Show in 0 0 N RAPS HEROES jame 11 II stark historian in his book the loyalists of massachusetts and the other side of the american revolution calmly tears the batos from the heads of the ancestors of many of massachusetts Massachi first families Milles fd who pride them selves on their honorable lineage the book Is a most damaging document to the cause of the sons of the revolution and other kindred sod atles and one of the boldest statements concern ing the real lives of some of the foremost men of revolutionary days in a chapter devoted to the causes of the rev alution the author states in virginia the revola flonary movement of the poor whites or crack ers led by patrick henry was against the planter aristocracy it was only very slowly and very deliberately that washington Menti fled him self with the cause patrick henry was one of the mot most unreliable men living according to historian stark byron called him a forest bora born demosthenes and jefferson wondering over his career exclaimed where he got that torrent of language Is inconceivable I 1 have frequently closed my eyes while he spoke and when be he was done asked myself what he had said without being able to recollect a word of it halad he had been successively a storekeeper a farmer and a shopkeeper but he failed in all these pursuits and became a bankrupt at 23 declares the author then he studied law a few weeks and practiced a few years finally he embarked on oi the stormy sea of politics one day he worked himself into a fine frenzy and in a most dramatic manner demanded liberty or death although ha he had both freely achis at his disposal john adams joined the probably because be he baw saw that it the revolution wat successful there would be great opportunity for advancement under the new government this proved to be the case the author by quoting from a letter which adams wrote shows boston that adams was a defaulter and did not make proper return of taxes and that his sureties had to pay about 5 stark takes up with careful detail the boston mobs and the events lead ing up tallied to the revolution evolution la in telling of the boston massacre be he says the rioters repeatedly challenged the soldiers to fire it if they dared and the torrent of coarse and profane abuse poured upon the soldiers la is aston ashing even in its echoes across the century and would furnish material tor for an appropriate inscription on the attucks monument I 1 NEMESIS OF THE BEEF TRUST who Is this man pierre P garven who dares to go after us inquired one of the beet beef barons recently indicted at jersey city you might get some information as to his fighting qualities and ability as an official by in quiring ot of the standard oil company was the reply by this it Is shown that the loung prosecutor sul of the county of hudson in new jersey having once locked horns with the greatest of all trusts and come out winner is fitted for the great battle ahead of him when he goes into court to try the 21 packers of the beet bee combine tor for conspiracy fealk t mr garven is not a reformer in the sense in which the fernr Is generally used he ile simply I 1 belle believes ves in the enforcement of the laws like joseph W folk of missouri mr garven says the the laws should be obeyed by all alike but it if the laws as they appear in the statute books are bad laws they should be repealed mr air garven carvell started out in life just like thousands of other boys he ile was at bayonne and his first work was for the jersey central railway corn com pany he ile studied law at night and after being admitted to the bar served the same company in the legal department next we hear of him attacking a corrupt democratic ring he ile lost the first bout but tried a second time and was elected mayor of bayonne then it was that he tackled the oil trust he did not think the rockefeller concern was paying enough taxes it there a anything a trust hates its it s taxes so mr garven had a fight on his hands from start to finish but he succeeded in tacking 2 on to the assess ment lent against the standard he ile had tried to add 5 but was satisfied with the compromise F GREAT SPEAKER I 1 the british house of commons the other day reelected re elected jan jarr es W lowther speaker and tor for on indeterminate period the right honorable gentle man will hill preside over the lower branch of the V mother of parliaments as does uncle joe can 3 non at washington but the right hon hall jomes james W lowther follows ak IF 0 a different system from that of the speaker of 1 the house of representatives at the capital of 6 the united states nobody ever calls the british 1 0 I speaker a czar a term that has been applied 1 1 to Amer american fean speakers none of the members of at the houe of commons ever gets into an 1 ment with the speaker there Is no fight against cl V his rules prior to his election speaker lowther had been as keen a partisan as anybody to his tory mind a liberal was visa only a polite anarchist the merest mention of home rule for ireland made him see red he spoke his mind inside and outside the house louse with much vehemence and he was not a man to mince words he ile called a right honorable spade a right honorable spade and it if any man within the sound of his voice didn dian t like it he could lump jump it but when he became speaker he became politically dense he ile had not and must not have a political opinion so tar far as party politico politics Is con cernei he doean doesn t know anything ille emoluments of the speaker of the british house of commons are 25 a year an official residence 5 a year toward its equipment a web of broadcloth broadb coth oth every christmas and a buck and a doe each year from the master of buck hounds when the speaker wants to retire from office he geta gets a pension of 20 a year F COL GORDONS SUCCESSOR I 1 leroy percy who recently was elected united states senator to fill the term of the late A J mclaurin ln Is a lawyer and planter the son of col A W percy who won his military title in the confederate army and also was a law yer and planter the family one of the oldest in mississippi has its home in the rich yazoo delta countie senator percy lives at greenville a A town of some 8 population which Is situated on the mississippi river and Is the county seit seat of washington county the real test of popular opinion on the sena sepa question will come in mississippi next year with the holding of the democratic primary at which the voters oters will determine gercys successor gercys election came after a long fight in the legislature legis lattire he was nominated on tha th fifty eighth ballot of the democratic caucus nomination being equivalent to election by a majority ot of five votes over former gov vardaman that pic pie tu reque character has announced ced his intention of being a candidate at the coming primary and be he undoubtedly will poll a large vote it Is presumed that mr air percy intends to make the primary race also for the term for which tie be has just been elected will expire march 3 1913 born during the civil war senator percy Is considered a representative of both the old and new spirit in mississippi he ile showed himself a good poll bician in the fight for the and was the only candidate to develop strength steadily as the contest progressed his ills wife Is a louisiana reole one of bis his brothers is a prominent lawyer of memphis another Is one of the wealthiest business men of birmingham ala |