The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
ROBERT L. HENRY OF TEXAS
By sAv oYARD

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 of the American con gross. But he has other attributes greater and better still-moral energies that com mand a following Here is a man of rharacter-strong, fervid earnest, intrepid. There is something of his great ancestor, Patrick Henry, in his composition in that he would undergo a martyrdom in the cause of truth rather than live in his own esteem for one instant of time faithless and corrupt man. Mr. 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 persistent. I saw him do something the other day that was an exhibition of magnanimity rare, indeed. It was touching the ap- pointment of the committee to investigate the sugar trust. I wish I could tell the whole story as 1t was told to me-not by Bob Henry, for he never mentioned it in my hearing. I doubt if he ever mentioned 1t to anyone. It was a great thing to do, and l doubt if he even yet knows that it was a matter out of the ordinary. He simply did his duty and was loyal in situation in which many of his fellows would have failed.
 Next Thursday Bob Henry is going to fight in a democratic caucus for the dem ocratic party. A cuckoo has laid a protec- tion egg in the democratic nest, and the name of that cuckoo will not always re- main a secret. Henry and Randell and James and Harrison and Burleson and Rainey 'and Smith of Texas and others are going into that caucus resolved to
 +l,nt Faa- they will be defeated Before this letter Is printed the result will be known of the battle between those who believe in the idea of Carlisle and those who hold to the hersey of Randall as they fight it out in caucus of the democrats in Con gress.
 The Randallite who engineered the be- trayal of the democratic caucus, though shod with heavy hob-nailed shoes, will make less noise than any other statesman in gum shoes. As a piece of insdious, cunning, crafty subtle intrigue where by the minority triumphed over the ma Jorty it surpassed anything else in poit cal history anywhere at any time. l in- tend to get Life of Lord Sunderland to see if he did anything to equal this piece of mischief. As soon as I can get a few more facts and if I can get the seal of secrecy removed from some facts now Know, | II tell you the story of the pres ent ways and means committee and wool. 1t will surprise you.
 Robert Lee Henry was born In Texas the year before Robert F.. Lee surren. dered in Virginia. He is of Virginia Tennessee stock and as I said is a di- rect lineal descendant of Patrick Hen ", perhaps the greatest orator the world has produced since Demosthenes The c111n ic pnf r,nIx- born, but he is Texas trained, having been educated at the University of Georgetown, where he was valedictorian of his class. Then he took the law course at the University of Texas, and upon admission to the bar he settled in Texar- kama, and was the junior member of the firm of which his father was the head.
 That was soon after the first election of Grover Cleveland to the presidency, and about that time James Hogg was rising to national fame as a statesman. The present Senator Culberson was at torney general of the state, and young Henry became his assistant. Texas poli- tics at that time was rather strenuous and the chase of the octopus in full cry. I am not sure, but possibly it was