Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-27
JENKINS NOT ONE
OF The LEADERS
So Says the Editor OF Success Mag
ax;ne in Letter to Rusk County
Inquirer

Inquirer
'Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have
greatness thrust upon them" OF
course there are Others some who
never dream of greatness for them
selves, but are satisfied to plod along
as just common folk. Yet we all
have certain pride in being able to
say that we are acquainted with or
related to some truly great man, or
perchance we have at some time
seen a great man or heard him speak.
The farmer who sends his son to
the city to ''make his fortune" (he'd
make it quicker by staying at home),
tells his neighbors with pride of the
rapid strides his boy John is making
in the great world of trade.
The man we send to represent us
in the legislature or in congress we
are interested in and have just
pride in his successes and, should he
rise to q degree OF greatness where
as q leader he becomes a national
character, some of us feel that we
are under obligations to our country
to retain him in Office, regardless of
our personal preferance.
Such a man has our congressman
proclaimed himself to be. We have
heard from his own lips that he is
chairman of the most important
committee in the House; an d
Farmer" Peet has told us that Jen-
kins is the most influential man In
congress. Even Lenroot was willing
to admit for argument sake that
Jenkins is one of the leaders. And
| ii the statement needed cOrrObOra-
ton, the Rusk County Journal of
last week might be quoted"
"Mr. Jenkins has spent the last
fourteen years working as few men
in Washington know how to work.
He has earned by that ceaseless
toll the highest position in congress,
save one. He has placed the name
OF the eleventh district of Wisconsin
alongside Of districts represented 10y
Blaine and Reed, COnklin and Gar
field, Sumner and Mckinley"
Sad to relate, il not infrequently
happens that the honest OLD farmer
is lead to believe that his son in the
city has risen to be one Of the "main
stems in the business he is engaged
in, and the truth sometimes dawns
on the fond father in the nature of
shock.
Don't be shocked, gentle reader;
you never really believed that Jen-
kins was the "whole thing" in Wash
ington, did you? A citizen of Rusk
county last week received this reply
to q letter he had written:
SUCCESS MAGAZINE
29~31 EAST 22G STREET
NEW YORK
Editorial Rooms
July 22nd, 1908
Dear Strive have received your
letter of July 18th, in which you ask
for the official record of your con
gressman John j. Jenkins, and we
are forwarding it to the Peoples
Lobby for their consideration.
While the work of making up the
records OF all the public servants in
Washington has been going on
steadily for nearly two years, it has
proved to be rather costly, and is
not yet completed. 1t may be the
case, since Mr.. Jenkins is not one OF
the dozen or twenty leaders of the
House, that the records do not yet
contain q complete list of his actiVi-
ties. | know, personally, that Mr..
Needham as secretary OF the PeO-
pies Lobby, in spite of the vast
amount of work he has so far ac-
cOmplished, has been flooded with
requests for information. He Is re-
Gently back from an Investigating
journey in Panama and | will ask
him to look into the matter of Con-
gressman Jenkins.
Yours very truly,
SAMUEL MERWIN.
So, Jenkins isn't one of the dozen
or twenty leaders,! Wouldn't that
kill you! Well, the editor of the Sue
cess Magazine ought to know.
Chas. HYATT and family of New
Richland are visiting w. E. Clark
and other friends in this city.
Mrs. Will Begg, sister of Mrs. J. C.
Young, of LIE Due, Canada, was here
visiting. She left for home Tuesday.
VIM. Brown of Valley Junction
visited j. II. Johnson last week. He
was looking for q business location.
A. Webb, II. A. Davis and w. b.
Davis were up from Flambeau Tues
day and Wednesday on a business
trip.
Miss Josie Hebert Of Chippewa
Falls was here visiting her sister
Mrs. Bischell. She returned home
Wednesday.
Mrs. S. e. Watkins, mOther of Geo.
Watkins of Maple Hill, who has
spent the summer here with her son
and family, returned to her home in
Merrill Wednesday.
Geo. Heaverin was here from Apol-
lonia Wednesday. He and John
Lindoo are the two old wheel horses
of the democratic party and they
were conferring as to how they
could carry the county for Bryan.
Sheriff Reed last Monday took Roy