Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-28

surely reap rich reward. guess this
Is part of the reward
He Is no moliycoddle. however. for he
is a hard and effective worker and n
fighter for what he considers the right.
His characteristic I'm the latter regard IL
shown by his action in taking the gavel
OF the Ohio senate. as lieutenant gov
ernor of the state, when he told the
that Legislators should always
vote for what Is in the interests OF tho
people, regardless of the political out
come. He is a lawyer. and has made a
success of the law. skilled debater and
an orator or eloquence. He Is forty-five
years old, thus ranking with tho younger
members of the upper house.
First Allies, Then Rivals. '
George r. Mclean of Connecticut
VIII take the place OF the man whose
political ally he was for many years
Morgan G. Bulkeley. During the re-
cent senatorial conflict i'm the Nutmeg
state there was no indication of the
former friendship that had existed un-
I'll aDout Two years before between tho
conqueror and the conquered. Indeed,
II Is interesting now TO recall that
MI Mclean was defeated for election
as senator Few years before mainly
because of his close alliance with sem
ator ulkeley. The latter was then 4
member OF the Senate and IL was con-
tended by the opponents OF Mr. Nc
Lean that Mclean had an office in the
same building with Mr.. Buckley and
that they We're in close touch with
each other at all times and that Nc
Leans election would mean two votes
in the Senate by one man. Senator
won that election. and the
which sounds so impossible
now is held largely responsible.
Mr.. Mclean and Mr.. Bulkeley parted
company during the campaign for the
republican presidential nomination. Mr.
Mclean was for Mr.. Taft out and out:
Mr.. Buckley was publicly non-com-
initial. Thus set drifting. they fioated
farther and farther apart until they
Lean is fifty-three years Of age and
will increase the number OF lawyers
In Congress.
Enjoys Unique Distinction.
Charles F. ohnson, who will succeed
the veteran, the stately statesman. Eu-
gene Hale OF Maine. will enjoy the dis
tinction of being the first democrat
from Maine to sit in the upper house
of Congress since 1S47. and the first
democratic senator from entire New
England in thirty years. and the only
democrat IN the Senate. from that Sec
ton of the United States when he
takes the oath of office He got what
political career, having been
born on farm. He lis a prominent
Mason and has been head OF the order
in the Pine Tree state. 1t was fifty-tsso
years ago that Mr.. Johnson first saw the
light of day. and he has been dem
ocrat nearly all the time since He
will add to the number of legal lights
in the Senate.
Miles Poindexter. the senator-elect from
Walla Walla, Wash. can lie counted on
to enlfven some OF the dull debates I'm the
upper house. AS member of the House
he has shown himself king bee among
the insurgents. He was one Of the nine
republicans that voted to depose Speaker
Cannon during the revolt last spring.
He inSurges when times and events get
dull, and he will surely stir up things in
the upper house. He will be one OF tho
youngest members of the Senate. too.
being only forty-two years of age at
present.
Also Promoted From House.
A. J. Gronna is another member OF the
House who will be promoted to the Sen
ate, and among his claims TO distinction
svilP be his versatility. He is a school
teacher, farmer. merchant, banker
and legislator. He began the career OF
the rod and rule in little red school,
house i'm Minnesota. His interest i'm edu-
cation has continued. through his cleo
ton as a member of the board of edu-
cation at his home and his appointment
as member of the board Of regents OF
the University of North Dakota. He was
born i'm 1858.
Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, the democrat who
made Elmer j. Burkett of Nebraska q
republican lame duck, also joins the
party that walks from tile House to the
Senate end of the Capitol. He will be one
Of the few newspaper editors and pro-
joining William Alden Smith OF Michigan
and George I. Oliver of Pennsylvania as
the newspaper contingent.
To the variety of hirsute face adorn-
ment that of John w. Kern of Indiana
will be an addition. He was defeated
for Governor of Indiana. defeated for
Vice President on the ticket with w. }.
Bryan and defeated once for United
States senator when Benjamin +. Shive-
~ gave him a surprise. He Is lawyer
by profession and was born siNty-one
years ago.
Veteran of Civil War.
John ID. Works. who takes over the
toga now worn by Frank +. Flint OF
California, will be one OF the few vet
Grams of the civil war in the new Senate.
age from his native state of Indiana. He
will also he one of those senators 40
whose opinion i'm legal legislation MEM
oers of the upper house will listen with
He is credited with being
BORN lawyer and has been practicing his
profession since he was twenty-one years
Did. He has been both pleader and a
Judge.
The legal profession will be further rep
resented by Charles T.. Townsend, who
replaces the veteran julius Caesar Bur-
lows of Michigan. He is another who
1as served his apprenticeship i'm the
House and will therefore not he stranger
10 those who frequent the Capitol gal
cries.
Another lawyer to enter the Senate after
March will be James A. Reed of Mis-
souri, Several states can claim him as
4 product as he was born in ONO. be-
gan the practice of law i'm Iowa and won
-enown at the bar i'm Missouri. lie won
over his chief opponent. David X. Fran
lis, former Secretary of the Interior ana
president of the Louisiana purchase eX-
position, because. with other things, MT.
Francis was pointed To as a city man and
l millionaire.
Began as Mine Boy.
From mule driver to senator sum-
narizes the career, up 10 the present. OF