The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-18
A STATESMAN INDEED.
HIS views OF CURRENT QUESTIONS
AND HIS MEMORIES.

the Connecticut Senator Explains why Demo-
Gratis Have Been strong In His state aud
why they Are weak Now-Tarin, Arbitra-
tion, Immigration, and Foreign Travel.
WARRINGTON. April II. Joseph Roswell
HRwley, tho Connecticut Senator since 1881,
before that three times sent to Congress. n Gen.
eral of division In the war, lives In an oldish
plain brick house back Of the War Department
on a corner. 1t Is q quarter Of the city onco
fashionable. William Writ, William II. Seward,
and the present Chief Justice preferred It MS no
longer fashionable and, therefore, moro tranquil
yet central.
At seventy Gen. Hawley has a youthtulncss
that mixes well with his fine. thinning hair. lie
expresses the idea of comradeship, OF mentality
without care, Of the bivouao and the curule
chair such as Sylla and Caesar alternatod be-
tween when they were Senator.soldiers. He
has a den or study in his second story extension
"a little square room with its windows looking
on q garden, and nothing but his desk and a few
chairs for furniture. He sits and talks In a deep,
continuous voice, whose low pitch keeps your
ears attentive, ana his articulation is Connecti.
c~ut-likc, though he was born under the pine
tree. and had tar under his heel. His trans
planting was from the Pcdec swamps of North
Carolina, at the age of IL, to his fathers native
region about Hartford. but his mother, Mary
Mcleod, was Of Scotch stock from the isle OF
Skye. He was old enough In the South to recol-
lect the notification splutter which antedated
secession thirty years.
II was o years old in notification times
he said, this week. Almost everybody wore
one or two kinds of cockadcs. We, and two or
three other families, alone. wore the Union
cockade. / was born in Richmond county and /
lived around Laurel Hill. The place called Shoe
Heel, which you visited in tho Henry Berry
Inwcry ~ Nyna nnnpr nv rbtld;ab b,un,a r
went down there a good while after the war, to
Fayetteville. and revisited tho scenes of my Car
DINA youth. My mothers relatives arc buried
there in Richmond county, no great way from
Cheraw, S. c."
And there you returned in tho war;
MY early rcCollcctions Of my native places
helped me once in the war. After Terry cap
turcd Wilmington he made me commandant Of
u sub-department in that section Of the State,
and said that enormous supplies would DO land
cd at Wilmington and above 1t to feed sher-
mans army. which was coming up from Column.
bia. i would like you to communicate with
Sherman he said. You know something OF
this country and can devise n way. He ought
to know that his supplies are here / was left
in a state OF mind to know how to send up
through a country where strangers seldom ap.
peared. At a certain farm an ELUSIVE old
gentleman hailed me as his deliverer
from the rebellion and / sounded him
about an eInissary. He said a man was
on the premises who had been hiding there
several days with his consent. found the man
and asked him how, with his able-bodied make
up. he had kept out OF tho war. He said that he
IN II gov @it tReS tG 86 1Sssi IRSs'"' !%hefe aR %er ssa yea
raised . In Richmond county. at Nevermind
Sos. You rem smber that wheelwriSht shop OF
McPerth's ana the store of Sandy Jaryic,s and
so forth. What is your namer Mcfarland
RniI the ananprt. with mpnth and eypa vida
open at scelnga Yankee General describe his ma
tive hamlet. knew his family. l told him that
nearest detachment. He returned through my
native haunts and was picked UP by Gen. Blair's
10 Blair; then he, delivered my letter. and the
junction was made by the power Of old associa-
school teacher, showed me my mothers picture.
which she Ind kept all those years
nature to wear Off T.
No. l was plunged into the midst of a set of
fss1'' Ky iat %fsta'l hsd PUne soa there as as s s seeSls ss
man, and he became q preacher later. He was a
Pure; good man, never worth, ] suppose. over
older son, had pushed, him out to lind his living
elsewhere, and he TOOK back to Farmington in
moved TO Cazenovia, n. YIN ls42-and l went
to Hamilton College; and =, after graduating on;
IL was u member OF tho bar six years. took
to public affairs and questions very early, as Is
either a Wing or a Democrat; l became a Free
Soiler, and that took me on the stump and Into
Wellees i called from my law office the iirst Free
Soil meeting and Convention In 1852. and after |
ward went with that element into the Republi-
can party. ! began to publish a Free Soil paper, |
and after the war It coalesccd with the Hartford
Conrant. When l came TO Congress l ceased to
, wrif ter rG + M Paper and for years have not writ
viii Connecticut relapse again to BIO a
it looks less like it than ever before. The
Republican majority was $4,000 for Mckinley:
substance and refection-camo over to him.
bis as MsIlef snf fsr Mc ( Epod DEAL 6Sr o. Seb Insult for or
the ~ D savings BANKS iSt s our foli i inter ssRsi'iiH IN ,h bs
fiscal institutions of more fame. all who drew
wages and understood the application of fat
feared the anarchistic spirit Of the Chicago plat
form. left the Democracy, l might say, In
" Had the tariff something to do with It'll"
Yes. The body OF the people understood the
tariff in Its results more than Its reasonings.
These felt the hard times consequent upon
Cleveland's second election and remembered the
the tariff. and felt that il he Ind let the, subject
TRADITION had most to do with 1t; also a for
our Gov. Winthrop. with such liberal privileges
after the Revolution. But II united Church and
State. and these should have been separated
anu Il ITccr tuuotltullOn phhbeu eArller. HOW |
ever, as we had elected our own Governors and
done much as we pleased. a new written, Constl-
tuition was dispensed with till 1918. when the |
Democrats were in national control and party
spirit burned low; a Constitution was passed
and sustained by the people, and that issue be-
tween the people and State. with.Church, long
remembered, vas in tho old style of agricul.
Gratis, the sons voted Democratic. New ques.
tions like those Of protection and anlislavery |
but partly pa prevailed against the prejudice of
WAS not Thomas seymour the leader of the |
modern Democracy 7"
He was not 80 much the leader as tho elegant |
and agreeable centre of a political staff. He was
"a Seymour Of the style OF his kinsman. Gov. Sey-
mour OF New York, we'll fed. well mounted, a |
gentleman. and no went to the Mexican war.
There were others, like the Burrs OF Hartford,
and John NJ. Niles, and Gideon Welles, and VIII
liam Eaton. and Barnun, who became devotees
Of Democracy, ! may add Cows. English and
Ingersoll. They were solid men, and the inhu-
ence of Now York was perhaps more felt In Con.
%necticut, which was 30 near TO II, than in other
States In New England"
MIR. Eaton still lives o.