The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

HE liItt loHilCdi ue1edlS Tn two
 years Then he tried twice to get
 the Republican nomination for lieu tenantgoyernor. but his tariff senti- ments were too much tinged with free
 trade to suit the Republican leaders and he suffered two more defeats
 By this time Lodges remark had sunk down into his sub-conscious-
 ness and the more he thought about il the more he agreed with Lodge
 that he was a Democrat. So he
 joined that party and was welcomed
 with open arms and a nomination for
 lieutenant-governor. He accepted and
 was beaten at the polls, making six
 defeats in rapid succession.
 Still the big mans buoyancy was undiminished and he continued to
 say 10 himself "A man is stronger
 every time he is beaten" By this time he could repeat that remark forward or backward in his sleep.
 But the long lane turned at last and Foss was elected to congress in a special election caused by the death of William C. Lowering. Lowering, a
 Republican, had carried his district by d majority of 14.000. Foss re-
 versed the partisan complexion of the district and was elected. as Dem ocrat, by a majority of about 5000 He had only a few months to serve but he managed 10 work in a speech on the tariff before the term ex- | pifed Then, with the prestige of one real vict cry resting upon him he sought the Democratic nomination for governor. The convention came
 to deadlock. A committee was ap- | pointed to decide the matter and the committee came to a deadlock Then d postcard referendum was resorted | 10. every registered Democrat in the state being asked his preference | Foss won by three postal cards. On i election day he was the only man in
 the ticket to be elected winning by
 a handsome plurality of 33,000 votes.
 This year his plurality is cut down
 to 5000 0" whereabouts, but even his i political enemies admit that his ad- ministration has been both strong and businesslike His opponent this year, Frothingham, refused indeed to
 make the campaign on state issues, | hoping for better results by bringing l forward the tariff. Foss, therefore i dOnned his old gray campaigning coat and talked tariff again; and | again. while the rest of the Demo- cratic ticket was submerged, his own buoyant form floated proudly
 on the surface, despite the fact that l Henry NJ. Whitney, and Richard Ol- hey, and other big Bay State Demo
 crats of conservative tendencies re-
 fused to support the ticket. Foss 1 had become too radical for them and | Alio NdIiip ptllSII NllIS stdl W as
 ed by men like George Fred Will
 jams who are characterized as more
 radical than either Bryan or Hearst | While Eugene Noble Foss was born | in Vermont and spent two years at 1 the state university, he is described
 as being more of the Western than
 of the New England type. He is a i rough and ready man whose cloth ] ing, no matter how well tailored, l quickly takes on a neglige sort of air He is what is called "a self-made
 man" and, says one of the Washing | ton spondents-W. s. Couch it is evident at once on meeting
 him that he didn't waste much time with emery paper in his work on himself" The same writer gives
 us, in the New York World. this pen
 picture:
 Floss is perhaps six feet tall broad, large butt man and stout His flesh wrinkles and rolls when he sits down in his office chair and slouches into characteristic, comfortable position. Here again his pose is all Western. A big, wellpro-
 portioned head surmounts the big | body. His face is broad and fat, but the strong, fundamental lines of it
 stand out. His forehead is low but broad; his nose is prominent and | curved, his chin is square and out thrust, and wide, ragged, sandy
 mustache covers wide, straight
 mouth. His eyes are brown, direct and keen and sheltered by heavy,
 shaggy, sandy brows. His brown
 hair is growing a bit thin, but it has
 no touch of gray.
 Floss dresses we'll and neatly, yet he gives the impression of not be- ing we'll groomed, or of not bothering
 much about it. His build is that of the man who makes a new suit look old and wrinkled the first time he
 sits down in it. Your first impress
 sion of him, punched in an attitude
 of languid comfort in a wide office
 chair. is that he is slow-slow of
 motion, slow of thought, slow of speech. His eyes seem lazy as they slowly size you up from the 1