Las Vegas optic., 1911-02-28


his rotund case of countenance ant
chubby figure, fairly beamed on th'
inquirer. AS between attending t
legislative duties and running a base
ball team, there is only one choice
in the opinion of Mr.. McCredie. H'
never exercises his lungs on the flool
of the house, but they do say that a
a baseball game he has voice like
fog-horn. In movement he is Dotf
dignified and conservative, but at {
baseball game he is as sensitive as {
wire spring, responding to the cracl
of the bat with lurch that threat
ems to wipe out of existence all who
may sit near him.
1t is needless to say, therefore
that Representative McCredie will re
tire from the halls of congress tC
blossom forth as a full-fledged base
ball magnate. The call of the game
is upon him even in these winter
months, when the baseball diamonds
are buried in snow. He shakes hands
with his colleagues with as much
force as Amos Rusie ever put behind
one of his rifle" balls. Instead ol
sitting down in his seat in the house
like an ordinary congressman, he
dives for it with all the gusto of q
Hal Chase sliding into the second
bag. The chances are Mr.. McCredie
will put his savings from his congres
sional salary into the Portland, Ore.
club of the Pacific Northwest League
/ this year and land another pennant
Portland loves winner no less than
does McCredie, and the popularity
of Mr.. McCredie among the baseball
fans of the Oregon metropolis is
already assured.
Beveridge's Strenuous Life
Senator Albert j. Beveridge of In
diana, proposes to lead the strenuous
life. Strenuosity was not an acquired
habit on the part of the senator, but
was born in him. His intimate friend
ship with Theodore Roosevelt merely
served to emphasize his chadacteris-
tic. Before he finally settled down in
indianapolis as a full-fledged lawyer,
he had served his time as a lumber
jack, as member of railroad
gang which laid rails for hire, had
been a college debator of renQwn, and
had also engaged in other forms OF
activity. When he goes out OF the
senate, his field of labor will be full
ly as varied.
During the twelve years Senator
Beveridge has been in the senate, he
has. like many of his colleagues, par
ticularly those from the southern
states. laid his law practice on the
shelf. The senator is one of those
who believe that a lawyer should
serve only the people when holding
an elective legislative office. Conse-
uuently his first job at home will be
to haul out his dusty law books, brush
them off, and hang out his lawyer S
shingle. Next in order, he will take
his pen in hand and perhaps write
few books and magazine articles on
the current topics of the day. The
senator has already invaded the lit
erary field with great success and his
publications have found their widest
market among the young men of the
country. He will, of course, remain
in politics, and his friends say he
has a better claim to republican lead
ership in Indiana, which is now com
pletely controlled by the democrats,
than any other member of his party.
If there is to be a resurrection of re-
publican hopes on the banks of the
Wabash. they believe that Senator
Beveridge will be the political Moses
to lead his party out of the Indiana
bullrusheS.
There is another phase OF Senator
Beveridges prospective career which
already indicates that he will be
particularly busy man. His defeat
last fall has, if anything, served to
increase the demand upon his time
by political and business organiza-
tons which wish to have him address
them on current topics. 1t is safe
to say that these invitations are more
numerous in number and more flat
tering in quality than have come to
him at any time during his senatorial
career. If the senator has looked
forward to any period of peace and
rest at the conclusion of his legisla-
tive labors, these demands alone will
blast that ambition. 1t is also known
that Mr.. Beveridge has large num-
Der of highly attractive offers to go
on the chautauqua platform. Hither-
to, he has never appeared on this
platform, and it is still uncertain