Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

LilUy of Connecticut. Representative George L. Lilley of Connecticut, who recently stirred up congress with a resolution calling for an investigation of the methods by which submarines have been sold to the government, lias shown his mettle on several previous occasions. A native of Massachusetts, he inherits the characteristics of his Puritan ancestors, and the suspicion of graft excites him to anger. He has stood out ngninst the extra month’s pay that both houses of congress vote everybody on their rolls at the end of a session even when it

meant offense to personal friends. Exposition appropriations also arouse his ire, and free seed graft is another object of disgust. It is said that Mr. Lilley does not own a share of corporation stock. Once he bought SIO,OOO worth of a stock at par and sold at 70, profiting by the lesson at a time he could 11l afford It Onee he tried to beat the shell game At a horse trot he had seen the farm ers lose their money and pitied the “Rubes” who couldn’t see where the pea was when be could see so plainly. Finally he offered to bet S2O that he knew where it went. The fakir manipulated the shells, and Lilley put his finger on one. The gambler lifted the shell. The pea wasn’t there. “I wouldn’t nave bet ah old copper Cent that I was alive! Things fairly spun round me,” said he in telling of it. Congressman Lilley is forty-nine years old and is serving bis third term In the national house of representatives. See V. J. Collins for farm im pie men ts.

GEORGE L. LILLEY.