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Winston Churchill (Whom we perhaps should call)

WINSTON CHURCHILL, whom we perhaps should call Americanus, to distinguish him from the lively son of Lord Randolph Churchill, who bears the same name of Winston, was born in St. Louis, November 10, 1871, though his father was of Portland, Maine. He was educated at Smith Academy, St. Louis, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1894. The same year found him an editor of the "Army and Navy Journal"; the next year he was managing editor of the "Cosmopolitan Magazine"; in 1903 and 1905 he was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, and in 1906 he was running for Governor of that state as the candidate of the Lincoln Republican Club on a reform platform, fighting a valiant battle to down the political practices which had grown to be time-honored, if nothing else, in that state. Some of the leaders of the Democratic party fully recognized the good he was attempting to accomplish in this early progressive movement, but the fact that he was not a native of the state, was a new-comer in politics, and was striving for ideas which were novel and thoroughly distressing to politicians of long experience, prevented his success with the Republicans. Politics, however, have not been entirely the same in the state since; and as an education for a writer on political subjects his experiences could be called laboratory courses.