Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-01-29
men MUST HAVE
right EXPERIENCE
MEN OF WELL TRAINED MINDS
SHOULD BE AT HEAD OF
OUR GOVERNMENT

OUR GOVERNMENT
Now kiddies," said Uncle Ted as
Jack and Ruth cuddled close to their
uncle in the back seat of daddy's au-
| tomobile which was spinning along
at merry clip, Il told you last week
about funny dinner party given by
| the democrats in Washington not
long ago at which many of the men
who spoke want to run for president
on the democratic ticket next Novem-
| Der. / won't have time to tell you
your story tonight so / am going to
tell you now about the kind of man
think ought to be our next presi-
dent"
who is he?" asked Jack,
mo, Jack, l didn't say would tell
you who | think should be our next
/ president, but the kind Of man he
must be. SO listen closely. In the
first place, for the past seven years
/ our country has been run by a bunch
\ of men who had at their head a man
| who never had served either in the
house of representatives at Washing
| ton or the senate l mean, of course
Woodrow Wilson. Not having
! served in either of those important
bodies of our government he was
less able TO understand how the
| men who are ina them feel and how
he should deal with them. Because
he never sat in either the house or
the senate he could not know as
much about our government as he
should. do not mean that we can
not have good presidents unless they
have been representatives or senat-
ors but want to make you under
stand that when a president has had
that experience he is better able to
run the government. He knows
more about it and can deal with
congress in much better way"
Have we ever had president who
had been senator or representa-
tive?" asked Jack.
/ Eyes, Jack, many of them. AS
you know, the senate and house are
known as our legislative bodies. Be
fore and during the revolution in
T1776 when our country was freed
from Great Britain and for a while
afterwards there was one legislative
body and it was called the Continen-
tai Congress. Our first three presi-
dents, George Washington, John Adj
ans and Thomas Jefferson were
members of that body before being
elected president. The fourth
president, James Madison, was a
member of the house of representa-
tives before being elected.
James Monroe was senator from
Virginia from 1890 to 1894. He was
first elected president in 1917 John
Quincy Adams served in the senate
from Massachusetts from 1902 to
1909. He alse served in the house
and was elected president in 1925.
Andrew Jackson served one year in
the senate from 1877 to 1898, and
again from 1923 to 1925. He was
first elected president in 1928. He
too, served in the house. Martin
Van Buren, was senator from New
York from 1922 to 1928. He was
elected vice-president in 1882 and
president in 1896. William Hen
ry Harrison served in the senate from
Ohio from 1895 to 1929 and was
elected president in 1910 He serY-
ed in the house. John Tyler vs.
senator from Virginia from 1S27Wo
1896. In 1910 he was elected vice
president on the ticket with Harrison
and became president when Harrison
died a month after his inauguration.
He had served in the house. Frank
lin Pierce who was elected presi-
dent in 1852. served in the senate
from New Hampshire from 1897 to
1912. and also in the house. Abra-
ham Lincoln served one term in con-
gress and eight years in the Illinois
legislature. Andrew Johnson
served in the house and in the SEN
ate from Tennessee from 1857 to
1852. In 1864 he was elected vice
president on the ticket with Lincoln
and became president after Lincoln's
assassination. He was again elect
ed senator in 1875, being the only
president to be elected to the senate
after his term in the white house.
James A. Garfield served in the
house and he was also elected to the
senate from Ohio but was elected
president before II was time for him
to take his seat in the senate. Ben
jamin Harrison was senator from In
diana from 1881 to 1887, and was
elected president in 1888. William
Mckinley was never in the senate but
he served in the house."
II didn't know there We're so
many" exclaimed Jack
"Yes, there were great many,
Jack. Today there are four re-
publicans in the senate who are
working for the republican nomina-
tion. They are Senator Warren G.
Harding, of Ohio Senator Hiram
Johnson of California;: Senator
Miles Poindexter OF Washington:
and Senator Howard Sutherland OF
West Virginia. Former Congress-
man Frank o. Lowden, now govern
or OF Illinois. is another man of le-
gislative training who is candidate
for the republican nomination. They
are all good men and any one of
them would make better president
from ENJOYING the great advantage
of wears of service in congress.
Which one do you think is best?"
asked Ruth.
~ haven't made up NV mind vet"
answered Uncle Ted. land won't de-
eide which one will be nv choice un-
til I find out what each of them
want done in regard to important
nublic questions. What am trying
to teach you is that mar who has
had experience in the legislative
bodies of our government is better
able 10 run this country than man
who has not had that experience. He
knows what it means to help make
the laws, and for that reason he can
appreciate how the men feel who do