Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-27

Coggswell. Those are the kind of people
we grow up in Massachusetts, was Mr..
Lodges retort.
General Coggswoll had been reelected to
the Fifty fourth congress, but died several
months before it met. There was a uni
versal. demand in the district for the
nomination of MIR. Moody. Every news
paper. representing both parties, In his
d strict, suggested him as the man most
likely to do credit to that constituency and
to the state. Tie was nominated without
opposition. and in discussing his political
experience MIR. Moody declares with some
satisfaction that he was nominated and
elected four times without the cNpnudi.u rc
Of one dollar on his part. He made his mod
est contributions each year to the campaign
funds. but never spent a penny M ms own
personal campaign.
My election to congress trom the old
Essex district was a high honor and | re
gard it as such. 1t is a great satisfaction
TO have the endorsement Of your home
people and to know that those with whom
YOU have associated from youth and who
have known you from birth repose So much
confidence in you" Mr.. Moody might have
added that he never goes back to his home
town of Newbury without receiving a royal
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pride from his old neighbors at his success.
The district which he has represented in
congress is a notable one and its praises
have been sung by many statesmen. Scna-
tor Hoar, whose pride in Massa,h usotls
and love of it's people and history prompt
him on all occasions to sound its praises,
thus referred to this district in pranuunrinG
q eulogy on the life and character OF
General Coggswell: Essex, where Win
throp landed. where Endicott dwcli, where
Putnam was born, where Whittier sang
where Dane and Cutler planned the great
ordinance Of 1881. which stands, with the
Declaration and the Constitution, as one
Of three great title deeds of American
liberty. and where sailors put to sea fol
the great sea fights of the war OF 1917.
Moody IL R~cd-IIcadcd.
"You ought to go over and hear that red
headed chap from assaChusetts, was the
word brought to the senate press gallery
one day in the first session of the Fltty
fourth congress. The suggestion was act''
upon, and the Interested correspondent
were soon listening to a new orator a new
debater, a new statesman. 1t was MT
Moody of Massachusetts, who had caugh
the ear of the house and was holding thu
attention OF Republicans anu u'hl'''"'"' w
one of the dryest subjects of legislation
report on a contested election case. As /
usual with a new member, Mr.. Moody ha
not received any very prominent commute
assignments, but was put down at the bot
tom of the list Of republican member q
elections committee No. l. His first wor
was to oppose the policy of unseating mem
bers for purely partisan reasons, ana i
reported against his republican colleague
a celebrated Illinois case, where he cor
2 tended the evidence before the committee
( showed the democrat to be entitled to h
4 seat. 1t was on this question that he va
| arousing the house when someone discoN
q cred in the "red-headcd man from Massa
e chusetts" a new Legislative force. lie a'
S vocated a recount Of the votes in the ca'
and carried his proposition through Il
I house. His position that the republica
h contestant was not entitled to the seat {
d the evidence then produced was fully just
fed by an examination Of the ballots, D.
fortunately for the c ntestant a m.stll
n was discovered in a precinct which had l.
Is been before questioned and he was declarl
N elected by a majority Of 3 votes.
lie This was MOody's Introduction in I
lIhouse, and from the day he dared to eros