The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-02-03
GENTLE 6IBES OF HEART
LESS SCRlDES HAVE MADE
THE N. C.S VERY MODEST

Washington. Jan. f27.--The gentle
gibes Of the heartless scribes in the
house and senate press galleries, the
scribes aver. are responsible for the
almost total absence from this years
congressional directory of the once
numerous annual crop of Autobiography
ers Of "self-made'' soions. Mighty
few of the extraordinary large num-
ber of congressman this year dwell
upon the days in the log cabin and the
hardships of early yonth. Some mon
who formerly took much space to tell
about themselves now win distinction
by going to the opposite extreme.
Minority Leader Mann made one
mistake In his brief description of him
self. He wrote: James r. Mann. Re-
publican, of Chicago. was born in 1856:
elected to the fifty-hfth and succeeding
congresses. Member OF the Banking
and Currency Committee" This last
statement got into the. proof sheet1
OF the directory. but the committee
makers did not pat Mr.. Mann on the
b. & c. committee
Here is notable sample of breyity:
''Thaddeus II. caraway. Democrat.
Jonesboro."
This is whole story OF the life OF
the representative of the first district
of Arkansas as told by the member
himself in the directory.
The member from the Fourth dis
trict Of the samo State says OF him
self:
"otis wingo. Democrat. OF DeQueen,
member OF Sixty-Third Congress, re-
elected 10 Sixty-fourth Congress-"
There is another brief sketch In the
directory which records modestIy the
story OF the rise TO political fame OF
western senator The story was
FIRST told with more regard for detail.
Then somebody gave him "hunch'
and he beat the jokcsmiths to II by a
neck and stopped the proofs and now
three lines tell the story.
Colorado has a delegation in the
house that reads like this: Represen-
tative Ben Clark Hillard was born in
log cabin on farm eight miles
north OF osceoia. Clark county. la
Representative Charles Bateman
Timberiake; His hoyhood was spent
on n farm"
Representative Taylor: spent his
early life on farm aud stock ranch"
Probably the most Interesting mar.
rative OF ones self in the directory
is that OF James Harvey Davis OF
Texas. Cyclone Davis. as he Is tech
nicaiiy known in the nomenclature OF
political explosives. Mr.. Davis takes
up some space to tell about this mat
ter as follows:
I'm debating the money question
with Gen. Watt Hardin In 1899 at the
Capitol Building in Frankfort. Ky.
ne was re- rorted by the Cincinnati
Inquirer and Chicago papers as
Texas Cyclone under which title
over half of is mail is now received
The nnai triumph is recorded as fol.
lows:
WAS elected to the Sixty four Con-
gress with lion. Jef McLemore
(ehosen TO OIL temporary vacancy
as colleague. receiving some zoo votes
less than his colleague. an alleged
penalty for not having aways been d
collar Democrat. and heavily scratch
cd by rabid ants"
The colleague" to whom Cyclone
Davis refers adds bit OF spice TO the
Texas delegation chronicles. "JeG
McLcmore." as he signs himself, pleads
guilty to having been born "on a
farm two miles west OF Spring Hili.
Maury county. Tennessee" He adds
that the event occurred on Friday. the
18th OF March, and who's afraid lin
Storm
"He is bachelor and newspaper
man." says he.
Had but little schooling" writes
Ier McLemore. "becausc of his aver.
sion TO teacehrs. and as n pupil never
saw the inside of school room after
he was II years old"
OUR JlTNEv oFFER-This and Sc,