The age-herald., 1899-01-08
His political activity in Illinois

the CnlcagO convention ne acted as tHe | lieutenant of Governor John P Altgeld. | The house of representatives had hardly organized before he announced himself a candidate for the chairmanship of the dem ocratic congressional committee. No man.
 however, is ever elected chairman o1 sueh
 a committee unless he himself is member
 of it. Hinrichsen claimed that the Illinois
 delegation was pledged to his support.
 When the time came for the selection or the
 Illinois member Judge Hunter and the othsr
 two democratic congressman rom lHliois
 failed to select MT. Hinrchsen. 1rouole
 had arisen between Governor Altgeld ana
 his lieutenant and the governor stranglad
 Bucks aspirations. He apparently did
 more than this for MT. Hinrichsen failed
 of a renomination and remains congress
 sional student with only one term to hs
 credit. It is also worthy of remark that
 Judge Hunter disappears with him.
 This political emeute seems to nave
 clouded Mir. Hinrchsen's pathway in the
 house. In the Chicago convention he made
 a rip-roaring speech that aroused great en-
 thus'asm. In the house of representa-
 tives, however he has made only two
 speeches. Both attracted much attention.
 The first was on the Loud bill in relation
 to second-class mail matter. To the as
 tonishment of his colleagues he advocated
 the bill. His argument was undoubtedly
 the best that was made on that side dls-
 counting the efforts of Loud himself, and
 ndu great We1SnI W1ln lHe HOuse dilhpuf7h
 the speech was limited to ten minutes. The
 second speech advocated the passage Of the
 Teller resolution. It speaks for itself For
 terseness. condensation of argument, and
 clear diction it had no rival Buck Is familiar figure in Washington. Although
 weighing over 200 pounds, he rides wheel
 like a profess onal, and may be seen al- most any day driving it up Pennsylvania avenue, threading his way between cable cars and other vehicles with the utmost unconcern. Among other qualifications. for congress, MT. Hinrchsen has been the ed- itor of two daily newspapers.
 Preachers Who Are Retired
 Another unfortunate is the Rev. and the Hon. Samuel June Barrows, of Boston. lie has had a life of adventure and an eXperl-
 ence rare to congressman A native of New York city, a the age of nine years he se- came errand boy for Richard Hoe, the printing press manufacturer tie renamed with Mir. Hoe nine years, going to nlght school when occasion offered, and learning stenogra phy. He served in the navy, De- came a reporter for the New York news papers, and was the phonographer for Will liam H. Seward when secretary ot state He went out in 1870 and reported Bishop Newman's debate with the Mormons. Alt erward he graduated from the divinity school of Harvard, and then accompanied General Stanley and General Custer in cam- paigns against the Indians. He spent year at Leipsic university, and aiterWard settled as pastor of a Unitarian church in Boston. For sixteen years he was editor or the Christian Register, and has been chap lain of the Fifth Massachusetts Tor four teen years. MT Barrows is tall and stateiy, and has the manner and appearance ot a divine. He has been a close attendant In | the house and has made many speeches, all scholarly and replete with information. | He speaks fluently and often, and evidently 1 feels perfectly at home in congress Whlle | thoroughly conscientious and apparently de- 1 voted to his duties, he takes life seriously 1 and not humorously. He might De III s- taken ofr a disciple of the Rev. | Cotton Mather but would hardly be | taken for an enthusiastic follower of Wll- | liam Ellery Channing Singular to relate l he comes from the district formerly repre- | sented by the great pedestrian, Wlllam 1 Jennings McEttrick It seems to be dls- | trict rather volatile in politics, for the | pedestrian was retired a the end of his | first term. His successor, MT Atwood, | also served but one term, and the Unitarian
 clergyman now follows the footsteps of the | pedestrian and the architect. The district seems to have what a western man would
 call cinch on the committee on alcohol
 and liquor traffic, for McEttrick as well as l Barrows has graced its membership
 Nor is MT. Barrows the only minister l treated so cavalierly by his constituents l Refined Kansas follows in the footsteps of | | miah D. Botkin is today it's representative | at-large. He is Methodist preacher, hail. | ing from the meeting-house at Winfield | MT. Botkin has risen higher in the theoosi- | ella scale than his cultured Boston friend; | for six years has he been a presiding elder | in the Methodist Episcopal church. With | Bishopric in plain sight, he accepted | nominaton for congress, heading the popu- l list delegation from Kansas. Botkin is | fine-looBing gentleman, with full beard
 and a commanding presence. His voice is | occasionally heard in debate, and he is by l no means inactive. He defeated the versa | tile Colonel Dick Blue, soldier of the war l for the union, by over 10000 majority. As | Colonel Blue, with only term to his credit,
 was left at the starting post two years ago, | so was the Rev. MT. BotlSin left last fall | The political winds on the Kansas plains | shift suddenly, and at times with fatal eff | feet. The people who failed to return for l got to revivify Dick Blue. His successor is l republican of the euphemistic name of l Bailey.
 | Nemesis seems to follow the track of con- | sressmen who have worn sacerdotal gowns. | The Rev. Luther F. Mckinney, of New | Hampshire-more recently of Maine-fllled | the house with parsonike pleading when
 the Mckinley bill was under considera- l tion; yet his career was limited to two l terms. The Rev. John Anderson, of Kan l sas, had similar career. and also the Rev. l Posey Green Lester, Baptist preacher I from Virginia. The Rev. John s. Hender- | son, of North Carolina, also fell into the | slough of despond. One of the most re- l markable men that ever represented Dela- 1 ware in congress was the Rev Jonathan l S. Willis, Methodist clergyman. In man | ner and appearance. he resembled the Hon. | George D. Tillman, of South Carolina. His | speeches smacked of honest conviction, and were fully equal to any delivered by Till- l man, which, of itself, is the highest en- I pOnI1D1 that he maid them Nh | one who has ever heard Willis stand at l the mouth of the main aisle and address 1 the house will ever forget 1t. The scene was always dramatic, full of interest, and | the speech attractive. Willis, however, | lasted only one term, and was succeeded | by the Hon. l.. Irving Handy, whose repu- l tation as an orator is national. MT.
 Handy. however, like MT. Willis, was
 budded blossomed, and faded in one term. l Preachers seem to have hard luck in the | house. Their constituents evidently think | that congress is no place in which to serve | ,a Iar ic fbo