Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-06-05
WHAT THE SUN SAID
ABOUT r. M. PATTERSON.

ABOUT r. NJ. PATTERSON.
Text of the Editorial Recountinu the
Junior Senator's Windy Record
Following is the complete text of
the editorial printed in the New York
| sun Of 21, concerning the Junior sena-
tor from Colorado;
What has struck Senator Patter-
son?
| "The manner in which a new mem
ber Of the United States senate opens
his career is always subject of In
terest The traditions of that digni-
| fierd assembly of statesmen favor
certain reticence or reserve of forces
on the part of the freshmen. This
| requirement is entirely conventional.
| for there is nothing in the constitu-
tons, prohibiting a newcomer from
taking the floor as often as he desires
and holding forth every time until his
| breath is bankrupt 1t is a matter
of taste
Let MS compare the records of two
| senators who are now in the first ses-
sion of their first term of office. Mr.
Dryden of New Jersey and Mr.. Patter-
|
SENATOR DRYDEN.
| Bills and resolutions introduced 3
| Amendments proposed go. ... 2
| Reports made Observation-Disclosures. 0
Remarks, elaborate or incidental
SENATOR PATTERSON.
| Bills and resolutions introduced. s3
Amendments proposed. . .... S
Reports made. e.................. 21
| Remarks to the senate. SIT
"It would be both unphilosophical
and unfair to regard the almost start
ling difference here recorded as
measure of the comparative intellect
ual capacity of the two senator's. or
of the fidelity with which they are
performing the duties intrusted to
them by their respective states, or of
their value to the country as public
servants The difference is in tenn
permanent, in the strength of that mod
| est selfcontrol which deters the no
vice from asserting himself vocally on
every possible occasion.
| MIR. Dryden's experience of men
aad affairs is probably quite to that of
Mr. Patterson. There are few of his
associates in the senate who would
not value his judgment as highly as
that of the gentleman from Colo
rado, His opinions have weight
and he possesses the undoubted abil-
ity to express them tersely in straight
forward English For the present.
in the early months OF his senatorial
career, Mr. Dryden is perfectly con-
tent to follow the usual custom and
| taII Obi ba
when Senator Dryden first arose
in the senate on April 12 to make a
brief but well-considered and effective
speech on the Chinese exclusion bill.
Senator Patterson had already spok-
en- not less than two hundred and for
ty-eight times. He had occupied the
floor for hours at a time He had in
terjected his remarks, long and short,
into numerous debates upon numer-
ous questions. He has continued his
oratorical activity alta rate increasing
almost with the square of the dis
tance. Up to the end of last week
the Hon. Thomas NJ. Patterson had
actually claimed the attention of the
chair and of the senate five hundred
and seventeen times-a record which,
|
approached by any new member of
1.-THE United States senate during the
one hundred and thirteen years since
John Adams took the chair and called
that body to order on Tuesday. April
81. 1888.
Neither Mr. Patterson's dozen or
set speeches of great length nor his
mailtitudinous minor efforts have been
distinguished by remarkable rhetori-
cal merit II would be unfair, per-
haps, to expect too much in the way
OF quality when the quantitative
achievement Is so stupendous. We
are bound to say that he SHES at
,nothlng. We find him at times in
structing his seniors in the intricacies
OF senatorial procedure. laying down
broad principles Of Jurisprudence. TAX
ing the lead in making parliamentary
announcements for his side of the de-
bate offering personal explanations.
interrupting speakers on the other
side with a magisterial one moment
persstently cross-examining his oppon-
ents despite their courteous manifesto
tions Of disclination to yield him any
more time. interrupting the elders Of
his own party with suggestions or ad-
vice as the course Of the argument,
and uttering from his seat incidental
calculations denoting dissent, incre-
duity or contempt for the logic Of
the senator then speaking.
THE junior senator from Colorado
is always at home in the senate cham
ber. and is generally in evidence there.
The only time he has been known to
be silent under provocation was when
Mr. Foraker confronted him with GER
tain extracts from his own newspaper.
the Denver News. on the proper Amer
lean policy in the Philippines.
IAN this Is phychologically interest
ing. and is perhaps without precedent
in the case of new senator OF scarce
~ four months experience. 1t has
been surmised that the Hon. Thomas
NJ. Peterson Is ambitious to surpass
the Aeolian reputation formerly