The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
HE BEATS THE RECORD.
e.,.tor Morrill's Thirty Years
In the Senate.
xorrS OF A REMARKABLE CAREER
81, consciousness of Famous Men-Even
oro Wac vsip-Presidentiai Court.
s...,or Hanna Wants to Be an Orator
.nd startle the senate.

and startie the senate.
WASHINGTON Apr. special =
1,stir : Morri,i the veteran OF the sen
- ,old me the other day that one OF his
nv reorets was that ne had never writ
an autobiography Ii he had kept
ton # his experiences he said $50 that he
III uoyy place his hands upon the ma
and compile 10 without too much cx-
- ne felt sure no could produce .
-. which would he read with interest
-. ,,r,nt many people In this Mr. Nor
I'm was doubtless correct His remarkable
.roor loads him Rack Ia the days when
,hp country was agtated about the admis
ION of Kansas 10 the Union, the Missouri
lon,nromise the first whispers Of seces-
t, II WAS in 1853 that Mr.. Morrill, first
c,me 10 Washington rs congressman, or
40 ,,nrs ago last December When he ap-
,,oore5 mon the scene of action Mr. Pierce
- president Mr. Morrill, has been here |
lonp enough 10 see a dozen presidents in |
the White House, beginning with Pierce |
and ending with Mckinley. He has seen |
II new states admitted to the Union, lie
has seen the population of his country CON
sidcrably more than double. He has seen
n great war. the reconstruction, the com
,leta ohliteration of all the bitterness that
caused MT. MbiIlil ItN0NhN WIN
will not expire till 1908, aud he is in such
GOOD health that he confidently expects to
serve IL out.
Benton's Record Beaten.
The Vermont veteran has broken all rec
ords for continuous service IN the senate
March last he completed his thirtieth
wear in that body. 1t has been generally
supnosed that Thomas III. Benton of Mis-
,l,,,,
truth is that Benton's term of service fell
four months short or ~ years MI NUT
rill has the record.
II il not generally known that the patri-
arch from Vermont Is already an author.
some time ago he prepared and had print
ed for private circulation among his friends
a novel book entitled "Self Consciousness
of Noted Persons" In this volume the
old senator told many anecdotes illustra'-
ing his general premise that all great men
are more or less self conscious ana even
vain. He quoted from the writings Oh sew
erul hundred great men oil past ages 10 Is
toblish this theory, including such as Paul
the Apostle. Demosthcnes Themistoclcs,
Xcnophon Horace, Napoleon, Dlckehs'
Macaulnv, Scott, Walt Whitman, JeiIcr-
son, Webster and many more one Oh the
most interesting quotations was rom
Xenophon, who said OF himself tha' n'
was To eloquence what AlcNahuer NV
Great was to arms. Bold enough was Wv
declaration which the car Paul is said To
have made when some one spoke OF having
received an order from an important person
mt court "Therc is no person of impor
tance here said the car except hysvl
and the one to whom ! happen to re talN
ing and he is of importance only a' loht
as am talking 60 him
All l. vanity
Cicero was as vain asAny modern orator
In one of his addresses he went on lor sew
eral minutes recounting all his own vlI
tues and excellenccs and then concl"u'u
much as latter day campaign orators am
candidates are won't 20 do. But lWlll 1t
notbipu of mvsclf Oddly enough, SeI
ator Morrill, quotes from the mn,
Years View, written by 1hoiios -
Benton. the man who comes nearest Oh It
the great men of the past to elu"iihs ~
Vermonter record for continuous strN ~
In his introduction Benton repea'Cu N"'
Nacaulnv had said of Fox ana MachlhloS
and applied it to himself ii"u SponO
history, acted history and llVcu nis'o'
This Impressed MIR Morrill, as nelhg wv
self conscious 1t is great PITY VI, "
Gran senator did not bring ms eAal'Pi0o
vanity i'm noted persons down W t''o ~
ent day With his iamillarlty WIN ,'i' To-
great men of our country uurihS Wv :,
40 veors he could doubtless narra'e SUI
anccdotos which would be even more
teresting than these of the great ii''"
the past 60, ,ro ol,
Society people in Washington arc ~
to obscrve that between the prcsluehV ~
vice president Of the United 9'a'vs 81
their families the most corul"t -,
exist. Asa rule I'm this calnu'i 'no -"
who is president and the man VIM - i'",
much else to do but 70 Walt Tor W. 1', f,
tho fatcs may have in store for nun w -
stand very close together. JUST WHY ~
should drift apart Is not Clear ~" u
history of the last 30 or ~ year.
that rs a rule, they do. Now Nv"
Vice Prcsidcnt Hobart Is oltch So" 49,
White House lie and the pr's''''
the best Of friends.
Pertinent and Personal
By the way, Lafayette square i ', Irs',
ing its former dignity as the pr'slu' g. g.
court. The White House, you hnuN' ~ ~
this historic park from the suu. w., no
Vice President Hobart has tahc" S Wv,
owned by former senator ~ u,nsouu
which stands on the east siue ui ',i' -,
adjoining the new theater, Wiii,n am,
tho site Of tho old Blaine mansion CIV
the famous spots in Washington. ~ u,
there Henry Clay lived for a lons =,
There seward narrowly eschpo"
ton at the time Lincoln was zoo
Cameron house Is quite ia''iU" I,
49, c,oc owned by Colonel Taylor, -
cial lendcr in the old days uener"i -,
the new secretary OF war, IA ,,d . n,
north side of Lafayette SQUARE co.,, hon
Der of senators also nav ,'iah once
Davy Burns orchard, IN nv VIZ and a,
George Washington walked al an" arr W
relied when they were trying ~
terms for the location of the cal'''o'
senator Hanna, hear from so lIc W. y,
cronics. has new AMBITION ,',odc
10 bccomc an orator iiaNlnS ne fam
money as n business man ." ill.,. ,a,o,