Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-09
DEATHS CALL
IS ANSWERED
Former Senator Plat Dies
Suddenly In New York
HAD been SICK MANY YEARS

Mind Remained Active and He Was
at His Office Every Working Day
Recognized as One of Country's
Most Adroit and Powerful Poiti-
cians-caled a Leader by Friends
and Execrated by Enemies
New York. March 7.-Thomas
Collier Plat, from 1897 until last
year a United States senator from
\ New York, died Sunday afternoon at
the home of Gustave Abel, with whom
he had lived for the past four years
The end was sudden and peaceful.
The senator's last impression of this
earth was the sight of his three sons,
his daughter in law, Mrs Frank H.
Plat; his grandson, Livingston Plat,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Abel, all of whom
surrounded him as he passed away.
Death was caused by chronic and
acute Bright's disease, malady from
which Plat had suffered for fifteen
years.
Three-quarters of an hour before he
expired he appeared to be in moderate
health and in possession of all his
faculties.
Mr.. Plat was president of the
United States Express company.
Every working day he was at his Of
flee and bore his II years without
hardship. He had planned to return
to his work this morning as usual.
With Platt's death goes to his rest
the last Of the Republican barons.
To his friends he was a leader. To
his enemies he was a boss. He was,
perhaps, both. He typified all the
arrogance of the old feudal lord,
trampling out opposition with a ruth
less foot. He typified all the gentle
ness of the graciousness of the old
seigneur, lavishing favors on his re-
tainers and rewarding a kindness
threefold
His life contained in it much that
was good, some that was bad and
some that was unpleasant. He was a
man of contradictions. He pos
sessed great strength and great weak
ness. He was frank and secretive.
He was broad and he was narrow. He
was as brave as a lion, and yet some
time possessed only the courage of
| deception.
His victories were always his own.
He rose by his own efforts and he fell
| inf Of orC
| descended on him, and then by the
| treachery of those he had made.
He was withal very great figure
| in New York state, where he was
sxecrated by his enemies as few men
| have been. He wrote his name on
the history of his native state for a
| period covering nearly forty years,
| and when that can be said of a man
it must be admitted that he had vir-
tues and that there were strong ele-
ments in his character. \
| Mr.. Platt was born in Oswego, July
! Is, 1888. He was educated in that
school which believed ito the victors
| belonged the spoils'' and he gloried in
it. He came into politics in the days
| just after the war, when party spirit
ran high 1t was that spirit which
made the stalwart and the half breed ).
Mr. Plat was one of the "306'' at
Chicago. He was the me too butt
Of the American humorist. No man
had such ridicule to live down. No
man faced greater. humiliations. No
man had reason to harbOr more Bit
ter resentments. No man had more
implacable enemies. He lived the
ridicule down; he faced the humilia-
tons with brave face. He kept
alive or stifed his resentments as it
suited him, but he punished his enc
mics when the time or the opportun-
nifty came.