Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

D. W. Shackleford, Missouri Congressman.

It was Representative Dorsey W. Shackleford of Missouri who started the tight against the speaker of the house as the maker of committees. As long ago as 190 G he attacked ••Uncle Joe” Cannon, calling him an “enthroned despot.” who had packed the committees, and denouncing him as a “czar.” Mr. Shackleford is now a member of the ways and means committee to which was delegated the committee making power of the house, and his associates say he has been the most ardent committee maker of the whole group. Indeed, say some of his fellow members, he started in as if he aspired to be the czar of the Sixtysecond congress. Congressman Shackleford is a native of Missouri if nd a lawyer by profession. For four years he was a county prosecutor, and from 1892 until sent to the Fifty-sixth congress he was a district judge. He is fifty-eight years old and has represented the Eighth district since the death of Richard P. Biand. Ado on Tragedy. George Ade at the New theater s anniversary dinner in New York said of a modern tragedian: “The only trouble about his tragedy is that it makes you laugh. His pathos is sidesplitting. It is like the pathos of the German poet who made a lover say to his lost love as he bade her a final goodby at the railway station: “ ‘Farewell. We part forever. But to make the separation more gradual I am going by an accommodation train.’ ’* Mr. Carter of Montana. Former Senator Thomas Henry Carter of Montana, whose seat in the upper house of congress was captured by a Democrat, may enter the cabinet of President Taft, it is rumored in Washington. Shortly after the expiration of his senatorial term on March 4 Mr. Carter was appointed a member of the international boundary commission, which was provided for in one of the last bills put through by the Sixty-first congress. Senator Carter is a native of Ohio and is fifty-seven years old. For a number of years he was engaged in

THOMAS H. CARTER. farming, railroading and schoolteaching. finally becoming a lawyer. In 1882 be went to Helena. Mont., and was elected a delegate from the territory to the Fifty-first congress and upon the admission -of the state was elected its first representative. As chairman of the national Republican committee he conducted Harrison’s second presidential campaign. He has served two terms as senator from Mom tana, but not consecutively. The sena tor tells this storyj>f his boyhood days: “Baek in Scioto county, 0., where I lived as n boy. there was plenty to eat, but not much t" wear. There may have been a lawyer or a preacher at the town of Portsmouth who had two suits of clothes. I remember bearing a group of leading gossips wrangling over the question as to who was the richest man in the community. “ ‘l’ll bet a gallon of licker,’ one old codger said, hitting the table with his fist. That Obadiah Glidden Is worth t-e-n thou-sand dol lars.’” .

1911. by American Press Association.

1911, by American Press Association.