The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
wisdom of Scripture: Let not him that girdeth on the harness boast.

Since I have mentioned him it is, perhaps, due to say that Eugene Hale Is man of very great ability-vastly more than common report will likely give him credit for. If some emergen- cy should arise, and Eugene Hale should get his heart in some great measure, as advocater of it, or opposer of it. he would discover talents that would astonish the public. He Is not an orator. but he is a powerful and forcible debater-not so great as Fes1 senden. and scarce second to Blaine. tt the President and the Senate should seriously fall out about this railroad rate business, look out for MT. Hale. He will be given thI leadership by common consent. Some people call him indolent; that is a mistake. He 1s rather careless, or contemptuous or what strangers think or say of him. and it takes rather big man to be constructed that way.
 Carmack is. in my opinion, the most brilliant man in the Senate. As a wig ard of English speech, he is in the class of Matt Carpenter and John J. Ingalls,. His acquired knowledge is prodigious. and he is a very good man for an ad- versary to let alone.
 have never had the good fortune to hear Senator Knox, but l read his ar gument in the merger case. and we must all agree that it was powerful speech. and this whether we agree with him or not. If Mir Knox shall prove as great in the Senate as he was at the bar, the country will hear deal of him the next dozen years.
 Morgan and Allison will not be on the stage a great while longer There is a veteran stenographer of the Sen ate who maintains that John T. Morgan is the ablest man the Senate has known since Daniel Webster; and I do know this, that the future political historian of America, who shall consult the speeches of this man will be full of ad- miration for the splendid intellect that produced those masterpieces. Allison is a very different order of man, He knows more about Uncle Sam's busi- ness affairs than anybody else, not even excepting Uncle Cannon himself. who has much knowledge of the subject. Senator Allison has been worth many millions to this people, and will save them many dollar in the years to come.
 Henry Cabot Lodge Is leading Sem ator and deservedly so I have heard him many times. and rarely agreed with him. but not one of his speeches
 has ever been dull. He is man of uluCn lnIOTndtlOn, some or IL lnlSlfl- | formation, but he can hold up his end
 of the log in the Senate. Mr. Bailey
 Is very great intellect and on some
 subjects the most powerful debater in | the Senate. He is yot young man and sure to be quoted long after he shall have made a supper for worms | His colleague, MT. Culberson. is the lawyer In statesmanship-not the pro- found constitutional lawyer that Bailey
 is but lawyer after the fashion of Wedderburn or Eldon. in England He
 woruld be an admirable Attorney-Gen- eral.
 Mir. Spooner is another leader of the Senate, worthy any mans steel in it., and his personal friend and political
 antagonist Tillman. has grown more
 in Senatorial stature and craftsmanship character than any other man who | ever held seat in that august assem-
 bly. And there was a good deal of l room to grow, too.