The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24
The Rumlnation. Of William.

How ripe and sober in reflection are
these declining days Of WILLIAM New
Hampshire Is estranged from WILLIAM,
but not he from New Hampshire. He
sees the young CoNIsToN, more glorious
and triumphant in defeat than any son
Of New Hampshire was ever glorious and
triumphant in victory within the memory
Of living man. In the Of his
own cynicism WILLIAM seeks surcease;
and mayhap he finds it there.
WILLIAM was a good Secretary Of the
Navy; let no Whitney nor later Coraican
dull his fame. Within the limits Of his
opportunity he wa the best Secretary
the Navy ever had. Where WILLIAM
capitulated to fate was In his lack Of
understanding Of the laws Of perspective
as applied to corporations. When 1t
was not yet q capital crime TO have
relations with q corporation WILLIAM
had such. 1t must not be forgotten that
there wal a time, and not so long q
either, when the offence for which BAILEY
is now swinging from a Texas gibbet
was accounted no offence at all. Indeed,
Il Is not too much to say that commerce
with Mammon was held TO be rather
desirable, and he that enjoyed Il was
thought all the better for It. It was at
this now vanished period that WILLIAM
had knowledge Of a corporation and a
corporation had knowledge OF him. The
-enu!. Was that WILLIAM waR sent by
the Legislature OF New Hampshire TO the
United States Senate, and that in that
serene conclave he for many years, in
the odious ~phraseology Of the present
day, represented the Boston and Maine
Railroad.
That is to say, he represented the cor
poration known as the Boston and Maine
Railroad Company. At the time we
speak Of no one in the world had
anything to say against the Boston and
Maine company except the persons who
travelled on it's road; 1t was a most
respectable and God-fearing body, and
there was nobody in the State Of New
Hampshire who wouldn't have been
proud to associate with Il. The true
character Of corporations, especially Of
railroad corporations, had not then been
even suspected, much less disclosed. At
any rate, WILLIAM accepted Of its largess,
showed himself susceptible to all the
benefits it was disposed to shower on
him, and had his person transported
over the country In the corporation
chariots with rich food and generous
wine, all free, gratis, for nothing.
Was WILLIAM, by reason Of all this,
recreant to his oath "a Senator1 Did
the comforts applied to his person and
the grateful stimulants exhibited TO his
s5omach-did they blind him to his obi
cations as a statesman; did they make
him forgetful OF his sacred duty to q
sovereign people2 Not q bit Of it. Why,
WILLIAM was perhaps the first heavenly
ordained statesman TO inculcateth great
principle that the favors Of corporations
are to be requited In N inverse ratio
to their Importance. In the picturesque
and expressive pGtOis Of Concord, N. H.:
WILLIAM, he gev the Boston and Maine
helI' He wrote, and you must under
stand that WILLIAM ls an artist when It
comes to the fioodgates and the sluioes
Of New Hampshire journalism, he wrote
destructively Of the hitherto innocuous
corporation, and his brilliant and NOR
dant periods ratified on the Boston and
Maine hide like hail on the head Of q
drum.
was WILLIAM p~reviousl Was he the