The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-03

E%%s,H%S@%% ton. And these biographies are auto
~ Biographies. To be sure, there Is a
sort of censor who is supposed to see to 1T that
the authors do not hand themselves too many
flowers. This functiOnary came into being be-
cause a former Kansas senator a few years ago
made the whole country smoker. But human
nature IS the same-in congress as out-and most
of the contributors to this exceedingly interesting
volume seem to be possessed with the idea that
they must explain why they are exactly the men
for the place-SO exactly that they were of neces-
sity elected. And as the ideas of the qualitica-
tons Of a member of congress are about as
many as the writer's, the photographers do not
lack variety.
The one exception referred to is Representa-
i've James O'COnnOr of Louisiana he simply
gives his name. In contrast, many other mem
DerS need nearly half a page to set forth the de-
tails Of their wondrOuS past.
Of those whose portraits are herewith given,
uncle Joe" Cannon's account of himself is con-
densed, even lacOnic; Champ Clark's is about
three times as long. Incidentally it may be said
that the attitude of ~brotherly love of the two
former speakers is for pictorial purposes strictly.
Joseph Quincy Cannon, Republican,, of Dan
Ville,' the directory says, "was born at Guilford,
N. e., May Z, 1886; is a lawyer; was states at
torney in Illinois, March, 1861, to December,
1868" Then it is stated that he was elected to
the Twenty-second congress, and that he was
CSNICh SIcdhtl III me Elly-elSLll, fllly-nlnlu,
Sixtieth and S~iXty-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 are that he was the youngest
college president in America - "a hired farm
hand - lied in the Baltimore Democratic ma
tionaI convention Of 1912 for the presidential
nomination on % ballots, receiving a clear ma
jority on nAe ballots"
Senator Arthur Capper Of Kansas worked as a
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 common schools of Garnett,
Kan, he learned the printing trade on the Gar
nett Journal, went to Topeka in 1884 and became
a typesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital, "of
which he is now owner and publisher" Incident
ally, it 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 are said TO have a combined circula-
tion of about TBS, 1000. 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 Nonpartisan
elected TO congress; is married to the daughter
of the North Dakota faxseed king - that he has
a son who is the eighth John M. Baer in un-
broken sequence Dorm IN America, ana mat ne
resigned from q postmastership to engage in car
looming and journalistic work.
Senator Nelson Of Minnesota and Senator
Bankhead Of Alabama are veterans of the Civil
war. The latter merely says of this: Served
four years in the Confederate army, being
wounded three times" Senator Nelson says:
"Was a private and n~oncommissioned officer in
the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil
war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port
Hudson, La, June IA, 1862,
There are five other veterans Of the Civil war:
Union, Senator Francis e. Warren Of Wyoming
Representative Henry z. Osborn Of California
and Representative Isaac r. Sherwood Of Ohio;
Confederate, Senator Thomas s. Martin OF Vir.
ginia and Representative Charles M. Stedman
Of North Carolina.
Senator Warren, fought in the same battle In
which Senator Nelson was wounded and cap.
tured. Senator Warren served as a private and
noncommissioned officer in the Forty-ninth Mas.
sachusetts regiment. He received the Congress
sional medal for gallantry on the battlefield at
the siege of Fort Hudson. These two veterans
find pleasure frequently in fighting over the
battle which meant so 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 war. He was wounded
three times. Enlisting as q private he was mus
tered out as a major.
Representative Sherwood was a fighter and is
proud of it. His autobiography reads In part
Democrat of Toledo; vas born in Stanford,
Duchess county, N. Y, August ID, 1885; was
educated at Hudson River institute, Claverack,
N. Y, at Antioch college, Ohio, and at POUCH
keepsie Law college; enlisted April 16, 1851, as a
private in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was
mustered out as a ~brigadier general October 8,
1856. by order Of the secretary of war; was In
AZ battles and 1913 days under fire, and was ten
times complimented in special and general or
ders and on the battlefelds by commanding gen.
erals for gallant conduct; commanded his regi-
ment in all the battles OF the Atlanta campaign,
and after the battles Of Franklin and Nashville,
Tenn, upon recommendation Of the officers OF
hs hripode and division and on the Endorsement
NJ General Schofeld, commanding the army, he