The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-08

k@ the member 0f congress that gets Sszy up evvery day or so and fixes his Eagle eye on the Galleries and his right hand over the pit of an aching void and be- gins to aggtate the peecful ozone with lot of canned genneralities that is the most useful and effective so far as leggsasion and "doing thingso for the country and lis constituency is concerned.
 This is not intended as enny reflection upon the member of Congress that electry fies and eddyfies that esteemed body with his elloquince at stated periods. Not at all, for he IS an institusion that we could not verry well struggle along without.
 He fills d verry lmportlnt nick in the halls of our nasonal Legislative boddy He is always reddy to cum to bat and wallop the steem out of the hated enemy in rotor rical and sarcasitcle terms that sting and lash the enemies neerves and makes him do foolish things of which we can take advan- tage later on, but it is not always the loud noise that delivers the goods, and that is the point we started out to make. Having maid this point to our entire satisfaction we will now proseed to prove it.
 Alabama has yung member in the House that rarely evver makes speech. He'll go for weeks and weeks at time without onse getting np and saying, !" MT. Speeker," in a deep tone of volse and long tailed coat When he does have enny thing to say, he seys it in commun evvery , day United States language and m calm and unruffled manner and takes his sect But what he seys is rite to the point and rings twelve. He makes no attempt to sore up into the relms of fansy and bite few kilowatts out of the electric lites ovver- he'd. He is no desiple of Demothanees or Kyle B. Price, although he'd be no slouch of sorer if he took nosion to sore. They say that down in his district when he has an audyanse that wants to hear all about the sins and corruptness of the Republican party and the distressing evils of the tariff, that he can grab hold of both questions and make them look like the remains of Taft's vote in the eectorel Colledge.
 That is the peculiar thing about it, as vuth, he won fame as a boy orerter He early showed tallents as spellbinder. When just kid of eight or ten yeers of age he would get up on the rostrum in the y grammar school, and stick one big toe in a not hole and grab firm hold on the .sCurfew Shall Not Ring This Afternoon or the s'Trane Frum Out the Castle Drew, But Marmyon stopped to Bid Adew' and beet the branes out of them both in grate style and flewensy He can still do so. But he keeps in practise down in his District, he don't pull enny of the orertorical stuff up here in Washington. Here he keeps bizzy as the little Bee on the three or fore importent Committees he is on grabbing evvely thing that he thinks mite be use ful to the peepul down in his neck of the woods. and he don't overlook single bet
 He IS frum Muntgummery-but he was not born there and that may be taken as an extinnuwating circumstance He was yborn at Eufawla in 1869 and graduated at Greensboro walking calmly out the frunt door with the degree of A. B. at the tender age of 17-what do you think of tllat? When kid of 17 gets on familerier terms with A. E. degrees and can feel per