Evening star., 1924-11-09
Capital Sidelights

Bureau OF Mines they know a great
deal about Pine, who became a multi
millionaire before he was IS years Of
age and for several years has been
one Of the largest independent opera
tors in the Oklahoma oil fields.
When a mere STRIPPING, more than
quarter of a century ago, he quit
his native heath in Bluffs, ILL.,, and
went out where the West was young
and wild. AS young clerk he
bought some land and hit it lucky, for
oil was found on his property and he
became a millionaire over night.
But he had good business ability
behind his luck, and as money poured
in from his oil well he promoted other
enterprises. His record in busine SIS
has been SO impressive that when he
promised during the campaign that
he would apply to the Government the
same business sagacity that he had to
his own private business interests the
! voters took him at his word and sent
him to the United States Senate.
Because he defied prominent citi-
zens and church leaders in endeavor-
ing to give a 17-year-old boy a chance
to come back" a millionaire church
member of Madison, N. j.. Mounel
Sayre, found this humanitarianism
and Christian effort turned into a po-
litical issue that largely helped to de-
feat him for Congress OF course, the
fact that his opponent, Representa-
tive Ernest r. Alderman, has served
in the House, and ably, for six years
was a serious handicap.
Phe boy, Francis kluXen, at the
age of IS was arrested. tried and ac-
n Qd hU i,1Y nf
numbering an 11-year-old girl Others
were under suspicion. An older man
was tried and acquitted. The case
against the boy was solely Of a cir
cumstantial nature.
After his acquittal the boy contin
ued to be under suspicion by num-
Der of people. Angered at this pub
lie attitude toward the boy. Sayre
took him to his home and later
adopted him as his son. A committee
of IA wealthy and exclusive citizens
turn the lad out. When he took the
boy to church, Sayre was upbraided
by the church's board Of elders and
then removed as a vestryman.
Sayre denounced the churchmen and
his wealthy neighbors and continued
to give the boy the shelter of his
home and opportunities for an educa-
tion. AS result he himself has been
ostracized by the community in his
palatial country home.
Sayre says that as his ancestors
settled in Madison in 1885, and were
first lords of its soil. SO he refuses to
bow to the get-Hch-Quickers.
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Since Uncle Joe" Cannon quit the
halls of Congress the Washington
~s>Ir
resentative Nicholas Longworth of
Ohio, the House leader, who is a
candidate for Speaker. and use him
as a hook on which to hang anec-
dotes. The striking physical feature
about Nick" is a shiny dome. The
only time he was defeated for Con-
gress in his 20 years service was dur
ing the Democratic landslide. Then
Stanley NJ. Bowdle, his successful op-
ponent, at meeting referring to the
fact that Mr.. Longworth's Uranium is
deficient in hirsute adornment, said
jubiIantly: Mature scalped Nick, but
skinned him
Taking the ~ States listed as car
ried by John W. Davis. and doing
little figuring with the popular vote
recorded, it is found that the vote
of these IL States for him is prac-
tically the same as that given him
in the one State of New York or the
two States Of Illinois and Indiana
yet Coolidge carried the first by a
plurality of 100000 and the two latter
by $4,000.
Here are the figures: Alabama
population 2,348,00O, Democratic vote
81, ,429: :Arkansas-populati 1.752. 900,
Democratic vote 1924; Florida
population 96S,o00, Democratic vote
24,3S7; Georgia-population 2,Ss5,000,
Democratic vote 1880; Louisiana
population 1897, 900. Democratic vote
52.4S6: Observation-Disclosures 1,7S9,-
600, Democratic vote 32.176; North
Carolina-populatio 2,547, 900, Demo-
cratic vote SS,9S1; klahoma-popula-
ton 100000, Democratic vote 1S3,-
655; South Carolina-popuiation L.
6S3, 200, Democratic vote 20.0SS; Ten
nessee-population 2.33s,0o0, Demo
cratic vote 133.453: Texas-population
1850. 900, Democratic vote 122,01s:
neutrality-suspicious. 2.3os, 900, Demo-
Democratic vote in these IL States
93s,s13 out Of a total population of
27.o55, 900.
New York State, with a population
of 10,370,000 as compared with the
population Of 27,055,oo0, yet gave
Davis practically the same popular
vote as all these 12 Southern States
together-930,45s, as against the $685.
S13 cast for him in the IL Southern
States.
In Illinois the population is e,4s2,0oo
and the Democratic vote was 8.431.
In Indiana the population is 2,930,0O
and the Democratic vote was 452,475.
So, in these two States where the
population is only 9.412.o0o as COM
pared with 27,055. 900 in the IL South
ern States and 10,37o.000 as compared
with New York, the vote for Davis
was again practically the same
930, ,906.
1t will be seen from an analysis OF
| these figures that Tennessee and Ok
lahoma- in which there was a strong
opposition party. cast more than one
third the Davis vote in these IL
Southern States.
As further illustrations. Massa-
| chusetts. with a. population of 3,S49.-
900, cast a total vote OF 1.115,569,
while the great State of Texas, with
vote Of 1sz.33s.
Representative Robert L. Bacon,
worthy son of An able sire, a former
Treasury Department employee, who
served on the Texas border and in
the World War, being awarded the
distinguished service medal, has just
won another distinction. lafayette B.
Gleason, secretary of the New York
Republican State committee, is au-
thority for the statement that Repre-
sentative Bacon's 48, 800 plurality in the
district comprising Suffolk and Nassau
Counties and part of Queensborough
breaks all records in the State Of
New York for candidate for Con-
gress, running with opposition in q
single district.