The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-21
Pettus and Beveridxe.

NeW 1OTk 1lrnes.
 Beyeridge came to the Senate her aided as a boy orator." Some men live down that reputatlon; Bryan did, Tor instance. Beveridge has never lived 1t down: He is a great weaver of words, and MT. Dooley appreciatively and admiringly remarked of his first speech in the Senate: Twas a speech ye cud waltz to-.
 foundly move mon as did those of In- gersoll and Hay. It is partly on &C., count of his voice, which is rather me- tallic and not very flexible, and partly There is nothing about him that could be described as either charming or magnetic Yet he is man that men like; There is bouyant, fresh and bHbbling enthusiasm about him that makes 1t hard to feel antagonistic
 The Senate abhors boy orators, but usually waits for the sure influences of time and sad experience to wear them down. In Beveridge's case 1t was forced to resort to sterner measures. Beveridge broke into those waltz-tune speeches too often, and on each occa- sion the event was heralded far and wide and the galleries filled with young ladies of the type that attended matt nees: It was felt that something must be done. Hence came the temporary obliteration of Beveridge at the hands of Pettus
 Pettus is the oldest man in the Sen ate, S4 years of age. He was an officer in the Mexican War slxteen years be- fore Beveridge was born. He is as complete a contrast to Beveridge as could be imagined. His oratory is quaint and old fashioned, and studded fall slowly. in that quaint, kindly, high pitched drawl which characterizes so many of the older type of Southern speakers.
 He arose one day. and. buttoning his long frock coat about him, stuck his thumb in it in the approved oratorical fashion. As he tailed he somehow sug- gested all Beveridge's favorite gestures to initiate him. In his way of button ing the top of his coat, In his gentle movement of the chest and slight oscil- JatIGa ar ,9oH or shoulders he conveyed such the Senate lost all control of itself
 Never mentioning Beveridge's name. ne punctured the Indiana's claims toNbe what he called our great orator" with a gentle and poignant ridicule. He pictured Beveridge as indulging in a soliloquy. in which he pledged himself to throw aside all consideration of common sense and devote himself to building up a reputation as an ora tor He runE the changes on the word .or-a tor" each time dividing it care fully into three syllables and making scorn. He suggested to Allison and Hale, the two wise old heads of the Re- publican machine, the necessity of call- IlS CducuS ID COnSlueT the question what should be done with Beveridge.
 T tell you," drawled old Pettus in that delicious liquid monotone he brought up from Ala bama. the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Maine will have to take some action in ref erence to that orator. There is no doubt about it in the world There will surely have to be some cancus on the matter"
 While the old man was doing this dreadful deed, now and then stopping to mop his face with an immense red Handkerchief imported from Selma, all theruleS of the Senate were forgotten. Democrats and Republicans alike were lying sprawled across their desks, their faces contorted in an agony of merri- savel in hand, lay back in his desk not only not enforcing. but fiagrantiy breaking all the rules by guffawing