The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-31

oi waterbHry, Speaks ef Judge Lynde
 Harrison and FOreiga Appointment
 -wOuId Make ExceIIsnt Foreign Representative.
 Hartford. Conn.,, January 30. 1905.
 The senate cloak and smoking rooms
 afford some of the pIeasantest scenes
 Of the session. The members getting
 tosetherthere for social half hour af-
 ter the mornings business is finished
 and "the desk is clear" During one
 of the blizbzard days last week Sena-
 tor Peck of Waterbury, who isl one of the most genial of men, was in the
 name of Judge Lynde Harrison The
 name of Judge Lynde Harrison, who
 had just been mentioned in the Wash
 ington dispatches. was on the tongues
 Of old politicians at the Capitol.
 Yes" remarked Senator Peck, who
 has known the judge through his long \ political career in the state, "Judge I Harrison would make an ideal foreign representative. He is rich, intelligent
 and trained for public service.' His
 wife" he added, "is from the highest
 social circles in Waterbury. When the I judge was married I was one of the
 ushers at the wedding. Sam F'es-
 senden, now Senator Fesssenden, was ! also one of the ushers." This bit of
 reminiscence was a pew proof of the fact that society and politics go hand
 in hand half the way through life. Senator Fessenden and Judge Harri- | son have been the closest of frinds through quarter of a century, and have met time and again on the most ifelicitous social equality. It is an in | teresting note by the way that Sena- tors Fessenden and Peck, who were
 ushers at the judges wedding, should
 be on the floor of the senate together I so many years after that function. l Senator Fessenden's whole-hearted so- I ciability is one of the features of the I new senate. It was through his love l of good fellowship back in 1879 that the Army and Navy club of Connectf-
 cut was organized. The original meet
 ings of the club that year and the year 1 before were held in the law office of
 Judge Thomas McManus in Hartford.
 The civil war veterans of the legisla-
 ture took part in "The Smokers" Sen- 1 ator Fessenden was the fayorite yisi- I tor, and his leadership was embodied
 in the final organization. The. club is
 now the largest body of the kind ill
 the state Senator Thomas D. Brad
 street, who is now sixty-three and a ] veteran of the civil war, is one of the
 clubs best known members He is a
 man of tip-top fellowship and enjoys a good story with the younger members
 of the senate.
 The day after the blizzard Senator
 Allan W. Paige, of Bridgeport,
 dropped in unexpectedly, taking his seat for the first time in two weeks. ! He had passed through considerable rough treatment from the grip and ], was showing the effects of the attack.
 Senator Paige, whose public career has
 been one of picturesque interest, half
 way belongs to New Haven. Iii 1872 he was matriculated at General Rus
 sells military school i'll that city, be- ing engaged in a hard struggle for the
 education, which he had set his heart on securing. He, was q classmate in the school of Cadet Mcclure son of l the great journalist. A. K. Mcclure of Philadelphia. John Addison Porter, who was to become such an active
 force ill Connecticut politics twenty years afterwards, was also a student with Senator Paige. While the two men had plenty of interests in com I mon, they were wholly unlike in their | ideas of political management. Sena- ! tor Paige used to tell Porter to hold This horses and that it would be his I turn to get into line in good time. | That would now seem the case, if the opulent manager of men and means could have seen things as cooler heads
 saw them. But he threw aside the maxim, "All things come to him who waits,' and drove his chariot wheels lover friend and foe who stood in his Iway. John Addison Porter, who was one of the idealists of Connecticut, would have been governor had he l adopted the advice of his old school friend at General RusselPs and
 would have made splendid chief ex- ecutiye. Senator Paige fhas been a successful politician and his place in public life has not yet begun to be
 measured up in full It would not be I in the least surprising if desirable pulp l lie service abroad should fall to his lot.
 He has liking for European centers and has travelled considerably. He has diplomatic ability of a high order, l Without doubt he is now 'starred' on l the calendar. Senator Chatfield, of I New Haven, who takes the chairman" | ship of the committee on cities and
 boroughs this session, was one of the house members of that committee two
 years ago. serving under Senator 1 Bradstreet. He is a man of force in l the senate and has an off-hand way of
 meeting men that makes him popular
 in the senate ante-rooms not. less than on the floor of that body.
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