The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-14
Senator Hale, the Cold and
Severe, and His Various
FOibles.
Especial Correspondence. ]

VWYHEN Eugene Hale, now Senate
NV from Maine, was Il cute little
cut-up of a boy, he was he
proudest little pansy in the garden
town of Turner, oxford county, Maine.
His school teacher told him that he was
the finest little fellow in the school II
he has been proud as Il pickle ever
since and prouder now than ever be-
fore.
Had Eugene not entered the official
life and eventually become Senator
from Maine, he would have made a
great actor. He would have been sim
ply splendid as the stern parent who
thrusts the clinging, weeping ana sac
charine daughter out into the snow and
slush of a wild December evening with
the harsh words: go, you are-r-r no
daught-er-r, of mine. Take the che-ild
with you and never let me see your
face again"
Or it is easy to picture the austere
Eugene as the cruel landlord, who
comes calmly into the tenement house,
Immediately CARRIED in frock coat, high
hat and a false Van Dyke and says, as
he carelessly flecks the ashes from his
cigar:
You must leave this house by noon
tonight. No. at dawn tomorrow aft
ernoon will be too late. You leave by
noon or sign the papers,"
The picture is very vivid. Hale as
the cruel landlord, and Violet Mont
morency, cast off by her millionaire
father because she has married a poor
but honest w~orkingman, declaiming
unsteady: "N-n-n-no, never. Rags are
royal raiment when worn for virtues
sake. I'd rather be trampled upon by
a thousand ruffians than sign those
papers," And there would be Hale
kissing through his mustache: f"Ah, ha,
we shall see. Proud as Lucifer, but /
shall have you yetsky. Yes, we shall
seeovitch-cur-r-rse you"
Mr.. Hale would have to talk that way
because the scene, cur-r-rse it, would
be laid in Russia. and in the last act it
| would be discovered that, in reality, the
landlord was head of the Russian army,
or something like that, so that his ulti-
mate defeat would be all the more
crushing.
But Mr.. Hale did not ecome an
actor. At least he did not go upon the
stage. He became d cruel statesman,
which some people say is alien to act
ing. And ne is the proudest little
statesman you ever saw. None of the
hoi polloi for him. He does lot mind
them hoi polloi-ing; they can hoi and
polloi all they please, but not in his
back yard. If ne catches any of them
around he'll sic semper uranus the dog
on them.
For Mr.. Hale is not of the common
people. Far be it from him. He does
not even mingle with the garden vari-
ETY. of senators. The diplomatic set for
his taste. His palatial house at the
northeast corner of Sixteenth and *
streets, n w, is the gathering place of
the thoroughbreds of the diplomatic
world.
Rough and ready senators like Bur-
rows, Kalamazoo, Mich; Carter. of
Montana. and Dick Oliver and Elkins,
secretly give Mr.. Hale a pain in his
austere neck Now and Their he has to
work hand in glove with Carter, who is
a good deal of a power. and when such
an emergency arises Eugene's classic
features become very tense. 1t comes
hard, very hard.
There is hot the slightest doubt that
80 10 . I'D iiii III Atlt tii1tt iLfS
command is second only to Aldrich. He
is en- he appropriate committee, now
acting as chairman; is chairman of the
steering committee. and is a member of
the finance, census, Canadian relations,
private land claims, naval affairs and
Philippines committees. He is a parlia-
mentarian, very clever parliamentarian.
But. above all else, he is as proud and
austere as a high silk hat.
Very deliberate. too. is Mr.. Hale.
When he arises to address the Senate
there is always a pause like 4 summer
vacation. Some time it is a full min
ute before the first word is set loose
upon the Senate. Even if Hale hassno
particular idea. but simply feels in
spired to pronounce a few words. he
does it deliberately. A word floats
from his mouth, and then the senators
wait a little while, and her another
word Games along. and then another
wait, n so on for half an hour or so,
1t Is a very good thing for the senate
for it teaches patience and liberation.
! Hale has always been a proud party,