Evening times-Republican., 1920-11-09
Familiar Figures
Disappear From
Congress Halls
IRy r. Ia. poughertyl

Washington, Nov. 9.--Tho Charley
Kennedy, of the First Iowa district.
Will be the only familiar face miss
ing from the Hawkeye delegation In
the new congress. Some old timers
will return to the halls OF the capt.
tol, and political characters long as
sociated with affairs under the great
white dome here will pass from the
scene as afresult Of Tuesdays elec-.
ton.
Champ Clark. who missed being
nominated for president by the mar
| rowest of margins in 1912, will slip
back into the ranks OF those political
ghosts that stalk the chamber OF the
house He will join the group OF
silent figures that attained the
heights OF the speakers rostrum.
Speaker Gillett remains the father
of the house. due to his unbroken
service now running into fifteen con-
secutive terms. Uncle Joe" Cannon
will continue to strut up and down
the center aisle, vest open and the
long black stogey out ahead. He Is
not the Cannon who once was cZar
| but ne has lived to witness the return
to power OF his political associates
who went down with him when the
insurgency movement split the re-
publican party eight years ago.
Uncle Joe" will bs solitary flg.
ure Danville seems inclined to keep
him In congress until he cries Hold,
enough" but he has been forced re-
luctantly into the role of patriarch
parative youngsters who believe IN
prohibition. His crony, GEM Isaac
Sherwood. of Toledo, o., will be
among those failing to descend to
the speakers pit to take the oath or
office in the Sixty-seventh congress-
) Senator "Cbarley" Thomas, the
weather prophet Of the senate and
one of its best story tellers. will cease
to be present. He refused to run on
1.-The. democratic ticket in Coloraao. be-
cause of the endorsement OF the leag-
ue Of nations in the platform, and was
IN the campaign as an Independent,
but the united vote OF the republican
won over the split vote Of the DEM
ofats. 'ntsa pi'.ts-',ssf ID a.
Thetus w.lsims of Tennessee. who
sponsored the Plumb plan Of railroad
control, and John HI. Esch. of Wis
eonsin, who fought for it success
fully and gave his name to the pres-<
present. Esch, and Sims, led thei:'
party membership in the house, COM
mittee on interstate and foreign
commerce. Gossip has 1t that Esch
will return to Washington as secre
tary Of commerce In President Elect
Harding's cabinet. Sims became fam
ous in the capital as the only demo-
cratic congressman who believed sin
cerely in protection. The story was
that when attacked by a fistic ad-
versary. Sims sought safety In
tree and called for protection.
Jimmy" Phelalrr, of California. who
always knew everything about oil ard
japanese and California wines, viii
be among the absehtees. 1t was the
Glapper Phelan with his trim beard
who inspired women of national
prominence to suggest that his
whiskers reminded her of a kitten
after, finishing a bowl OF cream.
i, The silver -tongued Bourke Cock
ran, Of New York. and the long wind
ed Teordore r. Burton, of Ohio, will
return to the capitol after long alb
sences. Both will be in the house,
but it is safe to predict that Burton
will not be missing from his old
haunts in the senate when advised
that some ambitious fllibuster seeks
to equal his record for long distance