The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17

Nard men and three Yale men. While |
lone was educated at West Point and
another at the University Of Berlin
Line up your House members in n
long row. graduated according to early
opportunity, and you will find an In
surgent on either end-the one-time
grimy young dltch-digger at one ex.
IRENE; at the other the son OF
Secretary Of State. Another's father
was blacksmith another's a inajor-
general A whole lot OF these boys
followed the plow; one was print.
ers devil" and another telegraph mes
senger. while still another travelled
abroad and went to school In Switzer-
land. one ran away from school to
War.
There liz more OF tho lawyer in your
fnssrgent than in any other faction OIL
the House. Fourhfths of the army
which voted Cannon from the Com
tnit,ce on Rules are attorneys. Four
ifths! That means s0fs. only 53%
of the membership of the whole House
are lawyers. Two-thrds of these In
surgent lawyers have been prosecuting
district or city attorneys. and over
third have sat in their state Legisla-
lures, while FIVE have been local
Judges.
Very little of the business man or
capitalist is to he found in this new
faction. Only one-seventh of the en-
tire force which enlarged the Rules
Committee are business men. Two of
these are merchants. three are country
bank officials, one Is a real estate man,
one an iron mine owner and another
who supplies part of the Insurgent
| amInunition--is the agent of a powder
company. An equal proportion have
been newspaper men, but quarter
! have been school teachers.
Less farmer even than business man
| is your Republican non-conformist OF
the lower house. Only three of the
| forty.three call themselves farmers.
and one OF these Is California fruit
| grower.
-Four .ffths are Middle westerners.
| onc-sixth are Fasteners and only TWO
| are from the Pacific slope 1T is wor.
| thy of remark also that majority Oh
| this faction were born IN the states
which they represent, although most OF
| these states were settled by pioneers
from the East.
/ The Insurgent representation OF the
/ States is: Wisconsin, eight; Iowa
seven; Minnesota and Ohio, four each;
Nebraska, Kansas and New York. three
J each: Michigan and Massachusetts.
I two each and North Dakota. South
| Dakota. Indiana, California. Wasl-
ington. New Jersey and Vermont one
| apiece.
All come from the plains or the Nat
| country. None of them lives within
| sight of anything that might be taken
| for mountain. except Plumley Of
| Vermont and Poindexter, of Washing
I ton. The latter was born on the MIS-
sissippt River, and the only other Pa
cific coast nsurgent-Hayes, of Call
| forrlia-came from Wisconsin.
Nearly Third Are Badgers.
The state of wisconsin is our brew
| cry par excellence for Insurgeut blood,
\ as we'll as beer. and by no means do
its eight InsurEent members of the
4 House represent its entire Insurgent
\ influence In that body. Twenty eight
\ per cent-nparly a third-of that fac
/; ton in the lower chamber are either
Il residents or natives of the Badger
1 state Those who, like Hayes. left
7 their native Wisconsin 10 SOW seeds
4 of insurgency elsewhere. are Hauger
and Woods. of Iowa, and STEVENSON
of Minnesota. An even dozen of the
House Insurgents are Badgers by birth
or adoption. Four OF the nine irrecon-
i cilables are Badgers by both birth and
residence. All arc either residents or
natives of our middle country.
4 OF these irreconcilables-the old