The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-29
SOME NEW SENATORS.
Hanna and Foraker Attract
Much Attention.
SCORES OF PEGS FOR EACH HOLE.
The Piatt-Quay- Foraker Coterie and the
Hanna Proctor Fairbanks Combine A
Shows Up Well.

Shows Up Well.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-[Special. i
Among the new senator's Mr.. Hanna and
Mr.. Foraker of Ohio attrac, more atten-
ton than any others. The former is very
much in demand. At the senate chamber
he rarely has moment to himself. If SEN
ators interested in Office seeking for some
OF their constituents are not bothering |
him at his desk, then some ex-senator or
representative U.s. Although experience |
day by day does not appear to bear out tho |
theory, there is still an impression among |
large number of people that Mr.. Hanna |
gets everything he asks at the White |
House. He doesn't. In fact, he has diff |
Guilty in carrying "a good many of his |
points-not very many, for Mr.. Hanna |
has good Judgment as to what he should
undertake and what he should not He
has proper idea of the relations of things,
and while no man is more of n stickler
than he for payment of obligations actual
ly incurred during the campaign, he knows
that President Mckinley has q score of
pegs for every hole, and he does not keep
running after things he knows he cannot
get.
Hanna Much Sought.
About once minute all day long a
card Is placed before Mr.. Hanna's nose by
the messengers. Some one is waiting TO
see him in the marble room. The result
is that the senator from Ohio Is kept con-
stantly on the go. The moment he shows
his face in the marble room dozen or
score of people are after him. Yet Mr..
Hanna never loses patience. Ho Is smiling
and jocular with every one. His influence
is asked for by hundreds Of persons every
day who have no right to 1t or claims upon
It. But he meets them all with light
word which does not offend even IL 1t gives
no encouragement.
Senator Foraker is also much In demand.
He is not credited with quite as much in
luence Mt the White House as Mr. Hanna,
not nearly so much, in fact, but the Office
seekers are after him too. Mr.. Foraker
goes quite often to the White House, and 1t
| is a matter of common gossip here that the
| Ohio Republicans for the first time in
| many years appear to DO really happy
| family. General Grosvenor Of that state Ia
| to n great extent responsible for this for
| tunate condition Of affairs. For n long time
! he has been trying to make peace between
the factions, and of late he has had re-
markable SUCCESS. He is just as friendly
with Foraker as he is with Hanna, and he
has done the senior senator more than ono
good turn. Hanna and Foraker are the
best of friends too.
1t is noticeable however, that in his
friendships in the senate Mr.. Foraker
seems attracted more to the old line OF
politicians than TO the newer or Mckinney
clement Platt of New York and Quay of
! Pennsylvania are his chulns. In TACT, II
one looks under the surface OF things III
the senate he perceiyCs little tendency
among the big men to bunch into coterles.
There is the Platt-Quay- Foraker coterle,
and there is the Hanna-Proctor-t airbanks-
Spooner coterie the latter being the dls'
tinctively Mckinley element. 80 Tar all Is
peaceful between them and no signs OF any
thing else Yet the keen observer cannot
help but think what may happen as the
wears roll by and tho endless game of party
and faction gets warmer and warmer
The Brave. Bold Allen.
There is one senator who appears to b'
growing all the time in the estimation o
biscolloagues Heisa Populist too. lspeaf
az Mr. Allen of Nebraska. There is nc
stronger man intellectually or physically
i'm the MINER branch. While physica
STRENGTH does not often count for much II
legislation, Aliens giantlike figure, MI
st01id and muscular frame, his square wa!
of standing. his gestures, his firm set jaw
tbe sharp way in which he speaks, every
tbing obout the man indicates strength
TTo makes the same impression Away
whom he rises to speak that the perfect ath
lete does when he appears in the arena
Allen is tenacious, bold, incisivo, Keen
He IL not only the leader Of his little part
in Tho senate, but he is one OF the ables
mon there of any party and Is generally $
rcgarded by the other senator's. he ma
sbovn mon innumerable occasions hi
ability 10 take care of himself in debate
Few care to walk upon his toes.
Mr. Heitfcld, the new Populist froI
Idaho. we do not know very well yet. II
, hos not done much But he appears TO .
4 | we'll liked by most of the senators wh
D have become well acquainted with nm
. There are Jokes floating around at Hei,
. fields expense, but you can never te
whether they arc lies or not. One Oh Tn
latest and best of these is, Farmer Heitfel
was asked IL he was going to learn to TIC
; n bicycle during his soJourn In the h'
n tionni capital. Eyes, he replied, II thin
will. but l must first learn to get on an
A off there tarnal cable cars without breal
o ing my neck.
r The Patriotic Walthall.
II Among the senators who are niue near
s If Int who through their popularity al
y Genial ways manage in quiet way
= Weld great influence in the upper branc
is Mr.. Walthall of Mississippi. was tai
y inc about him the other day with an
? friend of mine, Major ID. w. Sanders
louisville LET no man underestlma
General Walthall's influence in the Sc
ote.n said Major Sanders. He can al
!. does accomplish great deal more tn'
many senator's who are forever getIil
, their names in the papers. Senator wa
Is tball is ms modest as he Is brave, ana
q bravery was tested on many feid auriI
q the rebellion. The people OF MISSISSIPPI
I. idolize him. He is the strongest man IN
n state has sent to congress in many year
y and he has the people behind him me
y than any other in all the history OF I
/! state. not even excepting Jefferson Dav
He IL an intensely patriotic man. All Sc
tionaI nroiudice disappeared from his mi
voars ago. He Is ever looking out for
rs lost interests of our common country'