Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07
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He has been for years president of
the North Dakota Agricultural Col
lese. As 4 scientist he is known
all over the civilized world. and is
member Of enough chemical and
agricultural societies to fill a page
if the names were all written down.
DR.. Iadd is a friend of the farmer
spelled with a big IF" He has not
only taught the farmer things he
ought 20 know. but he has fought
tooth and toenail. He has been plas-
tered with libel suits and injunctions
by the corporations who opposed
these laws. but has gone on his way
Notwithstanding.
When he gets to the Senate I'M
Goubtedly the pure paint bill. which
has been lingering around the halls
or Congress for n number of Years.
will receive new impetus DR.. Laid
had the support OF the Non-Partlsan
League in North Dakota for the re-
publican nomination against Senator
Gronna.
Helm witty Story-Teller.
To get back to the democrats for
moraent. One of the new senators
will make his bow in the Senate sew
raj months before the rest-James
Thomas Hefiin, Familiarity known as
'Tawm" Helm. He was elected to NIL
the uEexpired term of the late SEN
ator Bankhead of Alabama. and takes
his seat when the Senate meets the
first Monday in December.
The Senate has been able TO boast
of many good story-tellers in the past
among them Chauncey NJ. Depew of
New York, but when il comes to tell
ing negro dialect stories Mr.. Hefin
can give them all cards and spades
II he will only spring some of his
stories during d debate. say. on the
league OF nations, it will undoubtedly
prove great diversion.
Mr.. Hefiin is also an enthusiastic
democrat. an optimist of the opti-
rnists. He told me not long ago that
the democrats were sure to win the
coming election-and never winked an
eye when he said it. He was elected
trict in Congress in May. 1904. and
has served in the House ever since.
In the House he was an ardent OPP
ponent of woman suffrage.
Fireworks Due from Tom Watson.
Then there is Tom Watson of
Georgia, democrat, populist and demo-
crat again. He comes to the Senate in
place Of Senator Hoke Smith. He was
nominated on an out-and-out anti-Wn-
son platform in the Georgia primaries.
Mr.. Watson is expected to stir things
up bit when he gets to the Senate.
He has been stirring things up one
way and another for many years. At
one time he was indicted and tried
because of a book called The Roman
Catholic Hierarchy" which he wrote
and published-the Catholics going
after his scalp. He was tried twice.
the first trial resulting in hung
jury, and the second in acQuittal-
self into trouble with the govern
rnent by publishing articles in his
magazines. Watson's Magazine and
the Jeffersonian Weekly. attacking
the Army draft law, and the mails
were closed to these publications He
president Of the McDuff1e Bank and a
lawyer.
. Mr.. Watson is a native of Georgia
and is sixty-four years old. He
served in the Fifty-second Congress
fls91-93) as a populist. and was the
in 1916. While in Congress he OBJ
tanned the passage of the first law
appropriating for free rural delivery
of mail in this country.
Caraway Veteran in House.
Judge Thaddeus H Caraway Of
Jonesboro. Ark. is going to take the
Congress. Judge Caraway has been
a member of the House for the last
seven or eight years and before that
was the judge Of the Arkansas cir
cult court for couple of terms. He
is native of Missouri. where he
was born forty-nine years ago. and
is a graduate Of Dickson College,
Tennessee.
He defeated Senator Kirby for the
senatorial nomination in the Arkan-
sas primaries. attacking Kirby on
his war record-Kirby voted against
the war resolution and against the
draft law and was "off the reserva-
ton" number Of times. as far as the
Wilson administration was concerned
In fact, he was one Of the little
group of willful men" whom the Pres
ident so labeled when they prevented
action on the armed neutrality reso-
luton in the Senate in the spring of
1917.
Brouasard Former Progressive.
The fourth new democratic senator
is Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana, a
brother of the late Senator Robert F.
Broussard.
Mr. Broussard is a native Of New
Iberia and is forty-six years old He
is lawyer, a planter and banker
He threw in his fortunes with .he
progressive party in Louisiana a few
years ago. and ran on the progress
sive ticket for lieutenant governor.
Weller SplenAid Read Builder.
Or the ten new republican senator's
taking seats now occupied Dy demo-
Gratis all but one were elected in states
west of the Mississippi. The lone cx-
ception Is o. E. Weller of Maryland,
who succeeds Senator John Wal.ar
Smith. Mr.. Weller at one time was