Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1908-04-16

dent has been "got" hinself, ana
would not father the story now.
Canton s. D.
Asa Forrest, 81.
HTTRED0E 70 INDErATI0ABLH.
rhs Silent Senator from South Dakota
Has Commanding influence with
His Senatorial Associates.
Samuel g. Blythe, the well known
author Of the department Of "Who's
Whoand Why in the Saturday
Evening Post philadelphia wrote a.
follows under date Of March 16, 1907:
In senate, whore language il the
cheapest commodity in the world, the
quality Of silence is so conspicuous that
the man who can hold his tongue is
pointed ont as . prominent bit Of seen
cry. "That big quiet man there is
Senator Kittredge,' says the Capitol
guides to the pop-eyed tourists. 4 He
don I SAY anything, but no cuts lots Of
ice.
A United States senator has tho
greatest opportunity for speech tho
world has ever known. All he has 70
DO d to rise in his place get yecogniticn
from the vice president and begin. He
can spout and sputter for : month, Il
hs has the stamina and language, and
no power IN earth can say him nay.
There 10 no obligation on him TO stop
until he has finished what he has 70
vay. There are senator's who demand
this right. There are Statesmen In tho
upper house who talk until they are
black in the face and their hearers
purple. There are those who talk os-
casionally, and those who say nothing
because they have nothing to say, which
| Il condition that works around to the
steady performers oftentimeA although
their audiences and not themselves are
best aware Of II. These are general IL
versions. When We come to specialize
there is Kittredge, in q class by HIM
self--silent, inscrutable, doing job Of
inscruting twenty-four hours day.
Words are sacred instruments with
Kittredge, not to be used lightly, not to
be uttered without consideration, and
once uttered, to stand. When Kit
tredge promulgates . statement, that Il
all there is to it. He has thought 1t out.
He has framed 1t ~ he wants II. II u
completed and there is no need for 81
planatory footnotes or voluminous ap.
pendices. He can listen for week and
ray nothing. One Of his wildest lights
into vocal exposition Is sYes'' or No =
and the extreme limits 81 loquacity are
reached when he says ~ That y right, 4
Or "That IL wrong" What; argues
Kittredgs, 10 the use Of taking forty
words to express fact whom you can
express It with one or two, and a. foz
extraneous advancing Of opinion, with
out reason for it save the desire to get
Opinions in the air that wastes time that
can be used in listening to the opinions
Of others and for their mental dissec'
Ition.
Kittredge il big man on the later
oceanic canals committee in the senate
He has gone into the subject with more
thoroughness than any man in the sen.
ate, with the possible exception 81
Senator Morgan, who has been study
ing the problem for more years than
Kittredge has, but to no greater effect
30 far as knowledge goes. When any
senator wants to know anything about
the canal he goes to Kittredge. He
gets the information he is after In .
few words. There are no fourishes, no
frills, no embroideries. Eyes, says
Kittredge, "that Is so,n Or No, that
Is net so,', There are no II am Of the
OPINION or That II my supposition, Z
qualifications hitched on anything moro
than Yes" or No" savors Of tautol-
logy to the Kittredge mind.
He works all the time. His concep.
tion Of the duty Of senator Il to take
part in pending legislation and 70 BE- in
his seat In the senate whom measures
Of Importance are under discussion. he
has nothing to say. on the hoer except
ut rare intervals, but he has = vide
! knowledge Of what Is going On that
his hrief counsel il universally sought.
He gets up before six o'clock every
morning, and II n his eommittee roon
before ssven, rain or shine. He ~
half day = work done when many d
the other senators are ordering around
the carriages to take them Up On the
hill. He gets u Washington On ri
last trails that arrives before the 80
sion opens and - leaves On ths Arsi
train that goes ont after The session
closes. Between those two tsains - 4
consistently, constantly - siIently =
| the works. On
Ths Best Razor otron.
The boot razor stron ayar haA