El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-03-27
@Who the Sam Hill is Gilgees ~ ;
Graphic Pen Picture Of New
Speaker Of House Of Representatives

YIIiEN ME REPUBLlCAN caucug,

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WHEN THE REPUBLICAN caucus
some days back, selected Repre-
sentative Frederick Huntington Ghlet
to be speaker Of the next house, {
Kansan, who was visiting in Wash
ingtonr remarked as he laid down hi
newspaper, We'll, who in the San
HIN Is Gillett2E
"A good many persons, the country
over, have asked the same question
for, until the fight on Representative
Mann of Chicago brought forth "Gilletl
LOT Massachusetts" as the press always
refers to him, he had figured very lit
tie in the newspapers. Tom Reed
Uncle joe Cannon and Champ CLARK
all were national figures long before
they we're elevated to the sneakership
When Gillett was named the news
papers had difficulty finding enough
about him to give really good pen
picture. The following from the Kan
sas city Star is fairly complete:
Not that Gillett is a ~figurehead In
congress ana will make a fignrehead
speaker. Far from 1t. He is one OF
the most Influential members Of the
house and has been so the last decade.
But he shuns the spotlight. He doesn't
care for publicity. And he doesn't
know how to get publicity IL he did
care for ii. His managers in the
s~peakership fight found that out when
they were trimming him on an anti.
Mann platform. He simply doesn't
have the knack Of saying or doing
those things that make interesting
reading to the folk back home. And
be it said, the aforesaid fact, be it a
weakness or strength, whichever way
you1ook at Il, doesn't worry the speak
ef-to-be in the least. For twenty-six
years he has been returning to con-
gress usually by increased majorities,
without kissing babies, without slap
ping the voters on the back, without
sending out garden seed or seeking
the llimelight. When he is ready to be
reelected he makes a dignified state
ment in a dignified manner of what he
has done and what he stands for. And
his dignified,Y staid constituency which
reads the Boston Transcript and
Springfield Republican, sends him
back.
Representative Gillett has been in
congress for twentyssix consecutive
years--longer than any democrat or
republican, for that matter. That, in
itself wins him the respect OF the
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