The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-22

Washington, June 21-(SpeciaD-Some years ago was sitting beside Walter
 Harris in the press gallery of the national
 House of Representatives. and chat ttine
 with him about men, things and events,
 past, present and to be. Then, as now,
 he was an exceedingly engaging man in
 social converse and a Virginian to the
 marrow. He was the representative at
 the national capitol of the leading daily paper of the Old Dominion and one of the most accomplished as well as one of the country.
 | Suddenly he said: Look at that little man down there on the floor just in front of the clerks desk" l looked and saw little red-headed chap and asked, What of IIim?" The answer was that the. little man was one of the foremost men in Congress. "Who is he?" I ask ed. Garter Glass; answered he. Who is Carter Glass?" I asked, and then he went on to make me acquainted with Carter Glass, of whom I had never be- fore heard.
 Harris declared that Intellectually and morally Carter Glass was the equal of the foremost men in Congress, but in debate he sprang like tiger and held on like a bull deg. He then went on to relate that in the Virvinia senate and in the Virginia constitutional convention Carter Glass was a very Ajax of liberty and very pillar of reform. He told me of instances when this little man put his adversaries to flight and it was quite an interesting story, which I put away in my mind for future use.
 I asked Harris why Glass did not make more show on the national floor and he answered that Glass never cared for a. moot-court, that it was a republican Con- gross and no suggestion from him would weigh a feather, and lc effect, MT. liar ris informed me that MT. Glass did not shoot ball at sparrow. The idea was that Glass could get the applause of the groundlings, but that when he talked he must see some good result or he was si lent. I was then incredulous. I am so no longer.
 I charged the mans modesty to a con sttutional diffidence, such as I knew possessed the late James A. Mckenzie, one of the most brilliant orators Ken lucky ever produced, man WnO never appeared in public without stage fright Even the great Chatham had it. John c. Carlisle was frequently beset by u, and that made it so hard to persuade him to address a popular assembly or even the House of Representatives.
 But when l read Carter Glass, opening the present campaign Tor senator in Con gress from old Virginia, l realized what a royal Bengal tiger is in action. and discarded the th cory of diffidence. He is q fighter and he knows how to fight and when.
 Carter Glass was a boy of seven when the war between the states came to an end and by the policy of attrition-"my cat has the longest tail" He was in the town where he was born, Lynchburg, and vet a youth he entered a newspaper of flee He graduated and is now the owner of two daily newspapers that are con- ducted under his personal supervision, upstairs and downstairs. A dozen years ago he was state senator and in that body he so greatly distinguished himself that he was chosen a member of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1901.
 And here he showed he was the man Walter Harris pictured him to nc a tiger in action. Monopoly had some axes to grind. He saw to it in the fiercest of debate that they should not be ground in that body. Perhaps at the close of one of the debates between privilege and liberty in that convention carter Glass was recognized as one of the very first men in the commonwealth.