SENATOR SMITH.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13441, 12 June 1912, Page 8

SENATOR SMITH.

A prominent American in London, who knows Senator Smith personally, told a newspaper representative that "Smith is tho hardest-headed lawyer in Michigan, and wouldn't put suoh fool questions to a witness as reported at the Titanic inquiry. He is a fine- example of the self-made man, the man who worked his way through college, and was not above cleaning pots and pans in exchange for his learning. We look up to such men in the States. From a newsboy ho has now become a Senator, and one of the shrewdest and sharpest civil and criminal lawyers at the Bar. That doesn't look as if ho were- a fool, does it? Then don't forget that he is a professor at one of tho leading institutes of learning in tho United States." Senator Smith is an outstanding figure in the public and political life of his native State of Michigan. His fifty-three years of strenuous fighting against great odds have earned for him the title of a "No. 1 inon school education, and soon after leaving school worked as a newsboy and messenger in the offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company. When in his twentieth year, young Smith made his first step in public life and obtained a job as page-boy in tho Michigan House of Representatives. While working as a page, Smith was also reading law, and in 1883 he was admitted to tho Bar. From 1882 until 1892 ho was a membor of tho Michigan Representative State Central Commission, and three years later saw him elected to the Congress of tho Fifth Michigan District. His election as a United States Senator for a term of six years followed in 1907.