Show ± = = = = = EDI eRS IN CONGRESS I 1 In the Houseractors in Savon in Number inIo Senate and Thirty Havo Attained Fame Both as loumnhste e Who Political LifeMan womerouslonB List ot Them Mad Up by Rep I nnd Statesmen 4riNumerousLong in Who Tell of Their Achievements in News resenmtlve Curnmings l papcrdom 4 I S < Correspondence Tribune Washington April SNoxvspapor writers certainly played an Important O1tItlOfl lou revolution part In the French constituent found them not only In the appeared in the assembly but they and were prominent 1 Leelalailve assembly ntlon The nont In the national convention eventually wended most prominent They also their way to the guillotine Irritated tho Council of the Ancients and the Five Hundred On the ISth Fructador when Auycreau swept tho hill with his grenadiers the owners editors and writers of fQrtyonc newspapers news-papers were arrested and transported to Cayenne From that time to the present newspaper mon have been conspicuous con-spicuous in French legislative history 1ur more so than In either England or America While they throng the Capitol in Washington very few are mtmbers of either House The craft has always had a telling Influence in American politics but has been swomp cd In Congress by 1 tho legal fraternity and has rarely come to the surface In the deliberations of either body Nonc has over trodden the path leading to the guillotine but occasionally one has ieon Imprisoned for refusing to answer an-swer questions propounded by Congressional Congres-sional investigating committees Notn bje examples were Tames W Simon ton and Hallct KSlbourne They were victims of the Conclergeric but not of the guillotine Thero are seven owners editors and writers of newspapers in the Senate and thirty in the House Among the seven Henry Cabot Lodge Is classed Be does much work for the magazines and very little for the newspapers Aside from this ho is a prolific writer of books fully its prollllc as the President Presi-dent of the United States Indeed he has compiled a volume of selections from speeches In conjunction with Theodore Boosevelt Lodge served eight years in the House and succeeded suc-ceeded Henry L Dawes In the Senate March 4 J 1S93 Thomas M Patterson of Colorado who was sworn In as a Senior Sen-ior last year Is a wellknown newspaper newspa-per proprietor Ho worked at the case as compositor for three years in Crawfordsvile Ind Patterson came to New York from Ireland when 9 years old and went to D rtcr in 1872 He Is the principal owner of the Rocky fountain News the leading newspaper in the State It is hardly probable that he has ever donned the editorial harness but his newspaper dividends undoubtedly add greatly to his Income A delegate to the House In the Forty fourth Congress he became a full fledged member In the Fortyfifth after the Centennial Statd was admitted Into tho Union Near him Js seated William I A Clark the great copper king J of Montana Mon-tana He is also a newspaper proprietor proprie-tor the owner of the Butte Miner a leading newspaper in tho Stub Toe State Ckirk came from Connellsvllle Pap worked on a farm studied law fought Indians and finally became the Cecil Rhodes of the copper reefs The leaders of his editorial columns relic re-lic ct his vjcvs whether written by him or by others Both Clark and Patterson Patter-son have materially strengthened the minority in the Senate Patterson Is a forcible speaker and Clark when thoroughly thor-oughly aroused is not a whit behind him Another Senatorial newspaper deity is Joseph R Hawlby Connecticut Connecti-cut Foryears Hawley was the editor of the Hartford Courant one of the oldest newspapers In the country He J tinged at the side of Sam Bowles John TV Forney Murat Halstead George D Prentice and other editors I dead and gone Hawley was a Briga dierGeneral In the war for the Union and proved himself a gallant soldier He served three terms In tho House of Representatives before he succeeded William W Eaton In the Senate on March 4 J 1881 He Is chairman tho Committee on Military Affairs a > > a Another of the fraternity is Jeter C Priichard of North Carolina He was a printers devil in Jonesboro Tenn and finally crossed tho line and became f Joint editor and owner of the Roan Mountain Republican He succeeded Zcbulon B Vance In the Senate and has been reelected but will probably give way to successor next March Henry C Hansblough of North Dakota la another newspaper man who may be said to have slid into the Senate chamber cham-ber apparently without effort He was bOrn in Illinois tramped California asa as-a Journeyman printer ran a dally newspaper In San Jose became noW editor of the San Francisco Chronicle skipped to Wisconsin and published the Baraboo Bulletin next transferred himself to Devils Lake N D where he established thto Devils Lake Inter ocean and finally popped into tho House of Representatives whon North Dakota was admitted Into the Union On March 4 111 he took his seat In the Senate having been elected by a combination com-bination of Democrats and disgruntled Republicans He was reelected by the interposition of an Isothermal providence provi-dence A violent snowstorm prevented some of his political enemies from reaching the State Capitol in time to record their votes and Hansbiough dropped back in the Senate by the law political gravitation amid universal rejoicing at Devils Lake The last of the seven Journalists In the Senate Is Edward W Carmack oJ Memphis Like ITanabrough he went there from the House of Representatives Ho is tho youngest and the brightest of the seyen He Is l not yet 41 t years old In 1SSG he was one of the editors of the Nashville American Two years later he founded the Nashvillo Democrat In two years more it was mergeu nun the American and Carmack became Its editorlnchlef In 1892 he became editor of the Memphis Commercial and was elected to Congress in 1896 His scat was contested by Josiah Patterson Patter-son a noted Cleveland Democrat The I Committee on Elections reported against Carmack but the latter defended de-fended his claim to the seat so eloquently I elo-quently that the House reversed the Judgment of the committee After serving two terms in the House Car mack succeeded Thomas B Turley In the Senate on March 4 I 1901 lie has already achieved an enviable reputation reputa-tion oil the floor and may be truly II termed the Prince Rupert of the minority mi-nority aIn a-In former days the Senate was brightened by the presence of many a prominent newspaper man Henry 13 Anthony of the Providence Journal represented Rhode Island for a quarter of a century He succeeded Philip Allen Al-len In 1859 and was President pro tempore tem-pore of tho Senate for several years Another member of the press who achieved greatness in the Senate was Thomas Ii Benton Away back In 1S20 he was the editor of the Missouri Argus Ar-gus then a thriving newspaper in St LoulsJt was while he was the editor of the Argus that he was elected to the United States Senate where he remained re-mained for thirty years Yet his career was not more wonderful than that of Carl Schurz another sterling newspaper newspa-per man who went to the Senate from the same city Schurz was the editor of a newspaper that wielded much po itlcal influence among the Germans in Missouri His newspaper career however how-ever began In Germany where he published pub-lished a revolutionary Journal prior to the uprising In 1S48 For two years he was the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune It was while Charles A Dana was its managing idl tor Later on Schurz became tho editor l edi-tor of the Detroit Post He succeeded John RHen 1crnon as United States Senator from Missouri Mr Henderson 10 now a resident of the city of Washington Wash-ington The successor of Schurz as Senator was Francis M Cockrell who atlll retain3 the place Carl Schur has been Secretary of the Interior and Minster Min-ster to Spain In the war for the Union he attained the rank of Briga dierGeneral In the Senate at the side of Charles Sumner he shone like a star of the first magnitude He was the guest of President Roosevelt at the din lick given to Prince Henry of Prussia iq the White House and was greeted warmly by the Prince Another journalist Jour-nalist from St Louis who honored the Senate was B Gratz Brown candidate for VIccPrcaldenL on the Grccley ticket tick-et In 187 He was the editor of the St Louis Democrat when he entered the Senate in I860 Brown was a graduate grad-uate of Ynlo college but ho lacked the positive force of Schura n < I So much for tho editors who left their sanctums In St Louis to adorn the United States Senate No city In the Union has been so highly honored In its editors Two Pennsylvania editors havo secured similar honors The llrst was William BIgler at onetime one-time Governor of the Keystone State He entered the Senate in 1855 For many years Blgler was the editor of the dealfield Democrat Treading close upon his heels was another country coun-try editor who was a prominent figure for more than half a century He was old Simon Cameron editor of the Doylcstown Intel llISenccr I Abraham Lincolns first Secretary of War and afterward his Minister to Russia Before Be-fore he was of age Simon worked at the case in Ilarrlsburg and Washington Washing-ton When L2 years old he was running run-ning a newspaper In tho State capital He was Senator off and on from 1815 to 1S77 being the only United States Senator who has thrice resigned his seat in that august body On his third resignation his son Don succeeded him Four newspaper men from the South have added brilliancy to the Senate The first was the renowned James H Hammond of South Carolina He was the last of the fireeating Senators from that Stale Hammond resigned on the election of Lincoln He had been the Governor of the Palmetto State and the editor of the Southern Times A second l accomplished newspaper news-paper man who threaded his way Into the upper branch of Congress vas A O P Nicholson of Tennessee for three years editor of the Washington Dally I Union The third but bj no means tho least of the Southern editors was that sterling presiding genius of the Augusta Chronicle Patrick Walsh appointed ap-pointed Senator by Gov William J Northen of Georgia to succeed Alfred H Colquitt rue fourth Jtnd ihost interesting in-teresting Southern editor to enter the Senate was Parson Browniow of Tennessee Ten-nessee He put the vim of the Knoxville Knox-ville Whig into tho Senatorial proceedings pro-ceedings and delighted the hearts of the Tennessee loyalists Michigan has contributed one newspaper man to the Senate but so long ago that he has nearly been forgotten He was John Norvell n practical printer and for a loiig time editor of a newspaper in Philadelphia Norvell was one of the I first two Senators from tho Wolverine State after her admission into the Union S at So much for the newspaper stars In the Senate The glowing record of the past Is still maintained The average however Is hardly upheld In the lower House It would appear that Its newspaper news-paper delegation Ianot as conspicuous conspicu-ous today as their predecessors in the past It would be Impossible to match Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune Henry J Raymond of the New York Times Henry Watteison of the Louisville CourierJournal James Brooks of the New York Express Charles Francis Adams of the Boston Whig John Letcher of the Valley Star and Hugh S Legare of the Southern Review with anything on the floor of the House today And then again In late years we have had William E Barrett of the Boston Advertiser Jerry Simpson of the Bayonet William J Bryan of the Commoner Beriah Wil klns of the Washington Post Charles A Boutelle of the Bangor Whig and Courier Nelson Dlngley of the Lewiston Lewis-ton Journal George D Perkins of the Sioux City Journal James J Belden of the Syracuse Post Ben Wood of the New York Newo Anson Herrick of the New York Atlas Charles C Conn of the Washington Times and a score of others more easily matched The men of today seem ta have made more of reputation q as Congressmen than as newspaper men Here Is l Charley B Landls of Indiana onceCdltor q the L ganspo t Journal and afterward of the Delphi Journal lie stands today among the leading orator of the House and has achieved a national na-tional reputation something that he never would have done as a rural editor Take John H Small of North Carolina editor of the Washington Gazette Ga-zette and William W Kitchen of the Scotland Neck Democrat In the same State They are making a mark In the House they failed to make as Journal ists And near by Is the sacerdotal figure of Robert W Taylor of Ohio who was Instrumental In throwing a polygamous Congressman out of the House No one would ever dream that he had been the editor of the Buckeye State And tho Boanerges of the Missouri Mis-souri delegation Champ CJark whose eloquence has charmed thousands of religious enthusiasts at Chaulauqua how many aro aware that he once presided pre-sided at the editorial tripod of the Riverside Press of Louisiana 1101 Hero stands James Ir Qrlggs of Georgia cheery and debonair with blue eyes and yellow hair and asplra tlpns for political preferment in the Congressional campaign committee Even the biographical sketches fail to record that he once ran the Intellectual department of tho Bcrrlcn County News Edgar Weeks of Michigan is another newspaper man hiding his light under a bushel Men who heard I his magnificent speech on the pension I bill may be surprised to learn that he was once the editor of the Mount Clemens Monitor Near by you see a stalwart fIgure with a clear complexion and a whlto moustache This is the chairman of the Committee on Printing Print-Ing Joel P Heatwole of Minnesota He Is the Illustrious proprietor of the Northfleld Nowe a fact unrecorded in the sketches Like Weeks Hcatwole Is i also a practical Printer V 0 Whenever YOU turn on the floor of the House you confront a newspaper ihiin At your side stands modest James R Young of Philadelphia Washington corrcsponden of Horace Greeley Tribune < in Its palmiest days and now one of the editors of the Philadelphia Star lie Is a brother of the late John Russell Young who died while librarian of Congress Howard Mutchler of Easton Is another newspaper news-paper contribution from the Keystone State He is the editor and owner of the Easton Daily Express and the Northampton Democrat This Is Mutchlers second term In Congress lie was elected to the Fiftythird Congress Con-gress to 1111 the vacancy created by the death of his father Away off on the other side of the House you find another an-other Pennsylvania editor Ernest F Acheron of the Washington Observer Achesons name heads the rollcall of the House He Is a worthy member of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Is serving his fourth term In Congress Con-gress Tennessee Is represented by two newspaper men Walter P Brown low of the Jonpsvllle Herald and Tribune and Henry R Gibson of the Xnoxvllle Chronicle Bronlow Is a nephew of old Parson Brownlow and was once a reporter for the Knoxville Whig Other newspaper men In the HQuse arc Thomas J Selby of Illinois once owner of the Jersey County Democrat Frederick J Kern editor of the Belleville NewsDemocrat George W Cromcr of Indiana of the Muncie I Times Charles F Scott of Kansas editor of the lola Register Vincent I Borellng of Kentucky publisher of the Mountain Echo of London John Dougherty once editor of the Liberty Tribune Missouri Charles F Cochran late editor of the St Joseph Gazette Rudolph Kleberg of Texas who established estab-lished the Cuero Star and Dennis T Flynn of Oklahoma once editor of the Riverside Leader of Iowa Aside from these there are two New England editors well worth consideration They are Samuel W McCall for eight months the edllorJnchlef of the Boston Bos-ton Advertiser and Edwin C Burlelgh the third editor of the Kennebec Journal Jour-nal who has been sent to Congress New York presents George B Mc Clcllan once a wellknown reporter in the metropolis Oliver II P Belmont proprietor of the Verdict and George N Southwick of Albany once manag ing editor of the Evening Journal of that city Another man of prominence Is Dick Bartholdt of St Louis He Was editor of the St Louis Tribune when first elected to Congress Last of all comes William Alden Smith who supplements his income with dividends drawn from the Grand Rapids Herald 1 < 1 The promotion of so many newspapers news-papers men to the hall of Congress recalls the remarkable distich said to have been written by John R McLean Mans a vapor > Full of wo starts Starts a paper > Up ha KOCH jijaj 1 AMOS J CUMMINGS Copyright 1002 by Amos J Cummings |