Hon. Philip P. Campbell

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Hon. Philip P. Campbell



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The Mastery of Great Problems.'


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The Average American.


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What of the Republic?






Hon. Philip P. Campbell
 PERSONAL AND PRESS COMMENTS



From the Kansas City Star, March 30, 1905


—He is a curious type of man, this Congressman from the third district whose pictures are in all the magazines and all the newspapers.  Everybody in Pittsburg calls him 
Phil,
 not in the spirit of familiarity which breeds contempt, but in loving affection and comradship.  He is of uncertain age.  To look at him, Campbell might be 28.  He is older than that else he would be fighting for the laurels of the youngest leader of the House.  He might be 40, or he might be any age.  He has the appearance of youth which, in some rare instances, does not wear off, and to strengthen the appearance of youthfulness he has that hearty enjoyment of life, 
the joy of living,
 which goes so far to defeat the assault of years.  When the oil producers began their fight against the Standard, letters were written to several members of the Kansas delegation, men who had been in Congress for years, and just a perfunctory letter to Campbell.  Campbell did not stop to write a reply when the letter reached him telling of the conditions in this State.  He went to Speaker Cannon with a resolution and told him something had to be done.  And something was done.  As soon as the resolution passed the House, Campbell went to President Roosevelt and laid the whole case before him.  That was the time when the President slapped him on the shoulder and said:  
Bully, Campbell, bully.




From the American Economist, February 10, 1905


—In his speech at the dinner of the New England Iron and Hardware Association in Boston last week, Congressman Philip P. Campbell, of Kansas, brought from the Western prairies a breeze of common sense and clear perception that must have had a wholesome effect in changing the stuffy and muddled atmosphere which prevails in that part of New England.  Boston has somehow come to be the center of foul air and low barometer on the subjects of Reciprocity and Tariff tinkering.  The Kansas zephyr was all the more timely and refreshing on that account.  Mr. Campbell's subject was 
Canadian Reciprocity.




From the Washington Post


—A few days ago, I witnessed in your House of Representatives an incident that gave me no small amount of pleasure, and I forthwith wrote about it to my home paper, said Mr. George W. Grainger, a well-to-do business man of Liverpool, England, at the Raleigh.  I was in the public gallery listening to the proceedings at the time that the Speaker called upon one of the younger looking members to take the chair.  I had been about in a great many countries, and it has for years been a sort of hobby of mine to listen to parliamentary doings of the various lawmaking bodies.  It was with some interest, therefore, that I watched this young man take the gavel, for I guessed that, being a neophyte, he would betray a certain amount of awkwardness or at least exhibit some hesitation and nervousness.  Not a bit of it.  On the contrary, he went to work as if presiding over great assemblages had been his chief vocation in life.  Not in the House of Lords, nor in the Commons, nor in the French, German or Italian parliaments did I ever see a veteran presiding officer who showed more skilled knowledge, more dignity, or address.  I learned afterwards that the name of the gentleman was Campbell, and that he hails from the state of Kansas, and the minute I heard his name I said, oh, ho, he has Scotch blood in him, and that accounts for his shrewd wit and manly bearing.



Ho. Philip P. Campbell

Clyde H. Knox, Editor and Publisher of The Times-Star, Sedan, Kansas, June 19, 1905


—He is scholarly, polished in delivery, a deep thinker and never, either in or out of politics, gets up to speak without saying exactly the right thing.  I have heard him probably a dozen times, and on many subjects, and I know that if you can add him to your lists you will get a strong attraction.  I consider Mr. Campbell one of the most brilliant and pleasing orators on the platform to-day, and I predict for him unlimited success on the lecture work if he undertakes it.  He is considered by all newspaper men as being one of the very few men who can hold an audience for hours in the House of Representatives.  I hope you will make a contract with him for I feel sure that we will want him for our course next year, this year being now closed, as you know.  With best wishes, I remain, your friend.



From the Chicago Evening Post, Feb. 21, 1905


—Philip Pitt Campbell of Pittsburg, Kans., is the second first-term representative in Congress to jump in a day to a place where he found the eyes of the public focused.  Charles E. Townsend got there first with his railroad bill.  Campbell of Kansas was a close follower with his Standard Oil investigation resolution.  Townsend has a big antagonist; Campbell has a bigger.  If the identity of the author of the Standard Oil resolution were unknown, the man who was trying to pick him out after a study of faces probably would pass Campbell of Kansas until the last.  He doesn't look like a man who would undertake a fight against what some people here have called the strongest and wickedest monopoly on the face of the earth.  Campbell is a young man with a smiling face.  It is a boy's smile, free from guile, and back of it, always ready, is laughter.  It takes a long time for Campbell of Kansas to get from one end of the corridor to the other, for he must stop and shake hands and pass a word with everyone he meets.  He was a favorite before he had been in the House a week.  The old ones of the House say that there is stern stuff back of his smile.  Present conditions make it necessary that there must be.  Like Townsend of Michigan, Campbell of Kansas was unknown to the galleries.  To-day he is pointed out the instant he enters the House, and John Sharp Williams, Sereno E. Payne, and even Speaker Cannon temporarily are shadowed.  Someone has said that Campbell may climb to the presidency over the corpse of the Standard Oil Company.  He will not, even if the present able-bodied corporation should languish and die, for Campbell was born in Novia Scotia, and his parents were not Americans.  A moment ago it was stated that Campbell was young.  Appearance goes for everything in this statement, for no one in Washington knows how young or how old Philip Pitt Campbell is.  The congressional directory, which is supposed to set forth the birthday of every senator and representative, is silent on the subject of the age of Campbell.  He looks 25; probably he is 35, and maybe more.



From Leavenworth Times, December 24, 1904


—In Congress, Phil Campbell is showing an individuality that marks him as one of the coming men of the State.  The movement in Kansas which has brought the commonwealth into the eye of the Nation was a determination to have fair play at the hands of the corporations.  But the agitation found no echo among the Kansas delegation at Washington until Phil Campbell demanded the dissolution of the combination which he alleges to exist between the railways and the Standard Oil Company.




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From the Liberty (Mo.) Tribune, June 9, 1905


—Congressman Philip Pitt Campbell, of Pittsburg, Kansas, delivered the annual address before the Literary Societies Monday on 
The Average American.
  His lecture was one of the best ever delivered before the societies.  He is a supremely forceful speaker and every word he utters carries conviction to his hearers.




From the Conway Springs Star, May 12, 1905


—His lecture was good, containing many thoughts that all who heard him will remember, and his conclusions made his hearers feel the depth and strength of the speaker.  His lecture was heartily enjoyed by all.




From Success Magazine


—Few members of the House of Representatives achieve national prominence in a first term.  During the session of the Fifty-eighth Congress Philip Pitt Campbell proved himself a notable exception to this rule.  With no disposition to force himself beyond the barriers with which precedent restricts a new member, his general knowledge of subjects under discussion, his judgment and forceful manner of expression, quickly won for him the respect of his fellow members.  Speaker Cannon gave him an opportunity to preside over the House.  He made a speech on the tariff which was so convincing that it was used as a campaign document by the national committee.  But it was as the author and champion of the resolution calling for an investigation of the Standard Oil Company that Mr. Campbell attracted general attention.




From Cherryvale Daily Republican, August 16, 1905


—Hon. Phil.P. Campbell delivered an eloquent address at the park yesterday afternoon.  He is an able speaker, and an earnest, sincere man with original ideas and fearless in the advocacy of them.  He doesn't deliver an old stereotyped address, but serves his audience with a bright, spicy, original discourse intended for them and appropriate at the time of its delivery.




From The Miami Republican, Paola, Kans., August 18, 1905


—He is a pleasing speaker and leaves a good impression on his audience.  He is sincere and earnest and has a good knowledge of his subject.  The keynote of his address was contained in its opening sentence:  
The true glory of this republic is not in its splendid army, nor in its great wealth, nor its extensive empire, but in the high average of its men and women.




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