The Washington herald., 1910-01-09
BIZ JAMES 3. MORROW.

SAMUEL DeileSH, SofelnOI oL lillnoiS
might now be building railways. assem-
bling factories into economical combina-
lions. or managing d chain of banks. He
Is a builder and an organizers material
list with the constructive talent.
II he were in business, he would drive
tunnels underneath great cities, getting
the money first, as a f1nancler, and direct
ing the work afterward. as an engineer.
If he were farmer. he would be forever
buying the next field. and his blooming
acres. tight fenced and driven TO the limit
OF productivity by shrewd labor and
chemistry, would pass county lines and
stretch far away into monopoly.
square and solid man structurally,
stanchly knit together and muscular; a
practical man intellectually. without the
infatuation Of impossible desires or the
wasteful zeal of bigotry, and a resolute
man spiritually, having sound principles
riveted into and clinched upon his founda-
lions, Deneen is a type OF the twentieth
century governor, OF the potential. watch
full, and courageous executive who. being
trained TO the duties and the needs of a
State. is qualifying himself for the presi-
dency of a nation. Hughes, OF New York;
Harmon, OF Ohio; Marshall. Of Indiana,
and Hadley, OF Missouri, Republicans and
Democrats, are also conspicuous types Of
the new and vigilant genus now fixed
permanently. It may be. in the domain
and activities of government
No Longer Harmless
Until recently the conventional gov
ernor-and nearly all governors were con-
ventiOnal-was a harmless and often an
amusingly painful individual He par
doned convicts from the penitentlary. re-
ceiyed the members of the legislature at
the mansion" at least once every win
ter and wrote empty messages that no.
body read and that everybody made haste
TO throw IN the FIRE The country was
growing at the girth and in the chest. and
the supervisory function and the regu-
latory and restraining hand were thought
to be unnecessary. If thought about at all
The war governors" such masterful
and dynamic personalities as johnny
BrouGh, Of Ohio. circular and squat.
who, while president Of a railway. had
on the floor Of the day coach in which
he ordinarily Travelled the line: as Nor
tor, Of Indiana, the iron-jswed halter
and lawyer, who crushed the Sons OF
Liberty and hurried tens OF thousands
of his fellow-citiZens to the front: as An
drew, OF Massachusetts,, who sent the
first regiment of Federal troops into the
South, and as Curtin, Of Pennsylvania,
the soldiers friend such men, tremen-
dous in energy and made Of granite, were
succeeded by eminent or respectable gen.
erals, lawyers, bankers, farmers, and
merchants. For the most part they amia-
bly, stood by and watched the country
develop.
An emergency called the ''war COVER |
nors' away from their own business TO 4
the business of the people Another /
emergency. different and vet indifferent |
in its elements. IS calling the strong |
peace governors away from their bust /
ness 10 the business OF the public, and /
when legislatures refuse to listen, they
manfUIly take the stump and talk straight (
into the eyes and ears of the voters (
themselves. Hughes has done Ii; and so /
has Deneen,
Also n Radical.
A definition was required by one of my
questions We were coming away from
Gov. Deneens official residence after !
luncheon and were walking through the |
sunshine, past dormant lawns and sleep /
ing trees, to his Office. II might" he /
gravely said, ''be classified as a progress |
sionist." Mr.. Roosevelt once glared at /
me with his hackneyed teeth and ex-
claimed: IT am a radical" The con- |
trast is not so much q matter Of language !
as Of temperaments. One man leaps to |
the goal; the other walks. And youth /
and strength and purpose abide in both I
Being a builder by instinct-even as /
the beaver. which gnaws and dams be- |
cause there is no help for it-Gov. Deneen. !
designedly, perhaps is creating, by the
business processes or his administration. /
a powerful faction that already has chal- |
lenged the supremacy Of Senator Will
lam Lorimer. the Republican boss of Illi-
nois. Young men are the ribs, the arm,
leg and thigh bones and the vertebral
column OF the new political creation.
Nothing has been said about II, but
over the border, In the State OF Indiana,
the Republican party Is being recon-
structed and modernized by Albert ].
Beverage. Patriarchs and prophets who
blossomed under Harrison and came to
seed with Fairbanks are stepping back
not TO say being pulled up-and giving
way TO men who can fight vigorously,
steadily, and effectively. Herbert S. Had
ley, gword-bearing youth with ideals, is
the governor OF HIS Commonwealth and
the leader of Republicanism in Missouri
Elsewhere in the Central West and in
the Northwest, spreading clear across
the continent, new captains, representing
the evolution of ideas. are turning a cor
ner in the forward march OF politics.
FOreefui and Pugnacious,
At six and forty Deneen. showing no
more than gray stripe at either temple
magnetic OF eye and robust in body. is
as fresh, forceful. and pugnacious as he
was at thirty. Lorimer, as the open ac-
cusatton runs, plotted his defeat ana the
election of Adlai z. Stevenson, & Demo-
crst. In the human nature OF things. by
the call Of his talents and under the
pressure of his Unborn convictions. De-
neen will originate, organize, and execute.
He will match the voters OF his party
against the active workers and the bosses.
There VIII be no dramatics. no voice
full bursts Of passion, but a silent and /;
tireless pursuit OF an ever present object.
Deneen e a practical morallst, hut he is {;
also a bulldog. He uneonscIousiy drew
his own picture when he took the Office {
Of States attorney in Chicago thirteen
years ago last December. !
First. the indicted man. so he prom
ised, would be brought to trial, when be-
lieved 10 be guilty, regardless of his re- I
iigion, politics, or social position. Next. I