Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-04-07
KANSAS CONGRESSMAN.
STAGE the State Was Organised For.
ty-Nine Different Men Have
Deen Chosen.
Kansas City Journal:

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In 1861 Kansas has had 40 different
men in the lower house Of congress.
or these, IL. or exactly one-third, have
been anti-republican, going under the
names of democratic, greenback, pop
nlist or reform. The representation
IF the state in each congress has been
as follows, the date having reference
to the first, congress In which the MEM
bers took their seat:
1S61-Marcus F. Conway, Lawrence,
age 81.
1S63-A. Carter Wilder. Leaven-
worth. age 25.
1865, 1867 and 1S69-Sidney Clarke,
Lawrence, age "a.
1S71-D, P. Lowe, Fort Scott, age 4S.
1S73-S. A. Cobb, Wyandotte, age
40; d. P. Lowe; w. A. Philips, Salina,
age AZ.
1S75-w. R. Brown, Hutchinson, age
81; John r. Goodlin, Humboldt, age
SO; w. A. Philips.
1S77-D. C. Haskell, Lawrence, age
S5: w. A. Philips; Thomas Ryan, To-
| pcka, age 40.
1S79-John A. Anderson, Manhattan,
age As; Thomas Ryan; d. c. Haskell.
lSS1-Anderson Ryan. Haskell.
1SS3-E. N. Morrill,, Hiawatha. age
40; S. r. Peters, Newton, age Al; Lewis
Hanback,, Osborne, age A; B. w. Per-
kins, Oswegc. age AZ; E. H. Funston,
lola, age 46; John A. Anderson;
Thomas Ryan.
1SS5-Morrill, Anderson Ryan, Pc
tiers, Perkins, Hanback,, Funston.
1SS7-E. ]. Turner, Hoxie, age Al;
Morrill,, Peters, Perkins, Ryan, Ander-
son. Funston.
1SS9-Harrison Kelley, Burlington.
age So; Morrill,, Perkins, Peters, An
derson, Funston, Turner.
1S9l-Case Broderick, Holton. age
SO; B. H. Glover, Cambridge, age 81;
John Davis, Junction City, age 65:
Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge, age
40; ]. C. Otis, Topeka, age SO; William
Baker. Lincoln, age 60; E. H. Fun
ston.
1S93-W. A. Harris, Linwood, age
%; II. L. Moore, Lawrence, age Sc; T.
J. Hudson, Fredonia, age 40; Charles
Curtis, Topeka, age 33; William Baker,
Jerry Simpson, Case Broderick, John
Davis.
1S95--Dick Blue, Pleasanton, age 81;
o. L. Miller, Kansas City, age 80; S.
S. Kirkpatrick, Fredonia. age 81; w.
A. Calderhead, Marysville. age 81;
Chester l. Long, Medicine Lodge, age
35; Charles Curtis, William Baker,
Case Broderick.
1877. d. Botkin, Winfield, age 4S:
Mason R. Peters. Kansas City, age SO;
W. B. Mccormick, Phillipsburg,, age
so; E. R. Ridgely, Pittsburg, age So;
". d. Vincent, Clay Center, age 45;
Charles Curtis, Case Broderici, Jerry
Simpson.
1S99-W. ]. Bailey, Baileyville, age
IS; ]. d. Bowersock, Lawrence, age 81;
w. A. Reeder, Phillipsburg. age 80; ].
NJ. Miller, Charles Curtis, E. r. Ridge
icy. W. A. Calderhead. Chester I. Long.
1901-C. T. Scott, lola. age IL; A. M.
Jackson, Winfield. age Al; Charles
Curtis, J. d. Bowersock, w. A. Calder
head. ]. NJ. Miller, w. A. Reeder,
Chester l. Long.
1903-The same as for 1901. save that
Phil Campbell took the place of jack
son and Victor Murdoch the place OF
Chester Long.
The first congressman in opposition
= the republican party was John r.
.oodin, elected in 1874 over Stephen
A. Cobb by the narrow majority of 713.
Goodin ran as ''reformer," and was
supported by the grangers, the green
hackers and the democrats. There
was not then an opposition member
until 1891, when the populists came
into existence and that party carried
five out Of the seven districts, gaining
another one still when a new congress-
man had been gained for the election
Of 1892. From 1860 to 1890, e period
OF 30 years, Kansas elected but one
congressman in opposition to the re-
publicans-a record scarcely paralleled
by that Of any other state. In a gen.
eral way II is to be noted that the re-
publicans pushed their young men to
the front, while the democrats and
populists sought older men to repre-
sent them. The oldest man ever
elected to congress from Kansas was
John Davis, who received his first nom
nation when his age was 65. Nearly
every congressman sent by the popu-
lists had passed the half-century mark.
The average Of their congressman was
81 years and fraction; the average
age Of the republicans was 40 years
and fraction.
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