The Detroit times., 1909-02-15
BOURKE COCHRAN
LEAVES CONGRESS
MARCH 4
ANSWERS DlcTUM OF TAMMANY
-eEDE, WATSON, PLAT AND
OTHERS ALSO GO INTO w.
TERROR DARKNESS WITH T. r.

WASHINGTON. Feb. l5.-President
Roosevelt and his cabinet and Secre-
itary Loeb. who will disappear from
the Washington scheme OF creation
ON March 4, will SO into the Interior
darkness In goodly company. Tho
doors are about TO open outward on
scores OF men who for long time
Rave succeeded In acceptably filling
the public eye.
In the house of representatives OF
congress the emigration movement
will be especially strong. Some OF
the old-time leaders. Others not 10
strong on leadership. but far up In
the matter OF prominence, are pre-
pairing for the vanishing act. some OF
them never to return TO the field OF
their national achievements.
There's j. Adam Bede, for instance,
the house humorist and wit. who was
elected into private life by an un-
grateful constituency. and who ex-
poets To die game by crossing swords
with Burton. OF Ohio, In the matter Of
the passage OF a rivers and harbors
| bill in the last days of the session.
Burton himself leaves the house but
takes his promotion 10 the senate
rather philosophically. and seems to
J find no occasion for vain regrets.
! John Sharp Williams. of Mississippi
he Democratic ioor.leader up 10 this
session, will disappear on March A.
determined to devote the two
years that must elapse before he
takes the seat In the United States
! T.. H. n. IL. Itay no.
elected. to period OF gentle recuper-
alton and bucolic rest way down in
Yazoo City.
Gaines the Garrulous.
Gaines of Tennessee. Gaines the
garrulous. Gaines whose name is on
every page OF the Congressional Rec
ord, If only to show that he arose
"reserving the right to object to re-
quest the gentleman TO explain his
bill 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
! 70 persuade his people that they were
wrong, quite wrong. when they pre-
ferred Joseph II. Byrnes In him.
The Indiana delegation with the .ex-
ception OF Judge Crumpecker. has
been wiped off the congressional map
and the siren songs OF Watson. Ian
dis and Overstreet will be heard no
more Each OF these men has made
q particular niche for himself in the
history OF the last years OF congress-
Watson, an the whip" OF the
house. was in sense the leading
man of the house organization. Over
street as chairman OF the postoffice
committee served in a conspicuous
capacity and had a supply measure
involving more than 5000, 1000 900 an
nually in charge. Lands was one Of
the star orators OF the body. always
i put forward In the great debates
when the party's II and 13-inch guns
were required to 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 TO 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 within a generation, Will re
he has set in motion shall be deter
mined In his favor
Passing Of Plat.
On the senate side also there will
be some isappearances-per haps for
ever I. G. Plat leaves public life
after a 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.
I Knox goes out. to take his place in
the Taft cabinet, and Teller. another
| OF the picturesque figures OF Ameri-
can politics for more than an ordinary
1 life time, resrns TO Colorado to spend
his last days In comfort.
They all take defeat and retire
ment philosopically. They shrug
their shoulders and accept II as the
fate OF politics. But way down deep
in their hearts they're sorry. For the
man who, once started i'm politics quit
the game OF their own accord, are few
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