The Washington times., 1915-12-06

Indiana when a lad ito grow up with
"Uncie ice. cannon's biography is a
simple recital of his election to twenty
Congresses and the fact that he is a
lawyer
Elected BY Farmers.
Harry e. Hull. Republican. OF Iowa,
says he had orly ten days to make his
campaign as the successor of the late
Mr.. Pepper. end that he made Il run
that was accepted by. the whole coun..
try as proof of how the farmers would
vote and of the weakness OF the Pro.
gressivc cause"
David II. KincheIoe. OF Madisonville.
KY. proudly snys he 10 married ard
has one girl now seven and halr
Whitmell Pueh Martin labels himself
as "Irogressive-Protcc from,
Louisiana and adds thar j1e is the first
rom Democratic member to be elected
from that state within twenty-five
years.
A note Of tragedy is contained in tine
trief autobiography Of consressman
says that he lost his eyesight because
Of an electric shock IN 1907. but has
continued in the practice OF the pro-
fession Of law.
The sixty-fourth Congress has two
blind members-Senator Gore and Mr..
Schall.
Edward II. wason, of New Hamp-
shire. ig one OF the many farmers list
takes @ q AS pride in Farming ndr ne and SS.s has %
large herd of registered Guernsey cat
tie: he has a modern. up-to-date farm. "
Frederick w. Rowe. now member
carnations with which he is affiliated.
and further explains that he is super
intendent OF st. Paul's Sunday school,"
Only One Clergyman.
1t appears that Congressman Temple
OF Pennsylvania. reelected. Is the only
minister among the House members.
william Barclay Charles, Of Amster-
dam. n. Y, records that he is a MEM
Der Of the Second Presbyterian Church
| Of that city.
drove mules on a canal-boat towpath
when he was only fourteen years cid.
Congressman Warren Worth Bailey.
OF Pennsylvania, says he has been n
he read Progress and Poverty" in 1881.
He knew Henry George personally. Mr..
| Bailey AYERS.
JEFF McLemore. Of Houston. Tex. as
gold in IS7e. but did not make a strike. -
! Mr.. McLemore also says that he had
but little schooling because Of his aver
! James Harvey Davis, Of Sulphur
( Springs, Tex. uses several lines to de-
tail his lnbors for the prohibition cause.
! saying that he helped to outlaw i'll
| over 100 Texas counties"
| Mir. Davis also says he took a promi-
nent part in "organizing the reform
I for ces of the nation under Mr.. Bryan.
End was commissioned by the Demo
| cratic. Silver Republican and Populist
parties in 1900 to unite these forces for
| Bran, making about 200 speeches
OF Many Vacations.
! James II. Mays. Of Utah, records that
he was born among the mountain
whites" Of Tennessee. He had an in
teresting campaign" he explains. get.
| ting q majority OF 16S out of tota
vote Of 81. 900.
| Practically every vocation is repre-
sented in the directory. Lawyers. doc
tors, merchants. miners, capitalists
| farmers, knitting mill graduates. school
teachers, newspaper reporters. former
| soldiers. electricians and whatnot art
among the legislators.
| With all that, the current issue is no
up to the standard for entertainment
| In the good old days, before the news
paper men and the veterans beca ms
/ Interested in the biographical offerings
Of the legislative recruits. there were
many more self-written prose gems
! Four years ago a new member ad
the wonder of his State, and that h
was famed as burner OF the mid
night oil. Still another asserted tina
he was married and lived with hi
wife"