The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-03-15
THEY WHO WENT BEFORE.


With one exception; the longest car
Ger in the speakership is that which
will close March 4, 1911. At that
time Joseph G. Cannon will have ser.
we'd four terms, or eight years without
interruption. Henry Clay was chosen
six times. but not in succession, and he
was in Office ten years in the aggregate.
Several persons held the speakership
| for three terms. Nathaniel Macon of
North Carolina, entered the speaker.
ship in 1901, when jefferson stepped
intn the White House, and he remain
cd there until 1907. Schuyler Coltax of
Indiana held the post from 1868, in
the middle of Lincoln's service As Pre-
sident, to 1869, when johnson stepped
out of the White House, into which he
had gone on the assassination Of Lin.
coin. Colfax would probably nave
been in Office longer had he not been
chosen Vice-president on the Grant
ticket in 1865, an office which he held
through Grants first term.
This is the speakership record on
tina, particular point until after the
close of the Civil Wal, except in the
case of Andrew Stevenson of Virginia,
who entered the speakership in 1927,
in the middle Of the presidency Of
John Quincy Adams, who was elected
four terms, as Cannon has been. but
who did not serve through the last Of
them. Chosen to his fourth term in
1873, at the beginning of Jackson's
second tenn in the presidency, he a
reused much hostility among his party,
friends as well as enemies. by the I'M
fairness of rulings, and the fire which
wa> 'G.cnel upon him frcm his own
c..,.-.itu. Its constrained him to resign
l.: 1884, In the middle of his fourth
term. One %: the charges brought
against him was that he WIS too sub
scrvient I" Jack>un. And just al that
time. "n account of Jack.un's summary
treatment Of CniI.nGn, Hayes and the
nuIliiirrs, some hostility TO Old Hick-
DRY was aroused in sections ofihe South
which had not favored notification.
After Colfax left the leadership in
lS6? to 60 to the vice-presidency,
Blaine WIS chosen to that office, and he
remained i'll it until the Republicans,
In the election of 1874, lost control of
the House. He was succeeded by
Michael c. Kerr. an Indiana Demo.
crat. John c. Carlisle, chosen in 1888
Just after the wave in the middle of
Arthurs term placed the Democrats
il: control of the H"uS,., held the Office
three terms. Samuel G. Randall of
Pennsylvania Vas also chosen three
times to the speakershiP, but his first
service, beginning in 1876, was for on.
ly half a term. Kerr, elected in 1875
died the ioi!".ing year, and Randall
succeeded him and remained in the
post through Hayes term and until
Garfield and Arthur stepped into off.
&c. Except Taylor, the Wing, who
was elected in 1918, Hayes was the OH
ly President who, on entering Office,
had the popular branch of Congress
against him.
Thomas Il. Reed, with whom Can.
non Is "ticn conn arcd, served three
terms As speaker, but not con>ccutivcly.
He entered Office in ISS?, at the be.
ginning of HarrisOn's term, but adver-
sity struck the Republicans in the en-.
suing congressional election of 1890,
and the Republicans lost control Of
the House. Reed had, however, fran.
ed the rules of procedure with which |
his name is associated, and they re-
NAMED after him. The rules we're ad.
opted by the Democrats, who had
fought them when the Republicans
placed them IN the books. Crisp, the
Democratic speaker, enforced them as
rigidly as ever their inventor had
lone. In the Republican tidal wave
IF 1884, which swept the Democrats
Du. of power in the middle "r Cleve-
lands sccnn,i term, the House was re.
gained by Reeds party. He was +
:hoscn speaker, and was reelected at
he beginning of the following term,
hat which began when Mckinley
irst entered the White House. He
leld the office till the middle Of Nc
Hinley's term. Reed found himself
mt of harmony with his party on the
dominant issue Of national expansion
which the Cuban Philippine wars of
s9s.99 had brought up, and he resign
d from the House in 1899 and began