The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10
ALDRICH, TARIFF TINKER.
Pen Picture Of the Joint Author Of
the Mckinley Bill.

A Debater of Great Power-He Looks
Upon Politics as Game and Does
Not Agonize Over it Like a senti-
mentalist.
Washington Letter in Philadelphia Record.
Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, of
Providence, X. L, joint author of the Nc
Kinley law, and tariff leader of the re-
publicans, is still the handsomest man on
his side of the Senate, although he has
lost a good deal Of hair since he put the
Mckinley law on the statute book, and
what he has left is rapidly turning white,
like his fine mo lstache. In fact, he is
getting bald, although he is still able to
part his hair in front, unlike his rival in
manly beauty, the Apollo OF the demo-
cratic side, Senator Matthew Calbraithe
Butler, of Edgefeld S. c., whose front
hair has quite disappeared, and who is,
therefore, really out Of competition with
the Rhode Island senator Aldlich is
nearly six years younger than Butler,
however. and he will not be SO until next
November. His face is so full, his com
plexion so fresh, his eye so bright and
keen. his teeth so white and strong. his
form so muscular and agile that he looks
younger than his years
BUSINESS MAN IN CONGRESS.
Mentally, Senator Aldrich is in his
full prime. He has been steadily grow
ing ever since he entered public life, and
especially during the thirteen years since
he succeeded Gen. Burnside IN the Sen
ate. Aldrich is not a college graduate,
nor is he lawyer, as so many people sup
pose He started out as a clerk in q store,
after receiving an academic education
and was a business man. rising to be a
partner in wholesale grocery house in
Providence before he came TO congress.
He is one of the few business men in poll
tics who have been able to hold their own
with the lawyers, who constitute so large
a majority in most legislative bodies
Aldrich has remarkable intellectual
gifts, most of them of the practical kind.
which bring success in money-making and
in legislative work. 1t is only recently
that be has made much money, but now
he is generally believed by his colleagues
to be a millionaire at last. as a result of
some clever tinanciering which he did last
year in connection with street railroad
systems in New England. But he has
exercised his faculties with great success
in getting measures through congress all
through the last decade, and. indeed.
from the day he entered congress seven
teen years ago, as a member of the House
of Representatives. His mind is quick.
his judgment good, his memory accurate
and he has that knowledge of just how
much is practicable and therefore worth
fighting for, which seems as intuitive as
though it were given by sixth sense.
He has sense of humor and gand a
good -humored, if not humorous way,
which enable him to wait and to work
with more facility than men who have
them not and to carry his point in ban
tering, laughing way when it would be
difficult, if not impossible, to carry it in
any other way. He is equally successful
in the committee room and in the Senate
chamber He is not only good talker in
conversation and a thorough diplomatist,
who knows how TO bargain, when to in
sist ana when to yield, but he is a ready,
effective and, at times, eloquent speaker
on his feet.
ONE OF THE BEST DEBATERs.
He is one OF the best debaters in the
Senate lie has all the quickness, the