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Show DEFENDER OF PRESIDENT 1 Senator Samuel H. Piles of Washington ts PP ono of President's Itoosovelt's strongest sup- J S porters. Ho thinks It a shamo tho president can't havo all tho battleships ho wants. Mr. uiti. Piles fears that tho stato ho represents will tS$ prove so attractive to tho orientals that they jX; -tV- $B will swarm In by thousands and that tho effort , dMjSJI to keep the Pacific slopo a whlto man's country QtMfL tyffljMj w'" Buer or lator Involvo this country In war AlWWfe xMtjMr with Japan. Ho has visions in tho night of a ''ff9!MMr Japaneso fleot sailing up Pugot sound nnd Japan- ' MfitV 080 BO't"orB fortifying tho passes of tho Rocky jSj6g!PjL mountains and overrunning all tho country bo- VL twoon them nnd tho Pacific ocean. To avoid .ym'LjjrfHBjH tn'B terrible possibility ho would havo tho coast mliMtMtBEtuBEm studded with battleships. It Is only natural that tlioro should bo something some-thing of tho flro eator In Senator Piles, for ho was born in Kentucky. The family was very wealthy nnd hundreds of slavos Joined In tho colobratlon when ho was born. At tho ago of threo tho civil war swept over that part ol tho country and tho Piles family was reduced almost to beggary. Somotlmot thoy did not oven havo enough to cat Thoy continued, however, to glvo tholi boy nn education. Ho wont through col lego, graduating when ho wnB only 19. His troubles wore not over yet, however, for Kansas, whoro ho settled did not provo a romunoratlvo field. Ho next, tried Arizona, but that alsc proved disappointing. Then ho settled in Washington, took root there and grew up with tho country. Ho Is now ono of tho ablest lawyers in his sectlot of tho country. |