Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-17

three Congresses, which means that he
has been sitting here, under the big,
white. iron thimble, since 1903. And in
this respect, too the average irreconcil-
able is more astonishing than the aver
age insurgent in general, for he has seIv-
ed still longer. One irreconcilablC-Cooper
OF Wiscons,n-is now in his ninth term,
having been first elected back In the old
White House. Only dozen of the fresh
men class of the House have cast their
lots with the insurgents and only two
OF these dozen stood with the old guard
at the last stand.
Another thing about the average House
insurgent. he is country boy, 70 per
cent genuine. Only three insurgents were
born in large cities. Only four-less than
tenth of thern-now hive in large cities.
Eleven make their homes in small cities
and twenty-eight (65 per cent) still re-
main loyal to the open country or coun-
try town. Yes, your average House in
sureent is still countryman enough to
wish his dinner in the middle Of the day
ard abhor the feel of hard hat
The irreconcilable Is two-thirds country
hred. but now more than half city dwell
- One frreconcilable uindbergh, MINI. }
Swede and two insurgents common
are Germans With only a few excep-
tons the remaining names are typically
american. like Cooper. Hubbard, John
son. Taylor, Gardner, Hayes. Kendall.
Norris.
And as to education: Only one Of your
House insurgents is self-educsted; only
seven stopped their general education in
the common schools (and all but two Of
these studied law later. Eleven have
high school, academic or commercial col
lege educations; thirteen have been
through regular law schools and eighteen
"a per cent? are college and university
three Yale men. while one was educated
at West Point and another at the Univer-
sity OF Berlin.
Line up. your House members in long
tunity, and you will find an insurgent on
either end-the one-time grimy young
ditch digger at one extreme; at the other
the SON Of Secretary of State. An
others major general. A whole lot of
these boys followed the plow; one was
printers devil'' and another telegraph
messenger. while still another Travelled
abroad and went to school in Switzerland.
One ran away from school to enlist as a
soldier boy in the civ,I war.
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There is more Of the lawyer in your in
surgent than in any other faction Of the
House. Four-fifths of the army which
voted Cannon from the committee on
rules are attorneys. Four-fifths! That
means 80 per cent. Only 50 per cent Of
the membership Of the whole House are
lawyers. Two-thirds Of these insurgent
lawyers have been prosecuting, district or
city attorneys. and over third have sat
in their local legislatures, while five have
been local judges.
Very little Of the business man or cap
italist is to be found In this new faction.
Only one-seventh Of the entire force
which enlarged the rules committee are
business men. Two Of these are mer-
chants, three are country bank officials,
one is a real estate man, one an iron
mine owner and another-who supplies a
part of the insurgent ammunition-is the
agent Of a powder company. An equa!
proportion have been newspaper men, but
q quarter have been school teachers.
Less farmer even than business man is
your republican non-conformist of the