The Press., 1888-05-03

Connecticut. One cannot say that Senator
 Hawley is indeed an orator. He speaks
 right on. He says what he has to say af.
 ter fashion that plain men like aud can
 understand. It would be difficult now in
 reading Governor Hawley's speeches of the two years after the war to uhderttand how deeply they stirred the peOpln of his $ ate, but they were winged strongly
 enough to carry his reputation boyod the
 boundary aud into other and distant parts 1 of the union. It must be remember
 however, that here was a young ma, full
 of life aud power, with n pleasant, frank
 face and manner, and with the 6 am nur of
 successful leadership in war Moreover he
 was talking to his friends and netghburs,
 and above all to his conrad x n the G ld,
 and what he said appealed Co their kiud-
 liest sentiments aud most glorious eXpcrl-
 ences. Senator Hawlpy could not arouse
 the state as Governor Hawley d d, largely
 because the times are not propitious, but
 also because he has now been long enough
 in politics to have raised up enemies in
 his own party who have organized factions
 against him. There is a wide difference
 between the young soldier just back from
 the front, where he won rank and reputa-
 tion, and the xty-year-old senator who is
 held to account for every post-office that
 goes astray, and for every creek that fails
 to secure an appropriation.
 His administration gave him a national
 reputation, and he was made chairman of
 the republican convention which was held
 at Chicago in 1868, when General Grant
 was first nominated for the presidency. In
 the convention of 1872 he was secretary of
 the committee on resolutions, and helped
 to make the sound money platform which,
 notwithstanding a slight Aggression toward l spAotiAr oftaW .F IOTQ Ium
 since been the tenet of the majority of the
 republican party. Tn this year he was
 first elected to congress, and served from
 1878 to 1877. He was out of congress
 during one term, and returned to tho
 house in 1879. At the end of his term, in
 1881, he went to the senate, where ho is now
 serving his second term. It was while he
 was serving as a member of the house of
 representatives in 1876 that he was presi.
 dent of the centennial commission. He
 attended to the duties of this office with
 the enthusiasm with which he enters upon
 all the work in which he feels au interest
 It cannot be said that the sucoess of tho
 great Philadelphia exposition was due to
 any one person. but the commission need
 ed for its head 8 man of Mir. Hawley's act
 i've temperament, and of the fervent pa-
 triotism which leads him to do all in his
 power to glorify the country. He is able
 to furnish the motive power ot a great en- terprise whether he ia qualified to con-
 duct its details and to lead it to success by
 the prudent management of it's minutim is
 another question.
 In the senate Mir. Hawley has made larger figure than he made in the house. Although he has taken advanced ground
 on mauy questions, he has been always a very strict party man. Once in the house he described himself as "a republican of
 the blackest dye, who believes in making
 the federal laws respected everywhere, at
 all times, and at all hazards" He was al.
 ways that, but on questions on which his party has divided, he has taken sides wi h
 he section of the country from whi'h he
 comes. On alI questions rel ting c. the
 banks and the currency he has brop m fa-
 vor of the national system and a soaud currency. He has voted uQniust thp tj.Vrr
 bnls which from time to time have alarmed
 the business interests of the country, uUd he has breu always thorough advocute
 Of the protective system
 The measure with which he has been ' principally identified since he has been n senator Is the civil service reform law. The bill, as is well known. came from q clvl service reform aseucmr0n, au1 was introduced into the senate by Mr. pmd.o. ton. The committee, however, 70 H,i,h
 lt was referred, and which udupird .ul
 reported it, was republican. Sanp'or H,u- Icy was the member Of the commute N . was select, d to manage it on the dnr'. % !
 he managed it with all ,hc skill q -. husiasn of which he is posseaso.. u.t 'lAt dlessly autagoDizug the ulppuc ,n d enemies of the reform, nd yet |, rIdl z
 lothing to them. H. secured v,rN va, " hearing for his measure. aud ho kept the senate at its work from day to day un il , the vote was finally taken, and thr hil
 was sent to the house. He ndv.o',tgl toe measure on purely business principles. coz the ground that 1t would relieve \ cu'i.n
 offers and cOngressmen from the uuuUy. ing and damaging solicitation from s,ukpls after places, and that it would biiug i,do the public service set of better trained men than were obtained under the system then in vogue. He took pains to dissocl- . ate himself from the "doct ctrinaires" and the impractical politicians. In the course of the speech in which he opened the de- bate he said "I have an unutterable contempt for the man who iustifes his . neglect of his public duties by talking about the dirty waters of politics If they are dirty, and he thinks he knows what . they ought to be, and that if he were con- trolling them they would be better, then , he is a coward and next door to a moral traitor if he does not come in with all his soul, and not simply ait on the fence and scold the rest of us who are in, and who are conscious of as high and honorable mo- tives, conscious of as devoted worship of the Constitution and the laws and the glory of our country, as any man in the repub- lic." Hs did not admit that the civil scr. vice of the country was in the deplorable . condition in1 which it was represented as being. He has always appeared to be deeply impressed with . the wonderful splendor of the United States. "Sir," he said, in the speech already quoted from, "this country is not in a ruinous condi- tion; it is the most magnificent nation that ever lived under the sun." This is not buncombe with MT. Hawley he be. ) lieves it with all his soul and all his mind The civil service reform law went thro' : the senate substantially in the form in which it came from the committee, owing to MT. Hawley's zealous care and watch fulness. Notwithstanding the intensity of his partisanship, which has been indi- cated in the speech in which be calls him self republican of the blackest dye," he rose very much above partisanship in the . conduct of this bill, and gave to such dem 5 ocrats as Mir. Bayard and MT. Pendleton full credit for the assistance which he re- c-ived from them. Perhaps the manage .