The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-10-30

lv\Nky<1Jf ana representative-wit one excen-
tNL<<S ton And these Biographies are auto.
biographies. To be sure there Is n
sort Oh censor who is supposed to see TO IL that
the authors do not hand themselves foo many
ho"ers Ihls functlonary came into being he.
Sause former Kansas senator a few years ago
inaue the whole country sncker But human
hature is the same-n congress as out-and most
e eontrlDutors TO this exceedingly interesting
,oiuine seem to be possessed with the idea that
.hey must explain why they are exactly the men
ior the place-so exactly that they were of neces
s,'y elected. And as the ideas of the auaifca-
uohS oI member of congress are about as
many as the writer's, the autobiographies do not
lack variety ~ 'O
me one exception referred to is Representa-
i've James oConnor Of Louisiana; he simply
gives MS name. In contrast, many other mem.
pers need nearly half page TO set forth the de.
tails of their wondrous past
VI those whose portraits herewith given
oncie Joe Cannon's account of himself is con-
uensed even laconic; Champ Clarks is about
.lree times as long Incidentally it may be said
tnat the attitude of brotherly love of the two
FORMER speakers is for pictorial purposes strictly
'oseph Gurney Cannon, Republican of DAN
Vlhe,' the directory says, twas born at Guilford
W. ~" May Z, 1886; is a lawyer was state's at.
torney In Illinois, March, 1861, to December
looo' Then 1t is stated that he was elected to
the Twenty-secOnd congress. and that he was
eieeteu spe2ker IN the fffty-eighth, Fiftynlnth,
Sixtieth and Slxty-frst congresses That's all
there is to the seven lines of his autobiography.
Champ Clark takes 20 lines. Outstanding
Iacts set forth In II are that he the youngest
college president In America; :" "a hired farm
hand;" lied In the Baltimore Democratic M
donal convention of 1912 for the presidential
nomination on 20 ballots, receiving clear ma.
Jority on 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 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, 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 crcula-
tion of about 1,7250O0. 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 Nonpartlsan
elected to congress is married to the daughter
of the North Dakota fiaxseed king" that he has
a son who is the eighth John M. Baer In un-
broken sequence born In America, and that he
resigned from a postmastershp to engage In car
tooning 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 noncommissioned officer In
the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil
war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port
Hudson, La. June A. 1853"
There are FIVE other veterans of the Civil war: :
Union, Senator Francis Il. Warren OF Wyoming
Representative Henry T. Osborn of California
and Representative Isaac II. Sherwood of Ohio :;
Confederate Senator Thomas s. Martin of vir-
ginla and Representative Charles NJ. Stedman
of North Carolina.
Senator Warren, fought In the same battle In
which Senator Nelson was wounded and cap.
tured Senator Warren served private and
noncommissioned officer in the Forty-nnth Mas
sachusetts regiment. He received the Congress
sional medal for gallantry the battlefield ar
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 private he was mus
tered out as n major.
Representative Sherwood was fighter and Is
proud of It, His autobiography reads In part !:
Democrat of Toledo; was born In Stanford,
Dutchess county N. Y, August 13. 1885, was
educated at Hudson River institute, Claverack,
N. ", at Antioch college Ohio and at Pough-
keepsie Law college; enlisted April 10, 1861 as a
private in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was
mustered out as a brigadier general October g.,
1886. by order of the secretary OF war; was IN
times complimented In special and general or
ders and on the battehelds by commanding gen.
erals for gallant conduct; commanded his regi-
ment in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign,
and after the battles of FrankliI and Nashville.
Tenn, upon Recommendation of the omcers OK
his brigade and division ana on tne inuorselnen'
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