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Show ALL GO AFTER RE-ELECTION. But Connrersmen Gay They Don'l . Care If They Never Come Back. "Thoro will come times In jour con' ' grcsslonal career when you will ex ! press tho opinion thRt you don't cars if you never como back," Is a remark that Speaker Cannon has mado to ', many new members It has beon j stated that eight-tenths of tho mem- i bors occasionally declare that they don't care whether they return or not ; out moro than r.lne tenths of tbcm are ! htiEtllrg, In every camialgn for reelection. re-election. It generally occurs to the i nan In his first and second terms tunt .hero Is not very much lo be gained i iti a 'career in tho IIouso of lleprescn- ' Latlvcs, especially when a snuggle ; for renomlnatlon and nr other for ro- election Is necessary oery two jeacs. It Is during theso first two terms tnat tho now member finds that ho Is used largely to mako a quorum and to voto right on all party questions. To a nan who Las been something In hU own community, perhaps a stato senator sena-tor or representative or a district at-torrey at-torrey or Judgo of a court, tho rear rank to wLlch ho Is relegated In tlio IIouso Is not a very comfortable posi-' Hon. Tlio many petty annojnnces to1 which ho Is subjected, tho complaints , ui constituents, tho peremptory do-mands do-mands of tho men who put him In Congress, and tho unpleasant news- I paper paragraphs In opposition papers pa-pers havo a tendency to mako hira I woiry of 1 fo under tho dome. Per 'aps eight-tenths of theso men do say it times that they will not seek an- i other roclection, but after they havo established thomEelvos in tho House, been given committee assignments which alTord them an opportunity to taUo part In tho debates In tho Homo, and what Is more, form associations with men of character and Intelligence, Intelli-gence, whoso good-fellowship makc3 them companionable, tho now members mem-bers aro very glad to contlnuo In tho House. Noirly every member will assert ttat ho can mako moro In uusmess than tho salary of n congressman, congress-man, but as John Allen would say, tho salary of a congressman Is "powerful "pow-erful regular." Washington Post. |