The Washington times., 1908-09-21
BURTON is DETERMINED
TO HAVE SENATE SEAT
Ohio Representative Whose Career Has Been Built on
Honest Principles, the Logical Successor to
Foraker or Dick
By JAMES HAY. II.

they can't beat him They are at per-
fect liberty 70 beat him-if they can. AS
yet, however he has defeat hypnOtized
and laid asleep afar or
on what does his strength in Ohio
rest? on the years he has worked for
the best and the highest in politics,
and on mis- great ability.
Ever since, IN his twenty-second year,
ne beat the bosses" in his ward in
Cleveland. he has been a power in pol
iIlcs, nrst IN the city alone and later
In the State at large. But he did not
! Try 10 gobble up public office right
away. be had peculiar, UNUSUAL idea
that man. in order to fill public office
properly, must prepare himself for 1t.
He had begun TO practice law in 1870,
and he kept II up most successfully, 50
successfully that now, when most OF
his time is taken up with politics, he
can get his own handsome price Tor de-
voting few minutes month to telling
other lawyers how TO win a case.
AS the years went by, he read and
studied almost necessarily. He read
books and now and then he took a
chance at reading human nature. When
the year 1858 came, he had put his
which showed no signs Of shutting up
shop. Also he thought he was
ready 20 90 to COngress-and he
went. In 1890. however. the Jeerers and
the deriders beat him for reelection
Stayed in Congress.
But this meant nothing to him. He
had made up his somewhat expansive
mind to have an equally expansive ca
| reer at Washington. Accordingly he
was elected to the Fifty-fOurth Con-
gress. ant. In Congress he has been ever
since. All the time he has been serv-
ing there he has done his work on the
| level, refusing to be led into the mines
and countermines, the tunnels under
/ the rivers, and the submarine mines IN
/ Lake Erie which were for years popular
among Ohio gentlemen with political
aspirations.
| At Jhe state convention in Dayton IN
| 1895 he arose one balrny afternoon,
| cleared his throat drew from his pOCk-
/ ct a document. and began TO read. The
! reading was 10 the effect that, as the
| convention had indOrsed the policies or
! Theodore Roosevelt II would not be
( wise to indOrse Senator Joseph Benson
! Foraker as fully as the President ne
been indOrsed. because Foraker had
\ fought the uOlicies Of Roosevelt For a
/ while tiIv earth shook and great rents
were torn in the political horizon.
! The tunnel d1EEerS began 70 dig th'
/ mine workers began 70 work. and the
| political machine OF Ohio began 10
/ wheeze like a thing IN distress But.
/ when the vote was taken, Burton s
resolutions had been ceIeateC Dy q IA
/ ito Of 10 J.
! In 1905, at Columbus, this persistent
( person was once more on the BATHS
/ line and, under his austere leadership
! the convention refused TO indorse For
] alLcT moderately or otherwise. X TOOK
/ him two years 10 win the fight, but
! he won Now he is ready TO get For
I aker's job. or. failing II that, he VIII
/ take the place Of Mr.. Dick the gen
/ tleman with the Grecian cast Of coun-
| tenance and the loosened political grip
Ability Is Great
! Burton's ability IS great. You can't
! be famous by being merely honest
! Burton had the ability TO lift him and
/ his honesty. He can tell you mora
/ about the rivers and harbors Of the
/ world than any living thing on earth
or under the water In the summer
time he travels to Europe and holds
| high and abstruse conversation with the
] French savants. the German professors
| and the British pouderosites- Occa-
I siOlaly he makes them speeches he
/ haF writ en- books on history and po-
/ littsal economy He can talk with al
the ease Of a phonograph, and his talk
! IS full Of ideas
| But he is averse to giving interviews
| He reads and studies all the time. his
/ bachelor apartment in Cleveland is
! filed and cluttered up with books, mag
/ aZiues. and papers But talking foT
/ publication IS not his long suit When
] called on him in Cleveland the other
/ day and asked him for an interview on
/ Ohio nolitics, he put his head on one
/ side after the fashion Of an aged owl
! trying TO think, shut one eye, and re-
/ marked sOlemnly-
1t is safe 10 say Ohio viii be Re
| publican"
| However. he is going to the United
| States Senate. Already he has some OF
| the Ohio Legislature lined up for him
/ II anybody has a little loose change
! lying around, q good way 70 double il is
! 10 bet that Theodore +. Burton. the
] student. the honest politician from Ohio
l and the wise gaZabO, viii be IN the
| Senate before much more history Is
| made. BY the same token. il IS safe
| TO risk a little more that Foraker does
not adore him. nor does Dick love &c
gaze upon his high and serviceabIe
brow.