Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-01


from Philadelphia is that Reyburn has been |
selected to succeed State Senator Charles |
L. Brown, thereby assuring the renomina- !
ton Of Young, probably by reclamation |
Inasmuch there Is normal republican |
plurality Of about 10000 in the district |
Young feels that his election Is reasonably |
safe. !
The honor of reading Washingtons fare |
well address in the United States Senate on |
the anniversary of the first Presidents
birth falls to Senator Foraker this year.
1t has long been custom of the Senate to
meet on Washingtons birthday and listen
to the reading of the famous address by
some senator who has good voice and
delivery.
Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michi- |
gan has had as a guest for few days
Judge Jerome Bonaparte Burrows OF Oho
They are brothers. 1t would seem that the
father of the BurrowseS had a marked re-
pugnance for the names commonly con-
| ferred upon boys. Judge Burrows is resi-
dent Of Painesviile, which adjoins Mentor.
the late President FGarfeld's home. There
was time that Garfield and Jerome Bona
parte Burrows weFa .erymies to the extent
that they did tl!spe8k. And both were
republicans and equally intense partisans.
Burrows enmity for Garfield was not eff
faced until after the Chicago convention OF
1880. Burrows had fought Garfield for
years and once came near encompasSlng his
defeat for Congress- He had been candf-
| date for the nomination, for, representative
against Garfield in one convention, and IN
| others the shrewd work of his opposltion
| had been apparent Friends of Garfield got
them together after the 1880 convention
| and a truce was patched up A Few days
| later. when Garfield made his memorable
Fourth of July grafton at Painesville, on
| the occasion Of unwilling monument 10
| the memory of Lake county's soldier dead,
| Burrows participated In the exercises.
great day it was in the nineteenth district
when it was known that the political hatch
| ct buried For no one ever questioned
| that "Bony' Burrows, as he Is afectionate-
| ly known, was the equal of Garfield in abil-
| ity Had Burrows been sent to Congress-
| Garfield must have sunk into the OBLIVION
| of private life, and who can say that Bur
| rows might not have achieved great dis
| tinction?
| Over in Ohio they will tell you that Je-
! rome Bonaparte Burrows Is an ADLER man
| than Julius Caesar For downright oratory
many claim that he, hasn't a superior in his
| state. Burrows former hatred for Gen
| Garfield is more than offset by his friend
ship for the martyr Presidents sons To
| him. perhaps, more than any one else fs
| due the rapid advancement in public life of
| young Jim" Garfield. He has been veri-
! table father TO Jim" and Harry. He is
| their adviser in both politics and business.
| Judge Burrows is a great friend of Pres
| ident Mckinley. With his brother he called
| at the White House while in the city.
| A picturesque character in the delegation
| from Milwaukee that has been here In the
! interest of securing the democratic
| tiOnal convention was Ex-Governor George
| w. Peck of Wisconsin. A soft gray mus
| tache and goatee give to him military
J look and add to his dignity. Few men are
| as popular in the beaver state AS a demo-
| crat he was twice elected governor and re-
invincible bad boy" who was of his con-
| ception. may have had something to do
| with his success in politics. Anyway, the
, roguish and sometimes almost unbearable
pranks of that urchin as pictured by Peck
| convulsed the. American people and must
surely have had the effect of placing his
| own people in a good-natured frame of mind.
Peck Is by nature humorist. 1t Is pleas
ure to meet him and converse. he enter
/ tains you without half trying. AT once he
| sees the humorous side of anything. He
! began his newspaper career as an editorial
| writer on Brick" Pomeroy's old Lacrosse
Democrat.
! "Pomeroy was a visionary man." said
| Gov. Peck to a Star reporter at the RAJ
| leigh. He had no idea of the value of
money. His paper at Lacrosse at one time
had large circulation, but he would spend
| the money that came in for advance sub
| scriptions as soon as it reached him, and
| then be compelled to skirmish around at
the end of the week to get enough to pay
| off the hands. He was In building opera
lions, and everything else that would take
! up his ready mShey,9 He actually felt
downcast when hefpuad that by chance he
had enough money to. pay off without bor
rowing.
| He WAS shrewS ,aS could be In some
| things. He attacked the administration of
! Grant and denounced the reconstruction
policy and actually brought his paper into
prominence. His prescription list was made
up for the most part of ex-confederates and
southern sympathizers who figuratively
patted him on tahs Sack and called him
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