Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-08-12

and to inability TO get once are compelled to
reiaru home
There plenty of evidences that former rep
reseniatives Who have chosen. after having once
been defeated in the home district TO stay away
from the native heath. are no: altogether free
from the criticisms Of the home people. and per
esps there is reason why they should be When
. nan Sho has speat his entire life among GER
tain people is Eeaned away from them BY a short
residence Elsewhere It seems that resentment
springs. and feS denisls probably will come to the
Etateusn; that good many OF the former OIL
r4ak who stay in Washington in preference TO 60
Ing home without frequent intinations
that the people hack in the district regard them in
some degree deserters.
OF course there exceptions 10 every rule
and IN the case of senators and representatives
of long service. who poor and perhaps too
old 10 renew the practise Of the Law. to take up
again their mercantile business where they dropped
u serve their constituents. there is for
the acceptance Of orace in Washington in order
that the way Of old age may be smoothed.
Then again there are the cases OF men who
have been in Washington long representing
their states. OF their districts, that Washington
has become their real home. and here they stay
after a change OF party administration has re-
moved them from representative Office.
OF the men no stayed in Washington because
the place was like Eome. there should be
toned former Senator Stewart Silver Stew
AT of Nevada who died recently. He
ted figure the Washington streets all through
his congressional .lreer. and through the few
years Oi MS retirement PRIOR 10 MS ueasn Stew
arts hair and beard were as white rs the snow
On the top Of the Nevada mountains, but until
within a few hours of his death he was apparent
y as strong any cree that grows below the
mountain timber line
Frequently the former senators and represent
ltives who live in Washington appear upon the
uooT of congress. They have the right there to
appear because of their former services. There
Is one marked and shining exception however. to
this rule of occasional return to the chamber
where the legislative service was rendered When
Senator Spooler OF Wisconsin left congress in
1891. be gone six years. he declared that he
would never appear rpon the floor Of the senate
while he OF Office. nor would be go to the
capitol unless his professional business called him
TO practise before the Supreme Court Spooner
kept his word. He always had objected to the rule
which admitted former senators the floor of the
senate. He did not say 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 were not above using their personal infu
erce with their former Colleagues behalf OF
some specific legislation.
In the spring Of 1907, John c. Spooner resigned
from the United States senate After the six years
of his absence from congress was ended he had
been returned again to the upper house but in the
spring three years ago he resigned &c enter the
p-ictise Of law. Since the day that Senator Spoon
er LEFT for this supposedly the last t!ne ne has
not been seen in the senate Of the United States.
nor has he been seen in the corridors of the cap
ito' He is in law practise in New York. and oc-
cas lOnally he comes TO Washington. but unlike
many other former representatives he shuns the
actual scene OF his legislative activities
Gen. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio. who -as in
The house OF representatives for years. and WHO
was considered one OF its most picturesque char
acters n man lively and energetic in debate and
appealing personal qualities. stays in the Buck