The Washington herald., 1909-08-23
Pen Picture Drawn Of Sena,
tor John w. Daniel.
LOOKS LIKE ROMAN WARRIOR
Saturday Evening Post in its
"whO's Who and Why Column
Pays Tribute TO the senior senator
from Virginia-"A Pippin rs n
Young Roman WARRIOR

Warwick Daniel. Of Virginia, a consider
able menace to the success Of their cause,
for they kept plugging at him something
scandalous during those iron days-as T.
r. was wont to say wnen regretting ne
didn't get a chance 20 be hero until
those pewter days OF 1s9S-those iron days
from 1861 to 1866.
They got the dashing young Yirginian.
too. those Yankees. sifted a bullet at him
at the FIRST battle of Manassas. another
at Boonsboro, Nd, and landed him Tor
fair at the Wilderness on May s. 1864,
when a ball shattered his hip and put
him on clutches for the rest Of his life.
After that. the Yankees had somewhat
1.-THE better OF it until the end.
He looks ike an Old Roman Warrior
now, and he must have been a pippin az
Young Roman Warrior. with that eagle
eye, that classic profile, and that general
pulchritudinous tout ensemble. as John
Dalzell, the great French scholar in Con-
gress. would say.
He was nineteen when the war broke
out, and ne entered the Confederate army
as a lieutenant at the first tap OF the
drum. being assigned TO the Stonewall
Brigade. After he was wounded at BoOns-
boro, he was promoted TO be a major and
made chief of Gen. Jubal Early's stan,
and there he served until they nailed him
at the Wilderness Virginia sent a lot
OF good soldiers TO the front. but down
there they still speak OF Daniel as 4
sort Of d conglomerated type OF all that
q Virginia soldier should be and mostly
was.
Succeeded Malone in senate.
After he had finished fighting he began
talking. and II was soon discovered he
could talk as well as he had fought. The
result was that John Warwick Daniel
went into politics and into the law.
He was elected 10 the Virginia house OF
delegates and served from 1869 to 1872.
Then. in 1870. ne went to the Virginia
senate and served until 1881. They made.
him the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor in 1881. but Cameron. the Read
juster. beat him. and in 1854 he came to
the House OF Representatives. In 1887
Malone left the Senate and Daniel took
his seat. He has been there ever since,
his present term expiring IN 1911, when II
is probable he VIII be reelected and go
on and on for years and years.
RaInbIe in Garden of Rhetoric.
He doesn't speak often In the Senate
nowadays. but he used 70. and when no
did he unlocked the gate and let every
body into the garden where all the flow
ers OF rhetoric grow. He plucked the
posies Of poesy with lavish hand and
pelted his raptured hearers with the fair
est blossoms, led them swoOning through
the fragrant paths bordered with the
mignonette OF speech 10 the great beds
OF verbal hyacinths and tuberoses and
viOlets and thence to undulating mead
ows redolent with sweet clover and new
mOwn hay. pausing from time 70 time at
the brink OF a purling brook where the
laughing water danced and shimmered
over the crystal pebbles, while IN the
trees above the birds caroled joyously and
a summer sun shone genially from an
azure sky.
"Niistuh President: I rise az the loyal
son of Virginia, Mother Of Presidents,
sub and the fairest flower in the chaplet
Of States. the imperial gem I'm the dia-
dem Of Commonwealths; a State. sub.
where the beauty OF the women Is rivaled
only by the chivslry and courage Of the
men; a state, sub. where Nature has Law
ished her fairest gifts ard distributed her
a
are proud TO wonder, sub, that others in
our great country can be content with
the barren existence afforded elsewhere.
and not come at once 10 seek the pleas
uTes afforded by our glorious climate. our
marvellous scenery of mountain and Of
dale. that we cannot conceive. sub how
any Of our fellows can remain so be
nighted as TO seek a mere existence else
where, a mere existence, sub. when Vir-
ginia. sub. holds out her hOspitable arms
and proffers those pleasures. that plen-
itude and that privilege that make for all
thaS IS higher and happier in life
''NOble Women"
7 rise TO speak. sub, concerning the
bin that now engages the attention of
the Senate; but before proceeding, sub.
I would fam pay a word Of tribute to
our women. sub. the fairest daughters
Of all the sunny South. II is with some
trepidation. sub. that approach this
phase Of the question now at hand. for
poorly endowed as am with fitting Ian
guage. it may be that by eulogium will
not present the many virtues OF our
daughters, our sweethearts, our mothers.
and our wives in those exalted terms
commensurate with the manifold beau
ties or the enhancing subject All. sub.
would that I were q poet to tune my
Tyre TO Hottest flights Of ecstasy 10 dwell
forever on the daughters OF Virginia
sub. Noble women. Beautiful. gracious.
hospitable and tender, lighting our rug
ged pathway with the glory OF their win
some and wonderful smiles. with the low
ing light Of their magnificent eyes. and
easing our burdens with the melodious
cheer OF their soft and soothing voices,
the loving sympathy OF their Inspiring
companionship.
sub, this measure now before the Sen
ate is fraught with legislation Of the
gravest import 70 the nation, and
shall discuss it In all its legal and con-
stitutional phases. but. before proceed
ing. 1 desire to call your attention. sub
70 the glorious history Of my native State
Virginia, sub. the cradle Of liberty, sub,
and the birthplace Of those giants whose
labors made this republic possible. a
signal light TO all the oppressed of all
the world, beacon ever holding out the
promise to those who are weary and
borne down TO come 10 us there. and
there to find that liberty that should be
the heritage of every man. no matter
from where he springs nor what his en-
vironment may be-Yirginia. sub. whose
patriotic sons have been in the forefront
OF the van in every struggle to maintain
the rights Of man. CHANGING back along
the pages OF history I see the deeds Of
the brave sons Of Virginia sprinkled thick
along the pathway Of human progress.
At every point a VirgInian sub, has car
ried the fag-a Virgnian, sub; and as
my time is short l will recount but a
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