Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-23
TEXANS REMEMBER
CARRIERS BIRTHDAY
Democratic Leaders Career
f From TubercuIous Youth
E Recalled by Friends.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex, November %. - The
folks down here in Texas who sent
John N. Garner to Washington 20 years
ago grinned with a sort Of "I-told-you-
so" satisfaction today as the man they
expected to be the next Speaker OF the
House of Representatives celebrated ms
62d birthday anniversary in the Ma
tons Capitol.
For Carriers neighbors In Uvalde re-
called their Representatives. own YER
sion of his introduction to Democratic
party leaders soon after the turn OF
the century.
THE autocratic party leaders" Gar
ner said, thought 1 was just another
cow thief from Texas They enrolled
me on committees with minor assign
nerts."
But the story ends with a bit of
pathos.
Sat With LOngwOrth.
when I kicked they put me on the
Foreign Affairs Committee and, being
the last Democrat, I was forced to sit
beside the last Republican. Nick Long
worth That was how we struck our
friendship.
1T was darned peculiar that sill
Ver-spooned aristocrat like him and one
of the common people like me should
hit it off. but We tried to outsmart
each other ever after that"
Even as the last Congress came to
mick" about the Democrats organic
ing this Winters session. Mr.. Long
worth's death soon afterward was only
one of several deaths of Republican
Representatives that made possible
Gamers succession to his closest
friends Office in Congress.
Texans Like His Way.
Out in the mesquite thickets around
Uvalde, where Garner comes between
congressional sessions to ride horse
back on his ranch, hunt and look after
his cattle, the folks like "Chaparral
Jack" SO well they seldom ask him to
make f1owery talks at graduation ex-
ercises. They listen to Garner cam
paign speeches made by some one else
and then elect him anyway.
They like the way he attends to
business. They liked the way he made
himself close friend and confident OF
President Wilson and took an import
ant part in shaping legislation during
the World War period.
They might have been a bit sur
priSed at his activity, however, for in
all the time Garner represented them
in the Texas Legislature, he introduced
but one bill. That single measure,
vetoed by Gov. Savers, but still advo-
Gated by its sponsor, proposed dividing
Texas into five States.
Wants More Power for South.
The South, Garner argues, should
have more political power. A split-up
of Texas would increase the Southern
representation in the Senate by eight
members and add eight electoral votes
to the 20 Texas now has. That, Gar
ner says, is only right for territory
equal to 220 States the size of Rhode
Island.
The robust, hearty looking Repre-
sentative is beloved throughout his dis
trict because his friends know he has
worked hard to overcome poverty boy
hood i'll health and lack of educational
advantages. They thank q slight attack
of tuberculosis while Garner was still
In his teens for bringing him to Uvalde.
He sought higher attitudes and dr1er
climate than could be found near his
birthplace at Blossom Prairie in Red
River County.
He rode the range punching cattle
by day. At night he studied law in
the Office of friend at Clarksville.
Hunting and fishing also contributed to
his recovery and made Of him an ardent
sportsman. The sports still lure him to
Mexico on one or two trips each Sum-
mer.
Was Judge Mt 20.
Four years after Gamers admission
to the bar, when 20 years old. he was
elected Uvalde County judge. After two
terms he went to the Texas Legislature
for two sessions. He was only "a when
elected for the first of Is consecutive
congressional sessions to represent 80
counties covering an area as large as
the State of New York.
His wife, the former Miss Elite
Rheiner, whom he married in Uvalde
November rs, 1895-three days after his
twenty-sixth birthday-has served as
his secretary ever since. She attends
to virtually all of his correspondence
greets callers at his office and, like her
husband, cares little for social life.
She is an early riser, whether at home
or in Washington, so early, in fact, that
Garner once said she usually has half
days work done before most people
get up"
Haiti expects larger coffee crop than
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