Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-01
Kentuckian Holds Palm When it Comes
to sonorous sublimity of Sound,
it is Admitted.
MULTITUDINoUS MELODY
OF LANGUAGE is HIS OWN
In Former Years No One Dared to
Question Sovereignty of Repre-
sentative Sheppard.
BIZ BuRToN Z. sTANpIsH.

w TlLI6H lOI lH6 Oulbcu lNooJ
Washington, Oct. 1.--For pure lyric
beauty, for sonorous sublimity of sound
and for multitudinous melody Of Ian
guage, you have got to hand it to Au-
gustus Owsley Stanley, Representative
in Congress from Kentucky.
Representative Shepperd Of Texas
used to be the real singer of the house;
used to have the most gorgeous me-
taphors and the most astonishing sim
lies When he smote the lyric and
whanged off toward empyrean heights,
a la Pegasus, believe us, it was some
speech. Then Shepperd went and got
himself elected to the Senate, where
the speech is mostly soporific and
saponaceous and nobody ever thinks
of tumbling around in oratorical ac-
robatics because Of the shroud Of dig
nifty that envelops the sacred Senator
ial atmosphere. When Shepperd used
to put on the tremulo stop and immOr-
taIize-well, it was some occasion in
the house and the laughter and tears
swept the audience and the galleries.
1t was sad occasion when Shep-
pard departed from the somber dignity
of the senate. He had monopoly Of
the language stuff in the house. No
body dared to dispute his sovereignty.
He was THERE. Representative John
Wesley Gaines, who retired to dear old
Tennessee in 1909, tried it for a while
but failed lamentably, making an at
tempt to have his voice cover up the
holes in his vocabulary. After John
Wesley fell down, nobody had the heart
to oppose Sheppard. And when he
left, the house found itself without
any champion word picture artist
or at least it thought there "wasn It
no sich animalD in its midst.
Stanley Gets Grown.
That was before Augustus Owsley
Stanley got busy there the other day
debating currency. Stanley wears the
crown of the late departed Sheppard
now He'll probably continue to tilt
a over his ears for some time. He
came darn near beating Sheppard s best
little fragments.
He started out to call the Republi
cans what he thought of Representa-
tive Mondell, Republican, for hav
ing the nerve to criticize the Demo
cratic secret caucus methods. Then hi
pulled out that wavy-voiced stuff anC
proceeded thusly;
"It would be better to have som,
crimson courtesan lead modest maid
ems in paths of purity; better som,
escaped convict pose as the arbite
and censor for honest mcmillan t,
learn of freedom from this, the mos
abiect apostle and most subservien
slave Uncle Joe Cannon ever had. "
Mondell sat kinda hunched up in hi
chair and feeling not so darn com
Portable as Stanley went on, SOARING
away.
Unusual Family Record.
BY unanimous consent the most un
usual record ever discovered by tn
Pension Office is divulged in lette
from man who is one Of triplets. II
had twenty-five twin brothers and sis
ters, whose mother was one of twin
and whose fathers first two wive
were twin sisters. The owner Of thi
unusual family record is DIR. Williar
Warren, 1915 Locust street, st. Jc
bepni hO'g bhe Vhly buINlNVr VI u Ian
lily of twenty-five, and one Of thin
teen sons who served during the civ
war in the Union army
The provisions of the new persio
law requiring certified information a
to the date of birth, in order to fl
the amount of the age pension cause
the Pension office to write DR., Wal
rem for his family history. In stat
ing his inability to find exact informI
tion in the family Bible as to the dat
Of his birth, Dr. Warren made this r,
ply to the Pension Commissioners o.
flee.
~ do not know whether there was
family record Of the births of all IN
fathers children, Of whom there weI