The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-15

| That reminds me that John Sharp Williams is making a mark for himself in the United States.
 This is his first term in the Senate | but he is already making himself felt | in the ranks of the minority and has also managed on several occasions to excite the animals of the other side oi | the chamber.
 | He demonstrated few days ago that | he is not afraid of Joe Bailey, the ter TOT of the Senate in debate and fol years the cock of the floor in the Up per Chamber of the democratic side. i Senator Martin of Virginia Is the | leader of the minority by title. but John | Sharp Williams is headed for that dis tinction as certainly as fate. Nothing can keep him from this heritage ot native ability, superior knowledge oi political questions. tenacity of purpose and skill in debate.
 He fights like a bulldog tempered with human caution. He is always ready 1T | running debate to answer questions and usually comes out best IT, the con- | troversy. The opinion of most people | who heard Williams and Bailey in de | bate this week on party policy declare | that Williams got the best of the argu-
 ment and that Bailey met his first req defeat In an argument of this kind
 
 such contest except that he has al-
 ways on tap a wonderful store of politi- cal information that is never wanting | when he needs 1t. Bailey provoked the controversy in charging Williams with | lining up with the republicans on the l reciprocity measure. Williams was or | his feet in an instant and the torrent of democratic doctrine that he flung at Bailey's massive head al, in a bunch would have paralyzed any other mar | but Bailey Bailey's audacity and un- | blushing self-Assurance is all that saved | him and kept him on his feet unti Williams was willing to let him go.
 John Sharp Williams was for a lons l time leader of the minority In tn, House and was three times candidate O | the minority for speaker of that body He is natural leader and Is certain to take his place as such in the Sen ate before his present term expires ol l the estimate Of good prophets of al 1 political faiths are faulty.
 Williams is perhaps the best In lformed man on general political his tory in the Senate. He has made { | life study of statesmanship because h. loves 1t. His education Was complete | After receiving a fair education at pri vate schools in Mississippi and Ten nessee he took courses at the Ken lucky Military academy, the Univer sity of the South, Sewanee, the Uni iversity of Virginia and finished at thu University of Heidelberg in Germany Following this he read law under som,
 of the leading attorneys of Memphis and of Mississippi.
 During all this time he devoted great deal of his time to the study O political ecnomy. He is an authorit,
 on the tariff and most of the othel
 large questions that engage tn,
 thought of legislatures in all parties. l, There Is no dlscounting the wonder
 ful hold he already has on his coi leagues in the Senate, of which he | one of the very youngest members. | Williams is another one of those nc, } members of the new Senate who disre garded the time -honored customs O that body which decreed that new me , should keep their mouths closed untI the sandhedrim of the sacred inne , circle decreed that he was fit. f The record will show that John Sbar
 has been on his feet as often in thi his first session, as any other membe
 and nothing appears there to his dis , credit.
 , But Williams typlies the new spir i of the Senate.
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