The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-14
BYRON u. HARRISON,
.MississipDi.

southern States have always been noted
Tor sending old and tried politicians
to Congress Unlike his fellow prodigy
Mr. Murray, he is married man. hav-
ing taken wife unto himself when he
was twenty-three.
AS In the interesting case OF "Bahy"
Murray, a Spanish war record was a
FACTOR in the political success of tho
third youngest of the new representa-
ives. sydney Anderson OF Lanesboro,
MINI. who is thirty. Although but
seventeen when our brush with the
Dons started. he shouldered his musket
and went TO the front as a private
of infantry. After peace was declared
ne went through the University OF
Minnesota, studied law and started in
practice. He. too Is married and he is
the father OF two little Andersons.
Another Harvard prodigy compare bl a
TO Murray Is Robert j. Bullkley OF
Cleveland Ohio. He is a year and one
month older than Murray, and they
were in Harvard at the same time. al
though Buckley was Junior when
Murray entered as freshman And
Buckley, a the age OF twenty -one, re-
ceived his B. ~ two years before Muir
ray, at twenty-five, received the same
degree. After starting in at Harvard
Law School. Buckley finished his legal
education in Cleveland and then went
back 10 Harvard four years ago to be
made master OF arts. Before com
Ing TO the Congress he was never a
candidate for anything except matri-
mony. in which campaign he was a
winner, two years ago.
The case OF the nth youngest OF the
new Representatives. Thomas +. Ko-
mop OF kewaunee Wis, is all the more
remarkable in that he is a sclf-made
man who had harder struggle get
ting 10 Congress thnn any of the others
mentioned. When sixteen he became a
schoolmaster, and while teaching I'M
til twenty one saved enough to take q
law course at the University OF Ne
braska. Having thus had to work In
order TO enter college. IL is not sur
prising that he had nearly reached his
twenty-lifth birthday when graduated
with an LII b. lie had been in prac-
tice but a short time when his neigh
bors elected him district attorney of
his county and two rc-elections fol-
lowed right along In row. Only six
years after earning his law degree he
was nominated for Congress in dis
trict opposed TO him politically, and
1t was an uphill fight. but he won by
just five votes. He is now thirty one
and the father of four children.
a Modern UIyxaes.
CHANGING at the rnngs by which
Claudius Ulysses Stone. the sixth
youngest of these new Representatives,
climbed. we come for the thirds time
upon a Spanish war record. and are
brought further UP TO the realiza-
ton Of how the present generation.
like that going before 1t, seeks 10 re
ward military proves with political
honors. When this modern Ulysses
commenced upon his warllke wander
ings far afield he was youth still in
his teens. He left his home In Peoria
as a corporal of Infantry. and after
serving four months in Cuba and eight
more months on his native soil lie was
mustered out to become q teacher in
rural, village and high school, then.
finally. in a smallcollege. When only
twenty-three his fellow Peorians
elected him county superintendent OF
schools. and he wns directly afterwards
re- elected.
While teaching the teachers how to
teach he studied law. but while still
serving ont his superintendent was
nominated TO Congress last fall, at the
ago of thirty-one. Although there was
no Penelope to wait at home for this
Ulysses while he was off to the wars
he wooed and won one when only TWEEN
ty-threc. ,.
just nine days lounger is James r..
Byrnes. new member from the fashion
abba winter resort Aiken. 5. c. After