| Show I SENATOR DICK SOLDIER AND STATESMAN th the government nt of at atthe WHEN W the United States Slates wants Information on military matters to whom does U It turn TO the same tan roan to whom the elate of ot Ohio Ohl looks look for advice and arid guidance e In regard to Its citizen n sol 1101 diers And that man Is Major General Charles William Witham Frederick Dick Dont the name t Well r you y 11 t are not to be he hinted blamed When the then name me of at the senior senator from Ohio In is printed In III its Ita usual form torm the two middle sec Fec tlona are cut out and nd the name namo pro hard for tor senatorial military honors Is III Du Pont f n of ot t Delaware t whose record In Inthe I Ithe I the civil war requires r s nearly a page of ot the Congressional Directory for tor Its proper setting Fetting forth But Dut Du flu Pont I never got as high as the wearing of ot a major generals stars so ao Dick would outrank him If It It ever cr became necea awry for tor th the president to call out the senate In defense defence of at the country count There are lire a few tew of at the older old r senators who saw lIaw service a In tho the civil chill war on one onn side aide or the other but so ao far tar as ash I I patient research can disclose Senator Senater r t s a t I tf vAr Z R a art i it iI I if a aR t I I R talk 1 SAr SAri SArf Y i f fi i l f 4 t f p li i fY ff n t t Lt r r R 1 s lr e f Ci MAJOR GENERAL DICK AND STAFF Chart fe teeds 1 on nn the maIn man line as a Senator Chides t rk k of Ohl It If Dick an w were o Eng he ha would WOUW b be mown known ns nil Wi the on nible Charles Charlesk Charlesh Frederck k s a Dick But nut he is III not U to her h r only ony a 11 P plain t i r OM title nt at hloi n w who io heds luster on the th lag to 1 senator by add dd Ohio It that ot of major general In ln the thel lIa national lIonal guard are Come Came to thInk of l it major generals I aru e In the tho senate th these lack i irk lIE lathe aw days active the 1 one ne at Rt present pre ent now In ln 71 Ua and hu hla title Is only iy a n one nn after r Ml all Pressing him a Dick Is fa the only one of ot the who saw service In n the war WAI with Spain But Dut he waa wan onlY ony a lieutenant colonel then not a general For JOl one man to 10 be at tho the same time timea timen a n lawmaker and an armed Arm d upholder of ot the law Is a not a J frequent t occur occurrence occurrenCe occurrence rence That la is I what makes make Senator Dicks Dick recent re ent action In donning a uni uniform uniform form torm and leading his hI troop troops In person during the Columbus street far ear trou troubles troubles bles so 80 Interesting an event lve t He Ie e la is no mere tin soldier 01 either thel Ho HI knows all about hout the handling of ot men from long experience I As Senator Dicks Dirks o In the I upper national house Senator Burton Durton I knows everything there here Is fa to bo be boI II I known or guessed about rivers and I harbors h so FO Senator Dick has a most moat comprehensive knowledge of things military Full Kull evidence of ot his grasp graB of tho thu subject I was as presented d a n few years ago In the Dick militia or na nn national national guard bill now known as u the Dick law la It formulated the present system rn under which the tho relations r ot of the th federal government ov with the national na national guard euard of ot tho the various states are governed It for tor the I slip slipshod all shod loose system m th pre prevailed pr a method of ot coordination elm ed at making the national guard a really efficient dependable dependable part of the th national defense e It brought broucht the th tin organizations organisations nl Into tines clo do relations with the war 11 department and pr pro for tor standard g of the citizen soldiers by b methods ap al approved approved proved I by b the army arm authorises find rated raised the standard of ot the state elate sol Bol soldiers diers dl ra almost Immeasurably M enough to recall the heartbreaking task of ot fitting the civil war volunteers for tor active service and the th army men who remember the th almost equally dis 1111 discouraging discouraging conditions In 18 1898 8 give Ive their unqualified approval and un unstinted Unstinted stinted praise to the provisions of at the Dick law Introduced and pushed with vigor to 10 n a successful conclusion by hy hyI bythe I the tha legislator who served against I Spain OH as lieutenant lIeuten nt colonel of ot the I Eighth Ohio volunteers r Subsequently i i Lieutenant Colonel Dick became colo colonel colonel nel net of ot the regiment re Major Dick pos poa possesses losses ore ope Indispensable ble i I tic of ot the good soldier and the success successful successful ful tul politician that Is la he h never nev r knows when he Is la licked Not that he has been licked so many times since he hll took up the tho career r of ot a n leader of ot Republican n destinies but of at course like ilkI moat most nf of the prominent men of the exceedingly lively political commonwealth c he ha has hall known what It Il means to have hae a n following turn one down don But nul he h has hus hR always come coma comeback back and today there Is II no keener kt ner shrewder harder politics political fighter with within in the boundaries of ot the suite state In one detail alone Dick has hall made a n reputation reputation tion second ae o to Is as a po political prognosticator He has been known to take tako a given Klen township In a given Iven County In ht nav nn part of ot Ohio and predict with amazing almost uncanny certainty how It would go In a primary mary mar or general g election Dicks Dl k power of political prediction pr joined to his industry and An persuasive persuasiveness ness nr was the quality 1 In III In all probability that first brought him to the notice of at the th great ones ons In hlo Mo politics The two men with whoa ho he h was most closely connected before his lUs own star lazed blazed forth on the state skies were President nt McKinley and Senator Han fan Hanna fanna na The Th former placed lI d Mr JIll Dick he wan waa W ft youna Ouno Mr JIll Dl Dirk Dick k then only thirty thirtyfour thirtyfour four tour years eArs old oldIn In of tho the Ohio campaign In 1892 after r he had demon demonstrated his hili ability in Akron his home city els Later Inter Senator Hanna Manna made pick his hili lieutenant and It Is the th Penn sena senatorial tonal toga of the kingmaker which Dick Is I w wearing now Senator Dirk Dick was wa horn born In Akron Nov 00 S 8 1888 Ills His father was n II Ger German German German man miller r After Alter receiving a IL public school education and working at the banking and ami LIlt grain commission busi busl businesses nesses neue Mr PIck Dirk turned his hIli attention to the law InV and was wan admitted to the th bar barIn barIn barin In 1893 1898 Before that time he had en cn engaged engaged In politics politic receiving on nn election aa as auditor of at Summit county In 1996 and continuing In that until 1193 Subsequently he ha became secre seere secretary tary tA tar of at the Republican national rom corn mikes delegate t to Republican nation national national al conventions member of ot the house of at representatives and senator Ills His continuous connection conn with the national na national guard auard dates datIs back to 1871 WALTER P HUDSON |
