The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-04

him for denomination in a popular pri-
mary.
Back To New Jersey.
]. ]. Gardner of New Jersey. after a
service of twenty years can now be-
take himself to the spacious board
walks of his home town. He halls from
Atlantic City and there listen to what
the wild waves are saying and watch
the frolicsome girls in their pretty
bathing suits on the beach without
thought of the responsibilities of leg
islation. He was chairman of the COM
mittee on labor during the Republican
regime.
Samuel w. Mccall, one of the most
scholarly men in Massachusetts, ever
to Congress, and the state has sent
many such, retires after eighteen
of reelection to the House to become
a candidate for the Senate, but was
finally defeated by his colleague, Rep.
Weeks. 1t has been said of Mccall that
he is probably the one Republican in
the House in recent years whom the
Democrats would have consented to
make Speaker in the event that there
should ever have been a deadlock over
that office.
George Edmund Foss, Handsome
George" the Republican brother OF
the Democratic Governor of Massachu-
sets, Eugene N. Foss, returned to Chi
cago after eighteen years in the
House. large part of which he served
as the head of the big naval commit
tee. Backed by a majority of $4,000
generally, Foss apparently thought his
position impregnable and made little
effort to acquaint himself with the
changing population of his district A
member of the new Progressive party
succeeds him.
"UncIe sy" To Retire.
Uncle Sy" Sulloway, the giant Of
the House. Ollie James of Kentucky.
alone excepted, will retire to the hills
in the House. A character and type
Sulloway has been. Pension legislation
was his speciality.
George w. Prince, standpatter. who
barely pulled through two years ago.
succombed this time and will 60 back
to Illinois at the end of eighteen years
in the House. Likewise E. Stevens
Heney. after eighteen years as a mem
Der of the House will retire to Con-
necticut. Salloway. Prince and Henry
are all to be succeeded by Democrats
Among those who voluntarily retired
and who as Republicans will be sue
ceeded by Republicans are Martin E.
Olmstead of Harrisburg, Pa, and Ed
ward B. vreeland of New York. The
former is probably the best parliament
tartan on the Republican side of the
House with the exception of Asher
Kinds of Maine. the man who wrote
the book which tells all about parlia-
mentary law from the time Noah cali
ed a congress of animals in the ark
down the present time. vreeland, who
was co-author with Senator Aldrich of
the Aldrich Vreeland currency law, re-
tires because of i'll health. Both he and
Olmstead began service in the House
sixteen years ago.
Two years ago the Democrats made
a clean sweep of Indiana, all except
the tenth district. That remained seem
ingly steadfast and returned Edgar
ID. Crumpacker, but last year the Re
publicans even fell down in the faith
full tenth and with them went Crum-
packer after sixteen years in the
House. so that the Hoosier delegation
In the incoming Congress is solidly
Democratic.
Among the other old timers who win
not answer to the roll call when the
next House in organized are j. H Da-
wilson OF Wisconsin, George p. Law
renee Of Massachusetts,, Michael E.
Driseon Of New York and j. c. Need
ham of California. each of whom has
been In the House for sixteen years
The only Democrat Of long service
TO retire from the House is W. G.
Brantley of Georgia, one of the MEM
bers Of the ways and means commit
tee which Is the ruling body of the
House under the present system.