Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-07

1RSWIEtGI and representative-with one excep-
ESL&N ton. And these biographies are auto
biographies. To be sure, there is
sort of censor who is supposed to see TO it that
the authors do hand themselves too many
flowers This functionary came into being be-
cause former Kansas senator few years ago
made the whole country sncker. But human
nature is the same-in congress as odt-and most
OF the contributors to this exceedingly interesting
volume seem to be possessed with he idea that
they must explain why they are etly the men
for the place-so exactly that they were of neces-
sity elected. And the ideas of the dualiica
lions OF member of congress are about
many as the writers, the autobographies do
lack variety
Inc one exception referred to is Representa-
tive James 0ConnOr of Louisiana: he simply
gives his Name In contrast many other mem
Ders need nearly half page to set forth the de-
taiis OF their wOndrous past.
Of those whose portraits are herewith given.
Uncle Joe" Cannons account of himself is con-
densed, even laconic; Champ Cark's is about
ahree times as long. incidentally it may be said
mat the attitude of brOtherly love of the two
former speakers is for pictorial purposes strictly
Joseph Quincy Cannon, Republican, of Dam
vlhe the directory says, twas born at Guilford,
y. T., May Z, 1886; is lawyer; was states at
tOrney in Illinois, March, 1861 to December
1903 Then it is stated that he elected to
the Iwenty-second congress- and that he was
erected speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth,
SIxtieth and Sixty-first congresses. That's all
there is to the seven lines of his autobiography.
Champ Clark takes 20 lines Outstanding
facts set forth in it that he was the youngest
college president in America" "a hired farm
hand" Ted in the Baltimore Democratic ma
dOnal convention of 1912 for the presidential
nomination on % ballots, receiving clear ma
tority nine ballots"
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas worked as
reporter on the New York Tribune and he has
become the second largest publisher of period.
icals in the United States. After obtaining an
education in the schools of Garnett
Kan. he learned the printing trade on the Gar
nett Journal, went to Topeka I'm 1884 and became
typesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital "of
which he is now owner and publisher" Incident
ally, 1t may be stated that he owns Household
Capper's Weekly. the Missouri Valley Farmer
the Farmers Mail and Breeze the Nebraska
Farm Journal and the Oklahoma Farmer His
publications said to have combined circula-
ton of about 1,725OO0. And he is intensely in
terested in the repeal of the postal zone law,
which is regarded as exceedingly beneficial by
the publishers of the country daily and weekly
newspapers.
Representative John Miller Baer of North Da-
kota sets forth that he is the first Nonpartsan
elected to congress; is married to the daughter
of the North Dakota faXseed king" that he has
son who is the eighth, John NJ. Baer in I'M
broken sequence born in America and that he
resigned from a postmastership TO engage in car
looming and journalistic work
Senator Nelson of Minnesota and Senator
Bankhead of Alabama are veterans of the Civil
The latter merely says of this Served
four years in the Confederate army being
wounded three times" Senator Nelson says:
@'Was a private and noncommssoned officer in
the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil
war, and was Wounded and taken prisoner at Port
Hudson, La, June IA, 1863"
There are five other veterans of the Civil war:
Union, Senator Francis e. Warren of Wyoming.
Representative Henry u. Osborn of California
and Representative Isaac r. Sherwood of Ohio:
Confederate Senator Thomas S. Martin of Vr-
gnia and Representative Charles NJ. Stedman
of North Carolina
Senator Warren fought in the same battle in
which Senator Nelson was wounded and can
tured. Senator Warren served as a private and
noncommissioned officer In the Forty-ninth Mas
sachusetts regiment He received the Congress
sonal medal for gallantry the battlefield at
the siege of Fort Hudson. These two veterans
find pleasure frequently in fighting over" the
battle which meant much to them
Representative Osborne served in the Ninety
second New York regiment. He enlisted at the
age of sixteen.
Senator Martin was educated at the Virginia
Military institution. While there much of his
time was spent in the cadet battalion of the insti-
tuition serving the Confederate states.
Representative Stedman served with General
Lees army throughout the He was wounded
three times. Enlistng as private he
tered out as major.
Representative Sherwood was a fighter and is
proud of it. His autobiography reads in part
Democrat of Toledo; was born in Stanford.
Duchess county, N. Y, August 10. 1885; was
educated at Hudson River institute. Claverack.
n Y at Antioch college, Ohio. and at Pough-
keepsie Law college; enlisted April 10. 1851, as a
private I'm the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was
mustered out as brgadier general October s.
1865 by order of the secretary of war; was in
- battles and 123 days under fire, and was ten
times complimented In special and general or
ders and on the battlefieds by. commanding gen.
erals for gallant conduct; commanded his regi-
ment in sll the battles of the Atlanta campaign,
and after the battles of Franklin and Nashville.
Tenn upon recommendation of the officers of
his brigade and division and on the Endorsement
of General Schofeld commanding the army, he