The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-17
BY W. w. Jermane.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4 14s; Ha2sxE 81 GXx:t:x:NHa:sa
= BY w. w. Jermane.
Washington, Dec. IA. = The great
Roosevelt tidal wave Of last year swept
into congress an unusually large number
of political curiosities.s The new men
to come into the house there are nine
ty-seven Of them, mostly republicans-
include statesmen who were tremend-
ously surprised at being. elected, youth
full prodigies who HAYES barely reached
the age of eligibility for membership in
congress, veterans who return to Wash
ington aft r long years of absence, and
several comedians, whohare; counted on
to make the house forget Robert Baker
Of Brooklyn.
All Washington was on the lookout
for Honorable W. T. Tindall of Sparta,
Mo. Tindall has been advertised all
over the country as man who never
saw railroad until he was thirty years
old. He came to Washington with a
few friends to attend the Inauguration
last March. The party put up at one of
the medium priced hotels, but the
charge was too much for Tindall, who
had never earned more than $40 a
month in his life. His friends missed
him the second day, but finally located
him in a So a week boarding house. Ac-
cording to the stories told by Tindall s
friends, the newly elected congressman
expects to save about $4,000 Of his
thrifty individual, but is described by
those who know him as a"wise guy.'
When Tindall came riding i'm on the
Roosevelt-Folk wave that engulfed Mis-
souri, democracy last year, he,sent to the
stable an old democratic war horse
Willis Duncan Vandiver. Vandiver had
been in congress for eight successive
years and was confident Of reelection
last fall.
; They tell a story Of another newcomer
from Missouri. A struggling young
! lawyer was urged to accept nomina-
ton for congress. He refused on the
+ ground that he "hadn It one show in a
Thousand Of winning.' He finally
agreed to run when the republican COM
/ mittee offered to pay the expenses Of
! the campaign and to allow him 500 a
month for the three months spent on the
! stump. He was further encouraged by
the promise Of his democratic adversary
not to put up much Of a fight against
him. The most surprised man in Mis-
souri, the day after the election was the
young republican, who awoke to find
himself a member of congress.
:. Klepper Roosevelt's Friend.
Aaother new republican representa-.
tive from Missouri will be one of the
biggest men, physically, in the house.
His name Is Frank B. Keeper. He is
six feet four inches tall and weighs $50
pounds. He carried the third district
by $50 votes, overcoming a normal dem
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the president are old friends. They
Roosevelt was out hunting big game.
The president eyes lighted up as he
gazed on the magnificent physique of
Klepper.
"You are from Colorado7' inquired
the president. "a
:. "No,'' was the answer. ~ am from
Missouri, and my names Klepper.'.
"Then, of course, you are a demo
&crat,' volunteered the president.
"Not in a thousand years. was the
emphatic reply. II am one of those
fellows who are going to redeem Mis-
souri, and throw her into the republican
%column. y 80
Frank T.. Dickson, who was elected
from the Twenty third district of II
.,linois, is4dividing honors with Thomas
w. Hardwick of Georgia, who has here
tofore been regarded as the hghtes
weight physically, not mentality in the
house. His home friends proudly claim
that he will be one of the smallest al
I well as one of the youngest men in thu
] house, and they profess to see othe
i elements Of distinction in him. He car
ried a district generally overwhelming,
democratic and against a popular can
didate. =
chicago's New Representatives,.
From three Chicago districts, usual,
heavily democratic, come three republi
can members, each under, 30-years o
/ age. One is a young Hebrew, Anthem,
y Michalek, 81 years old, bookkeepel
4 working for -$15 a week. Michale]
4 comes from district made up largel
i of Bohemians. He was nominated be
/, Hcausehe could speak their language, bu
! he decided that he would make the cam
tpaign as AIN American, and appealed t
u his constituents in excellent English.
I K Two more youngsters from Chicag
4are Charles F.. Wharton, age 26, an
Charles McGarvin age 80, both lawyers
@McGarvin beat William Preston Harrj
Gson, brother of Mayor Carter Harrison
in district which was supposed
have $4,000 democratic plurality. Wha1
( ton and McGarvin got the nomination
+, because; no one else had courage t.
I, make the contest against what scenes
j to be overwhelming democratic MAORI
/: ties. ..-...g. ..-......
I s The Fifty ninth congress will hav
j among it's members another member O
= the brillian Hoar family of Massa
/! sehusetts. General lockwood .Hoar,
I. son of the late George Frisbie Hoa1
I. was elected last fall as a Representative
I from the third Massachusetts district
/, which for six successive years has sen
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