent of the Royal Arcanunl and chaplain of the supreme body Of that order. MT. Gardner is likewise a member of the c. A. R. and has besn commander cf that benevolent in the siJat9 of Michigan.
 MT Gardner was tTalsplan'tad to Michigan from good Ohio soil, having been born in Morrow county, Ohio, in February, 1915. lie graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in -S70 and studied theology in Boston and New York. Previous to his university ca reer MT. Gardner had long service as private in Company D, SiXty-d1th Ohio regiment, during the civl war, and was wounded a. Resaca, Ga.
 There are four Smiths in this house; there will be five Smiths in the next. Four of them will be Republicans, and three of them will come from the state Cf Michigan. In fact, Michigan fur lishes this new statesman of the Smith family. The only demOcr2.-c Smith is | MT. David HiGhbaugh Smith, Of Eodg- l ensville, Larue county, Ky, a little man, of nervous manner, who is one of the ablest members of the Kentucky | ielgatiOn in the house, although, as he is now serving his first term, he has | lGt come very prominently to the front | It was in this MT. Smiths district, not l far from HCdgensTllle, that Abraham Lincoln was born, which makes it per -inent to remark that Representative ] 3lect Henry c. Smith, Of Adrian, in the second Michigan district, has an Abra- nam Lincoln habi5, much noted by his | prospective constituents, Of frustrating | lis arguments with a pat story. He is | said to be nimble-w wi5ted and tells his | stories, which are sometimes original, | Il excellent form. This --lchigan | Smith is aDOut forty years old, the son )f a farmer, and was born within six ! niles Of the city whore he now resides. 1 Ie Tlid his own way through college, tuuI7u law, and has built tip practise md won q reputation as the leading at 0rECy of that part of michigan, He uccscds that intrepid old warrior, Cen feOFge SpalGing, and is reported not to le the latter's inferior in good looks 1e married happily, and Is credited with having ECth 2 very handsome wife ! he campaign MT. Smith clambered into he PiDgrce band wagon and is an ar lent supporter of MichiSan's chief ex- cutiyc.
 Representative Sam ". Smith, Of She Sixth Michigan district, who is the maIlest man in stature in the house, ut, like MT. Smith, of Adrain, 8 very rilliant lawyer, was reelected. Rep esertative William Alden Smith the nan with 9 Daniel Webster pose, who 5 member Of the house committee on 0reiGn affairs, and who mad q battle Tith Spanish soldiers in Cuba last bring, frightened away great number f them with his silk umbrella, has kewise been reelected, as has Mir eorEo ". Smith, of Murphysboro, It., zpresercing the Twlnty-secold dis -ict. It is due to all Of the Smiths oW members Of the national house to lentCn that every one of them is per 11ally very comp2uiOnable gentle ian, each popular to a greater CT less sgree in political and Caher circles.