Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-31

time since the war Kansas will not have
an old soldier in the Senate; Senator Har-
ris was in the confederate service.
Mr.. Long is native of Perry county, Pa.
He was born there in 1860. and Is just
forty-two. In 1865 his parents took up
their residence in Dayiess- county, Mo-.
near Galatin, where Mr.. Long grew to
young manhoods and received his earlier
education. In 1879 Mr.. Long went to Paola,
Kan, where he attended the normal school
for three years, obtaining an academic edu-
cation. He concluded to study law and
going to Topeka entered the law office
of George w. Peck, then associated with
Johnson and Mcfarland. George w. Peck
is now general solicitor of one of the big
gest railroad systems in the United States
Mr.. Long was admitted to the Kansas bar
In 1885 and at once located at Medicine
Lodge, the county seat Of Barber county.
Located at Medicine Lodge.
Those were strenuous days in southwest
ern Kansas Medicine Lodge was a thriv-
ing cattle town, close to the border Of THE
Nation" as Indian territory was then
called. and the law business was like placer
mining in the Klondyke, cases were many.
and fees were big, for those were boom days
in the little frontier town, where tender
feet danced to the time OF popping six
shooters, and cow boys rode, unhindered,
through stores and saloons, shooting up
the horizon" as they went.
Mr.. Long in Politics.
Mr.. Long is noted for being the organizer
of the greatest political machine Kansas
has ever had In his speech Of acceptance
Of the nomination, which was, at the end
of determined fight, made unanimous by
the party caucus, Mr.. Long acknowledged
the machine" and said that but for that
the seventh district of Kansas would not
be republican, but that he believed that it
was now republican for all time.
In 1889 Mr.. Long was elected to the state
senate. The nomination came to him after
one of the hardest political fights and
breaking Of one Of the tightest Of dead
locks ever known in the state at 3 o'clock
in the morning of June T. 1889. His record
In the state senate was considered brilliant.
In 1892 he was nominated for Congress in
the big seventh against Jerry Simpson
his fellowtownsman. who had served one
term in Congress Simpson won out but he
had lost 5000 Of his former majority in the
contest. In 1894 the two men were again
pitted against each other, and Mr.. Long
won. He has been reelected ever since by
increased majorities excepting the Fifty
fifth Congress. when Mr.. Simpson came
back for one term.
On his return to Congress in 1894. Speaker
Reed, who favored Mr.. Long because he
had defeated Mr.. Reeds bette noir Mr.
Simpson, gave him some excellent commit
tee assignments. including one on the COM
mittee on elections. Mr.. Long applied him
self closely to the study Of two particularly
important cases. that of a contested cleo
ton from Tammany district in New York
and the Tarsney-Van Horn repeater case
from Kansas City. Hesreported these cases
to the House and made exhaustive speeches
on each. The Tarsney-Van Horn case
created widespread interest, and Mr.. Longs
management of that case is said to be one
Of the most superb pieces OF generalship
ever witnessed in the House Of Representa-
tives, and Mr.. Long won, Mr.. Tarsney he
ing sent back to Missouri, from which he
was never returned to Congress.
Longs Two Great Speeches.
In 1899 Mr.. Long was placed upon the
ways and means committee. Mr.. Long ba q
not spoken very often, and when he has
his efforts have received the highest com
| mendation from his colleagues and from
| the country. His first extended EFFORT
| after going on the biggest committee in the
| House was a speech on the Porto Rican
tariff bill. involving the constitutionalitv of
making tariff laws for our insular posses
sions. President Mckinley was so pleased
with Mr.. Longs effort that he permitted
himself to be quoted on 1t "as the finest
and ablest that has ever been delivered on
| the subject" He sent for Mr. Long and
personally congratulated him upon his ener-
| getic and logical support OF the administra
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In 1901 the fight in Congress over the
reciprocity with Cuba began. It ia NOT
| necessary to tell what 1t was all about for
1t Is fresh in the minds Of ALL Mr.. Long had
| made an earnest, thorough study of Cuba
and all the conditions surrounding her, and
| he came to the rescue Of the administration
| with four hours speech in the House.
| speeches Of the day. He underwent a run
| ming fire of questions, routing his strongest
| adversaries, and again the President sent
| for him and congratulated him on his VIC
| tory. It Is said that Mr.. Longs two
| speeches. on the Porto Rican and on the
Cuban reciprocity questions. have been more