The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-16

that poets are not Inc only KInu OK I
people who are "born, not made,
The man who told me Of this Incl
| dent has been "got' himself, and
would not father the story now.
Canton S. D.
Asa Forrest, ST.
| KITTREDaE is INDEFATIGABLR.
The 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
Who-and Why in the Saturday
Evening Post (Philsaelphia) wrote as
follows under date of March 1e, 1907:
In a senate, where language is the
| cheapest commodity in the world, the
quality of silence is SO conspicuous that
the man who can hold his tongue is
pointed out as a prominent bit of seen
cry. "That big, quiet man there is
Senator Kittredge,' says the Capitol
guides to the pop-eyed tourists. Gle
!. don Il say anything, but he cuts lots Of
ice"
A United States senator has the
greatest opportunity for speech the
world has ever known. All he has to
do 10 to rise in his place get recognition
from the vice president and begin. He.
can spout and sputter for q month, If
he has the stamina and language, and
no power on earth can say him nay.
There is nj obligation on him to stop
until he has finished what he has to
say. There are senators who demand
] this right. There are statesmen in the
upper house who talk until they are
black in the face and their hearers
purple. There are those who talk oc-
~casionally, and those who say nothing
because they Aave nothing to say, which
is a condition that works around to the
steady performers oftentines, although
their audiences and net themselves are
best aware of it. These are general di.
l NC1SIOA6. VIC CUihS " DpOS101AAC
there is Kittredge, in a class, by him
self-silent, i~nscrutable, doing a job Of
inscruting tw~enty-fsur hours a 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 a statement, that is
all there is to it. He has thought it out.
He has framed it az he wants it.. It is
completed and there is no need for ex-
planatsry fsotnstes or veluminous ap-
pendices. He can listen fer a week and
say nothing. One Of his widest fights
int vocal expessisn is eyes" or "NoD
and the extreme Traits Of 1equacity are
reached when he says :1sThat is right
or "That is yreng.' Whaty argues
Kittredge, is the use Of taking forty
words to express a fact when you can
express it with enc or TIVE, and as for
s1traneous advancing Of opinion, with
out reason for it raw the desire to get
opinions in the air that wastes time that
can be used in listening to the opinions
Of othersS and for their mental disSec.
ton. .
Kittredge is . big man on the inter
oceanic canals committee in the senate.
He has gone into the subject with moro
thoroughness han any man in the SON
ate, with the possible exception Of
Senator Morgan, who has been study
i go e.. ill.,
Kittredge has, but to no greater effect
SO 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 q
few words. There are no f%ourishes, no
frills, no embroideries. HYes,o says
Kittredge, "that is so," or stNo, that
is not So" There are no 81 am Of the
opinion" or HThat is my superstition,
qualifications hitched on anything more
than eyes or "No'' savors Of tautol-
ogy to the Kittredge mind.
He works all the time. His concep-
ton Of the duty Of a senator is to take
part in pending legislation and to be in
his seat in the senate when measures
of Importance are under discussion. He
has nothing to say on the floor except
at rare intervals, but he has so wide
q knowledge of what is going on that
his brief counsel is universally sought.
He gets up before six O'Clock every
morning, and is in his committee room
before seven, rain or shine. He has
half . days. work done when many Of
the other senators are ordering around
the carriages to take them up ON the
hill. BE. gets to Washington ON tho
last train that arrives. before the SEES
sion opens and hs leaves IN the first
train that goes out after tho session