Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will P. Kennedy.

Chairman Jennings Randolph of the
House District Committee won his hard
est fight in IA years of campaigning
for Congress with his second largest ma
jority. For length of service as chair
man he now ranks second to Ben
johnson of Bardstown, KY, who was
chairman Of the District Committee in
the Sixty-second, third, Sixty
fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses,
but he Is second to none in efficient
devotion to District interests. Mr..
Randolph became chairman in 1898,
after five years of active service on the
committee, and is just completing II
years of helpful service to Washington.
During his vigorous campaign for re-
election he had company on his crisis
cross tour of his congressional district
approximately 800 miles long, for he
had mentar communion with the spirit
of Thomas Jefferson, who once cam
paigned over the same area. As a mat
ter Of fact, Mr.. Randolph held one
conference with leaders in the Pan
handle counties of jefferson, Berkeley
and Morgan on jefferson Rock, from
which Jefferson made a speech in his
presidential campaign. 1t was from
this rock that Jefferson, enjoying the
view. exclaimed that it was worth a
trip across the Atlantic to contemplate.
He had held the unique once of sole
minister to the King of France"
Mr.. Randolph carried II Of the Is
counties in his district, broke even in
another and reduced the normal Re-
publican majority in the three others.
He ran approximately 5000 ahead of
the President and the candidate for
Governor throughout the entire dis
trict. He now is serving the I'd West
Virginia district in Congress longer than
any man OF any party ever has.
George H. Fallon, the incoming new
House member from Maryland, has the
distinction Of - yoring the 4th district
to the Democratic fold. This is his
torically a Democratic district since
long before the Civil War, with only
four single-term lapses-Daniel Ellison
in the present Congress, Charles r.
Schirm in the Fffty-seventh Congress
d9o1-19o3), william w. McIntire in the
Fifty-fifth Congress Q897-l899) and
Henry Stockbridge. jr, in the Fifty-first
Congress Q889-l89D. Before the Civil
War, Henry May, born In Washington,
was elected to the Thirty third Congress
in 1883 as a Democrat, and again in
the Thirty-seventh Congress, 1861. In
the Thirty-eighth, Henry w. Davis was
elected on the Unconditional Union
ticket. In the Thirty ninth and
Fortieth, Charles E. Phelps served
first as a Union War and then as a
Union Conservative member Then
from 1869 to 1879 the seat was &C.
cupied by Thomas Swan, who had
been President of the B. & O. Rail-
road, of the Northwestern Virginia r.
r., Mayor Of Baltimore and Governor.
He was succeeded by Robert w. McLane,
from 1879 to 1883, who had previously
been Governor and Minister to France
and whose father, Louis McLane, had
served in the War of 1912, In Congress
as United States Senator and success.
sively as Minister to England, Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, Secretary of State.
again Minister to England and for 10
years Q837-184D president Of the B.
g. o. Railroad Co. Isidor Rainier, later
Senator, served the 4th district In the
Fiftieth. Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses, being succeeded by another
B. & o. president, John K. Cowan. The
late J. Charles Linthicum held the seat
in the House from 1911 to 1927, and was
chairman Of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. He was succeeded by Ambrose
Kennedy, who was replaced in the
Seventy-seventh Congress by John A.
Meyer, who lost the seat to the present
Republican incumbent.
Mr.. Fallon managed the campaigns
in Baltimore for President Roosevelt
for q third term and Gov. Herbert
O'Conor's successful campaign. He Is
serving his second term In the Balti-
more City Council.