The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
Tributes to Senator Pettus Some of the Handsone 7hinss Said by Papers
 Out of Alabama
Out utofALaban1a

parently, of hls singular determina- tion to keep out of office. though he Naturally enough ue he "i i. SescriSed RS's. as q statesman of the old school. and there Is no doubt that he was a man Of ability and learning whose incisive and humorous speeches were much en- 5oyed by all who heard them. But that rouse-our special wonder with their suggestions of so many chapters in the nations history.-Chicago
 The death of Senator Pettus removes sne s1s,.. ,ast of the 9ld.time Southern ne, fre,, iike tk his distinguished colleague died in the harness, although he had reached the venerable age of ss. Sena- TOT Psttus was one of The most popu- men in the United States Senate He was not an orator or a brilliant states man; man; put he was possessed of sound. tCcd t sens, sense: that led him always to lions iic IS ssx, directing the people and the pub t to the demagogue. and had a most ef- ly illustrations. He never instituted any great movements. nor is his name nresH! Msntlned with M any monumental enter with the isthmian canal project, but ne was a sober. serious. safe and hon. orabie representative of his people, them wenever his voice and vote was needed.-Chattanoosa Times.
 senator Pettus did not long survive gan. It looks almost as if the death Of one of the comrade statesmen helped to hurry the death of the other. Of course 1t was inevitable that in the of age must die soon but the country as whole never thought of General Pettus as man on the verge of the msntay e h. sG as1 %s. ked snd and his humor so bright. that he i'm pressed the public as being good for a number of years more of usefulness has the sympathy of the whole nation in her twin bereavements. She can never replace these grand old men who fought with distinction in the same 10 the same party. and served in the same august Legislative body. and were animated by the same principles of honor and courage.-Norfolk Jmnd- mark.
 Alabama is again called upon to mourn the death of a distinguished son. son s and statesman, and the ,yhols It is lamentable coincidence that the death of Senator Pettus should have followed so closely upon the taking scarcely more notable coincidence of the deatn on the same day of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
 .ta bst tstmsn it Is socd |. to know % that he h0norably and made record of which all true Americans are proud 1t Is also good to know that in the case of sion of his mental and md physical e poSses poWess until the final stroke which carried him of, and that his death was pain less and peaceful. The. South can i'll champions. but there is some cop solatIon in the fact that their works do follow them. and that their influ- ence Is abiding-RichmondT Times-Dis patch.
 At the age of SC. the last of the pat. riarchs passed away. First went Hoar. then Morgan. and now Pettus. and the senate Is almost shorn of It's sages. scbnIonn aGar and p,r Morgan were the takers and were as one on well nigh every oues- ton. yet 1t is said they had nothing in common except fondness for chewing they continued to live to a great ex- tent in the past. Senators Morgan and Pettus voted against rate regulation 6eca.,H. because it did not square with their old felloys." said capital city wit, "are against rate regulation because it violates the Confederate constitution" " They had well-formed opinions when most of the Senators were babes. They were of the school of Jefferson Davis, Senator Douglas and Calhoun They Knew where they stood and nobody tried to dislodge them from their posi- ton. Their constituents reposed a chiId-like trust In them-and have nev- CT regretted it.-Raleigh (N. O Times.
 Senator Pettus belongs to a type of men of sturdier frame and more heroic soul than those of this generation. His youth was ablaze with ambition and gallantry and distinction in the Next can war. and in that memorable year 1S49. he rode on horseback across the continent to become 'forty-niner" in Journey showed the temper and the power of endurance of the man. The and vitality that could pass such an ordeal was fit to struggle and survive; rhe same hardy qualities tempest in the. war between the sec tions carried him triumphantly through the more terrible period of re- construction. and into the arena of politics. where he won immediate and enduring success.
 He represented more the physical side of life than the mental though he possessed strong and original mind n tremendous capacity for sustained ef- fort and thought. and a judgment that was recognized as almost infallible in it's sane and wholesC me common sense That. indeed. was his strength and that was his real value to his State, to the United States Senate. and to his party. He was sound. rather than s-y adornment of phrase. all garniture of speech. He was direct, going straight at his subject and never de- viating from the path his Judgment bfazed for the guidance of his col leagues His confidence and courage made him a leader of men gifted with powers that shone where his sufficed to guide.
 Two phrases of Milton's freouently occurred to many who observed him in the Senate:
 Aspect he rose. and In his rising seemed A pillar of state
 and that other with Atlantean shoul- est monarchies." He lowered over his compeers. and one felt as if he beheld a man that Justified the superstition that our ancestors were of sterner and more heroic stuff than we. He was thus a memorial of the past and an life. and unwavering patriotic service to a new generation.
 The whole country will watch with some eaRerness and concern to see il the younger men, whom Alabama had already chosen to take the places oi theSa vetaraps the rnOntant thav fell Tn