The Detroit times., 1909-02-16
BOURKE COCHRAN
LEAVES CONGRESS
MARCH 4
ANSWERS DicTUM OF TAMMANY
-BEDE, WATSON, PLAT AND
OTHERS ALSO GO INTO "
TERROR DARKNESS WITH T. r.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.--President
Roosevelt and his cabinet and Secre'
tary Loeb. who will disappear from
The Washington scheme OF creation
on March 4. will so into the Interior
darkness i'm goodly company The
doors are about to open outward on
scores OF men who Tor a long time
naVe succeeded in acceptabiy filling
me public eye.
In the house OF representatives u
congress the emigration movement
will be- especially strong. Some "
he oldtime leaders, others nor so
strong on leadership. but far up in
1.-THE matter OF prominence, are pre-
parine for the vanishing act. some Of
them never 10 return TO the field of
their national achievements.
There's j. Adam Bede, for instance,
the house humOrist and wit. VINO was
elected into private life by an un-
grateful constituency, and VINO eN-
peots to die game by crossing swords
with Burton. of Ohio. in the matter M
the passage of a rivers and harOors
/ bill in the last days Of the session.
Burton himself leaves the house but
takes his promotion 10 the senate
rather philosophically. and seems -
find no occasion for vain regrets.
John sharp Williams. of Mississippi.
me Democratic noor-leader mp To this
session. will disappear on March I,
determined to devote the two
years that must elapse before he
Ttakes the seat in the United States
senate TO which he already has been
elected. 10 a period OF gentle recuper-
1 alton and bucollc rest way down in
/ YaZoo Ciey.,
Gaines the Gsrrulous.
/ Gaines OF Tennessee, Gaines the
garrulous. Gaines whose name is on
every page OF the Congressional Re-
Crd If only to show that he arose
/ "reserving the right TO object TO re-
quest the gentleman TO explain his
. hill. will be heard no more. for defeat
at home has been his potion. He Is
+ going back to Nashville. and for two
years he will labor in the endeavor
+ to persuade his people that they We're
wrong quite wrong. when they pre-
! foiTed Joseph IT, Byrnes 10 him.
The Indiana delegation with the .ey-
/ ccption of Judge Crumpacker. has
been wiped off the congressional map.
and the siren songs OF Watson. Ian.
dis and Diversified will be heard no
more Each OF these men has ma lie
a particular niche for himself in tn.
history OF the last years OF congress
! Watson. as the whip" OF the
nouse. was in sense the leading
man of the house organization. over
street. as chairman of the postoffice
( committee. served in a conspicuous
lcapacity and had supply measure
I involving more than $500 400 900 an.
rually In charge. Lands was one ol
The star orators OF the body. always
put forward in the great debates
when the party's , and l3-inch guns
were required 10 silence the attacks
Of the enemy.
/ Cochran. OF New York, heavy.
weight orator OF the Democracy, rs
retired by The Tammany dictum and
goes back 10 New York. Jenkins. OF
( Wisconsin. leaves vacant the chair
manship of the judiciary committee,
/ Hepburn. Of Iowa. the veteran OF
every congressional scrap. fight or
battle Wltnln a generation, VIII re
/ turn 10 Clarinda. unless the contest
/ he has set In motion shall be deter.
mined in his favor.
Passing Of Platt
/ On the senate side also there win
! 5e some disappearances-p rhaps for
ever T. c. Platt leaves public life
after Checkered and tempestuous
career Foraker goes back To- Ohio.
perhaps to try again after a lapse OF
TWO years Hemenway returns to In
diana To yield his seat to a Democrat;
Knox goes ont, to take his place in
the Taft cabinet, and Teller another
OF the picturesque figures of Ameri-
can politics for more than an ordinary
/ life time. returns to Colorado to spend
/ his last days in comfort.
They all take defeat and retire
ment philosopicaly. They shrus
their shoulders and accept t as the
tate Of politics. But way down deeP
in their hearts they're sorry. For the
man who, once started In politics quit
Tho ,yatna pf their own accord are few