New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-10-03

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N and epresentative-with one excep
kNLS tion. And these biographies are auto
- biographies. To be sure, there is
sort OF censor who Is supposed to see to 1t tina
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
or 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-
SHY elected. And as the ideas of the q~ualifca
IONS of "A member of congress are about as
many as the writer's, the autobiographies do not
lack variety.
The one exception referred to is Representa-
i've James OiCOnnor of Louisiana; he simply
gives his name. In contrast, many other mem,
bers need nearly half a page to set forth the de-.
tails of their wondrous past.
or those whose portraits are herewith given,
Uncle Joe" Cannon's account of himself is con-
delsed, even laconic; Champ Clark's is about
thfee times as long. incidentally it may be said
mat the attitude of b~rotherly love of the two
former speakers is for pictorial purposes strictly.
Joseph Quincy Cannon, Republican. of Dan
VILE the directory says. 'was born ut Guilford,
n. e., May 7, 1896; is ii lawyer; was states at.
torney In Illinois, March, 1861, to December.
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the Iwenty-seeond congress. and that he was
elected speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth,
SiXtieth and SiXty-tirst 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 nn-
tional convention of 1912 for the presidential
nomination on 20 ballots, receiving a clear ma.
jority on nine 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
Il 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 Mall and Breeze. the Nebraska
Farm Journal and the Oklahoma Farmer. His
publications. are said to have a combined circula-
tion of about 1,725,OO. 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
Representative John Miller Baer Of North Da-
kota sets forth that he is the first Nonpartisa,-
FRUITFUL w X II ~ the uduSnltF
Of the North Dakota faxseed king: - that he has
n son who is the eighth John NJ. Baer in I'M
broken sequence born in America. and that he
resigned from n misunderstanding Ia engage in car.
looming and journalistic work.
Senator Nelson Of Minnesota and Senator
I~'ankhead of Alabama are veterans Of the Civil
war. The latter merely says of tiiis: Served
years in the Confederate army. being
wounded three times" Senator Nelson SAYS:
slNoy A ,rirut, aud
the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil
war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Port
La, June IA, 1863"
There are five other veterans of the Civil war:
Union, Senator Francis +. Warren of Wyoming.
representative Henry Y. Osborn OF California
md Representative Isaac X. Sherwood of Ohio:
Senator Thomas s. Martin of vir.
yinia and Representative Charles NJ. Stedman
II North Carolina.
Senator Warren, fought In the same battle in
which Senator Nelson was wounded and cap.
ured. Senator Warren served as n private and
oncommissioned officer in the Forty-ninth Mas.
achusetts regiment. He received the Congress.
ional medal for galantry on the battlefield AT
he siege of Fort Hudson. These two veterans
ind pleasure frequently in fighting over. the
'attle which meant so much to them.
Representative Osborne served in the Ninety.
econd New York regiment. He enlisted at the
Re OF s1Nteen
Senator Martin was educated at the Virginia
Hillary institution. While there much of his
line was spent in the cadet battalion of the instl-
ution serving the Confederate states.
Representative Stedman served with General
army throughout the war. He was wounded
hree times. Enlisting as a private he was mus
cred out as a major.
Representative Sherwood was a fighter and Is
roud of IT. His autobiography reads in part:
of Toledo; was born I'm Stanford,
county. N. Y. August 13. 1885: was
iucated at Hudson River institute. Claverack,
!. " at Antioch college. Ohio. and at Pough-
eepsie Law college; enlisted April 10. 1861. as a
in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was
out as a b%rigadier general October s.
s65. by order of the secretary of war; was in
3 battles and 123 days under fire. and was ten
mes complimented in special and general or
PRS and on the battlefields by commanding gen.
als for gallant conduct; commanded his regi-
ent In all the battles of the Atlanta campaign,
nd after the battles of Franklin and Nashville.
enn. upon recommendation of the officers of
IS brigade and division and on the Endorsement
General Schoield. commanding the army, he