Show r I THE PUBLIC EYE I FIGURED IN OIL DISCLOSURES I Joseph C SIbloy tho Pennsylvania congressman congress-man whoso name figured In the recent Standard 011 disclosures of W n Hearst will not be so directly nffected by the unpleasant evolutions 4 as the Ohio statesman for the Keystone man voluntarily retired from congress a couple of years ago and has not sought political preferment prefer-ment since While he was in the house he occasionally l 7 oc-casionally shot up Into the limelight for a moment mo-ment but upon tho whole was considered a faithful if not n brilliant representative of his district At one time he made an attack upqn the president from the floor of tho house which attracted considerable attention and at the tlmo I of the postofflce scandals some unpleasant attention I atten-tion was attracted to SIbley by the discovery heavily inter m I that a company In which he was I furnishing supplies to the postofflce de ested had an Important contract for pllrtlllonl pal I school SIbley was born 57 l years ago in New York and after teaching I farming merchandising and polling goods on tho road ho struck a paying lead as nn oil pioducer and amassed considerable wealth through tho medium of a signal oil Ho went Into politics while still comparatively young and was elected mayor of Fianklln Pa at the age of 29 He was a Democrat In those days nnd It was that party which sent him to congress In 1892 lie was one of the original free silver boomers but his convictions underwent a pronounced change later on for In 1900 while still in congress he reversed himself and became a Hepubllcan A little Incident like that did not however appear to affect his grasp upon his constituency for he continued to be elected to congress con-gress by his new partisans He has been active In Various cattle breeding agricultural and dairymens organizations and It appears from the recent revelations that he also took something more than a mere passing Interest in the affairs of the Standard Oil Company |