Evening star., 1916-03-10
desperately ignored and discounted.

desperately ignored and discounted.
and said:
Jerry. this d--n thing of being a
congressman is farce. 1t is a joke
from beginning to end. / rather would
be home sitting under the trees or
tramping over the prairies. This utter
desolation is killing me-.
But he was one of those fellows who
had sand He 'bucked up after bit,
got toe hold on things, it were.
and today he is one of the big men in
Congress. He refused to quit Such
fellows have hidden mine of spunk.
and this stands them in good stead. If
they didn't have. God pity them. Well,
such fellows as the one | have mention
ed just keep plugging, and the first
thing you know they have done some
thing worth while in committee or on
the floor of the House. Those old heads
at this business of legislating for the
nation 'perk up and probably then and
there decide that that young fellows
acquaintance is worth while. They
take him in as an old dominecker' hen
would hover a brood of chickens, and
he begins to take a rise in the world
He gets the opportunity to give vent to
some of those good ideas. which pretty
nearly were stewed in the vinegar of
disappointment during the earlier days
of his term And. once these fellows
get their second wind, as it were, well,
you just sit back and see 'em go.
There's no stopping 'em or beating
'em. They just will not down.
Then, there is that class of high
strung, high tempered, hot headed,
won t be-
High Strung and ty:annized-
High-Tempered Kind over o q = s,esnnaaa brand o,
who bolt the caucus. who try to play
leapfrog over the rules Of the House
and just naturally object TO everything
the body tries to do. These fellows
year. They get no helping hand nor
announcement. The first thing these
men know. the folks back home get
news of their antics. and learn Just
how well they are liked and disliked
and how they can't accomplish much
for their own people or the country.
Well. it isn't long until they stay at
/ home for good and all.
THE third kind of congressman ! don't
like to talk about. but l guess we
might as well look facts in the face.
whether they be the most pleasant
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| those who early in the game become
thoroughly discouraged at their at
| tempts and failures to do something.
| They never get enough vim after that
to talk above Z avent-any-heart'
stage whisper. When big things are
| involved they just go on. bent on moth
! ing else but keeping their political
%eather-wis ears to the ground and
| flirting with the folks back home. They
are SO dligent in kidding their con-
stituents they don't care much whether
| great national questions are solved or
! not Neither do they take any more
interest in them than to vote right
! when the matter comes to showdown
on the floor of the House. Some of
up some speeches-away they go into
the Record under the congressman s
i name.
These are distributed broadcast back
| home and those folks who are hum
| bugged' in their congressman believe that
he is just about the livest wire in the
whole nation. These men send out gar
OF the way they supported vital measures.
Folks back there maybe don't know that
their vote Is the only way they rendered
support and that maybe such measures
] would have passed the House by big ma
/; jorities anyway. A representative Of the
class tells how Woody. or BILL or
Teddy slapped him on the back and in
formed him OF the secret workings of
the government. when maybe ne was ush-
cred in and out of the White House al
most In the same breath. Why. l have
had representatives even come to me and
tell me of their secret conferences with
the President when I knew well they,
didn't tell the truth How did I. you ask
Well, maybe they had Some constituents
: on their hauda lust ukA I did and We