The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-15


3rotesque tales are related and all are
untrue, no doubt. Take a farmers boy.
send him TO the debating club where the
ROADS cross IN the woods, let him read law
and elect him 10 the Senate when he is in
his thirty-siXth year and before he has
ever held any political office whatsoever.
ana you create conditions out of which
might come pomposity and foolishness.
Even Pitt once said: Il am sure that l
can save this country and that nobody
else can" So far Mr. Beveridge who is
serious, Jealous, honest, industrious and,
OF course, ambitious, merely declaims. BY
ana oy he Will make speeches. Mr.. Fox.
the aoiest debater, perhaps, in English his
tory, declared that during five sessions OF
Parliament L spoke every night but one
ana regret now that l did not speak on
mat mght, toe" Fox was then learning
the business. Beverage is a small person
IA Iect and inches, but he is erect. his hair
Is thrown back at one side, and ne has
mat eager look which commonly passes
not melt under the warmth of his periods
ana sweeps. Old age wonders how youth
came The moneybags who had to put
everything on q cash basis and even then
toll, night and day, and sweat blood as
aversion, are outraged at the fortune
which often awaits the undeserving. But
Beverage will unfold leaf by leaf. He
Will forget the debating club and the liter
airy society. The wild grapes hung in fes-
toons from oak trees and the white bios
SONS OF the blackberry will fade from his
memory, and Indiana will have states
man and he will not be a boy statesman,
either. But may the honest and undefiled
fragrance of the woods and hills always
gay.
A JERSEYMAN.
1 dare say John Kean. from New Jersey.
finds himself a member of the steering
committee because he is rich, is an officer
of bank in New York and has many i'm
portant interests in his Commonwealth,
where great business interests abound and
where tall chimneys are TO be seen at every
hand. Kean is a lawyer, a Yale man and
bachelor. He is what society people call
smart. As a beau he is much sought
after. He maintains a fine establishment
mere and four women relatives are with
hlm- Elkins, OF West Virginia, stands for
coal and iron. He is masterful in the
science Of oney-getting. His full and
horld face does not typify the fine arts but
rather the furnaces and the mines in the
mountains whence he comes. Surely he has
lhrnence because he is opulent, intelligent
and experienced in public life. In this city,
at least, gable and a large stomach are
not mistaken for patriotism and genius.
Nor does clown trif1er get on we'll.
There are plain words as to hypocrites and
the demagogue is isolated No mask or
veneer is thick enough 10 fool Washington.
Wherefore stephen b. Elkins likewise
steers, as does Redfeld Proctor, from Yer
mont.
There are unassuming persons in the van
or every parade or large assembly and at
other points They walk about in their
stockings and their voices are low Self
contained and leisurely, they appear to be
INDIFFERENT. TO the jostle or effort or the re-
wards of strife. They get their names into
the newspapers; they the friends of the
great and the rich favor them They are
men or merit and their methods are genteel
and artful. Senator Proctor has a stout
voice, but he pretends to stand back 10 be
careless of profit and power. All the same
he directs trust in marble gets tombstone
contracts from the government is diligent
and successful a procurer of political
patronage and is as shrewd a Yankee as
ever houriShed hereabouts. He should be
and is member of the steering committee
There are left to be looked at cursively
Adrlch, Hanna, SpoOner, Lodge and Hale
Aldrich is mighty. His mind is of fine quail
1ty. When he came to Washington about
twenty years ago, he was a wholesale gro
Ger in Providence. Now he directs LAWYERS
and college men, and dominates in all dis
cuSSlOnS pertaining to tariff and money
Toll and talent have made him an author
lty whom all consult and whom all obey
A few years ago he helped to bring into
Rhode Island. and that made him a mill
ionaire. Only recently one of his children
married into the family of John D. Rookie
Teller. L put Aldrich down next below ALI
son, but Hanna is the equal along certain
lines of either, for he, more than any other
senator, represents the combined business
interests of the country. a short while
ago he added labor 10 his specialties. and
to-day is regarded as the best friend the
workingman has in public life There is
unQuailedly no doubt of the integrity of
this statement
There are various motives which govern
men who enter upon public career. HUI
man nature began with the creation. We
turn backward only to mourn the flight of
virtue and unselfshness. Being so far
away, we see no defects in the character
OF the ancients. XenOphon, who lived and
wrote hundreds of years before the birth
of Christ, describes a young upstart and
demagogue who fixed it in his head to
govern the republic. His friends laughed
at him, and so fond was he of hearing his
own voice that he was dragged from the
tribunal by force" Socrates sent for him
and put to him certain inquiries as to the
state of the country, it's expenses and rev
ehues; It's standing army, ETC., etc. In
deed. replied the ridiculous youth, ''I can
not tell you all that on q sudden" He was
liens did not have TO nominate him twice
for President and beat him a both cleo
lions In order TO get rid of him. Thus
even so long ago as five hundred years be-
Iore the DAY made sacred at Bethlehem
there We're self-seekers. stupid buffers and
knaves hustling for political Offices
Time will show to those who doubt. IL
such there be, that Mr.. Hanna is an en-
thusiast in his efforts and hopes in behalf
OF his country and its permanent prosper
ity No more thoroughly patriotic man
peace and good will between Workmen and
their employers is to be his monument. He
talks it all the time: he travels hundreds
and greetings west to the Pacific, south to
the Mexican border, and east to the logging
camps of Maine. Organized labor statutes
him and Wall street approves him IL the
lion and the lamb have not lain down TO-
gether they threaten to do so. But Mark
Hanna is no little child.
THE KINGS MAN"
The kings favorite is always detested
The barons of England, and no doubt thew
were bloated, forced a constitution upon
their monarch and gave their country lib
erty and a Parliament Nor would thew
tolerate the favorites of their kings. and
went to war rather than submit And so
humanity being changeless, Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts,, RooseveIt's right
hand man. is on the steering committee
but he is treated with scant courtesy and
what is said of him would not always do
TO print; yet he is ''the scholar ina politics"
the biOgrapher OF several notable Ameri-
declare his detractors- he is mediocre and
selfish Exactly so! Two years ago Mr.
Hanna was brutal, but he wasn't mid
ding. Then he often went 10 the White
House, and men became afraid when he
tramped up the long walks and disap-
peared from view. Mr.. Lodge, it is told
goes to the White House daily and some
times twice a day. He eats lunch there
and comes back to dinner He rides with
so much for Senator Lodge-a favorite who
arouses envy uncOupled with fear
Less than five feet and half in stature
SpOoner, of Wisconsin, without whiskers
and with face which defies the ravages
and wrinkles of time, is an uncommon man