Show fo former mar blac blacksmith asmith a power in congress 4 congee i jim tawney tawne got into poll B bics tics up in minnesota he was waa a blacksmith he waa was so rough that they had to throw him down to put him into a boiled shirt some of his warmest admirers say that blacksmith training proved mighty good experience for him and applying blacksmith methods methods to hla his congressional career career he has forged to the front so BO rapidly that they do say down here in washington cn that it if speaker cannon look out same day he will get run over because aise jam tawney Is coming with wonderful strides tawney is the man who would be picked out alit at a glande glance tas as the real ward politician d of the house H he Is just the kind of a man the voter always finds ready to tell him how t to a vote atthe at the primary the type of man who always al baj leads le ads the revolt 1 in a cut and dried convention th in short t the he practical politician who gets out the vote tawney when ho he came to congress welcomed within the big tent he had to wait around on the outside then the blacksmith got busy ile he just walked off the reservation taking enough insurgent republicans with him to spill the beans for the big five and so it came to pass that the big fellows reckoned with tawney and now he Is chairman of the most important committee in the house appropriations hon jim Is a fighter fighiera from ft but he Is that ahat kind of bf a fighter who knows when to fight and when to let the other fellow do the fighting only once has tawney been whipped that once came from congressman goebel of cincinnati when he got the mall carriers pay increased in spite of tawney and chairman Oyer overstreet street the ahe whipping tickle tawney so when the tha fight to tb fial hoad down the appropriation op all the agil agricultural cultural bill came up tawney quit guarding the treasury and let scott of kansas tackle the job taw ney went to his fils committee k room the farmers wiped up the floor with scott |