The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-15
GREATS IN THE HOUSE,
lBy Herbert corex.l

Washington. April 15.-This being
"a hasty squint at some of the new
notables in the lower house. THEY'RE
worth a little look. At least, they're
worth 1t now. Some of them may
never be worth another. Others may
march on to glory.
There's Stanley Bowdle from Gin
cinnati. There hasn't been a real hui
morist in the house, since Jadam Bede
to fatulency or ,inkstands. But Bow
die had rather turn IAN epigram than
save the party. It was Bowdle who
took that Cincinnati, seat away from
the Hon. Nicholas Longworth. son-in-
law Of an e~x-president and friend Of
"a president. Bowdle's taking was
aided by Bowdle's jovial reference to
the high shine which alone d~ecorates
Mr.. Longworth's dome.
Heaven" said Mr.. Bowdle, 'scalped
Nick. But I'll skin him.
Cincinnati laughed and held a leg
while the skinning iyas done
Peter Goelet Gerrylof Rhode. Island,
millionaire son.of Observation-Disclosures
Elbridge T. Gerry OF New York, the
husband Of the former Miss Mathilda
Townsend Of Washington, a reigning
beauty Of society and a great heiress,
is worth watching. It's perfectly easy
: ocnu a lew .SiAooS AHtO gerry, ne.
cause he Is a society man and very
rich. But he is also very able and he
earnestly believes that every man
ought to do his part for the. govern
ment. He's a tea table reformer who
gets away from tea.
alfalfa Bill'', William H. Murray is
loved and laughed at. and voted for by
Oklahoma for congressman at large.
Murray Is able. honest, and indepen-
dent. At times he has fought the la
Dor leaders as earnestly as he has
fought for them. Sometimes he's been
against them. He wrote most of the
progressive planks OF the Oklahoma
constitutional glance at which doc
ument sends the average conservative
into shakes and fever-and is natural
iy to be classed as a progressive Of the
extreme type. Murray knows better
but he likes to talk the language Of the
cotton pickers and the cow-hands
among whom he grew up.
"Bill's clothes" said a friend, "al-
ways look as though he had been rid
ing all night in a coal car"
His friends thought he had stepped
aside from his chosen path when he
bought a new suit Of clothes the day
he was nominated for congress. But
Murray was equal to explaining.
Some men," said he. "vote for the
mar and some for the clothes. I've got
to have both votes to be elected"
Alfalfa Bill became positively vio-
lent when the constitution was attack
ed in the supreme court. and wrote
a letter in which he made vague ref
erences to certain other patriots who
had defended their liberties with their
squirrel rifles. The whole state laugh
ed. and 1.-THE Chickasaw Squirrel
Rifles" were promptly organized, with
Alfalfa Bill as commander in chief.
The insignia of the Chickasaw Rifles
was a cookie burr rampant.
Perhaps the most picturesque new
conner in the house is SAINT Kirkpat-
most all his life-at least since the
close Of the civil war-Kirkpatrick
has been a hunter of moonshiners. Not
even he could tell how often he has
been shot unless he did a Few sums
on his fingers. His eyes were prac-
tically shot out in the last raid he led,
80 that he Is now almost blind. There
are fully 200 pieces Of lead in his
body. as a portion Of the reward for
seven years. At least three times he
has been left for dead on the field. and
the doctors who Overhauled him pledg-
ed their professional honor that he
couldn't get we'll.
"After ALL" says Mr.. Kirkpatrick.
with a certain grimnesa II wasn't
nearly as badly off as the other fell
low"
He is a Jacksonian democrat,
scotch-Irish and scrappy, and wants
to see a deep waterway from the great
lakes to the gulf.
Nine years ago Frank Lindquist was
working for 50 a week, on which he
supported a wife and mother. He had
no particular trade, he had no educa-
ton. and It looked as though he had
no particular chance. Now he liz a very
wealthy man. with a business that gets
bigger every year. He has his foot on
a rung Of h political ladder, and he
aims to climb. ia
I4indquist M from the Eleventh
Michigan district. lie is the son of a
Swedish father and a Norwegian
mother and was born in Wisconsin.
He was a newsboy and q bellhop, and
then he got married. Nine dollars
isn't a big sum on which to support
three people. but out of 1t Lindauist
managed to save $40. No one but he
knows what stern effort that saving
took. One day he was trampinR
through the village Of GreenvIlle,
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