Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-24
A Rising Texan.

For years Texas has had one of the
strongest average delegations in con
gress, in both house and senate. Some
man from Texas has been to the fore
in congress constantly for quarter
of century, or, more properly speak
ing, l should say some men, for the
Lone Star State has and, excepting in
the reconstruction period. always has
had more than one of her sons in the
public eye at any one time. The i'm
press of old Sam Houston and his great
compeers is still upon that mammoth
and magnificent commonwealth. When
Coke, Reagan, Sayers, Mills and Judge
Culberson retired, it was generally
taken for granted that the glory of
Texas had departed, temporarily ct
least.
Not so. however. The youngsters
who came upon the boards still
maintain the high reputation of the
state. Culberson and Bailey are the
youngest senatorial team in the less
numerous branch of the national legis
lature, and they are second to no other
states senators in ability. Her thir
teen representatives are men of un
usual ability on the average. They
are all Democrats. In the next con-
gress she will have sixteen, all Dem
ocrats, heaven be praised, not only
Democrats nominally, but Democrats
who possess the courage of their con
victions. And they are good to look
at-big, strapping fellows, with great
heads, set on broad shoulders and
strong necks. They are the glory of
the republic and of the human race.
did not, however, start out to write
an essay on the Texans, though the
theme is a tempting one. set out to
tell a short tale as to how Thomas FL.
Ball of Texas answered Charles E.
Littlefield of Maine ON the trust ques-
tion.
Ball Is a rising man-indeed, he
has already risen. He is as fine a
specimen mentally and physically as
one will see in days journey. He is
getting to be one of the best debaters in
the house. On the Oath of June he was
making some remarks on the trusts
when Littlefield, one of the Repub-
lican chieftains, asked him. What is
the Democratic remedy for trustsY'
Quick as flash the big Texan re
piled. ITO place all trust made articles
on the free list. to deny the trusts the
power of interstate transportation and
the use of the mails and to inauguratc
an administration which will resort to
penal statutes and not to injunctions
in the prosecution of trusts In the
slang of th. day Balls answer was a
corker, a daisy, jim dandy, a joe
darter, a sockdologer.
A Patriotic Republican.
There is one Massachusetts Repub-
lican in the house who remembers the
lessons of the fathers, understands
what Lexington, Concord and Bunker
Hill mean and who illustrates the best
traditions of the old Bay State He is
Samuel Walker Mccall. the scholar,
statesman, literatus and patriot, who
represents the famous Harvard dis
trict. A good while ago there were
men who were known as conscience
w utSS. MCOdu lS CUuSCleuCG hc-
publican and evidently believes in the
old saying, HE serves his party best
who serves his country best"
On the memorable 26th of June
when the fighting was fast and furious
in the house, Mr.. Mccall offered an
amendment to- the Philippine bill and
delivered five minute speech there
on by which he can afford to live and
die and of which he may well be
proud when he goes to join Warren,
Samuel Adams, old John Adams. Dan
lei Webster and the other great wor-
thies whose fame is cherished by