The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04


 foree apd weight and intellectual wig or; one who placed political conviction % Tar above party convenience that he was reproach to most of his asso- in glorious disregard of modern con- ventions. and had most of the virtues and few of the faults of the type which was common In his youth and which uality under the restraint of general law. He had wit which he generally Kept under restraint. absolute integrity, and personality which commanded to iav aside any mannerisms or modes or thought because they had passed out of use. and this from simple confidence which these things had developed. Probably he looked on much of the change of later times as mere over-re- nnement. the kind of thing which saps preceded the dewnfssll of older nation::
 He belonged. to a school of which he even by those who differed widely from much of it's doctrine. Its strongest ciaim to respect lay In Its high con premacy of Fundamental law.-Hart- ford (Conn.9 Times.
 Never before has any State in the age and the marked individuality of the two who sat under Alabama's commission in the Fifty-ninth Con- gress and were recommissioned unani- They are % gone rI,cs no~ the WI White 1ted haired colleagues. The younger went first. but the senior in years and junior in him. Generations may pass before the chamber and the country see their like ssn Ssenas PstS. S,e.x ys' H. Ams5 leEitimateiv by his fighting blood: he was the grandson of . soldier of the Revolution; He began the practice of time-but abruptly quit his books and clients to go a-campaigning in Mexico in President Pclk,s time. Next we hear nauts"-makinr his horseback Journey across the plains deserts and noun tain passes to California. In the Con and recapture of the captured redoubt at vicksburg that he earned and got his brigade. He was a man of 75 when
 The visitors in the galleries looked down on no more striking. interesting Careless in dress. chewing tobacco as American statesmen whom Charles D,cSens IHss saw tand dissnp,ovsd oo in straightforward and blunt as Cockrell of Missouri. and much wittier. His brother Senators respected his learning Tt is recorded of him" says The Trib- une of New York, "that he never made a stupid remark in his whole political coni ant.
 The death of Senator Pettus of Ala bama means both the passing of one of the notable men of the United States Senate and the sole representative of just the times and conditions for which ' he stood. man whose eccentrfcities were not more marked than his iptelli- gence and shrewdness. Senator Pettus's nama will long recall memories of one phenomenallv loyal to his convictions. New York Commercial.
 Morgan and Pettus were the two grand old men of the Senate. Nor gan was called to his reward only a few weeks ago. and 1t has been realized by the friends of Senator Pet tus for some months that his strength was fast failing.
 Morgan and Pettus were representa- tives of the old school of Southern statesmanship They were trusted by when they cast their votes against the railroad rate legislation, standing against the whole Senate in doing so. there was no serious murmur of op- position despite that the new Alabama the Alabama of mines and furnaces and mills, and great, booming. thriv- ing industrial cities with all it's in- terest in behalf of that legislation: at it's defeat. These two veterans at least made consistent records. They voted. as they had argued and worked. against the measure: and thereby of hoi vii tions.
 The group of elder statesmen is rapidly passing to the great beyond, and with them the older ideals and of the future is plainly to be decidedly different from that of the past. It is becoming more and more gathering of practical men of cffairs; rather than for better or worse. it Is consonant with the tendencies of national de- velopment-Washing Times.
 The Senate and the country will miss the simple. wise, and quaint old Sena- tor who has just passed away at the age of eighty six years. The Senate will not be the same when it recon venes. with the two venerable Senators will be a solemnity in that great cham Der, a silence like that which hangs over an assemblage when g. voice from the past mas ceased 10 speak. The passing of Edmund Winston Pettus Is as plainly demarcation Of the past from the present as though a mighty bell in the Capitors dome had tolled of a period of the country's his tory and it's echoes had penetrated the corners of the republic.
 Senator Pettus was of stalwart, almost heroic build. and carried his years with the sturdiness of an oak. He had seen the cycles of peace and war. and had participated in the greatest dramas of this country includ- ing the Indian wars. the Mexican war. the civil war. and the marvellous de- velopment that marked the succeed ing years of peace. He did not win great fame. nor did he seek 1t. His ambition was not feverish. and he was too much of philosopher to. burn up his energies in the race for trival honors. The greatest and most in- structive quality of his character was simplicity. From first to last, Sena- tor Pettus had the simplicity of great ness. It illuminated his honor. his his humor. his frugality. his courage. and his philosophy. He seemed to have borne in mind always the saying of the first of the Seven Wise Men Moderation is best" So he lived to green old age, accomplished much. and died as the good man dies.
 It will be many a day before the influence of this old Senator will die. He was unconsclously, but powerfully, a teacher ot the simple life. On the rare occasion when his voice was voice of one of the fathers returned from the with warnings amount