The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24

ray OF Okla homa first started to school
along in his early teens-he was so
desperately poor that his shabby
clothes caused much tittering among
the girls in his room. They laughed
and made sport of him, and did so
| openly.
But Murray endured their thought
| less thrusts, and by the end Of the
. year he commanded their respect, for
! he was at the head of his class. How
| ever, he did not make up" with those
who had shifted at his poor clothes.
The name Of every one that laughed
at him was indelibly written on his
mind. and is there yet. Their rude
! gibes had soured him against girls
| and women who pay heed to mere
garb, and that feeling has followed
him through life. He determined that
so long as he lived he would be neither
ladies' man nor a dressy man. he
would get ahead in the world In spite
of his clothes. Though he is now
married, his wife being a niece OF
Gov. Johnston, of the Cbickasaw tribe.
Murray has stuck to his vow about
forging ahead regardless of his
clothes. and to this day he has half
shabby look about him.
That poorly clad boy whom the girls
laughed at, Alfalfa Bill" "the Sage
of Tishomingo," now has both money and
influence He himself wrote most of
the constitution of the State of Okla
homa, besides presiding over the con-
stitutional convention. Many look for
him to be governor presently
Since he came to Congress Alfalfa
Bill" has heard from one Of the girls
who laughed at him when he started
to school in quest of belated educa-
ton. She now seeks to be postmaster
in A town in his district. Doubtless
she has forgot all about laughing at
Bill" Murrays clothes. but he has
not. And now. after all these years,
Murray has his chance to get even.
But
He isn't going to.
He intends to appoint her.
Although he has been IN the county
bench back home, and is now in Con-
gress, succeeding Ollie James. the mas
todonic statesman, Judge A. w. Barley,
Of Kentucky, is only thirty-four years
old. He looks mature enough now, but
when he first began the practice Of law.
he had the appearance of a youth just
poisoning into the fraternity pin stage
He happened to be in court one day
when a colored man charged with grand
larceny was brought in to plead. The
man said he was not guilty.
Got a lawyer" asked the Judge.
The man had not.
want one?'
'"Yassah," said the prisoner, II reckon
I better have a lawyah, sah.'
VERY WELL" said the Judge, TIL as
sign young Barley here to defend you"
The prisoner looked Barley over and
then said to the judge:
vns ias' y,lo
guilty."
When Tom Stout and John Evans.
the new Representatives from Montana.
came on here before the opening of Con-
Dress, their offices were not yet ready
for them and they got temporary rest
ing places in the Senate Office building.
Within a day or two. certain of the ele-
vator men were aware that Stout and
Evans were neither Senators nor SEN
ator's secretaries. They regarded the
pair as ringers and were keenly vexed
to have them riding up and down the
elevators and treading the same sacred
marble with Senators.
"Whutchuh dom in our building"
was the savage Interrogation the ele-
vator mems faces seemed to hurl at
Stout and Evans each morning. If
S6QdtOr rang Stoul Woc IA S'Ao
elevator, the man went on to the Sem
ators floor, without stopping to let OF
Stout, and IL still another Senator rang
down below, he ran right by Stout's
floor again Stout estimated one morn
ing that he rode up and down for near
ly a mile and q half before he was per-
mitted to get OF.
J. J. Casey. Of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Is in
Congress because he followed the crowds
just literally that. When he made HIS
campaign, he tucked little soap box
under one wing and went about follow
ing the crowds. Whenever he saw crowd
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