The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-12-18

- ENATOR ELECT J. c. w. BECK
HAM Of Frankfort, the first senator
to be elected by the people for q
~ regular term from Kentucky needs
no introduction to the people Of this
state. He has been in public life for years
yet Is kentucky's youngest statesman OF
prominence. Throughout the state he IL
known as a statesman, but in the capita
! he is known as splendid citizen and
good neighbor. His modest, but attrac-
tive residence Is in South Frankfort. His
family consists Of his wife, who was Miss
Jean FuQua Of Greensboro, daughter
Miss Eleanor, aged thirteen, and a son
Creppa, Jr., aged nine. The entire fam
lily are social favorites. The youngsters
are popular. and the lawn at the Beckhan
home is the playground for the children
in the neighborhood. They attend the
public schools. Mrs. Beckham is a young
woman of splendid domestic attainments
She is an ideal wife, whose thoughts and
energies are devoted to her home, chill
dren, husband, family, neighbors and the
needy. She is hard worker in the
Kings Daughters circle, which conducts
the hospital in Frankfort. and in other
charitable and religious causes.
Those who know Governor Beckham
best are well aware that his chief interest
and greatest pleasure lie i'm his home
hours. He is not familiar figure at the
local club, in the lobby OF the hotels or,
indeed any other place where men are
accustomed to congregate in the evenings.
He makes il an almost unbroken habit
to spend his evenings at home. The well
lighted study Of the Becllham residence is
cn the first floor front. There the passer-
ley may see Governor Beckham early or
late on almost any evening at his desk
in, hi .hoir and ryrit
ing enter very largely into the life of the
senator elect. But the study scene is not
always a solitary one. Two children of
more than ordinary attraCtiVeneSS and
promise bless this home. They may be
seen from time to time in the study. and
the attitude Of parent and children sug-
sests that lessons are being heard or that
the story hour is at hand. Governor Beck
ham, although a young man. is an old
fashioned father. He counts it his priVi-
lege and duty to personally supervise
those things that make for the Christian
character and physical we'll being Of his
children.
Mrs. Beckham possesses to a high de-
aree all those gifts and graces which one
ihstinctively associates with successful
homemaking. This fact is not to be for
gotten when one asks why the senator
seldom leaves home after the evening
neal.
A normal, wholesome. Christian home.
blessed by health, hope and happiness,
rot untouched by sorrow, unspoiled by
wealth and dominated by the highest
ideals-sucH is the home of the junior sem
ator.
No new member of the next senate will
take his seat better informed OF better
equipped for the work ahead of the DEM
ocratic administration than this Ken
tuckian, who is first a student, with a
wide knowledge of public affairs and
closely i'm sympathy and in touch with
the president and his secretary Of state.
For a man of his years Senator Elect
Beckham is a young man and has had a
rather remarkable career i'm the public
life Of his state. Born Aug. 5, 1869. the
son of William n. and Julia Wickliffe
Beckham, he comes Of family that has
been prominent in affairs of the south.
His mother was the youngest daughter
also held the portfolio of postmaster gem
eral in the cabinet of President Tyler.
Her brother Robert Wickliffe, was a gov
ernor of the state of Louisiana. She was.
therefore, the daughter. the sister and the
mother of men who held the first office
within the gift of the people of their
states. His father a lawyer and farmer,
but mere boy. Owing 10. this he got no
further than his sophomore year at old
Central university when called home to