Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Senator Who Always
Listened
BY "HOlIand."

One Of the famous Civil War gov
errors of the South was Joseph f.
Brown, of Georgia, father OF the pres
ent Georgia governor Of that name.
Governor Brown, the elder, an ardent
Seccessionist, seized the Georgia forts
before his state seeded, raised nm
army of 100, 900 old men and boys to
prevent General Sherman from
marching through the state on his
way to the sea, threatened to have
Georgia secede from the Confederacy
should CONSUMPTION be enforced in
the state. supported General grant
for the Presidency, ran for United
States Senator as a Republican, later
returning to the Democratic party and
being sent by It to the United States
Senate in 1880.
1t was while he was In Washington
that I made the acquaintance or GOV
ernor Brown. He was man OF patri-
archal appearance. He wore the beard
of the prophet; his white hair hung
I'm quaint and tight little ringlets
about his ears and the back or ms
head. The lenses of his spectacles
were so constructed as to make hls
ewes appear abnormally large. HIS
dress no matter how hot the weather,
was always the conventional 1rock
coat black trousers, and the old
fashioned dickey collar, and he al
ways looked cool.
he had been in the Senate only
short time when it was discovered
that he was not only patent
and faithful listener to every speech
that was made, but that he also
seemed TO take real pleasure IN CIV
ing heed to the dullest OF utterances'
ITpon one occasion a Senator from
FLORIDA who had the reputation OF
immediately emptying the Senate
chamber when he arose to speak, de-
livered an address OF nearly lnIee
hours duration with Senator Brown
as his only listener. and the tlorolah;
early in his opening sentences, nAeu
his gaze upon his brother from
Georgia and kept It there until ne hau
rid himself of his ponderous thougnts.
The next day ] met Senator broWn'
"senator." | said "you paid the Sen
ator from Florida a very great coui-
tesy in listening patiently TO MS
speech -, -,
white heard and looked calmly at me
for a moment.
"Not patiently" he said. AZ last;
81 was greatly interested in the
speech of the Senator from Florida
and received much information from
him. I do not care at all for the
flourish of rhetoric, and If | am ever
impatient with a speaker II is when
II is apparent that he is trying to dis
play oratorical gifts Oratory Is all
right upon the stump, but it is not In
place I'm the Senate, and I am glad to
observe that the rhetorical bOmDast
and the classical quotations which IN
othe, wears characterized much OF the
spealxing in the Senate no longer pre-
vail The speech that counts-the
kind of speech that should always be
made I'm the Senate-is the one that
informs. Such speeches may seem
dry at times TO others, but never 10
me. and from listening to Just sucn
speeches since I took my seat ] nave
gained great fund of valuable In
formation. There Is no Senator wn'
csflsaot teach re something s,pop''
It may be said of me in time mat
have been able to teach some OF III,
fellow Senators something's leas'
to give them some information ant
as long as 7 am a member OF the sen
ate. I shall. unless circumstance
over which | have no control proven
il listen to every speech made anc
nav earnest heed to it. even though
may chance to be the only auditor II
the Senate chamber.
Senator Brown was faithful TO ina
resolution until his service was END
ed. II Is, perhaps. a record unlqu
I'm the history Of the upper house o
the national legislature.
Copyright 1910. by p. J. EDWARDS
All right reserved)
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