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Show SENATOR BAILEY ENDS NOTABLE CAREER The retirement of Joseph W. Bailey Bai-ley of Texas from the United States senate marks the close of one of the most remarkable political careers in :the history of congress. For more than twenty-three years Senator Bailey Bai-ley has served his party in the halls of the lower and upper houses. Espousing the cause of Democracy he entered congress as a representative representa-tive from the Fifth Texas district, while only twenty-seven years old. Tn the senate he took the lead in almost every debate, was always an effective speaker and was one of the most praised and maligned Democrats :in that body. 1 Senator Bailey served in the fifty- second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-sixth congresses. He aligned himself with the Bryan free silver policy early in his congressional career. ca-reer. Despite the fact that he had risen in the ranks of the lower house to a strong position of leadershiD he was severely criticised by the Populists of Texas and after the national convention con-vention of 1896 he announced that he would not again be a congressional candidate. Mr. Bailey did not quit politics, however. Indeed his refusal of the congressional con-gressional candidacy was regarded as one of the shrewdest moves of hi9 political career. It brought him prominently before the people of his home state with whom he was a prime favorite and in a measure forced his election elec-tion as United States senator. |