The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-07
PRAISE PLArrS LOYALTY.
Depe~ says No Man Ever Had ." FirU .
Grin on ISIS Party OrganlIatION.

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wAsHISGIcN. March s.-SenAtor Dspew
expressed 'he general feeling when he
observed this evening on hearing the
news Of Mr.. Platts deth that Many
people made the mistake oE estimating
senator. Plat 10y his last four years. IL
was about that long ago that he suffered
n stroke and WIS unfair to jIdg' hIm
10y anything that has happened IN the
period since then"
senator Depew declared that Mr.. Platt's
leaderShip OF the Republican party 81
New York had been a series 81 unhroken
successes and that no man ever had -
firm "A grip on a party organization.
This was due. senator Dope~ thought,
to Mr.. Platt's loyalty To his political
frieNde
or the many tributes plid TO Mr.. Plat
NV political friends tonight. perhaps
the most interesting was that from
Representative ! Sloat Fas<e,' Mr..
Fsssst, was dining with several New
York Republican leaders az the homo
OF Representative Parsons. Mi 81 the
g'lests sad that Mr. Fas-ett was clp-~r
TO Mr. Plat than any other man IN New
YORK Mr.. Fassett said he believed he
had Mr. Platt's confidence To- q greater
degree perhaps than any other New York
Republican.
He was the most absolute power m
politics that I have ever known SAID
Mr. fassett. No leader N any state
IN the Union ever had s,.Ch rpoWsT. lie
knew more men In politics Than any one
and what they stood for and the triI..
measure Ot the,r value "a a political con
veutIon. A number II mcn have been
Q hsa
party 10 the single GO ~ standard IN m"
platform of th" ~ IsSn- convention
~ 1907 hut ! believe that mon who we're
rSsally On the InSid" ami poSse~~s.d knoWl.
edge OF what took place AT hat con s.tltiOu
viii accord To the late Senator Plat greater
credit for bringing about that result than
to any other one individual
Mr. HAsaett said that Nr Platt had
dictated the nomination of every Re
publican Governor Of New York FROM
SIS down md including Gov Hughes
Tie gave Mr. Piatt credit for being the
father of Greater New York and concluded
by saying that in spite Of the criticism
he ped on the late SenstOr Mr.. Piatt's
influence on the New Nork Iecisla tire
had nearly always hcen exerted in the
interest ~ good legislation
Most OF the new York Republicans
had u word OF praise for Mr. Platt's
LOYALTY 20 his friend. in politics and Tor
his ahhty IS leader Much of what
There are not many mon IN the United
States Senate who wsrr conternporar,a. +,
OF Senator Plat when le Was m his
ascendancy A. political h,-ider Among
them are such men a. Senators Cullom ~ /
Illinois, Hale 81 Maine lodge ~ Mas
Sachuaetts. Elkns ~ West Virginia
AldTich OF Rhode leland end Burrows y,
Michigan senator Aldrich - out Of
town Senators JuliouI and burrows
spoke feelingly tonight ~ their former
colleague aud paid high compliments
10 hrs power a. = factor IN national poll
tics IN the period from lass up 10 and in
Guiding the convention of 1919
senator Platt'z last years of service
IA the senate were not such a. 10 leave
an impression either on cOntsmporaneols
legislation or upon she minds Of the men
who served with him. lie was 50 an
Ieebled in body that he was incapable Of
taking very active part He seldom I
figured IN tho proceedings of tho Senate
Except occasionally 20 rise IN th,. morn Z
nR hour and make "a brief verbal report
rom tho Committee on Printing. ~ which
b" was chairman Ne had to 10 a.
'isted from his COMMITTEES r0ort 80 his
,eat IN the senate chamber when the
sessions began. and then q the rlos. Of
he session or whenever he got rsady
q go one Of his clerks ar a Senate en-
Dom.
he made HE home at the ArIin Kson
Hotel NJ 20 tho time 81 his last marriage
md then returned 20 the hotel again after
10 had separated from his second wife
He went 20 the hotel 20 live in che davu
Then u was TO Washington what the
fifth Avenue Hotel was TO New York.
gathering place fer Republican poli-
tcians, He remained there becausa OF
us friendship for Fra NIX Bennett, one ~
ne mann gers. who later went To New
FORK 10 manage the Gotham