Show IOwen Owen P Part Cherokee r BE PRESIDENT T PRESIDENT NO 9 Is Lecturer arid and n Fighter 1 a c r 4 o r r k Y i i a F 7 C r y kT S J f y r I t f S Senator ato From From From- Oklahoma l homa Is Direct De Descendant nt of I y r. r Pocahontas v t 1 By G. G B. B Parker Editor the o Oklahoma olahoma News OKLAHOMA CITY Okla March 8 8 A Ad A descendant of ot the people fr from m among whom Po Pocahontas sprang ng to occupy the White u HC House e These tl things l Ss S's will wilt c Cone conje e to pass pass f If Robert L. L Ow Owen n succeeds In his ambition ambi- ambi ambItion ambI- ambI tion to be chief executive of the nation na na- tion Owen Is is' is sixteenth one-sixteenth Cherokee Indian Pocahontas belonged to one of the en sex tribes of the Cherokee nation Owens Owen's Cherokee blood comes Co 10 him from the same ancestors as as' as those thoe which Pocahontas Pocahontas' boasted GRANDFATHER A CHIEF l The he senators senator's grandfather er was was was' an an hereditary chieftain of the tribe Owen Is known amon among his kinsmen as Oco- Oco His Ills grandfather bore the I I English name of Thomas ChIsholm and he was a friend of Thomas Jef Jef- ferson terson As a a. figure in political life OWens OWen's Indian evidence themselves themselves them them- selves in one particular ular way waY waY-by by his seeming air all of ot distance when he Is ia among men The senator is a a. most affable companion com com- panion In his office or home But In a a. ho hotel el lobby crowd his always preoccupied preoccupied pre pre- occupied manner gives the Impression of distance And this trait a trait a tE reserve re re- serve common to the Indian Indian has al always always al- al ways been regarded by Owen himself as a. a positive e liability politically There are those however who say Bay say It is an asset that asset that the public la Is getting get get get- ting tired of and wise to the glad handing politician Books could be written of ot tho ro to mance of of the Owens family His mother was highly ed educated As a a. girl she t rode de overland 1000 miles mlles to to reach a boarding school in Indiana I Her Indian blood was wag one After she finished school she went to Tennessee as a a. teacher There she met meta a young engineer Colonel Robert Owen wen a a man of ot no Indian blood Robert L. L Owen Is the youngest of two sons sons He lIe was was educated in private schools In Virginia and later graduated with masters master's degree from Washington and Lee Here he ho received the presidents president's scholarship as the most diligent I scholar and a gold medal as the best I debater Ills His interest in the Indians led him Into public life first life first as principal of the Cherokee orphan asylum later as secretary of 01 the tte board of education in Indian territory ten as editor of the In Indian Indian In- In dian Chieftain and arid as United States a agent ent for tor the the five tl civilized tribes TAKES FIRST STEP As member of ot the the national Demo Demo- Democratic cratic commIttee from 1892 to 1896 he took his first steps In party politics He was on the resolutions committee which recommended bimetallism In the famous convention of 1896 that nominated nomi nomi- Bryan His Ills association with the commoner In the twenty four years intervening leads his supporters to believe bellevo that n event Bryan himself doesn't seek the nomination his strength may go to Owen Most spectacular of or Owens Owen's alignments with Bryan was in fn the Roger Sullivan campaign In Illinois In which Owen stumped the state to beat his fellow Democrat Sullivan charging him with being a of th the worst type t. t Handsome well to o o Owen Owen as a United States s senator since Okla homas homa's statehood came has ha been a a great drawing card as a a. lecturer It is said that during durinS' his work on the Owen-Glass Owen federal reserve bankInS' bankInS bankIng banking bank- bank Ing InS law he paid out more personal funds hiring investigators and experts to aid him than he received in salary as senator In tone he Is recorded as ultra pro Some charge him with radi radi- As a bosom friend of Samuel Un- Un since boyhood he has been the frequent nt guest in that famous New NewYork NewYork NewYork York lawyers lawyer's home There he hasmet has hasmet hasmet met many of ot the great financiers and industrial captains of the land And his supporters say th that t these men aswell aswell as aswell well as the progressives are for tor Owen because they believe that one who could lead the reserve act to victory in the senate against their combined opposition and later make them like the very law they so bitterly opposed has the stuff A few things that Owen has stood for tor furnish an index to his political nature Led the fight In the senate for the constitutional amendment providing for tor direct election of senators Persistent advocate of initiative and referendum preferential ballot short ballot cloture corrupt practices prevention pre pre- commission form torm of government government govern govern- government ment for tor cities mandatory primary laws law farm tarm loan act minimum wage workmen's compensation woman oman suf suf- frage department of ot public health and the child labor Jabor act |