The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-10

LAWYER with love for personal in
J NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. prastlce. never taking sides with
should not the Hon. Claude H. Taycu
ner, OF the same state. describe In the
u,reclory his carer as an independent
terestinG passage:
When thirteen years old started IA
VOTE IN a country newspaper Office.
TOUR years; then took up editorial end
OF newspaper work on large CITY
% Wits his desiring TO- be Wholly free to
Iecting the welfare or the people.
without being hampered by the par
be eu,af po iaGs or one newspaper. he
with the help OF his mother TO write
a daiiy signed article from Washing
ana original in character that at nrst
no editor would publish them: not.
w w ri,s a ,ai, this he continued to
or four years; seventy daiiy news
papers throughout the United states
are now printing the articles every
country weeklics are regularly publish
ing his weekly letter of Vital Wash
ington News"
Thank Heaven it hasn't occurred yet
90 ms enterprising publicist TO avail
himself daily OF the privilege of extern
sion, of remarks and the franking
labors for the welfare OF the people!
w nne Seif ld,,as pSrtrait of the Hon.
p.ecialiy commend Itself to the atten-
ton OF the discerning. OF the new
senator from Kansas the directory
He is the Youngest Senator ever
elected from Kansas, and will be one
OF Inc Youngest now in the Senate: has
State from early manhood to the pres
ent time, filling various positions OF
n nstn and e trust with the strictest hon
edged by all who know him that as
enator he Will not only bring credit
ana ana h hon9r to hmSelf but to the State
This is official. We have at last
found Il treasure
liam H.. Murray (Alfalfa Bid. Demo
crat, OF Tishomingo. Oklahoma" as
the Congressional. Directory enroiis
called in Oklahoma "the Father OF the
children: .Mnssena Bancroft. Johnston.
bank" The Hon. John M NORM. OF
PENNSYLVANIA, as we note in passing,
has been an nll-around athlete. and
takes &. lively interest. in athletic af-
fairs i'll Pennsylvania being best
known Az sculler; while in Montana
helped organize and served MS di
rector or the Montana State Baseball
played with the Aissoula team in 1881
The longest autobiographies in the
latest directory are those OF Senator
du Pont, of Delaware, and the Hon.
Walter Lafferty, of Oregon. Mr.. Laf-
and brothers. namely: Ora, Gussie'
Rosa and Soxa. and Luther, Albert
and Rolla. He mentions such circum-
stances as that his mothers first
cousin Major Luther III. Cowan, Forty
battle before Vicksburg. May %. 1853"
Follow MIR. Laffertys family record a
little further:
Ills brother Rolla served in the
provisional volunteers in the Philip
pines. enlisting when he was seven
corporal; maternal grandmother was
and his paternal grandmother was
Hester Ann Martin. of Kentucky;
his great grandmother Kinney was
Eleanor Pierce"
ferty served i'm the last Congress. but
until the appearance of the present
edition OF the directory the genealogi
cal data concerning him hava been
meagre and unsatisfactory. The usual
tendency is toward condensation as eX-
Laffertys case the autobiography has
grown from twelve lines in December,
1912, to nfty-seven lines in April, 1913.
1t already occupies more than eleven
times the space Of the Hon. Oscar w.
Underwoods. and more than fourteen
OF Illinois. We await future cXpan.
sions with mpatience.
However. good luck to them all,
fresh and loquacious though they be.
or sailed down and dry In their
box of goldfish ever. shipped from
Gloucester.-New York Sun.
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