Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-11-08
CLOSEUP VIEWS OF FOLKSWORTH KNOWING
Tales of Statesnnen-Real and Near
By FRED G. KELLY.
Copyrirht 1915, b Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
By FIRED Q. KELLY.
Copyright. 1915, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.

lre Newspaper syndicate.
to sit on the ban of the river watch
ing the saw logs floating by. Every
time l saw an especially big, Important
looking log l would try to picture to
myself the way it must have looked
est surroundings must have been.
do the same thing when L sit and
watch II crowd of people in a hotel:
l try to picture how big or little each
MAJ must look back in his native sur
roundings.'
Speaker Clark is living his winter
in n Washington hotel which is thickly
infested with other congressman. And
since the speaker has been there the
hotel management, if it wished to, could
raise it's rates. The manager could
simply say:
Our service includes. without extra
charge, the privilege of sitting in the
lobby evenings and listening to Champ
Clark tell stories.'
| know of two or three persons who
moved there from other hotels largely
because of that very thing.
When Champ sits down in a corner
of the lobby and begins to relate yarns
drawn from his long experience in the
House, everybody else ceases story
telling. For the speaker talks most en-
tertainingly when entirely free from
interruption.
Champ Clark has an odd way of
laughing. He never laughs out loud,
and his mouth never changes express
sion at all. He does all his laughing
with his eyes.
Meyer London, the lone socialist
member of congress-, bears a noticeable
facial resemblance to Louis Brandeis,
whom the president has selected for the
vacancy in the supreme court.
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Senator James Hamilton Lewis. of
Illinois, got up to address a meeting in
the stock yards a year or two ago,
while arrayed in the natty garb hat
he wears on most occasions. The crowd
began to jeer him.. W%hereupon Lewis
said:
Il suppose you think when you look
at my clothes that I'm just a plain darn
ter than YOU do. I'll take them off,
SO he laid aside his silk hat. took off
his coat, vest and collar, and stood be-
fore a cheering multitude only half
dressed and unashamed.
The most ferocious looking member
Of congress is Mr.. Bill Gordon, of
cleveland. He has the burly build of
one of the larger sizes of prizefghter.
and a voice like four or five big, boist-
erous lions all going at once. When
Gordon is engaged in debate on the
floor of the House, he gestures always
WIN ms fist, never with his open hand,
ana Visitors in the gallery are fire.
quently appalled, at the number of
members who have the temerity to sit
close 10 MIN. Yet with all his terrify-
ing manner, Gordon is in reality as
gentle as an ordinary Maltese kitten.
one can walk right up to him and
stroke him with impunity. He is one
Oh the most conservative members of
the House committee on military af-
4 IdlTS. ODDOSpG To fON a1olNnrof0 n o,@
paredness program. simply because he
Is not Warlike at heart and does not
grow alarmed over war talk.
one day Gordon and a member from
oouth Carolina exchanged comments
on one another in the course of a de-
bate. Gordon spoke to him quite UNI
kindly.
Step outside and tell me that, sug-
gested the South Carolina man.
are always asking one an
other to step outside, but nothing ever
comes of 1T.
DO you think that Tn going out
slde,' inquired Gordon ~brusquely, "just
because I'm asked to by a crazy zap
from South Carolina? %
ana ne proceeded CALMLY with his
speech without further interruption.
few months ago Gordon made a lit
tie trip to California. His plan was,
naturally, to go out by one route and
w oilOIllSf. w Iiel1 In0 tlInR
came to start back, however, he dis
covered that the young man who had
sold him his ticket had made a mis-
take. and he must return by the same
route. He was disappointed and ndig-
nant. Finally II of the railroad agents
In California agreed to change the
routing provided Gordon was abso-
lutely certain that the mistake was the
fault of the man who sold the ticket.
We'll" suggested Gordon, "mebby I
forgot to tell him what route 1 wanted"
And to the CONSERVATION of his
friends he let the. matter drop.
II got to thinking about it." ex-
planned Gordon afterward. land il they
had changed that ticket they probably
would have come back on the chan
who sold it to me and get him into
trouble. He made a mistake, Of course.
but 1T was unintentional and he was
a sallow faced little fellow who looked
as if he needed the money. It occurred
to me that 1 wouldn't like to do any-
thing which might mean his losing his
Job. l can see all that scenery up yon-
der on the other route some time
again."
That's Bill Gordon.
Position in Trapshootina.