The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-06
GRAND OLD Man
OF THE SENATE
William Pinkney Whyts, Cor
mans Successor, May Be
Truly Called Such.
SERVED WITH No1AeLEs
His "reminiscences Of Earlier Services,
IN the Upper Chamber Bring Back
tho Names of Men Who Today
Are But q Memory.

tho Names of Men Who Today
Are But q Memory.
Washington sDek>l: William Pink
fer his third term of service as senator
from Maryland. Not a man now in the
senate was there when he was first
made a member of that body. in 1863.
and only one is living. That sole sur
vtvor is Edmunds. Of Vermont, who
I. now living in retirement in Philadel.
Dhta. II saw him the other day." SAID
senator Whyte, who in reminiscent
mood was recalling old times, and
fDund him well and enjoying his quiet
Fife"
No other man has had a senatorial
career covering SO long a time as that
Of Senator Wkyte. He is truly The
grand old man of the senate. When he
was appointed to the vacancy left q
Fortnight ago by the death of Senator
German, it was as utterly unexpected
as when, in 1859. he vas named to fill
the vacancy lett by the retirement OF
the great ReVprdy johnson. He was
then a man of As years. On the day he
was sworn in for the third time, thirty
seven years later, he would not have
been guessed at a day over 60. Straight,
alert, bright-eyed, with firm steps, every
sense as acute as it was a generation
ago and with a big professional prac-
tice at Baltimore c4amoring for his att
IGNITION. he took the oath and resumed
the business where he had laid it down.
Served With Notables.
Senator Whyto's "reminiscences of his
earlier service in the upper chamber
bring back he names of men who to-
day are but a memory, and yet Who
then We're the leaders Of the senate
w ~ ytync ENnCCnOlanZ 0f Maine ono
Of the best debaters I have ever
known" senator whyte declared. oil
iver P. Morton was in the full glow of
his powers, the republican leader of
the senate John Sherman had recently
come to the senate after making him-
self one of the leaders of the house.
On financial matters he was one OF the
greatest authorities / have ever known.
n one OF the greatest the ountry has
Known.
senate when I entered it. To know
him we'll was to admire him for his
wonderful education and information,
and for his mastery Of English. His
Evolutionary powers when he read q
speech were beyond description. I have
never known or heard of another who
could make the reading Of q speech SO
effective. All his important utteranceS
were read. Yet he read them with the
art of q Shakespearean dramatist, for,
he was an actor as we'll as a states
man
And there was Conkling, lately from
the house, a great orator, who had
beer one of the foremost men in the
lower branch. His temperament was
naturally repellant, but if he CHANGED.
to like you it was possible to get very
close to him. Not many people did it,.
however. Once Il saw a man lay his.
hand rather roughly on Conkling's
back. and he showed temper in a Mo-
ment. When the offender turned away
Conkling remarked by way Of explana-,
ton:
"I have great respect for the sane
tity Of the person.
There were few democrats in the sen
ate in those days. The southern states.
had not yet been reconstructed back
represented in addition ITO Mary
land. The people in the unrepre-5
sentcd states would SEND petitions to-
sitting senator's to take up for them;
matters of state concern, and by this
process of petition Senator Whyte rep
resented Virginia and Georgia, and
frequently Louisiana and other states
IN the upper chamber. Those states.
have never lost their interest in him.
and the fact of his services for them.
have been recalled many times since;
his second re-entrance to the senate. !
Hendricks Is Recalled.
Ollld "A. I1SllOTlCkS WAS SlIClQg I'm
one of the Indiana seats when Senator
Whyte first came to the senate, and
Carroll Davis, a war democrat, repre-.
sented Kentucky. Charles Buckalew.
democrat, was the colleague Of the
great Simon Cameron, founder of the
survived even till this date, albeit
through some remarkable vicissitudesI
BuckaleW was a very able man, who
had been fairly tossed into a senatorial
seat In a state that then as now was
normally Overwhelmingly republican.
It was a political earthquake that did
1t, just such as they have recently had
in that state. Buckalew is described
by Senator Whyte as one OF the ablest
men of his time, and one who has been
served with both the elder and the
oW1se Cameron, and his estimate
agrees with hat of most people who.
knew he two, that the father was by,
Gar the stronger and ADLER man.
In his first term Of service Senator:
Whyte was a member Of the senate
only two years. He returned to it by
election in 1875, and remained a fuif
six-year term. Meantime Allison had
come in from the house, Of which he
was a member when Whyte first en-,
.ered the senate. Thus in the matter
Of the term covered by his congress
sional service Senator Allison sur
passes even the great old man OF Mary,
land. He has been a senator longer
than any other man ever was, and his
service has been continuous. Aside
from Allicon, Teller and Morgan are
the only senator's now in the chamber
who were there when Senator WHITE
entered the body for the seconds time.
Senate Whyte was first married in
1876, and again in 1892. His second
wife died five years after their mar
rage.
An iccman's Retort.
From Llopincott's.
In her daily alteration with the ice
man over the short measure he deliv-