The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-28
NEW MEN IN THE SENATE.


subjected 1t to the severest strain.
A majority of the people names
George K Cham berlaiu, Demo-
crat, for United States Senator,
and at the same time chose a
Legislature almost unanimously
Repu blican, but containing a ma.
jority of mem bers, pledged 10
ratify the popular choice for Sen.
ator. Sincs that election Oregon
voted for President and gave
Taft 24,00 plurality. The argu.
ment that Oregon had shown it
self clearly to be Republican and
ought to elect Republican Sen
atOr was strong one. but the
pledges held, good faith was
maintained and the Repu bllcan
Legislature did as the mem bers
had promised and in obedience to
the instructions of the people,
elected a Demo cratic Senator
from Repu blican State.
This Democratic gain is Offset
by a Republican gain in Ken
lucky, through the election of
William o. Bradley in the place
of Senator McCreary, by Leg
islature having a Democratic ma.
jority, bat which was hopelessly
divided on factional lines. The
Democrats make one net gain by
the election of B. F.. Shlvely IN
place of Senator Hemenway.
Besides Cham berlaln, Bradley
and Shlvely there will be other
new faces In the Senate, some al
ready well known to the country
and others with their spurs yet
to win on the National field.
The most prominent and i'm.
portant of these Is Ellhu Root,
who takes the place of Thomas
| G.. Platt, of New York. Another
notable change is Theodore E.
Burton in place of Joseph b.
Foraker, of Ohio. Henry M. Tel.
Ter, the Nestor of the Senate, re-
tires at the age of 7S without be-
traylng any evidence of failing
power. He entered the Senate
IN 1877, but his service was bro.
ken by three years In President
Arthur's Cabinet as Secretary of
the Interior. Since Senator ALI
lson's death he mas been the sen
lor Senator IN reality, but his con-
tinuous service dates only from
the time he re-entered the Senate.
IN 1885, so that several Sena tors
rank as his seniors. Mr.. Teller
will be succeeded on March 4 by
Charles q. Hughes, Jr., Demo
cratic lawyer, of Denver, whose
fame has not yet extended be.
yond the bounds of Colorado.
On March 4 next Senator Kit
tredge, from South Dakota, will
give place to G. /. Crawford,
Hansbrough, of North Dakota, to
M. N. Johnson; Aukeny, of Wash
ington, to Wesley L. Jones, and
Long. of Kansas, to Joseph L.
Brlstow. These are all Republi-
cans and Hansbrough IS the only
one who can be rated as an old
Senator, he having come to the
Senate in 1891, just two years
after his State became a mem Der
of the Union. The fate of one
Repu bllcan Senator, Hopkins, of
Illinois, is still hanging in the
balance. Senator Cum mings, of
Iowa, who was chosen to fill Sen
ator Allison's unexpired term,
also succeeds to the full term,
ending 1915.
The Senate lost IN the two
years past by death or reslgna-
ton, Senators Spooner, Allison,
Whyte, Proctor, Latimer, Nal.
lory, Morgan, Pettus and Bate,
and will lose shortly Senator
Knox, who will be President
Taft's Secretary of State. All
r these changes bring into the Sen
ate an unusual mum Der of new
men. Many of these men have
been brought to the front as the
result of the direct vote, and are
, believed to be somewhat antag-
onistic to the conservative spirit
of the present Senate. 1t is prob
, able that LaFollette, of Wlscon-