The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-01

Preventative DARMOND-
Of illinois from 1851 to 1859. His home
is at Danville, but he was born at Gull
ford. N c.. in 1896 He was a close
friend of President Harrison. He has
always been popular in Washington
A man of plain manners and appear
ance, his Washington house is often d
center Of social gaiety, but personally he
has the reputation of being a man bent
on business first and pleasure after
wards.
James A. Hemenway, of Indiana, an
other leading Republican representative,
who has been spoken of as a candidate
for sDeakershiD. was first elected to the
Fifty-fOurth congress in 1894. During
his first term in the house he received an
unprecedented honor for a representa-
tive CT his standing in being appointed
by Speaker Reed a member of the COM
mittee on appropriations. He continued
member of that committee during his
second congressional term. Born at
Boonville in 1890 he is regarded as Il
self-made man. having begun life in
tannery and worked his way into law
and politics.
Like Mr. Cannon. he is a strong mid
dlewest possibility for the sDeakership,
and in the event of the former being
made speaker, Mr.. Hemenway would
probably be taken care of by being given
the Craftsmanship of the appropriation
committee.
LITTLEFIELD A STRONG MAN.
OAiC VI the l4lOSl PROMINENT ISeDuDllCdi1
representatives on the floor of the house,
and a possible candidate for the SPEAK
ership, is Charles E. Littlefeld Of Rock
land, Maine. He came to congress as
the successor of Nelson Dingley. His
speeches in congress have won for him
comparisons to Blaine and Reed. He
had previously served in the Maine leg
islature and has been attorney general
of the state. At one time he was men
toned as a candidate for the United
States senate against Eugene Hale.
Last summer Mr.. Littlefield was spoken
of as a possible future speaker, and it
was rumored that he would have the
support of President Roosevelt, whose
recent selection of the famous Maine
congressman to father the antitrust
law seemed to back up that view. Con-
gresham Littlefield is enc of the taIlest
men in the house, spare and lean of
figure, and with an immense capacity
for work.
The son of a York county Baptist
minister, he began his political career
as a Maine assemblyman in 1855, being
soon chosen as the speaker of the legis-
lature. He was a delegate at large to
the national Republican convention in
1899. While loyal Republican, Mr..
Littlefeld openly opposed President Nc
Kinley's charge on the Porto Rico tariff
issue. He voted also for Cuban reci-
prOcity, and has declared himself as
absolutely against the exercise of auto
cratic powers by the speaker. He was
one of the signers of the minority report
on the exclusion of Representative Rob
erts of Utah in 1900, saying that while
he disapproved of polygamy he saw
great danger in congress esta blishing
1 presidents such as those involved in the
disqualified ton of the Mormon repre-
sentative.
He is said to be even more radical
than Roosevelt; is equally frank in his
/ opinions. and always ready for fieht
He is fond of horses and the drama, and
one of his aohorisms is that congress
must regulate the trusts"
Frank w. Cushman takes rank among
Republican congressman who may pos
sibly succeed to the soeakershiD. BY
birth an Iowa man, he passed many
years in Washington, the state from
which he entered the Fift-T-sixth con-
gress, hailing from Tacoma, as successor
to the famous James Hamilton Lewis.
He is about 81 years old. was formerly d
! Wyoming cowboy, and taught school
and studied law in winter evenings.
His tall. lank figure caused him to be
called the ABE Lincoln of Washington
/ state. He has been against free silver
and was always a sound money advo-
cate. In congress he attracted notice
during debates on the deals between
the state department and Canada con-
corning the Pyramid harbOr concessions
in 1899. He has objected to the supreme
powers put into the speakers hands, and
the speaker a mortal like the rest o.
us?"
DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANTS.
/ Among Democratic possibilities for the
speakership is Representative John Sharp
Williams of the Fifth Mississippi district.
| Last April he fiercely denounced General
Jake Smith for his conduct of the Phil