The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-23
Secretary of Commert

George Kindel, of Denver. is. probably
the only Democratic member of the
House, who ever ran for Congress on
the Prohibition ticket while frankly an
advocate of beer drinking That state
ment was framed with the idea OF max
ing ii conservative 1t is so qualified
that any possible chance of gross over
statement has been eliminated. Take the
members of Congress one by one and
look into their records, and you will
perhaps not find any who has done what
the sentence at the beginning OF this
little piece for the paper says George
kindel has done.
Kindel has devoted the last twenty
one years of his life to making nice
little warm cotton quilts and fighting
the railroads about freight rates. He
has been making quilts even longer than
that, but only for twenty-one. years has
he been doing both. His habit of go
ing TO law" as the colored folks say,
has resulted in his getting the freight
rates from Denver TO the Pacific Coast
greatly reduced. When he first began
to go to court the rate from Eastern
States to the Pacific Coast was 81, but
from Denver it was 49, Kindel got this
L.
one suit he Brings another. and OF late
years he has branched out and gone
into court not only in Colorado but in
various other Western States.
In 1870 Kindel desired to come to Con-
gress to get at the railroads from an
other angle but the Democratic candi-
date had already been nominated before
he thought of it. The Prohibitiontsts
came to him and asked him to be their
candidate.
But I'm a German and drink beer"
said Kindel. I'd be a pretty fellow
running on Prohibition ticket. now
wouldn't -"
The Prohibitionists insisted that they
would waive the beer drinking if he
would accept the nomination. and Kin
de! finally told them that he could stand
for it if they could. So he ran, but was
defeated.
Last year he went back into his own
party, got the Democratic nomination.
and was elected.
Stanley J. Bowdle, who succeeded Nick
Longworth in the House, dabbles at SCI
ence on the side. and his main hobby is
gyroscopic tops. He has a wonderful col
lection of tops and apparatus that he in
vented himself, and they do almost any
thing a top could be expected to do.
Senator William Alden Smith was con-
versing with a couple of prominent Alaska
citizens who had come on here to urge
Congress to let loose of a little more
money for developing that territory. They
were picturing Alaska as modern para
disc.
oh I'm in sympathy with what you
want remarked the Senator, but 1t is
a little difficult to enthuse over a country
where it's so bloomin cold that you don't
dare go to the door for fear of freezing
the front part of your face" -
"But supposing the climate were like
the winter resorts south of here-Ashe-
Vile, N c.. and such places?" suggested
one of the Alaskans.
why, that would be different, of
VERY WE'LL" suggested the Alaskan.
who was doing most of the talking, well
walk up here to the ki-the ki-the little
place up here in the street where they
have all the weather reports, and I'll bet
you Sitka is warmer right now than any
place around here"
They went and looked, and, sure
enough, Sitka was 80 above zero, and
both Washington and Asheville were
below 81.
"Oh, WELL" commended Senator Smith,
but Sitka is on the sea coast. I was
of the interior
That's the catch to it, laughed the
Alaskans. I'VE fool lot of people on
that. Some days We win three or four
hats
Senator Vardaman of Mississippi has
a habit of speaking his mind about
things with great alacrity. This led him
recently to make remark about Presi-
dent Wilson. He was against Wilson
for the Presidential nomination and car
ried Mississippi for Oscar Underwood,
The other day he paid a brief call at
the White House. When he came out Of
the Presidents room he turned to
friend and said:
Woodrow Wilson has made more prog
ress in the way OF increasing my estims-