Show q l' l A in c riv 11 av r P Pa a a a Ij ly y 1 Li Lia a G 52 a r Y Jd v Y V Y act t. t i I f t c 1 1 LAJ J tv a r 4 4 H t g j 13 Y t 4 t to q 31 9 J sArt orr ved N By ELMO SCOTT WATSON the eyes of the nation toward Houston Texas where the Democratic Demo cratic party will soon be engaged In choosing Its nominee for President It Its ItIs Is s particularly appropriate that tile the name of the nian for whom this city was named should be rescued from tile the comparative lib ob- which has been Its fa fate and that the deeds and Importance of this map mati In our national history should be male I better known to all Americans There are thousands of clUes cities and towns in inthe n the United States named after men hut but ely few ot of these are worthy ot of having their names thus perpetuated It If ever a man d do- do served that honor however surely it was Sam Houston of whom It has re ra- been said Unless Old San Ran Is known and understood until he Is given gl his just dues there can be benl beat nl at clear and proper understanding ot of the stars that stud the flag Len Leave Sam Houston out of at the story and the American chronicle Is a tiring thing of gnps gaps and many for not only dId he make history at various times but In a great critical hp he WAS history Although three states vie for tor the rhe honor of calling Sam Houston their own Wa tie he belongs not only to them but butto butto to the whole nation So it Is appropriate ate that the name should he heulon upon ulon the ton tongue e of all Americans with Inthe next few weeks It I is also ulso al appropriate ap- ap that there should appear at this time a new biography of Old San JacInto such as George Creels Creel's Sam Houston Houston-A Colossus In Buckskin published recently by the Cosmopolitan Hook Bonk corporation That sweeping characterization ot of Houston the new v biographer Ili this statement Between Hernando de Soto first to blaze bia a trail through the wildernesses ot of the New world and Kit Carson last ot of the great grea frontiersmen streams an processIon ot of tremendous fig ng- urea Homeric m In courage and achIeve ment naming flaming hugely against the dull t ot of uniformity yet not In the whole colorful story stO ot of America Is there record ot of a more amazing career than that ot of Sam Houston the Colossus In who won an empIre for tor hIs country From the cradle to the grave he walked with drama As Ae a boy he ran away from home to live In th the wIgwams wIg wIg- of the Cherokees servIng under Andrew Jackson In the war agaInst the Creeks he led the charge e that carrIed the Indian breastworks breastwork receIvIng wounds that stretched him on the ground for tor dead elected eJected congressman and then governor by the adoring Ten Ten- even theo the Presidency waR not beyond his hopes yet that happened which sent him Into exile between two suns seeking refuge with the Cherokees Cherok Chero- Chero k kees es for tor a s second time drink and mel melancholy sank him to a dark level be beneath beneath neath the regard ot of men entering Texas re resolved to build n a new life lito In s R new land he himself hIgh hIs degradation and when the t rose tn in rebellion against the brutal tyrannies ot of a a. Mexican dictator It was Val wasa Vala a eyed clear indomitable Houston marshaled ragged volunteers conducted conduct conduct- ed masterful retreats and finally crushed Santa Anna and his army In aday a aday day or of slaughter Ills later yenta years were no less packed wIth color and high accomplishment I As President ot of the Lone Star Sial Republic he hc beat b t down the rhe gr eds Impatience and vagaries al ot of men buildIng firm and enduring foundations under the totter Ing superstructure ot of government It was hl his shrewd statecraft pItting European powers Vers against AmerIca that made annexation possible In the senate senate sen- sen ate ot of the United States although t. t Southerner and n a he braved the hate and anger or of the South bt b ban an un unflinching stand against slavery I and secession contemptuous ot of threats against his lire life he returned to Texas to run for governor on a Unionist plat form and won against overwhelming odds confronted with the necessIty ot of declaring allegiance to the Confederate States he suffered depo rather than surrender his s and walked out ot of office to the humble cabin that was W 8 his home hom old poor and proscribed but with his hEad unbowed Such Sueh was the career which enables Its chronicler to say by way of summary sum sum- nary mary A gigantic towering figure fig well worthy to rank with the and admIred of America yet save sn In Inthe inthe the Southwest born ot of his courage Sam Houston Iii ms but a 1 name nam known In detail only t to the thC inquiring few Cot lIt lItot ot of the annexation or of Texas an lIon slon important enough In itself came the Mexican war that added California New Mexico M Arizona Nevada Ne nn and Utah to to the UnIon yet either ignore Houston Houstons con with these epochal events or else elle confine con con- fine themselves to casual l 1 aol alIng al- al tag Ing mention 11 Ills lie entire life lite as a matter ot of tact fact Constitutes a contribution to Amen Amerl- cant Cana cantal as al Important as fascinating A soldier In the War ot of 1812 he lived to tos s see e the North and South lock In deadly grapple and during the fitly fifty crowded years that lay between he played n a leading part In the national dram More than that Sam Houston r better Jetter than any other stands as a perfect per per- expression or of the frontier spirit and his portrait is 18 a composite or of amazing men why wh rode the forest ar al d plaIn as 11 the Vikings VIking rude roe the sea sea- reckless dauntless indomitable as children m than the IndIan arrogant and invincible In theIr courage cour- cour age aro and pride ot of blo blood d yet curiously loving law and fleeing from cIvilization only to extend It Never was a bIography more intense ly American WitHe tile the u Cra average e AmerIcan ma may be hut but faIntly interested In the work of II Houston the empire builder he cannot cannot can can- not fall to be stirred by the deeds of Houston the man We lVe can admire the pure grit he displayed when he received that dreadful wound In the assault on the Indian stronghold nt at Tohopeka hut ut l more the moral courage he displayed when he faced faed a vast vart crowd ot of Texans d deplored de- de their hasty decision for or sinn and dared to predict defeat fo for forthe the South For It Is far easier to lo do something spectacular with all the world applauding than It Is to stand square for a principle and to flout the mighty monarch Majority I Small wonder then that three states should claim him as their own Virginias Virginia's Vir- Vir ginia's clam claim lies In the fact that he was born March 2 2 1703 1 at Timber Ridge In county not tar far from Lexington the son of amu l Houston who served In do the tion us as one ot of Daniel Danle Morgans Morgan's srn- srn wart riflemen and one ot of those pioneer mothers who were tali and strong and a fit mate for such a man Lust year Virginia with Texas operating co-operating erected a monument at that pl place ce und and there each year ear memorial ceremonies are held on April 21 21 the try ot of Sam Houstons Houston's greatest victory the battle hattle ot of San Jacinto When the elder Samuel Houston dIed In 1801 his wife took her six Ix sons and three daughters with tier her over r the Alleghenies and established them a pIoneer home on the borders of the ChErokee nation In eastern r Tennessee So Tenn Tennessee spreads upon tile the record ot of Its contribution to na an- history that she he sent fo Sam stop ston to his first war under the leadership leader leader- r. r ship 0 of her greatest hero Andrew In his expedition against the Creeks that she sent him to represent her In con congress ness and nud that she later trade macle him bins her governor gO Texas Texas' clam claim to Sum Sam nuu ton Is IsIta Ita based er upon events e too well known to need rt repeating here The e events them m selves seh-es are well known hut but the significance sig- sig ot of these events und and the man responsible for them are not such coin Oln knowl knowledge and that Is wh why the appearance of u new hlo hio r lph ot of at n a time when It will whit be I easiest for his name nume to he be r recalled Is x a happy Virginia see mid Texas ma may claim Ham Sam 1 for their own hut but RS as his In him the building of the United States better hetter known these three tIree states must hare him with all 1111 their sister commonwealths Fur this olos sus In Buckskin like all 1111 other uther empire builders belongs to us nil |