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Charles A. Culberson, for a quarter of a century Senator from Texas, has taken his pen in hand to write the memoirs of one of the few living oldtimers, Southern style, of the Senate...
During the last Congress there were just five Senators who had begun their service in the last century: Lodge of Massachusetts, Warren of Wyoming, Nelson of Minnesota, Culberson of Texas, McCumber of North Dakota. Lodge and Warren will see the next Congress. Knute Nelson is dead. McCumber fell before the radical onslaughts of Lynn J. Frazier and Culberson succumbed to Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan...
...Culberson, grievously stricken in health, but still possessed of his fund of humor and anecdote, has begun to set down the experiences of his 30 years in public life ?from the time when as Governor of Texas he put a stop to one of Bob Fitzsimmons' prize fights by calling the Legislature to prohibit, it ?to last November when the Ku Klux Klan unseated...