Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26

in which he most frequently talks. He
was a Missouri republican until 1895,
when he shifted to the democratic
party, and he has served four years
as democratic Governor of COLORADO.
He is frequently referred to as
Honest John Shafroth."
When the famous ca bic chess match
was on between teams representing
the House of Representatives Of the
United States and the house of COM
mons of Great Britain, Mr.. Shafroth
won the deciding contest for the
United States.
The coming of Edwin c. Burleigh as
the successor of Obadiah Gardiner OF
Maine increases the number OF news
paper owners and publishers in the
Senate. He is the publisher OF the
Kennebec journal of Augusta, Me. He
is a native of Maine, and has been
prominent in its lumber business. He
was governor of his state for three
years and served about eight years in
the National House of Representatives.
He tried to enlist in the cavalry
during the civil war. but was rejected
on account of i'll health. and served in
the adjutant generals department
Long an Oficeholder.
Although not yet elected. William II.
Thompson, democrat, is expected to get
the toga worn by Charles Curtis of
Kansas Mr.. Thompson is now state
district judge. A peculiar wording OF
the state constitution, 1T is held by some
of those opposed to him, prevents a
Judge from leaving that Office unless
removed for misbehavior, or unless his
term expires Some of his opponents
are making an effort to defeat him for
this reason. a rabbit picture was the
chief characteristic of his campaign, for
lott Ch
picture of that animal and the words
Running Like Rabbit He held his
first public Office in 1887, when he was
sixteen years OF age.
A trust buster" is expected to come
to the Senate in the person of Thomas
j. Walsh, the democrat who is to sue
coed Joseph Dixon of Montana, chair
man of the progressive national COM
mittee. For years, according to reports
received here, he has been on the trail
of the Amalgamated Copper Company.
and that has given rise to reports that
he is "a trust buster" He is an expert
on irrigation and land laws, has taken
prominent parts in irrigation conven-
lions, and is expected to make legisla-
ton on those matters his special hobby
in the Senate.
Prominent Schoolmaster.
The coming of Thomas Sterling as
the successor of Senator Robert NJ.
Gamble of South Dakota will add to
the representation of his family in Con-
gress Representative Sterling of H.
linois, who was one of the House man.
ayers during the recent Archibald i'm
parchment trial, is his brother. Like
the man who is to be inaugurated Presi-
dent March 4. Mr.. Sterling is a promi-
nent schOOlmaster. having been dean OF
the University of South Dakota.
Another iuriSt will he added to the al
ready long list of lawyers and judges in
the Senate when lie Baron ~ Colt Is
sworn in as the successor OF George +.
Wetmore of Rhode Islard. He has been
a federal circuit judge in New England
for a number of years. AS he Is related
to the Colt family that has been making
firearms for many years. 1t has been COM
mented that. as Senate" du Pont is a
member of the powder manufacturing
family, both pistol and powder" will be
in the Senate after March !.
Another jurist to enter the Senate at
the same time will be John *. Shields Of
Tennessee, who will take the toga worn
by the late Senator "Fiddling Bob Tay-
lor and worn at present by Senator
Newell Sanders. He has been chief JUS
tice of the state supreme court and is
placed here among the conservative dem
ocrats.
"OriginaF' Wilson Man.
William Hughes, who will take over the
toga now on the shoulders of Frank O
Briggs of New Jersey, is expected to bt
one of the spokesman of President Wilson
in the upper house of Congress. He i:
ranked as one of the Original" Wilson
men, He is veteran of the Spanish
American war, serving in the I'd New
| Jersey Volunteers. For about eigh
wears his name has been on the rolls o
| the House of Representatives.. but he re
signed to make the race for the senator
| ship in New Jersey last fall.
| The voice of George w. Norris, whose
name will be put on the senate rolls
after March in the place of that of Nor
| heard in the Senate. Mr.. Norris was one
| of the House managers who conducted
| the prosecution during the recent
Archibald Impeachment trial, and he tool
| an active part in the examination OF
witnesses. His service of ten years in
| the Lower House of Congress was made
specially conspicuous couple of years
ago. when he jumped to the front of the
republican insurgents in the fight
against the Cannon rules IN the House
| He is q LAWYER and had been a state
| Judge before taking his seat In the House
Once Served in Navy.
| In the place of the wiry, soft-spoker
Winthrop Murray Crane of Massachu
sets, who has been the whip of the
Senate for several years, there will 81
| in the Senate John w. Weeks of Yves
Newton. Mass. His first aspira tion
were to be an admiral of Uncle Sam.
navy and he graduated from the Nava
| Academy and served for a couple of year.
J in the navy. Later he TOOK a pfomihen
part in the Naval Brigade of Massachu
/ sets and served in. the volunteer nav.
| in the war with Spain His business Il
banking. but his political ambitions hav,