The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-30
mARsE HENRY NoMINArEp.

The SuggeSuOn naue Dy the AL lanta Constitution that the Democrats of Kentucky make Col. Henry Waiter son, the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a United States sen ator Is going the rounds of the press of the country with all of it's feathers flying. It is safe to say that if the edi- tors of the nation could determine the choice of the blue grass State their brilliant contemporary would sit in the upper chamber of congress. For one thing they like him personally and for another thing with Watterson in the senate there would be copy continual ly for their pages. Where Watterson sits is the news end of the table.
 We are quite interested in the req son the Atlanta Constitution gives for pressing Marse Henry's election. To begin with it calls him the sage of Kentucky and then goes on to say: He has given Kentucky, Democratic and Republican, the best years of his life, the finest product of his pen. He has always been aggressive for her honor, persistent for her development Such is his gentle fame that Kentucky is known in many sections as the State of Marse Henry. He is a man, too, of national breadth and view point He is we'll worthy, in loftiness of intellect, force of personality and ex- altation of character, to represent the traditions of a State that gave such men as Clay and Crittenden to the nation. How could Kentucky acquit herself more gracefully in the eyes of the country than by sending this re- markahle and lovable man to the na- tion's highest legislative body as flt- ting climax to long, brilliant and loyal eareer?"
 If the vote of The Journal and Courier is needed to accomplish the complimentary conspiracy of the At lanta Constitution 1t is ready to be cast but we are wondering just the same if Marse Henry will not prefer to content himself with the blossoms which are being blown his way rath- CT than enter at his age upon career which demands the exercise of dif- ferent traits. What has made him all that his admiring southern contem- porary justly says he is would be bot tied up should he undertake to cope with senatorial courtesy. His force consists in his frankness and candor In dealing with matters of general con- cern. He Is his own legislative body, speaker, clerk and law maker He creates his own ideas, submits them to himself as the boss of the ranch and lthen adopts them unanimously. He does not have to consult a committed on rules and to bend the knee to su- Iperior officials. He is the entire outfit land because he has remained all these
 busy years the entire outfit it may be questioned whether he could easily land gracefully adjust himself to op-
 posite conditions.
 Nor are we sure that Marse Henry's
 election to the senate of the United
 States would round out his career lmore brilliantly than he Is rounding ii out himself. It is high honor we will ladmit, but 1t is debatable whether the lhonor which comes to him as the rec lognized personiflcation of the knightly power which follows the honest and liable use of the pen is not as great and lperhaps greater. The men who have
 made American journalism synony-
 nous with high thinking and plair living have lost nothing at the hands
 of history because they stuck to theil
 desks and let others fill the offices
 Whitelaw Reid, for example, was mucf
 more interesting as the working edl
 tor of the New York Tribune than he lis as Ambassador to the Court of St James. Greeley, Raymond, Dana ant
 GodlSin are somehow upthinkable al
 members of the upper or lowe
 branches of congress. We very seri
 ously question whether Wattersol
 would be happy there.