Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-11-13
Hon. Walter L Hensley For
Congress Again.

i Congressman densley, WHO was
home for two days last week and
then hurried back to Washington at
the call of Majority Leader Under
wood, carried no surplus weight.
He looked to be trained to the min
ute, thin, alert and vigorous, though
there was a trace of fatigue in his
face-just such trace as one would
expect to find in a member of the
House who has labored hard through
the unmerciful summer heat of our
national capital.
Lots of Office holders go to Wash
ington thin and lank and come back
with the full, pink cheeks that be-
speak thick tenderloins, vintage
wines and long hours of ease on the
lounges of the cloak rooms. These
men seldom figure in the Journal of
the House proceedings, their space
in the Congressional Record is a
meager one, and often the members
| of their own committees are not per-
sonally acquainted with them.
The Thirteenth District has no
Congressman of that type. Men
who work hard and long hours, who
attend constantly to the personal
requests of constituents in district
with the diversified interests of the
Thirteenth Missouri, and, in addition,
meet at every session with their
committees, besides being upon the
floor of the House during all impor-
tant debates, do not take on the
appearance of being well-fed. And
neither does Mr.. Hensley who carries
with him the look of man in dead
earnest, and of a man who has set
about to accomplish much.
With the primary nine months off,
Congressman Hensley has only his
work in Washington to attend to-
for the voters of the Thirte 2 Dis.
trict know his worth and a. 1T =
pose that he shall devote q portion
of his time to campaign ter the
nomination. In fact, there has aevel
been the slightest indication that
Mr.. Hensley will have opposition ir
the primary. To those who have
congressional ambitions-there are
several such men in this district
the task of making the race against
our present Congressman seems
hopeless proposition, for they al
realize that the voters are not in
mood to take chances on swapping
man of proven worth for one of un'
known caliber.
| 1t appears now that the Democra
4 nc&ination will go to Hensley with
out opposition, and, with that nomi
nation in hand, the election will be
foregone conclusion, for Hensley il
stronger to day, very much stronger
than he was two years ago, for he hal
had an opportunity, with his party il
power, to show what man of force
and aggressiveness can accomplish
for the people of his district.
The country needs firm men now
| fighters who can stand hard, lonG
battle and who can take punishment
and be cool headed through it all
The great interests are in the corner
but they haven't quit. The hurral
part of the fight is over and until thu
people finally win out all along th'
line there will be much need Of mel
who can hold on tenaciously AM
doggedly to the end, men who ar
never whipped, and, moreover, mel
who keep their wits about them ant
know the game as we'll as the othe
fellow.
Hensley is one of that class
) men, born fighter and cool heade'
one, Democrat through and through
in character as we'll as in politics.
And, it should be said here, that
is to the credit of the party and t.
. the credit of men who naturally an
/ rightfully entertain congressiona
! aspirations, that there is mo indica
tion that our present Congressma
will be bothered by a pre- -electio
contest for the nomination. His un
animous choice in the Angus
primaries and his reelection in tn
succeeding November by a great
increased plurality seems amply as
sured.