The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
FOUND IN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE CON- GRESSIoNAL DIRECTORY,

 '>>>>>>>>>~~~~>~~~H f Attorney on one occasion. but comforts | us by the assurance that his opponent was one of the best lawyers in western | Illinois. He served throughout the war, | received four gunshot wounds and carries | in his body rebel lead.
 Mir. Rainey, Democrat, of Illinois was
 the valedictorian in a class of over fifty students. He had the exquisite pleasure <, of being nominated for Congress on the 20th day of August, 1902, 1t being the | forty-second anniversary of his birth. Mir. Caldwell. Democrat of the Twenty I first Illinois District does not wish his friends to miss seeing him when in his l neighborhood. He tells us he resides on l farm nine miles from Springfield and two miles from the village of Chathom. Judge Wade, Democrat, of the Second Iowa district was importuned for years to become a candidate for Congress, but persistently refused, desiring to devote himself to his profession. The Judge does not tell us how his hand was finally forced, but he does let us know when he was married, to whom and that he has two children, Julia Kathryn, aged 6 years and Eleanor Margaret, aged months.
 Judge Birdsall Republican, Thirty-fifth District of Iowa. has been twice mar ried-his first wife, Bertha H.. Schultz, de- ceased nj 1886; remarried in 1888 to Belle Johnston of Clarion.
 MT. Gilbert of Kentucky went to Ceci- lion College in 1868 and 1869; afterwards studied the Latin, Greek and French languages at Lyndland Institute. He | began practicing law at Taylorsville, ky, ] in 1874, and has been an active, busy law yer ever since.
 Mir. J. Adam Bede of Minnesota decided to go to Congress and here he is. Senator McLaurin of Mississippi married Miss Laura Ranch February P. 1870, of which marriage ten children have been born, seven now living. l. MT. Candler of that State traces his lineage through the Georgia family of that | name to illustrious progenitors of the Revolutionary epoch; has received some enormous rnajorities and is moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist Association. MT. Bowers of Mississippi was married September 2, 1888, to Miss Tallulah Gaines Posey, who is still living.
 MT. Williams, the minority leader. re- ceived fair education at private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute, the Uni versity of the South, the University of Virginia and the University of Heidel- berg, in Baden, Germany. Mir. Hamlin. Democrat, of Missouri. was admitted to the bar on March q, 1882, be fore the Hon. c. c. Bland, brother of the late Richard P. Bland.
 MT. Champ Clark of Missouri married Miss Genevieve Bennett, has had four children born to him; little Champ. Ann Hamilton, Bonnet and Genevieve, the lat ter two still living. MT. Benton, of Missouri, is the original offensive partisan" who was charged with "perniclous activity in politics. MT. Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, set in train some powerful forces, when ! in 1894 as owner of The Omaha World Herald, he gave up the editorial work to William J. Bryan and undertook the | business management of the paper. He married the eldest daughter of ex-Con- gressman Crounse. They have two daughters.
 MT. Lanning of New Jersey in 1885 pub lished Help for Township yOficers," which has run into a second edition.
 The gem of the new edition, however, in it's unconscious humor, is the sketch of Robert Baker, Democrat of Brooklyn, him of anti-free pass fame. Next to Senator Depew's it is the longest in the volume. It must be read entire to be appreciated. One thing is made sure, Mr. Baker is the greatest cart-tail orator of modern times. At these cart-tail meet
 
 were invited and freely answered, but challenges to the Republican speakers to debate were unanswered.
 Mir. Douglas of New York city is a globe-trotter. He has been round the world twice and he kindly furnishes a list of the countries he visited on these trips.
 MT. Southwick of New York. stumped Albany County in 1883 for Benjamin liar rison and Republican principles and since that year his voice has been heard on the stump throughout the State of New York.
 Mir. Edwin Yates Webb of North Caro- lima. a new member is surely destined to achieve fame as an orator, if he has not already won it. At Wake Forest College, he was debator from his society at the anniversary In February, 1893; one of the commencement orators in June, 1893 and won orators medal at the Shelby Military Institute in 1889.
 MT. Jackson. Republican, of Ohio, went West from Corning, N. Y, in 1866; soon after started out in the street-vending business, which he followed until 1882. Since then he has been engaged in the manufacture of muslin and fiannelette undergarments.
 MT. James Kennedy, of Youngstown Ohio. has six brothers who are promi- nent in the iron world, the oldest, Julian, being the leading consulting and con structing engineer in the world.
 MT. George Shivers, 35, Republican of Allegheny, Pa, ran as citizens candi- date, endorsed by the Democrats and was elected by the extremely small plurality of sixteen in a. total vote of nearly 5000.
 Lastly. turn your eyes to the white shock of hair from Tennessee. Hon. John Wesley Gaines. Time was, when in the sketch of this eminent man in the Con- gressional Directory you would find in each recurring edition, the sweetly bland assa that this eminent man became the leading experiment of free silver in his district. May one trust ones eyes? In the new directory there is not a syllable about free silver. All for the claims modesty makes upon us. MT. Gaines yielding to the imperious demands of a shrinking nature has coldly, remorseless- ly. cut shorn away from his sketch of 6is life, his prOudest monument of title to fame, and now conceals from us the fact that his white shock, like a white plume waved everywhere on the mountains and strong cheering the weak in the grand endcavor to make forty cents worth of sil ger equal to one hundred cents worth of gold.
 The latest sketch of MT. Gaines contains three lines. With the exception of Tim Sullivan, it is the briefest in the book T. H. c.
 Washington. Dec. 30. 1908.
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