The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-23
SENATOR BURROWS CLOTHES.
Why He shunted His 0hecker-Board
Suit for HIS Present Attire.

The statement printed in The Sun
last Sunday about Kansas admiration
of Senator Burton because of his abil-
ity to wear a froel coat and silk hat
without seeming to be proud is quite
true. But the story should be supple
mented by the following, t5ld by man
who was in Kansas when the incident
occurred:
1T was at the time he said, when
Gov. L. U. Humphreys was called upon
to appoint a Senator to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Plum b
in the winter of 1892
THE Legislature was not in session.
Nearly all the Kansas statesmen were
in Topeka at the time. Kansas was
ambitious to have somebody in the
Senate as an offset to PETER.
THE Governors rooms at the Cope
land House we're kept open day and
night by aspirants and their FRIENDS.
One evening at dinner Ralph Burton
came to the table where old George II.
Anthony, who had been Governor OF
the State in 1S76-1S7S, and were sit
ting.
George Anthony was one of the
great brains of Kansas. He might
have been a greater power had he not
had that Western faculty-if you car
call it a faculty-of calling things by
their everyday names.
when Burton took his seat Anthony
introduced him. I had heard about
Burton, but had never seen him before
to know him.
He was attired in a suit of clothes
which would have got him past the
gate of any race-track in the country.
If Hugh Mclaughlin had ever seen that
checker board on sight.
Anthony opened the talk. AS I re-
call it, he said to Burton:
:. s'pose you are after Plumbs seat,
Ralph. l am an older man than YOU,
SO let me give you some advice.
8 ingalls, was a faultless dresser, Out
it wasn't his clothes that elected hfr..
Plumb was a farmer in his clothes
You know, he never wore necktie ex-
capt When he went to the White House.
But it wasn't his tieless collar that ol
him his place in the Senate
. Times are changing some in Kan.
sas, Ralph. Clothes will cut gooi
deal of show in this appointment
:. Bishop w. Perkins, who is likely 70
be the appointee, is a good model for
you to look at. He never shows up ex-
cept in a froek coat and a span f1re>l
silk hat.
g The Governor is a plain dresser.
Ralph, but he likes to see Kansas poll
ticians wear fashionable attire.
George Royal Peck. the general
solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka ami
Santa Fe, is quite a favorite with the
Governor, but Georges shirt fronts and
cuffs are a trife sporty for United
States Senator. The stripes in Peck
front are big enough for the American
flag.
Ralph, I know your ambition. But
you'll never reach it until you lay OF
that checker board suit.
When George Click was elected
Governor in 1883, on the Democratic
ticket, the question was raised about
the unironed shirts he wore. But he
had his day. 1 charge you, Burton, to
fling away that checked suit.
Just then Bish Perkins came into
the dining room looking as if he had
been turned out by tailor The wait
t.
the tables trying to get TO hir4l-and
Burton had not even got bite al All
olive, up to that time. Eyer and anon,
however, Burton's eyes went on a e5iz
ing tour at Bish Perkins.
Il did not see Burton after that for
some time, but when had my. second
glimpse of him. his attire showed that
he had taken old George Anthony's al
vice. Perkins had been appointed.
From that day until the present
Ralph Burton has never appeared IL
public without his frock coat and sill,
hat. When he showed up in the Phila-
delphian convention that renominated
Mckinley as the head of the Kansas
delegation, he had to be told by the
to take his hat Oft
He did it. but he held it where every
one could see tn. Y. Sun.