Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-14
ROBERT L. HENRY OF TEXAS
BY sAvoYARD.

With graces of person that make men admire him, and endowments of mind that make men respect him. Robert L. Henry is one of the leaders oE the American congress, But he has other attributes greater and be- ter still-moral energies that command a following. Here is a man of char acter-strong. fervid, earnest. in trepid. There is something of his great ancestor Patrick Henry in his composition in that he would under go a martyrdom in the cause of truth rather than live in his own esteem for one instant Of time faithless and corrupt man. Mfr. Henry may be beaten: he will never be subdued.
 Perhaps there is no more industrious man in congress than Bob" Henry {. Certainly there is none more. persist {, ent. ] saw him do something the oth- ] CT day that was an exhibition of mag ! nanimity rare indeed. It was touching l the appointment of the committee to l investigate the sugar trust. l wish | could tell the whole story as it was . told to me-not by Bob Henry. for l he never mentioned 1t in my hearing. 1 doubt if ever mentioned it to any one It was a great thing to do, and . doubt if he even yet knows that it l was a matter out of the ordinary. He | simply did his duty and was loyal in a situation in which many of his fel- 1 lows would have failed.
 Next Thursday Bob Henry is going to fight in a democrat caucus for the democratic party. A cuckoo has laid ! a protection egg in the democratic nest, and the name of that cuckoo will not always remain a secret. Henry and Randall and James and Harrison and Burleson and Rainey and Smith of Texas and others are going into that caucus resolved to avert the disaster that threatens. l fear they will be defeated. Before this letter is printed the result will be known of the battle between those who believe in the idea or Carlisle and those who hold to the heresy Of Randall as they fight it out June in a caucus of the democrats in con gress.
 The Randallite who engineered the | betrayal of the democratic cause | though shod with heavy hob-nailed shoes. will make less noise than any other statesman in gum shoes. As piece of insidious, cunning, crafty subtle intrigue whereby the majority | triumphed over the minority. 1t sur i passed anything else in political bis { tory anywhere at any time, ! intend | to get a Life of Lord Sunderland to | see if he did anything to equal l this piece of mischief. As soon as 1 can get a few more facts and if can get the seal of secrecy removed i from some facts I now know. I'll tell you the story of the present ways
 and means committee and wool. It will surprise you.
 Robert Lee Henry was born in Texas the year before Robert F. Lee surrendered in Virginia. He is of | Virginia-Tennessee stock, and. as ! said. is s direct Iineai descendant of | Patrick Henry, perhaps the greatest
 orator the world has produced since | Demosthenes. The present congress
 man is not only Texas born, but he ! is Texas trained, having been edu- i cated at the University at George 1 town. where he was a valedictorian of his class Then he took the law course at the University or reXas. and upon admission to the bar he settled in TeXarkana, and was the ] junior member of the firm of which his father was the head.
 That was soon after the first elec- ton of Grover Cleveland to the pres idency. and about that time James Hozg was rising to national fame as a sfatesman.f Tho present Senator ] Culberson was attorney general or the state. and young Henry became i bis assistant. Texas politics at that time was rather strenuous and the ] chase of the octopus in full cry. ,
 am not sure. but possibly tt was
 during the Cuiberson-Henry regime
 that Standard oil was banished
 from the state. to return under cir
 cumstances I shall not here attempt to relate, though it is a story futile
 in startling incident. Henry was
 four years in the attorney general g
 office and when he left Austin m
 1895 it was to locate at Waco, one
 of the most ficurishing towns or
 Texas, in a magnificent farming
 community. Here he opened law
 office, but soon was forced into pol
 itics.