Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-28
NEW U. $. SENATORS.
Brilliant Men Who Win Represent
 the Various States.
Some of Them Practically Unknown Outside Their Own States Before Their EIectiOn-Brief Sketches
 Of These Lawmakers.
Copyright, 1887.

NC" 4O4h, WOulu edSlly De called the shrewdest and most experienced politi- cal leader among the new senators, Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, the most promising (and that means very much), Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, the most dashing and brilliant orator; Will liam E. Mason, of Illinois, the most hu- morous. John c. Spooner, of Wiscon- sin, is himself passionate orator, also, and he possesses great ability; nor must it be thought, either, that William D. Mason is simply funny. He is very able also.
 I'he new senator from New York exhibits most remarkably of all recent political careers the poetry of ups and downs. Politics is war, Mir. Evarts used to say; and not only must one take punishment as we'll as give it, but he must give and take in another sense. That is, he must do if he would be done by. 1t is admitted now, since the Albany dinner in honor of MT. Platt, that his behavior at the time of the famous resignation of the New York senators in the Garfield adminis- tration was true and loyal. The close friends of Mir Platt have always known this, and, unquestionably, it is true of him, as it is of Mr. Quay and all other political leaders who really last that they are true and loyal. They keep their promises, and they do things; for politics, whether it be played in society, or business, or public affairs, is the science of really doing things.
 Some have called Platt a greater politician than Quay CT German. He has never appealed freely and with success to the people themselves, as Quay has done, nor has he managed both a majority and minority party in the senate. as German has done with matcbless tact. but for ten years, for 15 years, it may almost be said, he has managed. without any public au- thoritv, the affairs of his party in New York, and has been one of the three or four most important factors in national conventions, and has been essential to the election of at least one president.
 This is Thomas c. Platt briefly, medium-sized, slender man; quiet, in- irrespective, =incisive, indomitable, smooth, confding. wise: gfasPiRg great public questions better than your presi= dents, managing minute details better than your multifarious- executive com mitteemen, remembering his friends; also remembering his enemies, if not to punish them, at least to prevent them from punishing him again
 The new senator from Delaware, Richard B Kenney is the youngest and the luebiest of them all. Down to the time when Anthony Higgins was sent to tine senate by the republicans of the smallest state only two dynas- ties, the Saulsburys and the Bayards, had ruled Delaware politics. The Bay ards had sat in the senate for four or five generations, and the Saulsburys, though Q newer family, were hardly less remarkable. The scandals of this three-county state are too familiar. Ob- serve only that while the Higgins men and the Addicks men quarrel among themselves, a democrat slips in handily.
 
 The brilliant young senator from Pennsylvania, Boies Penrose, is only 36. All Harvard graduates of the early eighties remember him very well; tall, rather slender, standing among the highest in his class, apparently without much effort, either, perfect tiend in mathematics, one of those fellows with three or four brothers in college, all high-stand men, apparently without ef- fort, of fine family, but never brag-. ging much about it. Well. Penrose went into politics, and on partisan repub= Ecan basis, contrary to the customary Harvard fad. Quay, the easy boss Of Philadelphia, as well as of the rest of Pennsylvania, always liked Penrose, sent him to the senate, where, by means of the efforts of his friends (which were, in fact, his own efforts), he was made president of the senate. He was slated by the Quay people to be mayor of Philadelphia, but Dan" Martin threw him down. Mir. Quay used to tell ais intimate friends months ago. perhaps a year ago, that Boies Penrose would be senator from Pennsylvania to succeed Don Cameron. After this dis couragement in the Philadelphia may orally. the certain progress of Pen rose towards the senatorship seemed all the more striking.
 Penrose makes a dashing and thoughtful speech, knows practical pol tiles from the ward-room up, studies deeply, keeps his word, doesn't lose his head with success, works incessant- ly, loves his political friends (among them MT. Quay, who is very lovable when you really know him), and prom ises lifetime of honorable public service in the senate.
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