The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-03

INlVDI and representative--with one excep-
NLSN ton And these biographies auto
biographies. To be sure, there is a
sort OF censor who Is supposed to see to it that
me authors do not hand themselves too many
MOVERS This functlonary came into being be-
cause former Kansas senator a few years ago
made the whole country smoker But human
nature Is the same-in congress as out-and most
oi 'he contributors to this exceedingly interesting
'o'"he seem TO be possessed with the idea that
they must explain why they are exactly the men
ior 'he piace-so exactly that they were of neces-
SHY elected And as the ideas Of the qualifica-
''ohs OF member of congress are about as
many as the writer's, the autoaioeraphies do not
lack variety
Inc one exception referred to is Representa-
i've James OConnor of louisiana he simply
gives MS name In contrast, many other mem
oers need nearly half page to set forth the de-
tals OF their wondrous past
Of those whose portraits are herewith yivep
ohcie joe Cannon's account OF himself Is con
densed even aconc; Champ Clark's Is about
'hree times as long. incidentally ii may be said
.h"' the attitude Of brotherly love OF the two
io'er speakers Is for pictorial purposes strictly.
Joseph Quincy Cannon. Republican of Dan
vh' the directory says was born at Clifford
N. C.. May I. 1896; is lawyer was states at.
torhey In Illinois, March, 1861 to December
loos' Then 1t is stated that he was elected to
the iwenty-second congress, and that he was
eiecteu speaker In the Fiftyeighth Ffty-ninth
sAueth and Sixty-frst congresses. That's all
there is to the seven lines of his autobiography
'hamp Clark takes 20 lines. Outstanding
iacts set forth In IT are that he the youngest
college president in America :" "a hired firm
hand;' led In the Baltimore Democratic M
tonal 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 Garrett
RAN, ne learned the printing trade on the Gar
nett Journal. went to Topeka in 1884 and became
iypesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital. "oi
winch he Is now owner and publisher" Incident
ally. 1t may be stated That he owns Household
Cappers Weekly the Missouri Valley Farmer.
the Farmers Mall and Breeze, the Nebraska
Farm Journal and the Oklahoma Farmer His
publications are said TO have combined circula-
ton of about 1,725,oOo. And he is intensely In
terested in the repeal of the postal zone law.
which Is regarded exceedingly beneficial by
the publishers OF the country daily and weekly
newspapers.
Representatlve 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
broken sequence born in America, and that he
resigned from postmastershp 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 saws:
WAS private and noncommissoned officer in
the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during the Civil
war and wounded and taken prisoner at Port
Hudson. La, June IA, 1868"
There are five other veterans of the Civil war
Union Senator Francis f. Warreu of Wyoming
Representative Henry Y. Osborn OF California
and Representative Isaac r. Sherwood of Ohio
Confederate. Senator Thomas S. Martin of Viz
gna and Representative Charles NJ Stedman
of North Carolina.
Senator Warren. fought In the same battle In
which Senator Nelson wounded and can.
tured Senator Warren served as n private and
noncommissioned officer In the Forty-ninth Mas
sachusetts regiment He received the Congress.
sional medal for galantry the battlefield n,
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 educated at the Virginia
Military institution While there much of his
time WAS spent IN lHe thuet DttlHllOn OF the tnStl
tuition serving the Confederate states.
Representative Stedman served with General
Lees army throughout the He was wounded
three times. Enlisting as private he was mus
tered out major.
Representative Sherwood fighter and IS
proud of 1t. His autobiography reads In part
Democrat of Toledo: born in Stanford
Duchess county. n. y August 10. 1895; was
educated at Hudson River institute. Caverack
~ Y, at Antioch college, Ohio and at POUCH
keepsie Law college; enlisted April 10, 1861. as
private in the Fourteenth Ohio infantry and was
mustered out a brigadier general October s.
1853. by order of the secretary of war; in
43 battles and 1913 days under fire, and 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
his brigade and division and the Endorsement
Of General Schofed commanding the army, he