South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-06
Statesmen Real
and Near.
By Fred c. Kelly
BY FRED c. KELLY.

BY FRED c. KELLY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Samuel
Mitchell Taylor of Arkansas and
Island are two congressman whose
/ lives are testimonials to the advant-
ages of letting the women folk have
( their own way-and of humoring
ones wife in her desire TO live close
/ TO her kinfolk. Following alphabet
\ zeal order, for the sake of being per
/ fectly fair TO all parties. we shall take
\ up first the case of Rep. Onslaught
/ messy.
! When he was a small lad Onslaught
/ messy dwelt in Ireland, simply be-
/ cause Ireland was his birthplace. But
/ when little George had attained the
age of four years his parents moved
/ TO New York city and he came along.
7 He did not have the heart TO see his
/ father and mother set out To a new
! country alone and unaided TO make
their way.
In due course OShaughnessy was
| New York lawyer, and he did rather
/ well. He was made assistant cor
poration counsel for that town and
had bright prospects in New York
politics. About that time he got
/ married But he did not marry in
| New York. He might have, but he
saw nothing in the matrimonial mar
! ket there that quite suited him. and
| he determined TO shop around a lit
! tie before making up his mind. FL
nally there was a girl in Providence,
/ X. L., who was precisely what
! O'Shaughnessy had been looking for
Just as quickly as he got her in
the proper frame of mind they were
married.
Then a difficulty arose Mrs
O'Shaughnessy did not care for New
York as a dwelling place. She said
the only place to live was Provi-
dence, r. l. O'Shaughnessy did not
like to say anything detrimental
about Providence or Rhode Island.
but he pointed out 10 his wife that
! New York was a good growing town
itself, and he didn't see why they
shouldn't settle down right there. He
reminded her that he had devoted a
number OF years To building up a law
1 business there and if he were ~ move
To Rhode Island a great many of his
! clients might not go there to hunt
him up when they had lawsuits.
To this his wife replied that he
1 would do even better in Providence.
| r. l., because he would be a novelty
there and the people of that town
had a prejudice in favor of imported
articles SO they effected a COM
should go TO live in Providence, r l..
Now. 'Shaughnessy has a romantic
face and bearing and if he had a cape
and sword would look like one of the
brave knights Of old such as used to
I be played by James K. Hackett. The
consequence of this was that our hero
caught on in Providence right from
I the start. just as his wife had told
/ him he would. In less than two years
after he began TO live in Rhode Island
/ he was a member of the state legiS-
lature. And shortly after that he was
down here in Washington represent
ing his district in congress. There
| doubtless were other young men in
the district just as bright as
] O'Shaughnessy, but they could not
make the people believe so.
/ O'Shaughnessy was from out OF town
and the people thought he must be
better because he was newer.
During the recent Mexican miX-up
when the name of Nelson O'Shaugh-
messy was in the papers frequently
many of the people in Con. O'Shaugh-
nessy's district thought he and the
/ charge d'affaires at Mexico City were
the same chap. And the prominence
/ OF the name filled them with great
/ pride. They pounded their chests and
said they had known all along that
midst from New York would be
heard from.
Similar. TO the experience Of
/ O'Shaughressy was that of Rep. Tay-
l0r He was born in Mississippi. but
married an attractive young woman
over at Pine Bluff. Ark. The same
year he was married he was elected
TO the Mississippi legislature. That
/ might have anchored him in MiSsis-
( sippi permanently, but Mrs Taylor
pinned for Pine Bluff in Arkansas. She
thought il would be fine 10 live close
to her mother. so that she might run
| over and borrow jelly or waist pat
terms any time she felt so inclined to.
| Rather than fuss with woman about
I a mere matter of dwelling place, Tay-
lOr up and moved TO Pine Bluff. Ark.
| Within two years after that he was
I made prosecuting attorney without
opposition and held the job three
terms. Then he went back 10 his
I law practice and prospered. He did
even better in Pine Blur, Ark, than
he had expected 10 do back in Mis-
I sissippi.
Thus IL O'Shaughnessy and Taylor
We're doing il over again and their
wives desired 10 be near the old home
circle. O'Shaughnessy and TAYLOR
I would pick up and go without word
/ for they know now that a man in
politics sheds an added degree Of en-
chantment when he operates among
I strangers.
f, Copyright. 1914. by Fred c. Kelly)
/ OF the new church building. Indi-
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