The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-02-25
HOW FULTON WON.
NEW SEQUEL TO ELEVNTA HOUR
DARK HORSE METHOD of
MAKING SENATORS,
Two Geer Men Went to Fulton and
Mu1tnomah Delegation Broke
Red Lights and the
g Spectacular in Past
Sessious-Hermaun's
Entrance.

LII tu0 c10CtlOu St NIL uitOA u
the senatorship few minutes afteI
midnight, the Oregon Legislature
has made another of its records ir
ssnator-making amid scenes OF or.
atory, led lights, tableaux and
other contrivances of the spectacu-
lar. The habit was acquired in re.
cent years. George Mcbride, as
tute politician and clever gentle
man, originated 1t, and by bril-
liant stroke, made himself United
States senator from Oregon, eight
years ago.
His coup was the most brilliant
in Oregon political annals. The
end of the session was approaching.
Dolpb, the greatest statesman, save
Nesmith, Baker and Wlllimas that
Oregon ever sent to the senate was
in the throes of his fast expiring
career as a public man. Three
weeks previously, republican eau
Gus had named him for nator,
but his political doom was row
sealed, and the end was but a few
hours deferred. The coalition be-
tween Tongue and Fulton for the
place bad exhausted itself with no
fruit save the wreck of Dolph. From
the inner ufice of the department.
of state, Nc Bride foresaw the de-
nouemert, and played with consum-
mate leadership for the prize. No
lip coupled his name with the sen.
atorship. His intimates we're en-
joined to push his claim upon no
member, to confirm no intimation
that he might accept. This wise
course Kept him free from entangle.
ment in the bl' odiess battle of bal
lots. It left him free from scar or
wound of the struggle. Amiable,
gentle and beloved by all who knew
him it pit him in the advantageous
position of the friend of both sides
when strength YVES spent, ammuni-
tion gone, and the midnight hour
ut hand.
THE MCBRIDE DEVICE.
1t was eleven O'Clock. The hands
on the clock in the big assembly
hall were fast nearing the last min.
ute of the session. The last roll
call began. The accident of birth
in family whose name began with
B, placed Brownell near the top of
the list in the roll call. When his
name was reached, Browneli stood
Oh his feet. Smoothly, gracefully, |
eharmingly, he told of the virtues
9f George Mcbride, and hurled the
name of that estimable man into
the lap of the joint assembly as a
Magic stole into the
,hambe and copjured with every
mem her. Oratory, fervid and i'm.
passioaed lighted up the scene, and
red lights of enthusiasm began to
dame up in various parts of the
room. A spell was on, and nothing
could stop it. Member after mem.
Der was caught up by it, and amid
scenes as dramatic, as bloodless
'cenes can ever be, George Mcbride,
newly made senator of the United
States, was carried into the hall,
where after a pretty little speech,
le was baptized in the benedictions
# the excited assembly.
HOW MITCHELL USED IT.
The incident left its deep mark
N the politics of Oregon. The
,lot was 80 pretty, the closing
scene so brilliant, the end So be-
vilderingly attractive to the multi
ude that the trick has since been a
zig asset with senator makers. Mitch
III didn't do it that way two years
ater, because Simon and Bourne
wouldn't let him organize the legis-
ature. Simon didn't use the trick
our years later because by fooling
Fulton into a caucus, he didn't
heed to. But two years ago, Mitch
Ill and his friends, after holding
Nc Bride to the front as an impos-
'ible impossibility, and after fore
ng Corbett supporters to earth
rom shear weakness and exhaus-
ion, stole into the assembly an
hour before midnight, and there be-
heath the brilliant glare Of oratoric-
IL fire works and electrical sky rock
cts, leaped into triumph scarcely |
less dramatic and sensational than
was the original Mcbride coup.
The latest use of the devise leaves
a new sequel. The eleventh hour
dark horse did not win. Magnifi-
cent as was the claim of the candi-
date proposed, wearied and worn as
we're the phalanx Of the men be-
hind the candidate whom it was
sought to defeat, "failure" is the
stern word that tells the story of
the attempt. The red lights did
not burn and glow as they did
when Mcbride vaulted into the
great assembly hall. Oratory was
not of the eloquent, fervid, soul.
character that brought
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