The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

afterward following that profession.
For eight years he was superintendent
of the State Association of County SUI
perintendents of Schools.
Finley H Gray, Democrat, Sixth In
diana is the only new man elected in
Indiana, and succeeds w. o. Barnard
in the Watson district He is a lawyer
who began at the bottom of the ladder
working on a farm and giving his
spare time to study. He finally worked
his way through high school and Sc
cured a college education, was ad-
mitted to the bar, and after several
years of practice came to the front as
a Democratic politician The only office
he has ever held was mayor of Con-
nersville, his home.
Hull Gives Way to Prouty.
S. F. Prouty, Republican. Seventh
Iowa, defeated John A. II Hull, chair
man of the military committee, after
he had represented the Des MoineS
district for twenty years. A mother
less boy, one of a large family, arrived
in Iowa from Ohio back in 1852. In
1889 that boy became a judge of an
important court and last year he was
elected to Congress. He belongs to
the insurgent or Cummins' wing of the
Republican party. Three times before
he contested in the primaries for Hulls
seat, but 1t was not until last year that
he succeeded. Judge PrCuty has gone
through all the hardships of a poor
boy from the fronties, but managed to
graduate from the Central University
and secure a legal education. He was
a member of the state legislature at "a
and since that time has had success
full law practice.
Alexander C. Mitchell defeated
Charles F. Scott, chairman of the COM
mittee on agriculture, in the Second
Kansas district, in the primary. He
is an insurgent and Scott is a regular.
fob ic.
years old, but a resident of Kansas
since he was Z. He graduated from
the law department of the Kansas Uni
versity and has been county attorney of
Douglas county, member of the legis-
lature, and member of the State Board
of Law Examiners.
H. Garland Dupre, Democrat, Sec
ond Louisiana, was born the year that
Uncle Joe Canon first came to con-
gress, 1873. AS his name implies, he
is of French descent, as are the ma
jority of the members from Louisiana
He is a graduate of Tulane University
and a lawyer. He has been assistant
city attorney of New Orleans and
speaker of the Louisiana house of rep
reSentativeS.
Asher Kinds on the Floor.
Asher c. Kinds will be better known
than any new man in the House, and
as well known as any of the older
members. He is a Republican and
succeeds Amos L. Allen, who did not
seek a denomination. Mr. Kinds is
best known as a parliam entarian, is the
author of Kinds Precedents, a book
that is everywhere accepted as giving
the best information to be obtained
concerning the procedure of parlia-
mentary bodies. For sixteen years he
has been the man Eat the speakers ell
bow" and has guided that officer right
in making rulings and untangling
kDGtty parliamentary points. Not only
has he been the assistant of the speak
er, but of the chairmen presiding over
the committee of the whole. Mr..
Kinds came here with Speaker Reed,
and he now represents the old Reed
district. the First Maine.
Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Democrat,
successor of J. P. Swasey. Republican,
is an orator who is expected to some
day electrify the House. He comes
from the district long represented by
Nelson Dingley and afterward by
Charles E. Littlefield. He has been
mayor of Lewiston three times and a
delegate to the national convention.
When he left college he entered the
law office of which Senator Frye was a
partner. He will find in Congress a
classmate and fraternity man in F. c.
Stevens of Minnesota, as both are
graduates of Bowden College.
David J. Lewis, Democrat, Sixth
Maryland, who succeeds George A.
Pearfe, Republican, is a man who
worked his way from the bottom to
the top. He is from the mines, al
though now a lawyer. As a boy he
conceived the idea of becoming a con-
gresham, and has kept it in mind I'M
til success crowned his efforts. He is
the first Democrat to represent the
Sixth Maryland in many years.
John Alden Thayer, Democrat. Third
Massa chuSetts, is the successor of
Charles G. Washburn Republican.
Fifty years ago his father, Eli Thayer,
represented the same district. and it
was in 1857. while Eli Thayer was
serving his first term that John Alden
Thayer was born. The elder Thayer
was one of the founders OF the Repub-
lican party, but the Impeachment of
Andrew johnson turned him from the
party. John Alden Thayer is described