The Harrison times., 1911-02-04
Florida Man, Now a Corporation
Attorney, Will Sever All Such
Connections.
TO SERVE ONLY THE PEOPLE
Congressman Cox Of Ohio Embar-
rasses Harmon-Radical Program
Put Forth by Governor Foss-
What Two Billion Dollar Con-
gress Means.
BY WILLIS ]. ABBOT.

BY WILLIS ]. ABBOT.
Washington.-Whe w. A. Blount
comes to the United States senate,
as he will at the opening Of the next
congress, his colleagues will meet a
new type of senator He is a Florl-
dan, representing a state where money
and railroad influence are practically
the dominating factors in securing
election to high office. Blount himself
is not wholly absolved from the
damning indictment Of being a cor
poration attorney. But one of his
closest friends, Representative Frank
Clark of the Second congressional
district, said to me substantially thisi
viii Surrender Retainers.
when VIII Blount first took a re,
tainer from the Louisville & Nash,
vile railroad, almost 80 years ago, he
stipulated that it should cover legal
work only He agreed to appear as
attorney before subcommittee, sub,
NIT his brief and return to his home.
His contract does not bind him to any
sort of lobbying business and he has
never done any In his home city he
IS attorney for the Louisville & Nash
Vile, for the Bell Telephone company
and many other corporations Of that
sort This he admits and is reason
ably proud Of. But, the day he is
elected he will surrender all retainers
from these public service corporations
and will be only a servant Of the peo-
pie"
The Baltimore Banquet.
The great Democratic jollification,
banquet and love feast at Baltimore
on the 18th Of the month seems likely
to add to Democratic troubles rather
than to Democratic strength. Politi.
cal banquets as rule are loaded
even If the banqueters are not. The
! experienced politician breads them in.
tuitively, and | doubt If any one has
I been more dreaded than was this.
Gov, Judson Harmon as the guest OF
honor, was to have been the principal
speaker, but in came the spectre OF
presidential politics and thrust him
aside. Probably that was relief to
the governor, who likes to do things
rather than to say things, and who re,
Gently made a record as the only gov,
ernor who refused to make an in
augural address. Taciturnity may
count in politics and Harmon may
profit by the fact that the Baltimore
committee revised it's plans.
"JImmie" Cox Makes Trouble.
All the same, Governor Harmon
came east facing one Of the many
crises of his later career. Here in
Washington is congressman, one
James M. Cox, who owns two country
newspapers in Ohio, posing as his per
sonal representative. Many people are
alleged 70 be representatives Of ,Har,
mon, but so far as | am able to ascer.
tain, no one is But Cox is the most
insistent upon the possession Of this
honor
That might be passed over as com
monplace and trivial had not Cox in
volved himself in controversy with
his delegation which has estranget
the majority Of it from him and has
probably cost the state of Ohio repre-
sentation on the ways and means
committee
Fight for Committee Place.
1t came about this way. Cox-they
call him Jimmie" down here-went
out to capture the majority vote of the
Ohio delegation for the ways and
means, BY letters, phones, and tele
grams he gathered to his support the
newly elected members. The older
members, people like the veteran Sher
wood the men of affairs like SharI
and Denver refused to abide by g
snap judgment Of the sort. Now Cox
has served notice on the delegation
that unless he shall be made a mem
Der Of the ways and means committee
he Will see that no other member OF
the Ohio delegation shall be on IL
Ihls somewhat self-seeliRg position
would not have occasioned quite as
much comment had not Mr.. Cox an
nounced himself as the personal ant
political representative Of Gov. Har
mon Few people In politics believe
this assertion, but coupled with his in
discretion In the matter Of the ways
and means committee It might hurt
Some Fat clerkshps.
People outside OF political circles
hardly appreciate what is meant by
certain trivial titles held by officials
IL the building under the big Capito
dome, 1t doesn't sound so very fine
to be called clerk of the house Of rep
resentatives, But the clerk draws q
salary Of $1,000 a year and has the
appointment of nearly so men. The
doorkeeper-not in the House of the
Lord, but rather in the tents of the
Philistines-gets only $500, but he
has almost two hundred places at his
disposal The postmaster Of the house
gets like saIary, but has less patron
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