The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-05-03

SENATOR MOTION.

SENATOR MOTION.
In the State Sentinel of April
18th, we find the following from "a
Bohemian in the Hoosier Capital"
e is so seldom we have been accus-
bomed to look for TRUTH in that
bheet m regard to Senator MoRToN,
that we cannot help specially noting
and copying it.. '.Even hisenemies
praise him: FFf.a
s1t h o very plain little wooden
house in quiet part of of the town
where Senator Morton resides
When at home in the intervals Of
senatorial duty, he is visited every
day by large numbers of people,
mostly of the political class; and /
hs6rd that President Grant was ex-
pected to be guest at his house in
8 few Gays. Morton is q hard work
a, not only as practical politician
in the Senate, or q stump speaker
during campaigns, but as student
Of public affairs. of Legislation and
it's principles, and of constitutional
law and its application. In dealing
with any new question he resorts to
every available means of obtaining
such information as will enable him
to form . judgment upon it. He
ransacks law books, Congressional
debates and political literature of
every sort, and doubtless one may
often find him in his room, as I
found him, surrounded by hundreds
of volumes strewn round his floor
or piled up near his chair, which he
has been searching for facts, or ar
guments, or precedents, regarding
some political question with which
he proposes to deal. Morton does
not take things on hearsay, or think
at random. He wants the assured
facts about any given matter, and
then, imoreasoning upon them, he
brings all his powers into action
This il one of the causes of his re-
markable success as q political de-
batter. He confounds men of false
knowledge and loose ratiocination
Morton is q sagacious politician
At times he is bold to audacity, and
persistent to the last; but again, on
occasions, you will see that he is
not oblivious to the meaning of the
word policy-as indeed no political
leader can ever be. The relations
of Morton to public affairs to the
Administration, to legislation, and
to the Republican party, are such
as make it Of importance what
ground he takes on any issue of the
times. There are new questions
looming up about which few politi-
cal leaders have yet expressed them
selves; but believe it will be found,
lat the proper time, that Morton has
thought about them, has studied
them in all their bearings, and has
something to say about them which
will command the attention of the
country and affect its legislation =
He seems to be more of states
man, in large sense, than any 9th
er man who figures in the Senate
or in American politics at this time
But besides all this, he is q large
souled, friendly, generous man, wht
has q host of enthusiastic admirers
and who is as much esteemed in hi
own State for his personal qualities
as he is respected by the countr,
for his intellectual powers. It il
certainly not to his discredit that
though he has SO long enjoyed plac,
and power, he has not used then
for his own aggrandizement, bu
remains poor, and lives in the ut
most simplicity. His health is re-
stored, and his physical condition
would be perfect but from the lame
ness which compels him to wall
; with a cane. He is but fifty years o
age, and perhaps has not yet reach
ed the summit of his political ca
reer, "A young or inexperiencet
politician said he, in a thoughtful
way, sis apt to try to be sensation
al, or to seek popularity at all haz
ards, but the man of experience an,
maturity desires above all things t
be right These were wise an,
noble words, and politicians-to to sa
nothing of editors and other me-
; sI-would not be injured by ponde,
ing over them"