Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-08-13

and to inability to get Office compelled to
return home.
There plenty of evidences that former rep
resentatives who have chosen after having
been defeated in the home district, to stay away
from the native heath, not altogether free
from the criticisms of the home people, and per-
haps there is why they should be. When
a man who has spent his entire life among
tain people is weaned away from them by short
residence elsewhere, it seems that resentment
springs, and few denials probably will to the
statement that a good many of the former Off
Gals who stay in Washington in preference to 60
ing home are not without frequent lntimations
that the people back in the district regard them in
some degree as deserters.
OF course there are exceptions to every rule
and in the case of senators and representatives
of long service, who poor and perhaps too
old to the practise of the law, to take up
again their mercantile business where they dropped
it to their constituents, there is for
the acceptance of office in Washington in order
that the way of old age may be smoothed.
Then again there the cases of men who
have been in Washington long representing
their states. or their districts. that Washington
has become their real home, and here they stay
after change of party administration has re-
moved them from representative Office.
Of the men who stayed in Washington because
the place was like home, there should be men
toned former Senator Stewart Silver Stew
art of Nevada who died recently. He
ted figure the Washington streets all through
his congressional career, and through the few
years of his retirement prior to his death. Stew
arts hair and beard were as white as the snow
the top of the Nevada mountains, but until
within hours of his death he apparent
ly strong any tree that grows below the
mountain timber line.
Frequently the former senators and represent
atives who live in Washington appear upon the
floor of congress. They have the right there to
appear because of their former services There
marked and shining exception, however. to
this rule of occasional return to the chamber
where the legislative service rendered. When
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin left congress in
1891 to be gone six years, he declared that he
would never appear upon the floor of the senate
while he out of Office, would be go to the
capitol unless his professional business called him
practise before the Supreme Court. Spooner
kept his word. He always had objected to the rule
which admitted former senators to the floor of the
senate He did not so, but he thought that in
some few cases the lobbying opportunity might be
too strong to be resisted by some of the senators
who not above using their personal infiu-
with their former colleagues behalf of
some specific legislation.
In the spring of 1907, John c. Spooner resigned
the United States senate. After the six years
of his absence from congress ended he had
been returned again to the upper house but in the
spring three years ago he resigned to enter the
er left for this supposedly the last time. he has
not been in the senate of the United States.
nor has he been in the corridors of the cap
itoI He is in law practise in New York, and
casionally he to Washington, but unlike
many other former representatives he shuns the
actual scene of his legislative activities
Gen. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio who was in
the house of representatives for years, and who
was considered of its most picturesque char
acters, man lively and energetic In debate and
appealing personal qualities. stays in the Buck