The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Tennessee Member of Con-
greSS Expects Again to
Sit in House.
TOBACCO TRUST
FIGHT RECALLED
"Willapus Wallupus' Slayer Elk
poets to Get Back to Making
Objections.
By JAMES HAY, JR.

John Wesley Gaines. involuntarily re-
tired from Congress, was a visitor at
the White Horse today. He came tc
pay his respects to the President
Mr.. Gaines, who, as all the world
knows, halls from Tennessee, and is a
Democrat, is a favorite with the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Taft, like everybody else,
feels that, with the departure OF the
atmosphere the despairing cry
zap in the membership Of the House
which no one can fill.
For who could spe&l, as Gaines has
spoken?
How often has he catapulted from his
seat on the floor of the House TO fling
the insult and the near-insult in the
lace of the opposition, How often has
he arisen when all was quiet in the
House and demanded in thunderous
clamor recognition by the Chair, How
often has he launched upon the serene
atmosphere the despairing cry:
Order, Mr.. Speaker! L demand order
IN this chamberi"
Virtues Oft Extolled.
How often, oh, how often, has be ex-
IoIled the virtues of "Old Hickory
And how many times has his indigna-
ton. righteous indignation, forced from
his lips the scorn and contmnely he
feels for the rules Of the House. the
organizst on OF the House. and the whole
tribe OF Republicans
The speeches OF the Hon John IVES.
ley Gaines afford the greatest study
IN the world OF human emotion and
human expression Indeed. there are in
those speeches limitations OF things in
Shuman, for Gaines recognized no Iimi-
fetions in depicting his own woe and the
Indignation of the Tho Walls
Of his wrath were never exhausted. His
desk never Splintered beneath the ham
lnering Of his mailed hand.
He has made speeches filed with
the fragrance of the rose and the
laughter OF the hills. He has drawn
into his utterances the glory of yon
rising moon and the pathetic setting
OF a cloud-Obscured sun.
To Set OFF Arguments.
He has set of his arguments with
the opalescent glow of all the colors
Of the rainbow. and he has trimmed
his masterpieces with the diamonds OF
wit.
But it is not for these things that he
VIII go down TO fame. He was always
strongest in his anger. When blood
was in his eye, and his mass OF da-
mask hair Haunted in the breeze, he
was like Ajax defying the lightning,
Achilles without a vulnerable heel. He
stormed ike Jove, casting his thunder
bolts at will and scorching his oppo-
nents with the blast of his satire and
the lance Of his denGnciation- He could
distrust every Republican. express that
distrust, and never retract the biting
accusations. It is for this. his anger,
that he win be remembered
But. aside from his speeches, John
Wesley has right 10 fame He Il was
who originated the prosecution of the
icDacco trust Urged on BY the cries
OF his constituents, who said the trust
was grinding them under it's marching
heel, he at one time arose daily in his
place IN the House. and ciamoring for
punishment of the Ubiquitous combina-
ton"
Besieges White House.
For months be besieged the White
House and camped on the trail Of the
Attorney General and all the time his
head was full Of facts and his arm
full of books. And finally the prose
cution was started.
No member of Congress ever worked
harder for his constituents than did
Gaines He entertained them when they
came 70 washington from the hills ana
valleys of his district. He sent them
All the documents they asked. and he
got them all the jobs and all the an
preparations In the power Of A Demo
rrat wlen the Republicans held the
balance of power.
he is student. When legislation
was pending before the House, 1T was
Gaines who sent TO the Library Of Con
tcreSs and had cart loads OF books
hearing on the Subiecg sent 70 his hotel