Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15

Inc father of the
Burrowses had marked repugnance for
the names commonly conferred upon boys.
ne was partial to the names of the great
men OF the world. The oldest son was
named AFTER Jerome Bonaparte, brother of
the great warrior, Napoleon; and when, a
few years later, another son was added to
MS charge, the great julius Caesar was
accorded namesake. The third son has
an equally great name, but he never uses
it. His initials are s. S., and that's all
you ever hear Of his name
Senator Burrows once taught school for
a living. He was a young man then. 1t
was in Madison, Ohio, and it is a signifi-
cant fact, too, that the old academy where
he held forth as a pedagogue has since
been transformed into a national home for
widows of soldiers of the late war. 1t was
the first. and for a number of years the
only. institution of the kind in the coun-
try. There are living in Madison today
some of Senator Burrows old pupils, who
speak in the highest praise of his success
as teacher.
Jerome Bonaparte Burrows Is a resident
OF gainesville, Lake county, Ohio, where
for years he was the leading practitioner
at the bar. He is now a judge of the cir
cult court. Adjoining gainesville on the
west is the fertile township of Mentor,
where the late President Garfield had his
country seat. There was a time when
Garfield and Jerome Bonaparte Burrows
were enemies to the extent that they did
not speak. And both were republicans
and equally intense partisans.
At Outs With Garfield.
"Bony" Burrows, as his friends and con-
stituents call him, had an enmity for Gar
field that was not effaced until after the
Chicago convention of 1850. Burrows had
fought Garfield tooth and nail' for years.
and once came near encompa ssing his de-
feat. He had been a candidate for the
nomination for representative against Gar
field in one convention and in others the
shrewd work of his opposition had been
apparent.
Friends of Garfield. after the convention
of 1880, got them together and a truce was
patched up. A few days later, when Gar
field made his memora BILE Fourth of July
Grafton at gainesville, on the occasion of
the unwilling of a monument to the SOL
der dead of Lake county, Burrows par
ticipated in the exercises. A great day it
was in the nineteenth district. when 1t was
known that the POLITICAL Ratchet was
buried. For no one ever questioned that
"Bony" Burrows was the equal of Garfield
in ability. Had Burrows been sent to
Congress Garfield must have sunk into the
oblivion of private life, and no one can say
that Burrows might not have achieved
great distinction.
In 1890 Jerome Bonaparte Burrows was
a candidate for the republican nomination
for representative from the twentieth dis
trict, democratic gerymander having
switched Lake county from the nineteenth.
There was a spirited contest. lasting nearly
a week. and. after almost innumerahle bal
lots. Judge Charles p. Wickham of Nor
walk. Huron county was successful. Lit
tie Lake came UP smiling every time with
burrows D. and this repeated announce
ncnt by the chairman Of the delegation
from that county became a byword. Again
did burrows make an attempt for the
nomination to Congress in 1892, but was
defeated by w. ]. White of Cleveland the
millionaire manufacturer.
Proud of Ebony"
Over in Ohio they will tell you that
B0ny' Burrows is an ADLER man than his
younger brother, the senator from Michi-
gan. For downright oratory, many claim
that he hasn't superior in his state. AS a
corporation lawyer he ranks at the head
He also has a great reputation as a GRIM
1nal lawyer, reputation gained entirely
through his mastery defense of Louis
Webster, who was charged with murder
twice was webster sentenced to be hanged.
but Burrows was persistent. He secured a
change of venue and at the third trial his
client was acquitted
His persistence in behalf of Webster
made the people of Ashtabula county his
enemies, and this has been q menace TO
MIN IN subsequent attempts to further his
political ambitions.
"Bony" Burrows former hatred for Gen
G&r1eld Is more than Offset in his friend
ship for the martyr Presidents sons. To
hlm, perhaps. more than to any one else is
due the rapid advancement in public life
of young Jim" Garfield. He has been a
Veritable father to Jim and Harry. He
is their adviser in both politics and bus
mess.
S. S. Burrows the youngest Of the family
is practicing physician, but he has all the
statesman. He lives at Geneva, AshtabuIa
county, which DIS {. dozen or fifteen miles
east of gainesville. He is a republican.
Twenty years ago he served his constit-
uents as a member of the state senate,
where he made a decided reputation as a
debater and because of his ready under
standing of parliamentary law and usage.
AS speaker he is cIassed with his BROTH
ers, and this is saying a great deal.
Youngest of the Three.
DR.. Burrows is a man who has the cour-
age to declare his Convictions. regardless
Of the feelings of Others. Policy is sec
ondary consideration. With him. This is
also true of Jerome B0aaparte. Had they
been mere polite iEtheir utterances, either
might have reached as high place in pub
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