The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
MANY NEW FACES
 IN NEXT CONGRESS Many of the "Leaders'' Have Failed of Denomination A ROOSEVELT / PANIC John Hungerford of. Minnesota Says the Rough Rider Is Disrupting E All Parties and Causing Gem
 eral Disturbance
BY RALPH NJ. wHITEsIpn

many Headers failed of renomination, And the end Is not yet for in view of the results in Maine it is no sure thing that some of the leaders of the present ma jority who succeeded in landing the nom- ination will not fail to pass the final tests. through with a majority of the House, and 1t may be said that only the most optimistic members of the g. o. D. have any such hope, there will be almost as much of a reorganization of the House committees as there will be if Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri has the naming of them.
 A round dozen of important chairman ships will have to be filed by new men. the present incumbents having fallen by the wayside.
 Tawney of Minnesota, Boutell of H. linois, Hull of Michigan, Scott of Kan sas. sperry of Connecticut, Mudd of Mary land. and Huff of Pennsylvania are among a few of the prominent republic ans who will fail to answer the roll call
 The situation in the Senate will be as bad if not worse. With Hale, Aldrich, Burrows, Flint and Piles certainly out and no sure thing that Beveridge, Dick, Depew, Scott. Carter and number of others may not follow, the Senate after March will resemble a picked chicken as far as leaders are concerned.
 The next Congress will have a greater proportion of new statesmen than any Congress has had in recent years.
 Is 1t any wonder that statesmen look at each other and ask with anxiety, ''Whither are we drifting?'
 ''The newspapers nowadays contain the views of many people well known in public life as we'll as business life, stat ing that Roosevelt Is bringing about a financial panic, Is disrupting all political parties, and Is making himself generally disliked," said John B. Hunserford of Rochester Minn.
 Men prominent In the politics of the nation issue broadsides every day against Roosevelt, telling the people that he is leading them astray; that he Is a danger ous man; that he is seeking the dictator ship of the United States, and probably the whole world and prophesying all sorts of calamities should his ideas be adopted by the people
 Did you ever go a little deeper into talk of this kind?" asked MT. Hunger ford. Do the men who make state ments of this kind imagine for one in- stant that the great mass of American people had not sense enough to judge what Roosevelt Is doing and what he stands for? If one mana private citi- zen of the United States-and his ideas constitute such a grave danger to the bus mess interests of this country, these in terests must certainly stand on very in- .l.+t fe no nj fn fear from anybody If the law is com piled with and honesty and truth are made the cornerstones of our business in- terests."
 "If they start giving Carnegie medals for loyalty and perseverance, under diff ficulties, there is a rugged sea captain on the Pacific coast that should come in for one of the first" remarked A. c. Witherspoon of Port Townsend, Wash.
 John Krioflch Is his name. and he is one of the most faithful captains of whom I have any knowledge.
 Nearly four years ago the schooner Bender Brothers was stranded by the ebb of the tide on the mud flats of the Kuskokwin river in Alaska. The vessel was left helpless about 20 miles from Boring sea. The owners were satisfied that the boat could not be saved. But Captain Krioflich was determined to get her off. He got together a number of Indians and even enlisted the aid of some missionaries in the vicinity. With this force he began to dig canal from the boat to the river. On account of the lay of the ground 1t was necessary to dig three miles of Sanal. With the compara- lively small force of laborers, this was an immense undertaking, although the ground was not hard to excavate. As it i% thA onr1 r1anr months to complete the task.
 -"When the canal was finished the work was only begun The tides at this point are high, but the vessel could be floated and advanced only short distance each day. But the workers kept at it, and fi- nally the boat was showed into the river. How to get the vessel back to Port Town send was then the question to be solved. The Indians were of no use. They would not leave their homes. and they could not have been of much help in sailing the boat. Captain Krioflich had one seaman with Aim, He enlisted a crew of four prospectors who had been stranded and were eager to get home With this force he started southward. He had a small store of supplies and no navigating in- struments In spite of these handicaps he brough the Bender Brothers to Puget Sound in safety"
 
 "Breathitt county, Ky, the hotbed of recurrent feudism, is on the verge of an- other bitter factional warfare said E. w Mcclure of Louisville.
 "Just a few days ago John Abner, who has been mixed up in Kentucky feuds for a dozen years or more, was shot from ambush. The Abner faction Is ready to 20 cunning on the slightest indica- tion of the identity of the ambushers.
 "These mountain folk, good at heart in their way, have this spirit instilled in them practically from birth. Nothing but education will eradicate it, and education penetrates slowly into mountain recesses.
 "Abner was a feudist of the first or. der. He was implicated in the old Har- xls-Cockrell feuds that ended only with the murder of Judge Hargis by bis own son and the imprisonment, just prior to that time, of Curt Jett. Altogether, Breathitt county has been the scene of perhaps 50 mountain murders within the last decade, including the staying of Mar cum and Cox, who were killed on the streets of Jackson.
 ..rhe outsider cannot gain an idea of the viewpoint of these mountaineers un- less he has heard their side of the story.
 ..I suppose it's born in the blood; the feudists themselves will tell you so. if you possess the nerve to attempt to pry into their affairs.
 .sWith the Callahans, the Deatons, the Smith, and the Abners, all feudist fam flies of Breathitt, on the warpath for their respective opponents, 1t would not sur prise me at any time to hear of a fresh outbreak of bloodshed."