The Irish standard., 1904-03-12
preston that Green was a near rela-
I've of Chief Justice Marshall.


~ insisted Oh that it is not only to the
interest of a state to send to the Sen.
ate her ablest men, but it is duty Il
commonwealth owes to all her sisters
Of the American Union. a Ounce in
the Senate is an abomination. A
mediocfity there is reproach. But a
Benton or a Henderson, Green or Il
Schurz, a Blair or a Vest, is an honor
to his constituents and benefaction
to his country. The Senale does not
make the Senator any more than Il
sow's ear is a silk purse The Sen
ator makes the Senate. Where is
Cato's statue!' That tells it.
The Senate did not make Clay,
Webster and Calhoun the splendid tri-
umvirate they We're in life and are in
history. Clay, Webster and Calhoun
made the Senate illustrious. Jere-
miah s. Black would have ornamented
the Senate, but a career in the Senate
would not have made his place-head
OF the American bar of his time-any
more secure than it was. Who shall
calculate the advantages that accrued
to little Delaware for her Bayards, her
Claytons, her Saulsburys and her
Grays? And who shall compute the
benefits that accrued to her sister
states because of the virtue and the
wisdom of these statesmen contributed
to the Federal delibera tons: One
Thomas Il. Bayard is worth ten regi-
ments of shameless and brazen hood
lers, who think honor and place are
commodities in the open market, to be
bought by the vulgarian paryenu who
has the largest purse and is willing
to pay the highest price. And there
are many excellent and well-meaning
folk who would make such barter
easier by amending the constitution
and providing that United States SEN
ators be selected by popular vote.
On the Bird day of March, 1903,
George G. Vest retired from the SEN
ate, having served in that body, with
achievement, four full terms. His sue
cessor was William Joel Stone, himself
native OF Kentucky, as was his Illus
trious predecessor. This man Stone is
a fighter. That strong, serious, stern,
resolute countenance spells but one
neutrality-suspicious. it is written
there i'll all the languages and all the
dialects.
In 1855 William j. Stone and james
b. McCreary, both natives of Madison
County, Kentucky, that would have
been named the udder OF the land'
i'll old Agememnon's day, stood at the
bar of the National House OF Kepres-
entatives and took upon themselves
the constitutional oath prescribed for
members of that body. Ten years be-
fore NIcCrcary had been Governor OF
Kentucky, and ten years later Stone
was Governor Of Missouri. In 1903
these two eX-Governors We're at the
bar OF the United States Senate, and
were sworn us members of that body
from their respective states, and are
now colleagues OF like political faith
in the first deliberative body of the
land. In 1852 Stone, then in his early
teens, saw with tulnultuous envy Me-
Creary, then i'll his early manhood, ride
off to the wars to do his uevoir for the
Sunny South, and a year later the
boys parents carried him to Missouri,
where he has lived for more than forty
years. He received Il classical euuca-
ton at the. University of Missouri, and
i'll lSG9, the year he attained his major
ity, he WAS admitted to the bar and
located ut Nevada, Vernon County He
was successful from the start, and as
an advocate i'll the criminal practice he
was uncXceled i'll the whole state.
In 1876 MI. Stone entered active pol
itics and was an Elector on the Dem
Ocratic ticket. For fifteen years the
Democracy had been the party of
reluctance, of obstruction, of negation
anu OF capltulation-campin this year
on ground its enemy held last year.
But i'll 1876 Il master was in command,
lie had been Il bolter, Il leader of the
Z Palmer and Buckner movement of
1913; but he was the first academic
statesman Since Jefferson, and the
greatest Democrat since jackson, Sam
uel j. Tilden made the party Dem
Ocratic, gave it il platform and taught
it victory.
LII 1851 Mir. Stone was elected Il
member Of the Forty ninth Congress.
The tariff was beginning to be para
mount. 1t was the day OF Morrison
and Carlisle, Mills and Wilson, Brock
lnridge and Huru, Cox and Turner,
McAlillin and Tucker. 1t was also the
day Of Randall and Converse who kill
led Morrison bills yearly. Stone was
tariff reformer," and aligned him.
self with that wing OF the party. 1t
was not until his first term was half
completed that Mr.. Cleveland had any
very pronounced views on the tariff
question. There We're speculations
that he would side with Randall in
the end; but Mr.. Carlisle's clear and
logical statement OF the issue con.
WINGED the President, and the famous