Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-17
INDIAN TEEPEE
TO WHITE HOUSE
So Will Read History If Senator
Curtis of Kansas Wins the 1928
C. o. P. Nomination and Elec-
tion to the Presidency
BY ALBERT T. REID

Washington, Nov. Is Especially -
SeRator Charles Curtis, of Kansas,
leader of the United States senate,
is the first of the dark horse regu-
lars to announce his candidacy for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton in 1928
In the senator is combined the
blood of old New England-the
Hubbard and Curtis families of
Massachusetts and New Hampshire /;
the early French settlers and traders
t-Convilles and Pappans, and an in
K, itance of Indian royalty, for Sem
atG, Curtis is one-eighth Indian
hereditary descendant of two well
known Indian chieftains.
He seems destined by birth for
leadership. His great grandmother
was princess of the Kaw tribe of
Indians, daughter of White Plume,
their chief. Her grandfather was
Chief Pawhuskie of the Usage tribe,
which are now perhaps the richest
people per capita in the world.
The senator's mother died when
he was three years old, and he was
. taken back to the Kaw reservation
by his grandmother, who directed
as far as possible, his early years and
instilled in him an ambition for
greater things than riding races at
the fairs and gatherings.
was his grandmother who, when
the government started the transfer
Of Kaw Indians from Kansas to a
reservation in the old Indian Ter
ritory, persuaded young Curtis of
the wisdom of embracing the world
CT his white people, and after the
exodus had begun, helped to spirit
him out late at night.
He walked to Topeka-some six
ty-five or seventy miles, and from
that time his ambition, his study and
his genius for hard work have car
ried him steadily on and to the place
he now occupies as leader of the
senate of the United States-second
only to the president in importance.
Young Curtis studied law While
driving hack in Topeka. He was
admitted to the bar at 21. After
three years of practice he was made
county attorney where he served
two most successful terms. He then
engaged private practice. His
clients came and so did money.
Then in 1892 Charley" Curtis
was nominated for congress from
the fourth district in Kansas.
Since that time he has spent fif-
teen years in the houre of repre-
sentatives at Washington and almost
twenty years in the senate.
Vile has been a conspicuous figure
in both branches and has had hand
in the shaping or passing of every
important piece of our legislation in
the past quarter of century.
The senator is not spectacular
One of the most able parliamentary
ans in the country, he has labored
in a knowing and effective way to
accomplish those things he has un-
dertaken. He cares not for the
pride of authorship. Results count
with him.
That same dogged determination
and perseverance made him the sue
cessful little jockey whose fame was
known as far as civilization then ex-
tended in Kansas. They say he rode
like "all hell had broke loose"
From an Indian teepee on the
western plains to the White House in
Washington is about the widest pos
sible stretch in this country. He has
already come to within step OF it..
In his acceptance of the proffer
of the Kansas delegation he says he
will not be stalking horse for any
other candidate.
That's Curtis. He means he is out
to ride to win.