The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-11-25

Of Dallas.
Horatio Alger in his widest
fights of fancy never penned a
more improbable fiction than the
life story of Senator Charles Cur
tbs, of Kansas, whom his friends
and his state propose as the Re
publican nominee for President.
If the ambition which his friends
entertain for him are ever realized,
and Senator Curtis, too, shares
them, his rise will record the most
romantic chapter of success in po-
litical history. From an Indian
reservation to the White House,
from a ward of the government to
Chief Executive of the nation, will
be sub-titles in his story.
Curtis was reared on the Kaw
reservation near Topeka, Kansas.
His mother was part Indian. Here
he learned to ride, and in his early
teens he achieved a wide local re-
putation as a jockey. He was a
good jockey, and managed, with
a favorite mount, to win his races
with disturbing regularity.
His parents decided, however,
that he should have an education,
and made available to him such
training as the public schools OF
that day afforded. Presently, how
ever, as many another lad had be-
fore and will again, he was forced
co work his way through school II
he attained more than the average
education of his time and place.
He became a driver of night-haWks,
the vehicles that carried the cele-
orators to places of amusement
and home again. By the light OF
the red lamp affixed to his buggy
he read law, and afterwards was
admitted to the office OF Judge
Chase, of Topeka.
Curtis was diligent in his duties,
and was admitted to the bar. He
became county attorney OF Shaw
nee county, he was elected to Con-
gress and served his districts for
seven successive terms. He was
elected to the Senate, and, except
for a brief interval, he has served
his state in that capacity since
1907.
Today he is the party whip, re-
sponsible for legislation, and IS
perhaps more continuously in his
seat on the Senate floor than any
colleague. He is welcome IN any
home in the nation, to the affairs
of the elite in the Capital City,
and he may yet become social,
business and official arbiter OF his
nation.
Searchers for details of George
Washington, the man, rather than
George Washington, the soldier
and statesman, are likely to ind
more information of interest and
value in his dairies, personal pap
ers and the documents in the LII
brary of Congress than in any OF
the writings of his contemporaries
Numerous biographies OF WASH
ington have been written, untolc
numbers of sketches and articles
prepared. both by those who IVec
when he did and by subsequent
historians, but none are more re
vealing than his personal papers
For n thing, the tendency OF the
%biographer of that day was to dis
cuss the %statecraft, the ofhcla
{ acts of a man rather thai TN
traits of the individual. Today
our biographers have gone TO th'
Y other extreme, and there are lev
incidents in the life OF natlona
S figures, recently passed on OF ll'
ing today, that are U
f a public gone mad for personal IL
s cident, whether of gutter-naVor U
protected by the roseate glow 0
e the hearth-side. Witness, for II
d stance. the whisperings about WI
S son. the side-of-north stories q
S Harding, and the more recent pun
LEGATION of a book dealing WIN III
alleged amours /,
e Neither Washington o Llncol
a have escaped these prying students
yet Washington's diaries revea
n the man as we would like to Sc
him. They show the daily life oil
e planter. a respected and genls
member of his community, wh
g reads the thermometer daily an
records the prospects of the weatl
s err for the next day, as any farme
s would observe.
e Letters received by Washlnglo
e and written by him make up MOI
e than 300 volumes I'm MANUSCRIPT
d in the Library of Congress- an
It their number is growing. Othe
volumes are filled with transcript
of his letters and there are eleVe
d volumes of his letters in the pal
e ers of the Continental Congress.
Those who seek to know Wasi
s ington well and intimately nee
i only make inquiry Of the L1brar
d to learn the peculiarities, the chal
a 4r~r,a nj man n