The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-18
SENATOR HEPBURN CONGRESS- HARD
 HITTER IS DEAD
THOUGH SON OF QUAKERs,
 IDAHO LEGISLATOR WAS
 FIGHTER TO THE END, EVEN
 TO WAVING THE BLOODY

Washington, Oct. 18-weldon Brin- ton Hepburn, United States Senator from Idaho, died at his aparrrnent in the wyoring here last night The Senator had been suffering for several months from heart trouble and grave concern had been expr essed over his condition for a week or more.
 Many of Senator Heyhurn's friends attribute his death to an overtaxing of his strength in the closing days of the last Congress The Senator had been in failing health for several mon ths and about the middle of the last session gafB physician ordered him to take a. rest.
 Mir Heybuan went up into the noun ta.ins of Pennsylvania. and toward the close of the session came back in much better. condition His physicians were encouraged over the marked improve ment and recommended that Senator Heyburn continue to live out dn the country and relieve himself as much as possible of work in the senate Chamber.
 MT. Heyburn. however, had the repu- tation of being one of the hardest working and also on occasion one or the most stubborn men in Congress, The Saturday night when Congress was scheduled to adjourn found him rose resolution providing for a sweep ing inquiry into campaign conrrlpu- tionse
 Mir. Heyburn yriva1led Senator La Toilette as a fi1fbuster and it was ap- parent that he intended to exert h1nl-. self to the end in holding up the cam- paign resolution.
 Senator Hepburn almost always sided, tried to .ea1I him off, but he refused. He managed to prevent the passage or the resolution on Saturday night, but he had severely overtaxed his strength and in the early hours of the morning a physician had to be called to attend
 The : following Monday zaornine found Senator Heyburn's seat vacant He was sick in bed.
 Senator Hepburn was born in Dela. ware county, Pennsylvania, on May g, 1852 His parents were Quakers. He was admitted to the bar in 1876 and went to Idaho, where he specialized In mining law, gaining the reputation of being one of the best equipped advis- CTS on this phase Of the Law in the United States.
 MT. Heyburn got his start in politics in 1896 wa1en he refused to follow the bolting Idaho Free Silver Republicans Congress in 1898, but was defeated by a fusion of Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans. When Idaho however. MT. Heyburn rode into the Senate in 1903 as a Ierotectionist and gold Republican
 From the day of his appearance in Congress he earned the reputation of being a, virile, ab1esspeaker- There swas no man in the Senate who was so ready and willing to fight a battle sim gle handed as Hepburn, provided he was convinced he was right. There was no man in the Senate of stronger likes and dislikeS.
 His opposition to the Confederate veterans amounted to. almost an obses- sion with him. He bitterly fought on the floor of the Senate the proposition to give permission to have a statue Of Gen Robert E. Lee placed in the Capitol His bitter words in the Sen ate often led to the waving Of the bloody shirt, but for all that Hepburn had very warm friends among the Southerners on the Democratic side of the chamber.