Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-04
LAME DUCKS QUIT
WASHINGTON IN
bic FLOCK
FIutter from Capital After LONG
and Notable Political
Careers.

rang down the curtain for the last
lime on many political career which
for years has had the floor of the SEN
at, OF house of representatives as the
t1eater of it's activities
Most conspicuous among these are
Uncle Shelby" COLON and 'Uncle
Joe" Cannon. of Illinois, the former
from the senate after thirty years of
service in that body. and the latter
from the house, where he has been a
member for thirty eight years. longer
than any man within the history Of
rhe government.
Me Too" Wetnore Retires.
from the senate there also was re-
tired George Peabody Wetmore. of
Rhode Island, long the Me Too of
Nelson w. AIdrich, who was for years
known as the "boss of the United
States Wetmore had eighteen years
Of service. during which his longest
speech was in presenting a bill for
reference.
senator Robert j. Gamble, of South
Dakota. retired after twelve years of
service to be succeeded by a Progress
,iya Republican. He was candidate
for reelection, but was defeated. Muir
ply J. Foster, of Louisiana. is the only
Democrat Of long service-tWelVe years
who leaves the senate. He is sue
cooded by Representative JOSEPH L.
Ransdeu Henry F. Burnham, of New
Hampshire, also retires after twelve
years. He was not candidate for re-
rection. and had he been it is proba-
bic that he would not have been elected
for the Republicans have not ma
iority in the New Hampshire legis-
.5ture. and the question of his sue
ce>sor is in doubt
John DazeI Winged.
Joan Dalzell will no longer advocate
from the floor of the house high pro-
lection for the industries of Pitssburg
no, the interests Of big railroads. He
has been a member for twcnty-siX
Years. ana for half that time, when his
party was in power, he was u leader
Six wears ago the fight against him
began. Last wear his opponents sue
creded in defeating him for renomi-
nation in popular primary
J j. Gardner of New Jersey. after
service of twenty years. can now be
take himself to the spacious board
walk Of his home town, Atlantic City.
Samuel ". Mccall, one of the most
scholarly men Massachusetts ever
sent TO congress, and the state has sent
many such, retires after eighteen years.
lie gave up practical certainty OF re-
election to the house to become can
didate for the senate but was finally
defeated by his colleague Representa-
tive Weeks.
Handsome George" a Victim.
George Edmund Foss. Handsome
George" the Republican brother of the
Democratic Governor of Massachu-
sets. Eugene y. Foss, returned to Chi
cago after eighteen years in the house.
a large part of which he served as tine
head of the big naval committee
Backed by a majority Of 1000 geuer-
ally. Foss apparently thought his posi-
ton impegnabIe and made little eff
fort even to acauaint himself with the
changing population of his district. \
member of the new Progressive party
succeeds him.
Uncle Cy" Sulloway. the giant of
the house. Ollie James of Kentucky
alone excepted. will retire to the hills
Of New Hampshire after eighteen years
in the house. A character and a type
Sulloway has been. Pension legisla-
lion was his specially.
George w. Prince. standpatter, who
barely pulled through two years ago
succumbed this time aud will go back
to Illinois at the end Of eighteen years
in the house. Likewise f.. Stevens
Henry, after eighteen years as a menu
her of the house will return to Con-
upcticut. Sullouhy. Prince and Henry
are all to be succeeded by Democrats
Two Who Dodged.
Among those who voluntarily retired
and who as Republicans will be sue
ceeded by Republicans are Martin f.
Omsted, of Harrisburg. Pa. and Ed
ward B VreeIand of New York The