Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-15

looked and saw a little red-headed chap and asked, What of him?" The answer was that little man was ons | of the foremost men in congress Who is he?" l asked. Carter Glass, answered he. Who is Carter Glas?' asked. and then he went on to make me acquainted with Carter | Glass, of whom l had never before heard
 Harris declared that intellectually and morally Carter Glass was the equal of the foremost men in con gress. that in debate he sprang like tiger and held on like a bulldog. lie then went on to relate that in the Virginia senate and in the Vir- ginia constitutional convention Car ter Glass was a very Ajax of hber- tv and a 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 ! put away in my mind for future use.
 First Idea Wrong.
 l 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 il was a republican congress and no suggestion rom him would weigh a feather, and in effect, Mir. Harris in- formed me that NIT. Glass did not shoot ball at sparrow The idea was that Glass could get the applause of the groundings. but that when he talked he must see some good re- suit or he was silent I was then incredulous. I am no longer.
 I charged the mans modesty to a constitutional dinidence. such as I knew possessed the late James A. Mckenzie. one of the most brilliant orators Kentucky ever produced, a man who never appeared in public without stage fright Even the great Chatham had it. John c. Carlisle was frequently beset by it. and that made it so hard to persuade him to address a popular assembly or even the house of representative.
 But when I read Carter Glass. open ing the present campaign for senator in congress from old Virginia, real ized what a royal Bengal tiger is in action, and discarded the theory Of diffidence. He is a fighter and he knows how to fight and when.
 Carter Glass was a boy of 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 yet a youth he en- tered a newspaper office. He grad uated and is now the owner of two daily newspapers that are conducted under his personal supervision, up- stairs and downstairs. A dozen years ago he was a state senator and in that body he so greatly distinguished himself that he was chosen a mem ber of the Virginia constitutional con vention of 1901.
 Tleer in Action.
 And here he showed he was the man Walter Harris pictured him 10 me-a tiger in action. Monopoly had some axes to grind He saw to Il in the fercest 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. Certainly he had accomplished more than any other.
 In old Virginia is the finest citizen ship. and the reason is not far to seek. Take your Virginian and m him is less Of giile than Tol car find in common folk. Thus he is unsus- | pecting. for he feels that he is not suspected. What I would call Anglo Saxonism. in it's best aspect, I would | go to rural Virginia 10 find. gentle. sim pie. brave, candid, honest, trusting yet fnexorably resolute when aroused.
 And that is why the machine has been so successful in the old common wealth. The people did not suspect f. They did not realize that cabal ran their state government, appor- tioning place and honor among it's favorites. Not even in Pennsylvania was corporation rule more fragrant For years, and until quite recently. these gentlemen were members of the democratic state executive com mittee and it's controlling spirits: Thomas F. Ryan, of Wall street: Al. ! lItu nDliig EF4tANA NSHAn~A VI ~--- Southern railway at Washington, D C.. H. T. Wickham, general counsel of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. of 1 Richmond. Va. and John D. Hoarsley II do not pretend that any ono O. : these gentlemen is other than a high minded man. They have intellect and they ere men of character but closely associated as they are witN corporate interests. 1t is hut natursl that they should conclude that what ! is good for the railroads is good fol i the people, and in theory that is true, but in fact what is to the un warranted privilege of the corpora tions is bad for the people and that is what all this row is about. The corporations demand too much. II is our supreme political problem.
 We have party government in this country, though that is an assump ton rather than a reality. Then is