Show IN LONGWORTH LON IN QUANDARY nicholas longworth il Is the representative in congress congre ss 11 om the first ohio district which means cincinnati mr longworth aa as everybody knows Is the only son in law of theo dore roosevelt former president of the united states mr air longworth Is a millionaire it Is 1 nice to be a congressman nice to be the 4 husband of a former president presidents s daughter and 1 nice to be a millionaire still nicholas longworth 1 ln t the happiest man on earth his ills political path seems rosy enough bis his marital relations are ideal and his financial position Is one to be envied then why should he not be happy the an awer is simple he ile Is the son in law of theodora theodore Roo roosevelt evelt he Is a stand patter and as such a anerd of joseph G cannon speaker of the house now would theodore ro evelt the greatest republican were he at home approve of tie tle conduct cf f his son in law in a recent speech in NA aj agton mr air I 1 longworth ong worth roasted the insurgents until they were brown next d some one abbed him how he thought his illustrious father in law would such conduct there it Is again angrily exclaimed the son in law it seems that I 1 am not to bo be allowed an on of my own let me say right here I 1 m a stand patter and I 1 don dent t care what mrs longworth Long s famous father thinks about it we understand each other pretty well and mr air roosevelt has never made any effort to influence me one way or the other I 1 wish the people would let me be nicholas longworth and not always think of me as the son in law of colonel roosevelt I 1 was a congressman before I 1 was a son in law As a matter of fact does any one know what mr roosevelt a idea of the present situation ise being a eon son in law in this case and trying to keep in politics is not all a path of roses I 1 have a great many constituents who believe that when I 1 say anything worth repeating if I 1 do mr air roosevelt inspired it and when I 1 say things that appear silly or are silly they express pity for my father in law the only time tl ey give me credit tor for being my self Is when I 1 make a blunder I 1 BATTLE FOR mckinley republicans and democrats insurgents and stand patters agree that there Is going to be a desperate battle in the coming fall for seats in congress it has been a long time since such a bitter struggle was so easily foreseen it always la Is that way after congress has made a change in the tariff law to pass a tariff law that would please everybody Is impossible 1 it A wea thy good natured son of illinois Is the t man who will have to stand the brunt of the battle for the republicans this year he ile Is wll wil liam brown mckinley of champaign who was born orn september 5 1856 in petersburg III representative mckinley Is the chairman of the republican congressional committee and as US such wll wil have to lead the fight to maintain the republican majority in the house of re presenta fives those who know mr air mckinley know he Is a fighter and they say he will not be found wanting when the opposing forces clash it takes only six lines in the congressional directory to tell who depre tentative senta tive mckinley 1 19 not because his record as a citizen and member 0 of congress Is not one of which he may well be proud but because of his appo fotion to self praise some congress congressmen mei who have not done near as much for party or country consume three or four times as much space but mr mckinley Is content to have his birthplace age occupation and the date ot of his first election to congress published then let it be said by one who knows something about the people peoples s representative from the nineteenth district in illinois that among other nice things that might be said about mr air mckinley is that he Is one of the best entertainers in congress he ile has ghen bome dinners in washington that have been the talk of the town tor for days he ile has taken members of congress not only the republicans on trips that they enjoyed to the limit it has been said of mr air mckinley that he Is one of the wealthiest men in the house nobody would think it to observe his conduct he Is jovial democratic and makes no display of the fact that he has wealth mr air me kinley controls miles and miles of interurban electric lines in illinois he ile owns farms and he s a banker wickersham AS A TARGET when george W wickersham attorney gen eral of the united states in his speech before the hamilton club at its appomattox day banquet in chicago commanded the insurgents to get behind taft or get out of the party he made of himself a target at which grape and canister taumo im bullets and 13 inch shells are likely to be fired in fact one bomb has been hurled at the at torney general senator la follette of wisconsin having had some pointed things to say about the cabinet officer in the same speech in which he called J pierpont pont morgan a thick necked bully then came representative rainey of illinois who nipped the cabinet target through a bullet aimed at the sugar trust mr air rainey however Is a democrat and of course that does not count for democratic congressmen may be expected to hurl their broadsides at republican cabinet officers every once in a while but the big part of the target shooting Is yet to come if reports from Wac washington hington are to be believed it is said that senator dolliver Doll lver of iowa Is to touch off the 13 inch gun in his chicago speech the attorney general boldly said the time of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds Is over everyone must now choose whether or not he is for the president and the republican party he that hath bath no aich bior the fight let him depart treason has ever consisted in gluing aid and comfort to the enemy it if any one wishes to join the democratic Vemo cratic party let him do so but let him not claim to be a republican and in and out of season work to defeat republican meas ures and to subvert the influence of the republican president of the united states r BEVERIDGE INSURGENT 1 I 1 could not stand tor for it then and and I 1 can 0 not stand tor for it now these are the words used by albert J bevel idge senior senator of indiana as he dissected the new tariff law paragraph by paragraph lu his speech before ahe indiana republican con mention in recently the senators senator a speech attracted attention all over the country A senator beveridge Beverl dge has been an active bember ot of the upper branch of the nation a congress from the day he took his seat in that augurt body in one way he differs from many a other ri embers of th the e senate he Is not a millionaire lut this has made no difference with the senator in odd I 1 I 1 times he has used his pen maybe it was a type N writer to food rood effect A prominent weekly jour nal has printed many good stories by the genitor rom indiana monthly magazines also have shown a preference tor for hie his writings mr beveridge Is one of a few members of the senate who does not give interviews to the newspapers he has made it a rule not to express his pinions of political happenings in the daily press the day after the indianapolis contention senator beveridge Beverl dge was in chicago he greeted the newspaper reporters who called upon him cordially ut i ever a word had he to say of the things that transpire transpired in he ca gati any ia z us |