The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-10
ALDRICH A POWER.

il is stated that Senator Aldrich has
! decided not to be a candidate for re-
| election TO the Senate; that he will
give place to some other Rhode Island.
er, and VIII retire on his laurcls. Those
laurels to be the completed and enacted
tariff bin now before the Z. S. Senate,
which he purposes to make the express
sion of his own ideas, and comprehcn-
sive currency law And so, one
need not he surprised when he reads
that Senator Aldrich openly announces
that it is no matter what the House Of
Representatives does, has done, or in
tends TO do; that the Senate is there to
do justice to the American people
That no doubt means that he will hold
the Senate TO his own convictions. and
wall insist on making the tariff bill a
Senate measure, which would be an
Aldrch measure.
Mr.. Aldrlch' term will expire with
March J, 1911; and if he lives till then.
and then rctires, he will have served
thirty years in the e. s. Senate, a
length Of service in that body very
rarely exceeded. He has made a decp
study of finance and of the tariff dues-
tlon, and probably no man in either
house of Congress is his equal in full
and detailed understanding of the tariff
schedules in their mutual relations one
to another and to the whole business
and industrial activities Of the couu.
try. lie is a man of quiet tastes and
unostentatious demcanor He has
grown INTO his present predominance in
the Senate by sheer merit and studious
mastery of public business. His posI.
ton was never so strong as now, and
II be adheres TO his reported detcrmi.
nation to retire from public life that
retirement Will be distinct aud severe
2u5hc loss. And he is not an old man
who needs to retire, being now but in
ms slXty.eighth year. A fair study Of
ms character and ways is thus c;v.n
an an Eastern contemporary which Is an
authorlty on his personality and works.
Everybody knows that Mr.. Aldrjch Is
1yani,io IN OF wealth. the Brooklyn Eagles
- I'm
ms ways and habits he's one of tho sim
pres. men In the Senate When iha
wbcn whernGr tn is a fine ne walks to the capitol;
t wneI the day is incement he signals a
street car. He's "thc ono Senator n,,a
never wears a frock coat" He djsIt,no
,' toiiliai dinners and social dress parados
read read" tbn bpleietrins ,s,rs to staJ at home and
an Unsuitable student of fiscal and nonnco
Iaiy problems. 81 hate 10 admit it,
ib1d ibn d oro,her Senator recently. "but It's
iEl L,
@ ene tarui than all the rest of us put to-
GdoD1eri doni, we don't oppose him because we
Ton 70 4 hhoW & enough about the subject
10 10 argue with him" The Rhode Islander
IS is no orator; and never declaims; he
Just talks as he would If the senate were
a, me ,nsseting Of bank directors. He spends
3f the chamber. and the men there like
nm. He gets on" with cvcrybody-the
..gdrn,l, .gdn1i and l. abrupt" Eugene Hale. the
Bacon of Georgia. The late Mr.. Allison
said OF him; mot once in ali The Years
Hast mas 'nere been Jar In our relations"
had l sumner Inmr era Mr. Taft and Mr.. Aldrich
OF which the Senator not only explained
his ideas. but told about his business
connections His statement was OF such
10 10 WIN the complete confidence of Mr.,
TART Often Mr.. Aldrich is spoken of
asr,siS, as snG standard {, OH company's repre-
he told friend recently. "I have never
seen John D.. Rockefeller. Sr. but three
tlmes In my life. The first time was a
inc marriage OF his son and my daugh-
ter subsequently l met him twice and
inc extent of our conversation was some
casual remark about the weather and
our health IFS the corresDopdent's
belief that Mr.. Aldrich is a greater power
IN n ,he senate this spring than ever
Close friends say he reports, that
the senator's real ambition is to draft
national currency system that shall
give him place among statesmen
alongside that occupied by Alexander
tiOn,