Show l NEWSPAPER M MEN MN N IN CONGRESS SS It is not the plutocrats who wi will ultimately control the co country sai saia said saida said saida a recently ele elected ted member r of C Con Congress Congress n- n gress the other day but the news nett newspapers papers Look at the present house There are Dingley Boutelle Cum Cum- Perkins Bar Bartholdt holdt Quig Quigg Barrett Barrett- McC H Hart t and a dozen or two other new newspaper paper men all of whom owe their election t to the fact fat that they a are e newspaper I men Y You u hear a great deal of tal talk about the of then now and power o othe the press but butt 1 I dont don't believe that tha t. t the power of the press press' is appreciated ed Journalists more than men ii in other professions other professions get close close to th fh the people and from constant study o othe of the conditions of affairs in ev every everyday everyday every every- r day walks of l life e see and appreciate i their needs and impress them with their sympathy and and inte interest est The flit Thet t people are naturally glad to have such men represent them t 1 One of f these days the majority alo Y of f both bot House and Senate enate will be made up f of newspaper men f. f This is perhaps too broad v a prophecy pro pro- p prophecy o oF F but it is certa certain n that a a. a gre great 1 t number of s of the House f land and some of the are directly direct directly direct direct- ly or cr indirectly journal r 1 ism In the upper Hou House e Senator I Lee Mantle is the proprietor of the Inter Inter- Mountain Inter at Butte Itt M Mont Senator Sen Sen- Senator ator Hawley is the owner and at one oner onetime r time the editor r of the zhe Hartford Courant Sen Senator tor Hansbrough own own- a in San ed and managed a paper Jose Cal and in his hs I young young and callow cal cal- lo low days was on the st staff ff of or the San Francisco Chronicle Senator B But Butlers Butler's t tf f tiers tier's ers er's paper bears the suggestive suggestive name name of the Clin Clinton on Caucasian ian and nd ac according according cording to his own statement has k probably the largest large t circulation and x i is is one of the most influential papers papers t t in in the State while S 'S Senator Peffer i admits in his biography y yin in in the Congressional Con Con- J c-J- onal gressional Directory ory that 1117 established established i and conducted conducted- two Vo n news t ws papers In the House Hols Mr Cum- Cum f I rings and Mr Quigg are the be best t tl l L- L t known known journalists journalists' but no ro less than cr 25 of oC their colleagues are arc or have e Jg i been eng engaged inn y work |