The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-08

from Msssachnsett. and vas pillar of the Revoluti0n in New Engiand.
 n;Al And now ws have long iist of what archmediocristics. as they live in the renes Of 'Ss New ' York, RS:s of os Per psnnsyi- I yaas hsw o Msry lands Hillhouse of Connecticut. Baldwin of Georgia, Bradley of Vermont, Brown of Kentucky, Franklin Of North Caro- 5a Of ss s Snith of who eyer served forty years in the Ma tiona Legislature, ana he Is one of the half dozen men of our history entitled to that distinctIon. MflIedge of Geor- gia succeeded smith as President pro tempore and was succeeded by Gregg of Pennsylvania. Next was Gaillard of South Carolina. very eminent states man. who was succeeded by John Pope of Kentucky.
 William II; Crawford. of Georgia, statesmen of a generation that pro- duced giants. It Is not at all unlikely that he would have been President had his health continued robust. and it Is ofice defeated Henry. Clay in 1894. iis was the reat-krandfather of Mr. Cuf- person, the present able and distin- gu.shed Senator from Texas. himself osspS sss sns os Ma: .sachusetts, succeeded. and. after serv- same 6sailiard. of South Carolina. who Sy sr.sa s.s G .ad o vrans wsoss brother was Speaker of4the seventeenth Congress. One day John Randolph of Roanoke. coming out of the Capitol, s wss :skes .oss by by i n,ssa :ss ssn y
 voick, the tsfror of many an able de- batter, he answered: T was in the Sen- ate and James Barbour shot at hair , ans pt. sp it ssr, and then M vent pS Syer te at q barn door and missed it." John Gail1ard came for . third time and was President pro tempcre three terms in sss %ss ss < w m sf the that. MT. Frye holds the championship for length of tenure. Gaillard served six terms. but they were not contin- ssa. o mys but as ssrysd vs srSy. ss . certain of sixth. and all continuous. {
 And now we come to the greatest man who ever filled the station of Pres senate % pf for NatRsniel Macon ;saa erasas more than Cato. There have been abler and far more brilliant men than he in either house of Congress- but, perhaps. tn ne a As ne ossr was the of ss sevS 1ution he was as brave ins the field as he was afterward wise in the council. He served thirteen terms in the Na- which body he was Speaker lisoi- 1so7l three terms. and then was transferred to the Senate, where he served thirteen years, until he resigned in 1928. ue
 When he died q in ls3S the Senate ad- journed in respect to his memory and in recognition Of his lofty and spotless character--the only instance in the en.. body adjourned in tribute to one of it's ex-members, and as an ex-Senator only. In the lobby of the House are portraits of all the. Speakers. save Macon. who Ransom. long a Senator from Maccn's State of North Carolina, sought to nave a portrait of him painted by making q composite picture of two old men Of bis acauaintancss each each, of ,va whom n nsd ad resemblance to Macon's. one supplying the upper face, the other. the lower. I do not know that the project was car- rsd ,ns nto seet # grsas ds plfy taat North Carolina could not but send his statue to the national valhalla in the Hall of the old House of Representa- see how this grand old man Is honored in It's political nomenclature--Macon County, Macon towns and Macon vil- lages. His life illustrates the value of CHaTHCteE. F1iS IHUHufllSnt is iihS tHe man. It Is huge pile of stones thrown on his. grave by every pilgrim who viists the spot to do reverence to the great man who. lies buried there.
 What blessing 1t would he to this generation to have a statesnan, cast 'sfn the mold of Nathaniel Macon. to lead this people out of the. political labyrinth, in the winding of which even our wisest and best are now bewil- dared and apparently helpless, such as ever results when the blind and the foolish are preferred over the wise.
 That same Samuel Smith who had heen chosen President pro teHpore of the Senate more than twenty years earlier now succeeded Macon and served two terms. and upon his retire. ment l.. W. Farewell. of Virginia came in, a relative--for aught I know a sorl---of the Henry Tazewell who had heen chosen President pro tempore nearly two score years earlier.
 And now we come to the name of another very great man. one who could. If reinearnate. lead us cut ot the wilderness in which we are wan dering sixty-seven years after his de- parture from the scenes of men--Hugh l. White. pre-eminently the wise man He succeeded Andrew Jackson In the Senate and served with distinguished ability and unblemished honor. h