Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-25
KIRKPATRICK is
NOW IN WASHINGTON
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has hoped to become commissioner
of internal revenue. Now on the eve
Of democratic administration, when
his claims might have been recog-
nized, he finds himself holding a
greater position as member of the
house of representatives from the
sovereign state of Iowa.
1T Is peculiar that am to be de-
MED place / have always DESIRED
he said to your correspondent, "and
am given greater one, isn't it,"
The correspondent admitted it was.
II wanted that place." continued
Mr.. Kirkpatrick, because I think no
man in the country knows more about
it than I do, and also because l want
ed to give few positions to some of
my friends who have worked along
side of me for years. There are only
a few holes, though, and far too many
pegs, so here l am in another place
The old gentleman then recounted
some Of his experiences In the civil
war, in which he was never scathed,
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race.
"And after going through that war
without a Craze" he said, chose
moonshiners down in Carolina got me
one day and just filled me full of shot.
But l have gotten even with them.
Only last week l settled up case in
Richmond Of twenty-four years
standing" .. IT,
Asked as to what course he would
pursue in the coming session, Mr..
Kirkpatrick said: ~ shall support the
administration first, last and all the
time l am here as the peoples SER
want and I believe Mr.. Wilson Is the
peoples servant" SIS "
"Have you been a Wilson man
long?" aa .a
Original Wilson Man.
81 am the original Wilson man,
declared the 1owan, and he added. II
defy any man to prove otherwise.
heard him deliver the commencement
address at North Carolina college
over twenty years ago. Then de
clared that he would some day be the
president Of the United States and
that he would be the greatest presi.
dent we have ever had. I was for Will
son before Wilson was for himself. "
While Mr.. Kirkpatrick has lost the
sight Of one,eye entirely, and Is very
nearly blind in the other as result
Of an unfortunate accident just prior
to the election last fall, he is other
wise in the best Of health and he has
standing offer that he can beat any
man Of his own age in a mile race or
throw any man of his age and weight
in wrestling match.
Also the congressman-elect will
defy anyone to present to him Grim
inal mystery which he can't unravel.
He admits the superiority Of but one
man In this line and that Is none
other than William j. Burns. "And
speaking OF Burns" he said, II have
put fifty men in the penitentiary to
his one"
The daughters of Representative
Prouty Of Des Moines are very much
interested in the woman's suffrage
movement, and two Of them will take
part in the suffrage pageant on
March g.
Mrs. Kenyon is leaning a little to-
ward suffrage also, If the society col
umns Of the newspapers can be de-
pended upon, for lately she has at
tended several suffrage receptions,
the latest one of which was given by
Mrs. Clark, wife Of the speaker of
the house of representatives, who,
with her sisters and her daughter,
will also take part in the great inter-
national suffrage pageant on the third
OF March.