Evening star., 1919-03-02
President Wilson's Two RshtHnd MenLtt1e of poma
General Bureson Methods Poc;an But Bearing
His Rise Make Good StoryWhy Does the boy
Him When He Desires a Passed by Conoress9

and the republican states of the west.
Wheat and meat, corn and cotton
We're almost too cheap in price to be
quoted.
Discontented farmers joined the
populist party. Reinforcements came
from all quarters. Political vagabonds
ana economic Missionaries found II
refuge where they could exploit their
doctrines and talk forever. The range
of Issues was astonishing. Private
detectives were to be driven from
business and boards of trade abolish
eu. The national government was 20
lend money on farms at per cent.
Ihe land of corporations was to be
contiscated. Silver was to be coined
without limit, Patents were to be
outlawcd. All man 'who enslave
labor, crown capital and make use of
fraud and violence to turn the United
states into the home of the serf and
millionaire We're TO be hurled from
power" And so and SO forth
The situation was filed with peril
in the eyes of GOV. Iiogg, and In those
were daily making dangerous head
way in Texas, AS a matter of fact
they elected two state senators and
eighteen representatives in 1892. and
gave Gen. Weaver, their candidate for
President, nearly $4,000 votes. In
only Kansas were populists more
numerous.
One of the specialties of James
>Stephen Hogg was the combing into
harmonious whole of strong and
antagonistic elements. He never cared
particularly for elements that lacked
influence at the ballot box.
In justice to him, however it should
be further said that he saw no diff
ference between lawbreakers. wheth-
"r they were large or small in num-
bcr--between train robber, for eN-
ample, and rich eXtortioner.
While governor he had prosecuted
indiscriminately and had Numbered
without distinction.
Up again in 1892 as a candidate. he
was confronted by a divided demo-
cratic party and by the populists also
lie made concessions to the populists
with respect to free silver, pointed
vigorously to his anti-railroad and
anti-monopoly activities-~and chose
Edward Mandell House to be his cam
paign manager
The tiercest campaign in all Texas
history followed. Hogg was re-elect
ed by $1,000 votes. From that hour to
this Col. House has been the premier
politician of the southw est. In that
campaign and in later ones Albert
Sidney Burleson sat at the feet of
Gamaliel and learned silence, self-ef-
facement, strategy, unnoticeable as
siduity and something of the magic
by which hungry robins are lureu out
of ripe cherry trees
Once the writer asked him about his
experiences as a boy and young man.
His voice was benign when he an
swered; his countenance almost
cherubic. Really" he said, mine is a
humdrum story. ] was born with
gold spoon in my mouth and just got
an education, read law and was ad-
mitted to the bar. am wholly with
out interest" Whereat he stopped and
refused to say another word in proof
of his statement
The gold spoon meant cotton planta-
tions, which are still in the posses
sion of the Burleson family Cotton.
too, has been one of the House prod
ucts from the earliest days of that
mdustrys beginnings in Texas.
Six years were devoted by Mr.. Bur
Lesson, after the famous campaign in
1892, in prosecuting the criminals of
the twenty sixth district and in study
ing applied politics as taught and
practiced by the great Texan master
In 1898 he was elected to Congress as
representative. Hogg had with
drawn from public life with cash
capital of 500. as reported at the
time, in his pocket; had enga aged in
NIlS Oit DuS1Hcss was IiS
raw petroleum to Flagler and Rookie
feller,
SO Hogg passes out of this story,
as he passed out of politics in Texas.
House was now the undisputed lead
err of the democratic party. He elect
ed other governors and by his choice
men became United States senator's
In Burleson---perhaps. his chief disci-
ple---he found and took much per-
sonal and professional delight Bur
Lessons notes were low and his step
was soft but ubiquitous,
Anciently as has been seen, the
Burlesons wrought with swords and
rifles. The Postmaster General has
never had an opportunity to show
his talent with such instruments.
With him art has taken the place of
powder He leads men and maneu-
vers them by his own and Col Houses
methods: but no Burleson, since the
Indian wars of Gen. Jackson, has
: been a better fighter,
Oratory in Congress, when we'll eS
ecuted, is the one sure highway that
leads to notoriety. To the youthful
Mr.. Burleson, however-he was thir-
, ty-five when he took his seat in the
House of Representatives.
making was a ridiculous waste of
effort. Superntendence, he believed.
WAS more important. No declama-
tions, from him, then. found ready
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