The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-12-22
THE COMING SENATE.
Something Of the Men Who Win Be State
Senators.


After the election is over, public atten-
ton ia then centered on tho men elected.
People are curious Go know about the
men who will lesislate for them, and to
whom has been entrusted SO much OF the
commonwcal's welfare Who are they2
What are they? What do they look
like, and what is their business? are
questions invariably asked at this time.
The Detroit Evening News has published
n few facts concerning the personnel OF
the incoming sennte, which, SO far as the
upper house is concerned, answers these
queries. Says the News:
IL is good, substantial senate, the
state senate just elected; not very
brilliant, perhaps, but still one that in
not likely TO be prolific Of scandal. IL Is
n senate OF substantial well-to-do
citizens, who stand well in their rcspec-
tive communities. There are few excep-
tons, possibly, where professional
politician, or man who entered politics
for what there il in it, has been elected.
The personnel, however, is unusually
high. Lawyers, prosperous farmers, bus
mess men, with here and there doctor
or editor. Neither the lawyers nor farm
ers predominate; in fact both are out
numbered by the business men, all OF
which goes to show that the senate is
likely TO be conservative and little die
posed TO put up with such vngaries as
the jag cure law and devices TO make
horse drink when he doesn't want to. IL
is senate on the whole that looks ms il IL
could he trusted. Still, one can never tell
what legislators may do when they get
to Lansing.
The senator's are, with lew exceptions,
solid men, well thought OF in the commun-
tiles from which they hail There isn't
curb stone demagogue or ward striker
among them, so far rs known, and unless
something unusuul happens not one will
ever be in amy imminent danger OF going
to the poor house. They are all well
| fixed.
The politics OF the senate il ns follows:
Republicans, thirty-two; Democrats,
o; Populists, o; Prohibitionists, o.;
total, thirty-two. The senator's are
all protectionists--nt least they say
so on the stump. Several have leanings
toward free coinage But none believe
in free wool, and oil are convinced that
the G. o. p. is the greatest party in the
grentest nation OF the world.
Now as for the means by which Mchi-
gan's thirty-two senator's earn their liv-
ipe.. It's not "a lawyer body, neither il
IL a body oi arnngers, although there are
lawyers aud grangers on its roll The
business men prcdominate. There are
three real estate men, five lumbcrmen,
five merchants, one druggist, eleven
lawyers, four farmers, one doctor, one
editor and one mine superintendent.
The farmers are also engaged in other
business, while several Of the lawyers
really do more at real estate and bank
ing than they do at law The solitary
editor Is L.. O. Shaw, OF Newaygo; the
druggist, c. l.. Brundage, Of Muskegon
the mine superintendent, Peter Pascoe,
OF Republic.
As 10 birthplaces, thirteen were born
IN Michigan, New York six, England
three, Pennsylvania two, Wisconsin two.
Ohio, two, Maine one, Connecticut one,
New Jersey one, Massachusetts one. The
Britishcrs are Peter Iascoc, OF Republic
NJ. j. BluIy, OF Bay City and Il. r..
, French, OF Port Huron. They're all
good American citizens now.
Only nine OF the senator's. Mclaughlin,
Jewell, Clapp, French, Barnard, Earle,
Brundage, Wheeler and Pascoc, have
served in the senate before. Smalley,
Watts, Preston and sheldon have been
in the lower house IL will thus be seen
that nineteen oi the body ARE absolutely
new at the business oi legislntin