The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-12-11
Printers Devils
At the Capitol

LII page feature, neaueu Trln-
ter's Devils in the Hall of Congress,
the St. Paul Dispatch in its Sun
day morning edition printed some
very interesting information ac-
companied by cuts. concerning
men who at one time in their
careers were devils in the print
shop and who attained places of
prominence in later years as
national law makers. Among
those mentioned in the Dispatch
article is United States Senator
Henry G. Hansbrough Of North
Dakota. The article referred
follows in full below:
The small though noticeable and
famous company of old printers
in the halls Of congress is led by
Henry Clay Hansbrough, the
senior senator from North Dakota.
OF all the representatives and
senators from the comparatively
new states. he is the only one who
has been in continuous service in
congress from the time OF the
coming of their respective states
into the union circumstance
that makes him among the dozen
oldest members of the senate. in
point of membership. He and
Gallinger. of New Hampshire,
share the distinction Of being the
only ex-printers in the senate; but
prominent in the house are four
men whose hands have not for
gotten their former cunning at
the printers case-Carter Glass of
Virginia, Victor Murdock of Kansas
"Pete" Henburn Of Iowa, and
Richard Barthold of Missouri
Two ex-melnbers of the house
who also are ex-printers are J
| Adam Bede, the humorist from
Minnesota, and r. 1. Van Horn
who has been representative
from Missouri at three different
periods since the civil war, his
last service ending the year be-
fore the Spanish American wal
broke out.
Born in Illinois, Hansbrough,
when nineteen years old, became
printers apprentice out on the
Pacific coast, in San Jose. Being
ambitious, in course of time he
graduated from the lease" to an
editorial desk, and before he left
San Francisco for the Dakotas he
had become managing editor Of
one of that city's leading news
papers. The first thing he did Oh
reaching his new field of labor
was to start daily newspaper
By means of it he gained wide in
fluence through the territory, was
instrumental in getting statehood
for the Dakotas, and for his re-
ward was sent to congress as a
representative, going into the senate
on expiration of his term in the
house, and after he has been
turned down for a second nomina-
tion to that body.
Though he is not so we'll known
to the general public as many
senators who have done less, still
Mr.. Hansbrough will go down in
our legislative history as the
author of the national irrigation
law, the army antl-canteen bill,
which has raised such general
commotion ever since its passage,
and the bill excluding liquor from
the capitol, which raised a temp
est in many a congressional braest.
But the subject on which he is
most enthusiastic, and on which
he will discourse at any hour of
the day or night, at any time or
place, and under any and all cir
cumstances, is North Dakota.
And yet he is one of the most
popular men in either branch of
congress, numbering his friends
by the score at either end of the
capitol.
Diphtherla Near Nc CluskY.
Just before going to press we
received the information that two
,of Haas children were taken sick