Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-28


 lent literary style as may bo discovered in books. Senator Lodge is ono of those com parativcly few members of congress whose
 names arc familiar to university students He is known to them not so much as q public man. or even as litterateur who is taking an active part in national legisla-
 tion, as he is as writer of the biographies of distinguished Americans.
 When Mir. Lodge entered public life,
 somo curiosity was manifested by thoso
 who had admired his literary work respect
 ing his ability to adapt himself to that form of public speaking which is necessary for a man who appeals for suffragcs to
 adopt, and tho best opinion of literary
 men now is that if the young senator's public addresses havc any fault it is that they arc better fitted to be read than to be pronounced.
 Mir Lodges friend, Theodore Roosevelt of New York, has had q career somewhat like that which tho senator has made his own since his graduation from college. | Roosevelt is a man of inherited wealth, likc Lodge, of very strong literary inclination,
 who plunged into politics almost immedi- ately after he had taken his degree He | was speaker before he was q writer. His speeches in the New York legislature, in | the Chicago convention of 1884 and when he was a candidate for mayor of New York
 had all the quality of colloquialism, short | incisive sentences and plain diction which are perhaps most potent in such emergen- cies.
 Afterward Mr. Roosevelt took up the lit | erary pen and, like Senator Lodge, became
 historian, although his histories relate to
 the development of the western country,
 whereas Mir Lodges are mostly biograph- ical. Mr. Wolcott, tho junior senator from ~ Is -.l~1. l&t nkr@r1 literary tastes, but that has only been made apparent in public speeches, for he has writ
 ten nothing for publication. Wolcott was
 in college at Yale when Lodge was a stu
 dent at Harvard some 25 years ago. and the two lads who were afterward to meet in the senate chamber did meet on the occa-
 sion of the college games in friendly ri- | valry then.
 There has been in literary circles a | good deal of comparative examination of | the speeches of Senator Lodge and Senator Hill. One was a man born to luxury and
 with every advantage at his hand He
 could have lived life of peaceful literary
 delight, but he felt that young American | ought to do something moro than that. | Therefore he went into public life. The other was born to hardship. He had but | little schooling. Tho vice president of one | of the greater railway systems of the Unit | ed States who, as young man, was in
 business in MT. Hills boyhood home, re-
 members him as a bright eyed, industrious | lad, who used occasionally to sell apples | and who now and then brought flowers to | tho office in which the young man was en- | ployed. There never was a time from the
 day that he was 15 years old when he did
 not have to work for his own support. He determined, like Lodge, upon public ca
 reer and began exactly like the moro for tunatc Massachusetts youth, in the legis- | lative cauCuses. He trained himself to | speak not by study in tho closets or much
 study of tho books, but by standing face to | facc before little groups of his fellow citi-
 zens.
 That being tho training of these two | mon, those who arc fond of making analy i ses of public speeches will find indications
 of that training by comparing the speech | delivered by Senator Hill, which has oc- casioned so much comment, with that one delivered by Senator Lodge the day follow | ing. The literary charm of one is matched
 by tho logical development of ideas sug- | gested by the other. One shows the highest polish and perfect literary form; the other, | revealing few of those embellishments, nev- | erthclcss is a speech which will probably be- come traditional It is very doubtful wheth- | CT Senator Hill could write a biography
 which would have tEe literary charm and permanence which MT. Lodge has given to his books. It is also doubtful whether Sen
 ator Lodge could prepare Q speech which
 would appeal so potently to plain spoken
 men as that one of Senator Hill. Of course
 it must be understood that reference is
 now made solely to the literary form of these speeches and not to the arguments
 which they contain upon tho tariff quee- tion.
 Both of these orators marred their ora
 tions in the delivery of them by reading
 them. Senator Conkling used to say that
 no man should address the senate with his
 sermon in his hands. No matter how long
 speech Conkling prepared, he always care
 fully committed it to memory, especially
 studying the art which made it appear that
 the speech was entirely impromptu MT.
 Depew recently said to the writer that
 Conkling told him that it required three
 weeks of patient drudgery for him to com
 init to memory the four hours speech de-
 uvered in the Academy of Music in New
 York at the opening of ore of the national
 campaigns. k. J. EDWARDS.