Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-11
One of the Days Best Cartoons.

We have with us now the now issue
Of the Congressional Directory, u bien-
NAL government publication used by
members OF Congress, new ana old. to
tell all about themselves.
In the Congressional Directory the
legislator Is required. with such Incl.
dental editing as the Joint committee
oh printing may undertake., 10 speak
frankly Of himself. to tell OF early
struggles and the rise to moro or less
fame and public office.
II Is to get these hrst-haRd impress
sions OF the fellow who knows him
self best that the veteran Legislators
ANA newspaper men always await the
issues OF the directory.
However. the crop of biographies
fro-l the standpoint Of ed!nuation and
entertainment. isn't up 10 The mark
this session. The average new mem
Der appears more modest and retiring
than heretofore. One looks in vain for
til" old time cnusiUus whereby the
public was informed that back home
the Hon. Joshua Rirgs was .asily the
leading citizen O! those parts and the
entire nation would watch his career
with unstinted interest
Senator Henry .\lgcrnon du ront. OF
tho powderiuaEing Delaware family.
remains the principal space consumer
III the directory. The Senator mas AN
cuviable war record, was rewarded for
bravery. and fought constantly
throughout the War Between the
States Later lie was IN the regular
army. !, requires nfty-six closely
printed lines TO review the war record
OF the Delaware solon, and this ex-
cc,ds a Bit the space record OF the
venerable Congressman Isaac Shcr-
wood, OF Ohio. surviving Union general
III tho House, who also has great
wax history.
Park. of Georgia, Is Hricf.
CONGRESSMAN Frank Park. of Geor-
Ella. la. one OF the briefest Biographies
IL ihA book. lie states mercy that he
is u Democrat from Sylvester, Ga.
Congressman Charles y. Iindbcrgh,
OF Minnesota, and ThaddeuS Cayaway
of Arkansas. are equally modest, They
use less than a line each. revealing
only their politics and the name Of
tE"!g home towns.
Senator james phelan, Of California.
qualities ~ the member OF many clubs
and asserts also that he belongs To thc
Society OF California Pioneers. and IL
preside ut OF the hall association of the
Native sons OF the Golden West
W!;h i.ational defense as an issue IN
THIS Congress. CONGRESSMAN +. Davis
Oakley, ci Connecticut. Il one OF many
members TO record that nc served with
The National Guard.
Congress man William Baker Oliver, a
nov Democrat from Alabama. admits
thai a;' i prosecuting attorney he at
,ainod his highest percentage OF con-
victions in III. state
Charles Hiram Randall. Prohibition
list. OF Los Angeles. calls attention to
the fact that a member OF the Randall
family wrote Maryland. My Mary
land"
Robert NJ McCracken new member
from Idaho. says he went West from
Indiana when lad Ito grow up with
the country"
Uncle Joe" Cannon's biography is
simple recital OF his election 10 twenty
Congresses and the fact that he Is
lawyer
Harry l.. Hull. Republican, Of Iowa.
says he had only ten days to make his
campaign as the successor of the late
Mr.. Pepper, and that he made run
that was accepted by the whole coun
try as proof OF how the farmers would
vote and of the weakness of the Pro
grcssivc cause"
David II. Kincheloc, OF jacksonville