The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-24
CAN TICKLE A
FIDDLE TO DEATH
"Nick" Longworth Shares
Bob Taylor's Reputation
JOHN N. CARRIERS MICH
Has Ready Memory for Names and
Faces--Lnte Representative Brown
low Did Much Effective
Committee Work
JOHN N. CARRIERS MICH
By RoDERIcK CLIFFORD

|
tor Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee. some
years ago "lddled himself into the gov
ernor's chair of this state, and all during
that campaign he was known as "Fid-
! ding Bob The title has never left
him. Now since the adjournment of
| Congress, a boom has been started for
Congressman Nicholas Longworth, for
governor of Ohio. The Buckeye states
man has not been over anxious to push
the boom along, but his friends say that
there ought to be no obstacles in his
way to the governorship, for, like Sena-
tor Taylor of Tennessee, Mr. Longworth
can tickle fiddle to death. Indeed, the
democrats of Ohio are apprehensive that
the Ohio congressman may decide to en-
ter the race, and IL he should it would
be an open field, for with his rich toned
violin under his arm he would WOO every
delegate from his rivals and win the
nomination hands down.
Just think of the Buckeye statesman
stumping the state with his fiddle under
his arm. why" said a prominent House
insurgent the other day. "Ohio. would
hold top of column, next to reading mat
ter in all the newspapers in the country,
and the railroads would be giving ex-
cursion rates" Mr.. Longworth Is an
accomplished violinist and can produce
the sweetest music ever heard.
|
Representative John w Garner Of
Texas. acting whip for the democrats,
is just the man for the important posi-
ton he holds. He has most remarka-
III ND
he can call by name nearly every men,
Der of the House after having once met
him. When asked to explain this gift
of memory for faces and names. the
statesman from the Lone Star" state
smiled and said that he could not tell
exactly how he did 1t. but he guessed
it was only trick. and that most any
body could do the same thing If they only
knew how.
You see," said he, "all of us have
our littla peculiarities and when you
once see the popularity you won't forget
1t and Immediately you associate the one
with the other, and hence the face and
the name dawn upon your mind. Now
do not like to mention names, but
will say that I recognize not a few Of
my colleagues by their walk, by the
information of their voices, by the way
they wear their hair, and the shape OF
their feet and hands. Then again I can
tell who is talking by the words used
Some men know few big words. and
they like to work 'em off on every &C.
casion.
Another point in identification is the
back of mans head There v a
strangeness about the back of ones head
that a man with q good eye can tel
| f-to ufr a. far QS "A
can see To fill the position Of whip yor
must not only know all the members, but
Just where to find them when needed al
roll call or before. And right here, lei
me say. there are members Of the House
who do committee work who can al
ways be found when needed And l am
giving away no secrets when make this
statement. People on the outside think
that Speaker Cannon has tho gift for
names and faces because he never hesi-
tates to call a member by name, but the
fact Is, It is the able clerk by the side
of the speaker who passes the name
up to "Uncle Joe" Yes, will admit
'UncIe Joe'' is great when 1t comes to
recognition, but there are not few
members who fail to get his recognition
when they think he sees them on the
floor"
The late Walter Brownlow of Ten
/ neSSee
| vice, did not figure much in\ debate IN
the House, but he did construction work
in committee where legislation is framed.
He was called the easy boss by his fol-
| lowers in Tennessee because of his good
| nature. Bronlow took a prominent part
in the national convention that nominated
| Mckinley for president He was the one
| who did the trick with the southern
delegates at the proper moment, although
1 H. Clay Evans, also Of Tennessee, who
i had q few trusty lieutenants, claimed q
share in the southern delegates.
Evans friends SO the story goes, were
/ working to have him appointed postmas-
ter general and 1t looked IKE ne woulo
enter the cabinet, when Easy Boss
| Brownlow rounded up some half dozen
i southern republicans and called on Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley and presented the
name of Judge Gary of Maryland as the
choice of the south for postmaster-gen-
eral. Mr. Mckinley told the Brownlow
delegation that Mr.. Gary should have
that position in his cabinet.
AS may be imagined, Mr.. Brownlow's
Influence in the postoffice department was
good, and the Tennessee republicans, with
/ few exceptions, placed their claims In MS
hands 1t was a common story that when
4 Brownlow could not be found in his COM
mittee room at the capitol or at his
boarding house early In the morning
there was one place ne was pretty suio
to be found, and that was the postofice
department Some Of his friends ehilded
him, good-naturedly, with sleeping In that
department SO that no Tennessee post
OFFICES could escape him.
Officials of the agricultural department
say that there is no dnager of a shortage
of food stuffs in the United States, for
since the south has discovered a process
by which cotton seed can be turned Into
a meal, or -four. a short wheat crop would
mot create an advance In the price Of
bread. Cotton seed meal. say officials OF
the department. Is a good substitution for
flour, although it has not the light color
lof wheat, but It's nutritite qualities ex-
coed that contained in wheat If the
linen. engaged In producing cotton seed
meal advertised the merits of cotton seed
lmeal and quoted from the reports Of the
experts of the agricultural department.
which places that product in the front
rank of foodstuffs, the demand for 1t
would soon grow to such point that
cotton seed would be close second to
wheat.