WEDNESDAY, FE3. 28, 1934. THE CARBON COUNTY NEWS, RED LODGE, MONTANA PAGE SEVEN

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THE NAME IS SMITH r ' /t' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON of that name ever has been Chief 1801 when Samuel Smith, a Pennsyl­ diah Strong Sir a New Yorker *. 4,| F UNCLE SAM should Executive. But that doesn't mean vanian, was secretary of the navy who was much re deserving of that a Smith never has aspired to for a short time under President the title of “The Pathfinder” than V ever call the roll of all w jf, % his children, the chances the Presidency. On the contrary, Jefferson, serving without com­ was Gen. John O. Fremont. A mem­ \ pensation. He was succeeded In are that more people no less than four of them have. ber of the famous Ashley-Uenry 1 V would respond to “Smith” Perhaps you think that Alfred that post by his brother, Robert expedition of 1823 and one of the Emanuel Smith, who won the Dem­ Smith, who had a rather remark­ founders of the Rocky Mountain than any other family % name. They'd outnumber ocratic nomination but lost the able record as a cabinet officer In Fur company, he was not only the v 4 the prolific Browns and Williamses election In 1928, was the first and that he held no less than three port­ first American to pass over what à •;ÿ< by about two to one and the only only one of the name who ever folios—secretary of the navy from later became the Oregon Trail, but t ... slightly less prolific Joneses and made a bid for occupancy of the 1802 to 1805 and attorney general his wanderings and his trall-blaz- m % ■ ■■ White House. But he wasn’t from March to December, 1805, Ing exploits In the western wilder­ Johnsons by about three to one. , Eighty-four years before New both under Jefferson, and secretary ness made him truly one of the great­ L Now, since Smith is such a very MM York’s famous governor had shied of state from 1809 to 1811 under est explorers of his day. 5 [}/ common name, It naturally follows I* that one who bears It has to be con­ his equally famous “Brown Derby” Madison. High up In the pine-clad Black siderably above the average to lend Into the Presidential ring, a native Next came Caleb Blood Smith of Hills of South Dakota stands a shaft distinction to It and to be outstand­ of Vermont, was an active candidate Indiana who was Lincoln's secre­ ing among his fellowmen. The for the high office. tary of the Interior from 1801 to \i N fact Is that there have been plenty He was Joseph Smith, founder of 1803, then Hoke Smith of Georgia m of Just such men, as witness the the Mormon religion In New York who held the same portfolio under fact that one standard encyclopoe- in 1830, who was driven by per­ Cleveland from 1893 to 1890. An­ dla of American biography contains secution first to Ohio, then to Mis­ other member of the family, Charles m the names of no less than 202 souri, and finally to Illinois, where Emory Smith, was postmaster- m the “City of Saints” was estab­ general under McKinley from 1898 Smiths who have been famous « M enough to be included In Its list of lished at Nauvoo. Soon he had such to 1901 and held over In that posi­ notables and another contains 230 a large following that both the tion under Roosevelt until 1902. z\ 3 such names. Whigs and the Democrats began An exploring trip through the From the earliest days of Ameri­ bidding for Mormon support and many pages devoted to the Smiths 1—Dr. Frank P. Corrigan, noted surgeon of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been appointed American minister can history the Smiths have played Smith began having delusions of In any encyclopedia of biography re­ sS.; to Salvador. 2—View of the ceremonies when the new cruiser New Orleans, one of the most powerful ships of an Important part In making that grandeur as to his political power. veals any number of interesting her class, was commissioned at Brooklyn navy yard. 3—President Roosevelt, with Chairman W. A. Harri- history. For It was the doughty In 1844 he took the bold step of men and women of this family man and President C. R. Gray of the Union Pacific road, Inspecting that company’s new stream-lined motor- Capt. John Smith, an English ad­ condemning publicly both parties name. There was Charles Henry driven train In Washington. venturer, who led the little band and announcing his candidacy for Smith, the Georgian, who made his of colonists to the shores of Vir­ the Presidency of the United States. pen name of “Bill Arp’’ famous ginia In 1607 and at Jamestown with his humorous stories of the Army Airmen Sworn In as Postal Employees founded the first permanent Eng­ Confederacy. There was that earlier humorist, Seba Smith, a Yankee lish settlement In America, a settle­ W ment destined to grow Into a colony from Maine, who, as “Major Jack that was to give a new nation Its :: Downing of Dowulngville" was : .3 53 first President. A self-appointed adviser to Presi­ ■tim Æ dent Andrew Jackson, and aided In Although we think of Smith pri­ i \ marily as a soldier, the fact Is that making some political history with < among his books was a treatise on his satirical letters. C Julia Evallna Smith and her sis­ seamanship that Is a model of Its > i/ kind. That was ‘A Sea-mans ter, Abigail H. Smith of Connecti­ Grammar, or, An Accidence, The cut were active and early woman r % Lb ■■ “SOAPY” SMITH Pbfc.1 Path-way to Experience necessary suffragists, Julia becoming known for all young sea-man, or those that throughout the country as one of of white stone which marks the desire to go to Sea,” published in the five “Glastonbury sisters,” who place where Henry Weston Smith “i&jj 5 f resisted the payment of taxes be­ 1026. It w’as not only the first v:; (“Preacher Smith’’ they called him), cause they were denied suffrage and the Methodist circuit rider, was ■ printed book on seamanship, naval i gunnery and nautical terms pub­ submitted to the sale of their prop­ killed by a party of Sioux warriors lished In England but It has also erty by the town authorities rather in 1876 because he placed his duty, served as the backbone of prac­ than obey the law. That was near­ as he saw It, above personal safety. tically every book on seamanship ly a century ago, In the days when A native of Connecticut, “Preach­ published In the last 300 years. woman’s place was definitely "In er Smith” served in the Union army Just as a Smith was the founder the home,” and long before there during the Civil war, then went and ruler of the first permanent were “suffragettes.” West, and arrived in Cheyenne, English settlement in America, so Most of the present genera- Wyo., at the height of the Black An unusual scene at Mltchel field showing Postmaster Thomas J. Hartnett of Hempstead, Long Island, It Is appropriate that a Smith i tlon of Americans know F. Hopkln- Hills gold rush. He held the first swearing In a group of United States army aviators as postal employees. They are some of the flyers now should be one of the 56 Immortals son Smith as a novelist and author church services ever held In the carrying the air mall, following the canceling of contracts with private lines by the government. who signed the Declaration of In­ of "Caleb West,” "Colonel Carter of Hills and became an outstanding SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH dependence and thus become one of Cartersvllle,” “The Tides of Barne- figure In its early history as the TO WED A PRINCE the “Fathers of the Republic.” He gat,” etc., but how many know that “Sky Pilot of Deadwood,” a career Honor Paid to Colored Soldiers Several thousand of the saints was James Smith, born In Ireland he also won distinction as an artist cut short by his death at the hands K went forth to preach the gospel of about 1720, then an emigrant to and an engineer, and that, In the Mormonism and to electioneer for of the Indians while on his way A\ Pennsylvania where he grew up to latter role, he was the man who to preach In Crook City, ten miles their leader. But his ambition came become a leader in the agitation built the foundation for the Statue away. Another memorial to him to a tragic end on June 14 when for freedom from British rule. He of Liberty In New York harbor? stands over his grave in Deadwood, ii he met a martyr’s death In the Jail i — wrote an essay “On the Constitu­ And how many know that another a life-size statue of him carved from : at Carthage where he and his broth­ tional Power of Great Britain Over man named Smith added the word the red stone characteristic of that er, Hyrum, were shot down by a the Colonies In America” which is "telegram” to the English lan­ region. $ mob of militia, who were there to said to have given “the first strong guage? He was Erasmus Peshlne Up In Alaska among the rocky Impulse to the patriot cause In the protect them. Smith, a New York journalist, edu­ cliffs overlooking Skagway is a I colony of Pennsylvania.” At the same time that Joseph cator, and Jurist, who, through the Al­ ff. Smith was casting an eye toward unique memorial to another Smith. America’s official national an­ bany Evening Journal suggested the It is a rocky profile of heroic size, K1 'V- j the White House another Smith < fl. them, ns everybody knows, is “The word “telegram” as a substitute for naturally shaped and painted white Star-Spangled Banner.” But there was molding a new political party the cumbersome “telegraphic dis­ jF 4 which would in the future nominate to resemble a skull and bearing Is another song, an unofficial “na­ patch,’’current In those times. ] him for the Presidency. He was the words “Soapy Smith’s Skull.” tional hymn,” which is sung on pa­ The Smith family Includes a Thus does Skagway memorialize 'm. i triotic, occasions quite as much as Gerritt Smith, a New Yorker des­ number of great heroes and also Jefferson Randolph Smith, its mayor /7 ...A Is Key’s stirring composition and it tined for future fame as a philan­ some great rogues. Be It remem­ and boss In the roaring days of the / thropist, but in those days an ardent bered that Joshua Hett Smith was tCÄ A , ¥ was written by a Smith. Samuel Klondike gold rush, and one of the abolitionist. He organized the Lib­ :: Francis Smith was his name and one of the principals In the Arnold- most picturesquely villainous fig­ erty party at Arcade, N. Y., in 1840, Andre treason plot during the Revo­ and in 1848 and again in 1852 was ures In frontier history. A native lution, and It was largely due to of Georgia, Smith was a gambler In its candidate for President. He Smith’s “falling down on the Job” had three other claims to fame—as various Colorado mining towns, a that the young British officer was “con man” of the first water (his \\ I a backer of John Brown, whom : m. captured and the plot exposed. nickname of “Soapy” coming from » he supplied with money for Brown’s John Smith, a United States sena­ .... ,**> m Ill-fated attempt to free the slaves, one of his schemes of fleecing the Ju tor from Ohio, was Involved in the “suckers” with cakes of soap m '■■•a as the man who, with Horace Gree­ Burr conspiracy and an effort made vïj g ley, at the close of the Civil war, wrapped In $20 bills), and later the to expel him from the senate for It king of the Denver underworld. signed the ball bond of Jefferson missed by just one vote. Davis, and as the man whose bene­ When he went to Alaska he be­ if * Down in the Texas Panhandle is came the big man of Skagway, but factions, during his lifetime, totaled Miss Masako Kuroda, daughter of a county named “Deaf Smith,” a his high-handed methods soon got 3IA * close to $8,000.000. Viscount Hiroshi Kuroda of Japan, \ vast expanse of territory which per- him Into trouble. There was talk The next Smith who aspired to be who has been chosen to be the bride of vigilante methods to rid the town A of Prince Abeba of Ethiopia. She a President was one Green Clay r— of him, but Frank Reid, Smith, a native of Kentucky who f •• an en- Is twenty-two years old and has had «».ff glneer, saved them the trouble. a modern education. served in the Mexican war, was i '*• . ; :S “Soapy” tried to bluff Reid, but elected to the Kentucky legislature s 'MS V Reid couldn't be bluffed. A bullet • . and at the outbreak of the Civil BRITTIN GOES TO JAIL from his gun put an end to this 1Ü wrar became a colonel in the Union most famous bad man of the last army in which he rose to the rank w frontier. of brigadier general. Elected to I ■ Another Smith, but very different congress while still In the field, he i a from Soapy’s kind, lost his life In resigned from the army, and while the wild days of the old frontier. He serving in congress was appointed Front view of the heroic group that will be unveiled In Filler park, CAPT. JOHN SMITH was Thomas J. Smith, known as second territorial governor of Mon­ Safe i^- “Green River Tom” Smith, a quiet, i Philadelphia, on Memorial day. It Is a monument to commemorate the •; v li e was born In Boston In 1808. tana by President Johnson. After .9 mlldrspoken young man, but one of hefolsm and sacrifice of the colored soldiers who have served In the While a student at Andover theo­ three years in that office he resigned the bravest who ever upheld the law 4 various wars of the United States. logical seminary he wrote the words to enter the Baptist ministry, and W: in the West. He first made a rep­ of the song beginning “My Coun­ In 1876 he was the first candidate utation for himself as marshal of try, Tls of Thee” and on July 4. of the Prohibition party for Presi­ ■: n the town of Kit Carson, Colo., when \ Beat Display at the Orange Show 1832, this song, to which has been dent. Thus half a century before '• It was “end of steel” on the Kan­ given the simple title of “Amer­ Alfred E. Smith was a “wet” candi­ f- [ sas Pacific. Then he was called ica,” was sung for the first time at date for that position, Green Clay to the roaring cattle town of Abi­ a children’s celebration in the Park Smith was a ’’dry’’ candidate, and lene, Kan., which he “tamed”—not * Street church in Boston. 14 ■ m both to the same result—defeat! with six-shooters but with his fists. Y Before attending the Andover . i.; r The same fate befell the only In eleven months Smith set a seminary to prepare himself for his 9 > rec- Smith who was ever a candidate ord In making it a law-abiding place llfework as a Baptist minister. 'S for Vice President. He was Wil­ which not even his successor, the Smith had been graduated from mv ? liam Smith, a native of North Caro­ .s. v famous Wild Bill Hlckok, could Harvard In 1820, In the same class lina who emigrated to South Caro­ W'-i match. But he met his death at ië with Oliver Wendell Holmes. And lina at an early age. became a law­ t o.: last—murdered by two ranchmen It was Holmes who, In bis class re­ ' yer and served In various state of­ whom he tried to arrest peaceably, union poem. “The Boys,” told In A t fices and In the United States sen 1 and failed only because a cowardly i • these words how this Smith had ate. In 1829 Smith received Geor­ H8 •!'.* >. v»>v, V deputy sheriff ‘ran out” on him. i lent distinction to that common­ gia’s seven electoral votes for Vice One other Smith Is deserving of m place name. President, which was approximate­ mention before this article Is ly 160 short of enough to elect him. PREACHER SMITH CDD 4 eluded. He was John T. Smith, fa- “And there’s a nice youngster of Eight years later he tried again. L. ri. Brlttln, former air line ex­ mous In the early days of Missouri Ii excellent pith; This time he did a little better. He ecutive, on his way to Jail ln Wash­ petuates the fame of Erastus as a duelist and land speculator, but Fate tried to conceal him by nam- got 23 electoral votes but one of Smith, a native of New York, who ington after being sentenced to ten Iß. in the thing which most distinguished ' Ing him Smith I the only slightly less prolific John­ lived In Mississippi as a boy, then days for contempt In the senate. m him was the way In which he lent But he chanted a song for the brave sons got the job—Richard M. John­ went to Texas while It was still the n i - distinction to that name. [f and the free— son of Kentucky. Twice Smith Lone Star republic, and became one He real­ "Ho Got the Sack” ized that there are many John T. ■ ;. Just read on his medal, ‘My coun was offered the appointment of as of the heroes of the Battle of San “He’s got the sack.” It was for­ Smiths, so in order to make his dlf try, of thee l”* sociale justice of the Supreme Jacinto. It was he who, upon the merly the custom for employers to Hi ferent from the rest, he began sign Court of the United States, but orders of Gen. Sam Houston, burned be given the tool-bags of their me­ S-5 : Ing himself John Smith T. and John & P A Smith was the founder of the both times he declined, thereby de Vince’s bridge, the only avenue of chanics while the latter were In ■ • ri Smith T. he was known to the day '*> first permanent English colony In priving the Smith family of Its two escape for the vanquished in that their employ. If one of these me­ i ¥ of his death. America; a Smith was one of the known chances of being represented battle, whoever It might be, then chanics were discharged he would As to other Smiths who lent dis signers of the Declaration of In­ In that august body. dashed up on a foam covered horse be given back his bag or sack for tlnction to the name—well, there mm dependence, a Smith wrote our “na Although no Smith has ever yet shouting, ”1 have cut down Vince’s his tools, so that he might go and are several hundred of them listed tlonal hymn.” In line with those iieen President or Vice President bridge. Now fight for your lives seek another posL This seems the Al the annual National Orange show in San Bernardino, Calif., this in the encyclopedias of biography facts. It would be appropriate If a more than one has been an aid to and remember the Alamo!” most reasonable derivation for the display from Los Angeles county won first prize. Each of the huge panel« to which the reader of this artlch Smith were elected President of the Presidents by serving In their cab There Is no such memorial (al phrase, and It has received the wid­ of fruit represented a major California outdoor sport Miss May Bet- United States. But so far, no one Is respectfully referred. inets. They began away back In though there should be) for Jede • by Weattrn Newnp«p«r (js|nD est acceptance. terldge, queen of the exposition. Is In the center of the display.

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