The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-07
BAILEY OF TEXAS, 49 TODAY,
 WILL SOON QUIT PUBLIC LIFE

When Joseph Weldon Bailey doffs his toga next March and retires to private life, the United States Senate will have lost one of it's most i'm fore 8 strain of sadness will pervade The messages of felfcitation that will reach the Texas Senator today, con graduating him upon his forty-ninth birthday- Senator Bailey is still a youth. as Solons go, and many pre- dict that the future still holds much for him of fame and honors The big Texan is bidding farewell to the Senate at an age when most of it's members make their debut in that august 1a.w-making aggregation of barrsters and millionaires.
 Whatever may be said of MT. Bai- ley-and William Randolph Hearst a lot-he has certainly been the most conspicuous figure in the Capitol at Washington for many years His Texas supporters, and some of the Democratic Senators, will tell you that MT Bailey is the greatest American statesman since Jefferson And Mr. Bailey would not deny it, for what ever his faults n9odesty is not among them. For the matter of that who ever heard of modest politician-or
 Personally the retiring Senator from Texas is diviDSiy tall, and he wears an air of command as easily and na- turaliy as he wears his black frock suit his Jeffersonian collar and white bow tie. His smooth-shaven face is strong and powerful. with the suggestion of the Indian in its rugged outlines, and of late has been pen sively sad, as if he realized the ca Iamity that has befallen Texas and the United States by his failure to he candidate to succeed himself And no doubt he does realize it, for in a previous warmly waged cam paign- when certain obscure persons who shall be nameless sought to de- prive him Of his toga. MT. Bailey said:
 
 some Of these aspirants. Then, my countrvnen. you will realize that 1 only gain by comparison. With truth and Democracy with me, I fear con- troveFsy with no man or set of men. If T am not taller than all then I am at least as tall as any of them. Send six years you will repent in sac1cloth ashes, In the great work of this world there must always be some man brave enough to defy the con sequences in behalf of the peoples sacred cause. have tried 10 do that mp to this time and I have tried to be that up to this time; and I pray God I may be that up to the end of time
 Despite the machinations of MT. Hearst. who sought to prove that Mir Bailey had had illicit relations with the oil can, he was triumphantly re- turned to the Senate, from which he COW voluntarily retires-
 scpiah county, Miss. was the birth ->i=ce Of Senator Bailey At the age Of twenty he was admitted to the bar and prscticed in Georgia. In that State he was q Presidential eiector in 1884 when he had barely reached his majority. In re1sS5 he removed to Gainesville, Tex. which little city he has since called home He was elect ed to the Fifty-second Congress in 1891 4 boy Of twenty-eight when he arrived in Washington, he speedily made himself leader among the Democrats of the House. and was the caucus nominee for Speaker of the F1fty-fifth Congress He has been in the Senate continually since 1901, and few of his colleagues would deny that he is their most forceful and eloquent forensic orator and debater.