Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1893, Page 10

10 ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. SOME NEW MEMBERS, Faces That Will Be Seen in the Fifty-Third Congress. A GOOD SUPPLY OF YOUNG Bu0OD. A Congress Notable for Its Stal- wart Men. HOW TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS. HERE ARE A GOOD many young men and many big ones fn th new Congress. The “bigness” refers to physical proportions, and in that respect this Congress runs ahead of Congresses in the recent past. Much ts expected of the young and enér- getic statesmen with a career just opening up before them, and they will have the @pportunity to spread themselves. It fs seldom that the promise of greatness which greets the young man in Congress is ful- filled. There were several graves for youth- ful ambition left by the last Congress, and there will probably be some left by this one, but it is felt that there Is considerable oppor- tunity for future developement in the Sid Congress. Stephen A. Northway. The biggest man in the Ohio delegation fm the next House will be Stephen A. ‘Northway, the republican member from the nineteenth district. He is sure to be seen not heard. He is six feet four and a if inches tall and looks a deal like tor Peffer of Kansas. He was born fm New York in 18%, but when seven years of age he went with his parents to Ashta- ula county, Ohio, where he has since re- sided. He taught school, read law and was tted to the bar and then went to the ture. He now stands at the head of profession in Ashtabula county, is an it speaker and is rated as ‘one of best campaigners in a state noted for hustling politicians. J. D. Richards. J. D. Richards, Congressman-elect from The seventeenth Ohio district, will hold his first public office in the next Congress. He ‘was born in Boston in 1345, and moved to Obio tm 1861. He worked on a farm, taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was nominated for Congress by the unanimous vote of the convention with- out having been a candidate, and was elected ‘the largest majority given for any scadlgate ta tie state tm the Rovomier lection. Mr. Richards is five feet nine = tall, weighs 190 pounds and has dark and eyes. Col. L. BM. Strong of Kenton, Ohio, is fhe republican Congressman-elect from the eighth district. He adds another to the list of Ohio's tall men in the House, stand- ing six feet two and a half inches in height He was born in Seneca county ‘38 and received a common school and ‘academic education. When the war. broke out he left the farm and organized com- pany G of the forty-ninth Ohio volunteers, ‘of which he was ciscted captain. He serv- 4 through the war with distinction, and after the fall of Atlanta was commissioned Heutenant colonel. Since the war he has devoted himself to his law practice and has served in the Ohio legislature and the common pleas bench by appointment of Gov. Foster. H.C. Van Voorhis. H.C. Van Voorhis was born in Muskin- um county, Ohio, in 162, and will repre- gent the fifteenth district in the next House as a republican. He was admitted to the bar in Si, and’ practiced law until 18%, when he accepted the presidency ‘of the Citizens’ National Bank of Zanesville, a position which he now holds. He has been a of his party in his congressional district for the past fifteen years, Dut bas never before herd an office. He is an alert, aggressive businese man and is an intimate personal friend of Benator John Sher». Byron I Ritchie, i Obfo district as a nh at democrat, Grafton, Ohio, January 29, 183. He is who represented the same district in the House in 188) as a republican. Ritchle was educated in the public schools, studied law under his father and was admitted to the bar in 18%.He has made a specialty of erim!- nal cases and has an enviable record in the courts of his state. He has always been a democrat notwithstand! e [ onaermoey of his father as a republican. le was a delegate to the Ohio state con- vention at Cleveland in July, 18%, and placed the name of Gov. Campbell in‘nomi- nation. He carried one of the recently rrymandered districts by 14 plurality, de- feating J. M. Ashley of Toledo, who repre- sent the district in Con for ten years, from 1868 to 1968, who will be Temembered as the “great im) of Andrew Johnson. Mr. Ritchie is another tall man, standing six feet in height and weighing two hundred pounds. One of the democratic wheel horses in eastern Ohio is Geo. P. Ikirt, who carried the “McKinley district” last November by @ comfortable majority. He was born in Madison, Ohio, in 182, and at seventeen began teaching school. He read law, but afterward drifted into the profession of his father, who was the leading physician of his county. | Dr. Tiirt has since, built up a large practice and accumu! a. fest fortune. He was nominated for Congress in 1883 against McKinley, but the odds against him were so t that he went down with the rest of his ticket. Dr. Ikirt is about five feet nine inches tall, weighs 156 pounds and has black hair and dark, Irving P. Wagner, elected to represent the seventh Pennsylvania district in the Fifty- third Congress, was born in Chester county, Pa, in 182, and received an academic education. He is a lawyer by profession and has taken an active interest in republi- can politics. The first position held by him was a clerkship in the prothonotary’s office at West Chester. He was subsequently ap- pointed a deputy and served until admitted to the bar. Since then he has practiced his profession. He was a red-hot Blaine man, and voted for the plumed knight in the na- tional convention of 1890. He was a candi- date for Congress in 189, but was defeated by the present incumbent, Mr. Hallowell, by, 18 votes. He is an. effective er. fc ia five feet ten inches in height, weighs about 16 pounds and has light brown hair and hazel eyes. Constantine J. Erdman. Constantine J. Erdman, a democrat from the ninth Pennsylvania district, was born forty-six years ago, when the district in which he now resides was represented in Congress by his grandfather, Jacob Erd- man. Mr. Erdman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1867. In 1874 he was elected district attorney, and has thrice re- ceived the county nomination for Congress, which, however, was twice awarded to an- other candidate’ under the system In vogue in Pennsylvania by which candidates are chosen by conferees appointed tn the Inter- est of prominent citizens representing the several counties in the district. Mr. Erd- man is @ tall, spare man, with black hair and dark brown eyes. He is a good er and will be a useful member of the democ- racy in the next House. The new member from the fourteenth Pennsylvania district is E. M. Woomer, an old-time republican, who has filled a num- ber of local offices in his congressional dis- trict. Mr. Woomer was born in 184, was educated in the common schools, and when the war broke out, though but seventeen years old, enlisted in the ninety-third Penn- sylvania ‘volunteers. He participated in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac until May, 1864, when he was severely wounded in the’ battle of the Wilderness, losing his left leg. This useful member, by the way, was retained by the surgeons as a surgical curiosity, and is now preserved in the National Medical Museum in Washing- ton. Upon his discharge Mr. Woomer re- turned to Lebanon, Pa., where he has since resided. He was a delegate to the republi- can national convention at Chicago in 1888, and was a candidate for the republican nomination for Congress in the same year. He Is five feet elght inches in height; welghs 1% pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. ‘The best judge of horse flesh in the next House will probably be Joseph Croker Sib- ley of the twenty-sixth Pennsylvania dis- } trict, who enjoys the proud distinction of | having built the first “kite-shaped” ra track in this country. He is just. forty three years old and was born on a farm in Lisogops = He was in the oil bust- ness in Chicago during the great fire, and his establishment was a total loss. Begin- ning at the bottom again he went bravely | to work and has since laid up @ comfort- Of late years he has confined able fortune. the | himself to breeding fine trotting and coach | in his stockings and son of ex-Congressman James M. Ritchie, | horses and registered Jersey cattle. He is | dred pounds. His limi the owner of ‘some fine animals, and his turnouts on Pennsylvania avenue are likely to make a sensation. Mr. Sibley is a hand- some man, about five feet nine inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. ‘Thad M. Mahon. Thad M. Mahon, who lives at Chambers- burg and {s an old-time republican, will represent the eighteenth Pennsylvania dis- trict. Mr. Mahon is a lawyer, has held a number of offices and made an unsuccessful ace for Congress in 1876. He served through the war on the Union side, and Was severely wounded before Petersburg, Va. He is a It mi of kin and has a host of friends. seca Josiah D. Hicks. Congressman-elect Josiah D. Hicks of the twentieth Pennsylvania district 1s a well- known attorney who enjoys a large practice in western Pennsylvania. He, too, grew up on a farm, went to the war, and subse- quently read law. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is Xer¥ popular with all classes at his home. Mr. Hicks 1s of medium height and slender figure, with gray eyes, dark brown hair and @ heavy brown mustache. Daniel B. Heiner, electei from the twenty- first Pennsylvania district, is a handsome, dark-haired young man, who, though but thirty-eight years of age, has seen some arduous political service. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and in 1885 was elected district attorney for Armstrong county. He was re-elected in 1888, and in 1890 was nominated by the republicans of his county, but failed to secure the district nomination at the hands of the conferees. He was chairman of the republican county execu- tive committee from 1884 to 1888, and has been a hard worker in Pennsylvania pol- Itics, which is saying a t deal. Heiner comes from a fine old family, his grand- father having served as captain in the war of 1812, while his reat grandfather was a general in the revolutionary army. ‘T. W. Phillips. T. W. Phillips of New Castle is the mem- ber elected from the twenty-fifth Pennsyl- vania district. He was born in Lawrence county, Pa., in 1835. He engaged in the oil business when it was but an “infant in- dustry” and has succeeded in accumulating @ private fortune of more than a million ars. He has always been a republican, though not an office holder. He is a tall, heavily built man,with thick brown hair, mixed with gray, and heavy brown beard and dark blue eyes. Maj. Alex. McDowell, Pennsylvania sends a battle-scarred vet- eran to the House in Maj. Alex. McDowell, who comes as a republican Congressman-at- large. He entered the war at seventeen, saw much hard service and was severely wounded at the battle of the Wilderness and at Get- tysburg. After the war he started a little country weekly, and has since been “‘co1 nected with the press.” He is a good de- bater and a clear, forcible writer. His ap- pearance ts, that oe & clean-cut business man, with sharp beard, gray hair and erect figure. kia William F. Draper. Gen. William F. Draper of Lowell, Mass., who succeéds George Fred Williams in Congress, is a republican of more than local reputation and has for some years been the president of the Home Market Club. As a soldier in the war for the Union he rose to distinction, fighting under Grant at Vicks- burg and subsequently in the Virginia cam- paign. After the war he returned to Massa- chusetts and has since engaged in manu- facturing cotton goods. His commer:nal in- terests are large. He is at the heai of one establishment and is a director in twenty others. Gen. Draper tried for the republi- an nomination for governor of Massacnu- setts in 1888, but was defeated ty Gen. Ames. He ran well last fall and immedi- ately after he ascertained that he had been elected to Congress he resigned the presi- dency of the Home Market Club. Gen, Draper is fitty years old, stands six feet weighs over two hun- ted allowance of hair is gray and his eyes are hazel. The first Massachusetts district sends to the next House a sterling republican in the Person of Ashley B. Wright. Mr. Wright is @ native of the state, born at Hinsdale in 184i, and now resides at North Adains. He comes of good stock, tracing his descent on his mother’s side back to Israel Putnam. of revolutionary fame. Mr. Wright is a Maa of affairs, and hes filled © number of Tespon: ‘offices at home. 2 ther, Spar ‘Wright, was one of the founders of the corn exchange in New York, which the present Putnam exchaige ha grown. Mr. Wright ts tall and finely built, and in address is cordial and attractive. ‘William 8. Linton. William S. Linton of the eighth Michigan district is a lineal descendant of the bosom friend of William Penn. John Linton, his distinguished _pro- nitor, landed in the city of Philadelphia in 1692’ and joined Penn's colony. The present Mr. Linton is a stalwart republi- can and a cousin of Ben Butterworth, who, as everybody knows, is of good ol Quaker stock. Linton was born in 186 and ts there- fore a very young man. He began active life as a clerk in a general store, but soon got into the lumber business, which has made so many fortunes in Michizan, and in which he has been very succesaful." Lin- ton has been an alderman and member of the legislature and mayor of Saginaw. His friends declare he will make his mark in the House. Dr. John Avery. ‘The new member from the eleventh Mich- igan district is Dr. John Avery of Green: ville. Dr. Avery was born at Watertown, > ¥., in 1842, but has lived in| Michigan for for- ty years. He is descended from fighting Con- necticut stock, who bore an honorable part the war of ‘the revolution, He was him- If a soldier in the war of the rebellion, serving under Sherman in the march to the sea. Dr. Avery is a public-spirited citizen, and while a member of the legisiature in 1869 introduced a resolution for the admis- sion of women to the university at Ann Arbor. He was for eight years president of the state board of health. Dr. Avery is @ republican. J. Frank Aldrich, J. Frank Aldrich, who will represent the first district of Chicago in the next House, is an energetic republican politiclan, at present commissioner of public works in the windy city. Mr. Aldrich was born in Wisconsin, but was taken to Chicago when @ very smi boy and has since resided there. He is a trained civil engineer and @ graduate of the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. He ts a prominent member of several Chicago clubs and hi personal popularity 1s attested by the fa that he ran 2,500 votes ahead of the reputt Mean national ticket in his district. H father served three terms in Congress. Mi Aldrich Is another big man, standing | feet in height and weighing 210 pounds. Julius Goldzier. ‘The fourth Illinois district sends a demo- cratic member to the House in the person of Julius Goldzier, native of Austria, born in Vienna in 1854. He came to the United States when twelve years old, found his first employment as clerk in a mercantile house, and then became a newspaper re- porter. Developing a leaning toward the law he was admitted to the bar in 1877. He has since served as an alderman in Chi where he is very well known. Mr. Goldzier is of medium height, weighs about 16) pounds and looks like a thoroughly wide-awake man of affairs. Judge A. J. Hunter. Judge Andrew Jackson Hunter of Paris is one of the Congressmen-at-large sent by the triumphant democracy of Illinois to the next House. He is a native of Indiana, man, ter in but went to Illinois when a oun and has for years been a stu! the rarks of the democracy. | speaker and a tireless worker and is es-| appearance and kindly nature, and has a| German or English. ly popular with the farming and boring classes. He rendered conspicuous service In the campaign that ited in the election of Gen. Palmer to the United States Senate. Judge Hunter is a large man, well preserved for his sixty years, and With his broad brow and smooth-shav- en face suggests the old-time occupant of the bench, Joseph C. Hendrix. Brooklyn's ex-postmaster, Joseph C. Hen- arix, will represent the third New York district in the next House. He is another young man who has already achieved dis- Unetion. He was born in Missouri in May, 1858, and is not yet forty years old. After graduating trom Cornell University he be- came a reporter on the New York Sun, and hustled after fires, police courts and Politics With the rest of the “city staff.” le ran for mayor of Brooklyn in 188, but was defeated by Seth Low. In 1886 he was appointed postmaster by President Cleve- jand and served four years. “Since then he devoted his energies to the Kings County Trust Company, one of the leading financial institutions of Brooklyn. Mr. Hendrix ts six feet tall, and describes him- Self as being “as bald ‘as the law allows.” Francis Marvin. Francis Marvin, the republican Congress- man-elect from the seventh New York dis- trict, is a politician of the old school. He was born in the city of New York in 1823. He has been a busy man all his life, and has been identified with numerous ‘com- mercial enterprises. He has served as jus- tice of the peace, supervisor of the town of Deerpark and president of the village of Port Jervis. He was originally a whig, and on the formation of the republican Party he joined the new organization, in which he ‘has since been an active mem- ber. In 1864 he was a candidate on the seme ticket with Abraham Lincoln for member of the assembly for the second Orange district, He is the president of the Port Jervis National Bank, with which he has been connected for nearly forty years. He is a fine-looking old gentleman, nearly six feet tall, with white hair and beard and Kindly gray eyes. H. ©, Londenslager. Henry C. Loudenslager, a republican from the first New Jersey district, {s an- other big man, standing six feet in his stockings and weighing 1% pounds. He was born in Mauricetown, N. J., May 22, 1852. He was educated in the’ common schools, worked on a farm and afterward found ‘employment in the office of the county clerk, a position held by his father. Young Loudenslager succeeded to the office in 1882, and held it until elected to Con- fos... He jas participated in the county, istrict and state conventions since he was twenty-one years of age, and as a politician is a hustler. He is not an orator, but is ex- ted to give a good account of himself committee work. There will be a first-rate cornet piayer tn the next House. He is Charles G. Conn, a young democrat who comes from the thir- teenth Indiana district. Mr. Conn is a manufacturer of musical instruments and has big factories at Elkhart, Ind. and Worcester, Mass. His friends declare he plays with much skill every instrument he manufactures. Mr. Conn was a Union sol- dier, serving with much credit, and has been a member of the Indiana legislature. In his race for Congress he had the cordiai support of the labor organizations of his district. Mr. Conn is about forty years cld and bears a striking resemblance to H. C. comedian of the famous Lyman &. Barnes. Lyman E. Barnes is the democratic mem- ber from the eighth Wisconsin district He is a native of the state, a lawyer, and looks like a clergyman. Mr. Barnes announ that he is a “straight democrat,” and wishes that “every good democrat could get an oMce,” u. W. Babeoek. ‘The third Wisconsin district sends J. W. Babcock, a republican, and a rich lumber- man, who resides at Necedah. Mr. Bab- cock is a native of Vermont xn forty- three years of age. He has been president me Gacnd|s slature, and was elected to Con. ndsome majority. ss by He is a man of good host of friends. Loran Fletcher. Loran Fletcher, who comes to the House from the Minneapolis, Minn., district, is a Maine man, who has won fame and for- tune in the northwest. He went to Minne- is in 1856 from Bangor, Me., ani plung- ‘at once into business. He has amassed a large estate, and a few years ago retired from active commercial pursuits. He was eight times elected a member of the Minne- sota legislature, amd for three terms was speaker of the house. Mr. Fletcher is sixty years of age, and has always been a re- publican. dames A. Tawney. James A. Tawney of the first Minnesota district is a young man who left Pennsyl- vania a dozen yearg ago to improve his for- tunes. He was a blacksmith’s apprentice at the time, and was thrown «ut of work by the strikes of 18i7. He went to Minne- sota, studied !aw and has risen to promi- nence both in his profession and in po tics. He is a warm friend of Knute Nel- son, and put him in nomination for gov- ernor last fall. Mr. Tawney is thirty-ezht ears of age, well built and muscular, has fack hairand eyes and is. knowa ‘as a hustler, He has a republican majority of early 4,000 behind him, James T. McCleary. James T. McCleary, who comes to the next House from the second Minnesota dis- trict, is president of the Minnesota State Educational Association and the author of some standard school text books and is a very accomplished gentleman. He wad born at Ingersoll, Ont., in 183, and vas ed- ucated at the McGill University, Montréal. He has lived in Minnesota for many yea but never made a political campaign unt last fall. He will sit in the next House with a comfortable majority of more than 7,000 behind him. Mr. McCleary 1s of me- dium height and slender figure, has dark hair and browa eyes, wears glasses and looks like a college professor. David H. Mercer. Nebraska is noted for her bright young men. She sends one to Congress from the second district in the person of David H. Mercer, who though but thirty-three years old has been prominent in republican poll- tics of his state for nearly ten years. He is a graduate of the literary and law de- partments of Ann Arbor University. He as always been a worker in politics, hav- ing served as secretary and chairman of the republican state, central and city com- mittees, but has never held any important office. He has attended all state and na- @ delegate for the past twelve years. Mr. Mercer will be one of the big men in the new House. He is six feet in height and weighs 210 pounds. His size and the fine crop of yellow hair that covers his head will make him a con- spicuous figure. Robert G. Cousins. The new republican member from the fifth Iowa district is Robert G. Cousins, a talented young lawyer just thirty-four ears of age. He was born in Fremont, lowa, in 1859, was admitted to the bar in 1881 _and has built up a fine law practice. In 1886 he was elected a member of the legislature and has since served as prose- cuting attorney of his county and as presi- dential elector. Mr. Cousins stands six feet one inch in height, weighs 20 pounds and has black hair and dark brown eyes. He is a very good speaker and is known one of the best trial lawyers in his Richard Bartholdt. A bright young German-American who will represent the tenth Missouri district in the next House is Richard Bartholt. He was born on the other side of the water in 182 and came to this country while a boy. He learned the printer's trade, and since 1872 has been connected with a num- ber of leading German newspapers. He in aS a “printer's devil” and worked his way up on the Brooklyn Frei-Presse from a compositor to Albany correspot ent. Then he became an editorial writer on the New York Staats Zeitung. He took the editorship of the St. Louis Tribune at the opening of the Blaine-Cleveland campaign, and has since been editor-in- chief of ‘that paper. When he come: Washington he will continue to writ views of things in general and congres- sional happenings in particular for his St j Louis constituency. Mr. Bartholdt is a pleasant-faced man of ‘a distinctly Ger- man type. He is about five feet eight of his village and a member of the state | inches in height, of compact figure and ts! @ first-rate debater. His friends declare he makes an equally good speech in either ‘One of the men who will return to the House after a brief period of retirement 4s John F. Lacey of Oskaloosa, lowa. He is a native of West Virginia, but moved to Towa at an early age, and enlisted there in is6l_in ‘the war for the Union. He rose from the ranks to be major on Gen. Steele's staff, and after the war prepared himself for the bar. He is the author of Several law books, has served in the com- mon council of Oskaloosa and in the state legislature. He was a member of the Fifty-first Congress, but was defeated for re-election. Mr. Lacey is @ republican and a hard worker. He is about y years of age, of medium height and of compact Daniel D. Barnes. One of the best known lawyers in Mis- souri is Daniel D. Burnes, who comes to Congress from the fourth district as a democrat. He was born in Ringgold, Mo., in and is consequently forty-two years old. le is a college uate and has a ipioma from the law school AS soon as he was nominated for Con- Frese be withdrew from his law firm and Since devoted all his energies to the interests of his constituency. Mr. Burnes 12 a great lover of books, and is said to own the finest private library in the state | of Missouri. He is possessed of a fine physique and is an excellent speaker. Charles Curtis. Charles Curtis, the new member from the fourth Kansas district, is a young man with an interesting history. His mother was @ quarter blood Kaw Indian, who died when her son was very young, leaving bim to be reared by his grandparents on his father's side. After graduating from the public schools of Topeka he secured means for porsuing @ collegiate course by riding race jorses in the summer and driving a hack in the winter. He was admitte’ to the bar at a very early age and has been extraordi- narily successful. His personal popularity was attested by a change of 8,00 votes in a strong democratic district last_Novembe: Mr, Curtis retains the spare figure of jockey, and his dark complexion and co} black ‘hair show the Indian blood in hi veins. He is an excellent speaker and man of splendid nerve. Claude A, Swanson. A brilliant young democrat who makes his debut in national politics is Claude A. Swanson of the fifth Virginia district. He is a native of the Old Dominion, born in 1982, and was forced by family misfortunes to make his own way in life from an early age. He was a prize man at college and has risen at the bar. Mr. Swansen is un- married. He is slendor and well propor- tioned, has dark hair and searching black eyes and is very fond of society. F, A. Woodard. F. A. Woodard, elected to Congress as a democrat from the second North Carolina district,is a young lawyer who is expected to make .a considerable stir in the next House. He is a fine orator ani has taken an important part in the politics of North Carolina. He has been chairman of county and district democratic committees, and in 183t was nominated for Congress, but ¥ defeated, the district having a negro re publican’ majority of about 8.000. Mr. Wood- ard was a delegate to the national demo- cratic convention at St. Louis in i876. iL is the president of the First National Bank of Wilson and practices law in partnerstip with his brother. He is a well-hullt young man, about five feet eight inches in hei John L. MeLanrin. Another bright young democzat elected t the next Congress is John L. McLavrin of south Carolina,who will » sixth istrict in the next Hi s also a memt ing been che of Gen. Stack jast session. McLaurin is years of age, and though public life but two years has en enviabl record. He went to the legislature in 18% and_was soon after chosen attorney general of South Carolina, He was not a candi- ‘a man only date for Gen, Stackhouse’s seat in Cong7*s@, but was induced to enter the race after four other can@idates had taken the field. He was elected by the largest majority re- ceived by any Congressman in the state. McLaurin Is five fet ten inches in height, Weighs 175 pounds and carries himself 28 straight as an Indian. He has curly brown hair and blue eyes and a complexion a8 fair as a girl's. Gaston A. Kobbins. Gaston A. Robbins, who will represent the Rew fourth Alabama district, is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of the ufl- versity of that si He is thirty-three years of age, a lawyer in successful prae- tice and has always been a democrat a descendant on his m lenry Alford, dean of ( Robbins succeeds Gen. Forn- voluntarily after eighteen years of distin- Guished service in the House. The new member, therefore, will have a difficult task to perform in keeping up the prestige of hs district in that body. His friends preaiet, however, that he will rise to the occasion and make his mark. His home is at Selma. who fifth Mississippi district in the next House, is @ hustling young democratic lawyer, who by close attention to the practice of his pre- fession, has made a name for himself throughout his state. By keeping out of politics he made money and can now afford to come to Congress, He was a Cleveland delegate to Chicago, Dut has never held @ public office, nor has he sought any ex the one to ‘which a Jarce majority of people of his district elected him last vember. Mr. Williams is e handsome mi five feet ten inches tall, of slender figure, weighs about 140 pounds and brown hair and biue eye: Hernando D. Money. Hernando D. Money of the fourth Mise issippl district ts no tyro in polities. Nelth+ er is be a new man in Congress. As long ago as 18% he led a forlorn hope against the so-called republican “carpet baggers” and was elected to Congress by a large mas jority. For ten vears he occupied a seat in the House. Mr. Money was born im Holmes county, Mississ August 26, 153) He graduated from the he State University at Oxford and begas to practice his profession when but tweaty years of age. He fought through the wat in a Mississippi confeder: regiment and at its close began work as a practical plant- er. He afterward edited the Qlliss.) Conservative and the Miss.) Advance. Mr. Money is about five leet eleven inches in height, weighs 1 pounds, has brown eyes and dark half tinged with gray. He 2 familiar figure at the capital, much his law practioa being devoted to congressional matters law department of dodge T. M. Pase' Judge Thomas Moore Paschal of the twelfth Texas district is a Loutsianian by birth. His parents moved to Texas beforg he was a year old. He was born in 184 ang received a classical education. He was ad, mitted to the bar in 1858 and has since helg @ number of important judicial offices He is a tariff reformer of the Carli: school. Judge Paschal is five feet ten am a half inches tall, of heavy bufid, with dari brown hair and pleasant bive eyes. Dennis T. Flynn. Oklahoma territory sends a young Irish republican as de 9 the next House. He is Dennis T. young Pennsyl- vanian, wh 1 of which he may well be pro rents’ death he was placed in th e Hill Orphan A: lum ne: nod stride for but Fivan tion to sa is @ pretty thirty. y s old, started out vices, He was y in Buffale rs trade, whi t promising aus- t Clev jand’s office ned the print- followed in Towa. In m and started ern Kansas. There ed to th to establish the nt to Oklahoma on ered the territory after it w sion as postm: pocket. He w: t member of the republi- tee from the territory member of that body. young man, about can feet sev with dark b Sacbes hair an A Feminine Financier, From Pui Mrs, Smythe.—It's a shame the way you Masons spend money to keep your lodge running. If you'd let us women belong to we'd gec up a festival every now and then, and charge fi ents a plate; that 1 the money right who would at. dear. aythe.—"Why, you Masons, of hes dak wwe