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

crat and the former speaker a Repub-
lIcan. Posts election was entirely I'M
expected by the Republicans, as it was
believed that General Keifer had a
life lease on the seat. Keller was one
OF the most picturesque figures in con-
gress-one of the men who returned
after twenty years of private life. Mr.
Post is another man with record of
hardship in early youth, struggle
from the farm, paying for his educa-
ton as he went along by teaching
school. He is a college graduate, a
lawyer and farmer.
Frank B. Willis Republican, Eighth
Ohio, was elected to the seat of Ralph
d. Cole, having defeated Cole in the
primary. Willis was designated in his
campaign circular as a free and pro-
gressive Republican" He is 38 years
University, where he was professor of
political economy. He has been a
member of the Ohio legislature and is
author of the Willis municipal code
law.
Horatio c. Claypool, Democrat, will
represent the Grosvenor district, the
Eleventh Ohio, succeeding Albert Doug
las, Republican. He is one of the many
self-made men who will be in the new
congress, whose stories read much
alike. Born in obscurity, hard work
on farm, coal digger at IT, educat-
ing himself, and finally graduating at
the Normal University at Lebanon; a
schoolteacher, then attorney, prosecut-
ing attorney, judge of probate, and
e fhen the triumph-his election to
Ellsworth r. Bathrick, Democrat,
Nineteenth Ohio, SUCCEEDS w A. Thorn
as Republican. He'll is a native of
Michigan. taught school in Michigan
and Kentucky, was a reporter on Co
lumbus and Cleveland papers, a mer-
chant nd afTa 1,a
oil manufacturing business in New
York. While in New York he bolted
Mayor Van Wyck's nomination, was
with the Henry George campaign, but
bolted and went over to Low when
Henry George died. Ten years ago he
went to Akron, and has been a manu-
facturer and real estate dealer there
ever since.
One of the young men Of the new
congress is Robert ]. Buckley, Demo-
crat, elected to succeed ]. H. Cassidy,
in the Twenty-first Ohio. He has had
no public career and only graduated
from Harvard in 1902. In 1905 he en-
gagged in the practice of law at Cleve-
land. He is from the district so long
represented by Senator Theodore Bur-
ton.
The Kansas Changes.
Out in Kansas, besides Mitchell from
the Second district will come Reese,
insurgent, to succeed Irrigation" Bill
Reeder in the Sixth district; Jackson,
inSurgent, to succeed James M. Miller
in the Fourth district and Young, in
surgent, to succeed Judge William A
Calderhead in the Fifth district Mill
Ter, Reeder and Calderhead, like Scott,
are regulars. The defeated members
served over ten years in the House.
One of the several insurgents from
the far west is A. w. Lafferty. Repub
llcan, Second Oregon, who defeated w.
r. Ellis in the primaries. He was six
years in the state, and is no doubt con-
sidered carpet-bagger by many old
timers of Oregon. He was formerly
from Missouri, and was sent to Oregon
by the Department of Justice to prose-
cute the land frauds. He is 35 years
old, with a command of vigorous Ian
guage, which he is not afraid to use.
c. c. Bowman, Republican, elected
to succeed H. w. Palmer. Republican,
was surprise as the Republicans
generally conceded the Eleventh Penn
sylvania district to the Democrats on
account of local conditions He is a
graduate of Union college, a civil en-
gineer by profession, an6 now largely
| interested in the coal business. The
only other Office he has eve- held was
mayor of Pittston.
Thomas S. Crago, Republican, Tween
ty-third Pennsylvania, succeeds A. P.
Cooper, Republican He was born in
1866, a graduate of Princeton, and a
Company K, in the Fighting Tenth
Pennsylvania volunteers, which saw
! active service in the Philippines. He
was delegate to the national conven-
| ton in 1904.
| Stephen G.. Porter, Republican, sue
ceeds W. H. Graham of the same par
| ty in the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania
| district. Heis a native of Ohio. and the
only public office he ever held was So
! licitor of Allegheny City.
John w. Davis, Democrat, First
West Virginia, succeeds W. P. Hub
| bard, Republican. West Virginia Dem
ocrats expect great things of Davis,
who is a lawyer and one of the i'm
portant men in their party. He was
| the floor leader of the majority when
| the Democrats had control of the
House of Delegates in 1899. He was
delegate to the national convention in
1904, and has taken a prominent part
| in the Democratic councils. He is a
graduate of Washington ard Lee Uni
versity, and was professor of law in
that institution. Davis is only 81 years
old.
M E. Burke has been elected in the
Seventh Wisconsin district He is a
Democrat and succeeds Charles H.
Weisse of the same party, who de-
cIined a denomination.
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