The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-03-10
PLATT'S LONG
CAREER ENDED
EX-SENATOR DIES UNEXPECTEDLY
IN HIS APARTMENTS IN NEW
YORK CITY.
POLITICIAN TO The VERY LAST
COnkling Alliance, Gold Standard Fight,
Nomination of Roosevelt Three
Memorable Events.
POLITICIAN TO The VERY LAST
BRIGHT'S DISEASE CAUSE OF DEATH

ed states senator lhOmas toluer Ilatt,
Republican leader of the state New York
for years and intensely Interested in the
Republican party from its organization
IN 1856, dled Unexpectedly Sunday after
noon a. ! clock IN his apartments, l3}
West Eleventh street He would have
been u years old if he had lived until
next July.
The direct cause of Mr.. Flats death
was acute Bright's disease For a mum.
Der OF years he had suffered with palsy
OF the legs, which ntCessltatcd his Oc-
cupying wheel chair most OF the time
10 Be Buried by First Wife.
Late in the evening his body was taken
to the home OF his son, Frank, ~ West
Sevcuty-fourth street, and on Tuesday
1t will bo taken to Oswegu. where tu-
neral services will be held in the Pres
byteriau church, and Plat will be buried
IN the Churchyard beside the first Mrs.
Ilatt. who was his cousin.
\ political writer some time ago thus
cited what he considered the three great
events in PIatt'a career.
Alliance with tOnklnS IN night on
Garfield and their Joint resignation from
The Senate
Fight for the gold standard plank in
the st. Louis platform in 1896.
Forcing the nomination Of Roosevelt
lbI inc vice IiIiSHltIfA, dll biA with
made Roosevelt president
With his retirement from the Senate
in 1903 Plutt completed over half Il cen
fury Of political activity. For nearly
half of this time he was the undisputed
boss Ut the Republican party of New
York state, but he was known as the
easy boss
Platt had many storms in his domestic
life On October II, 1903, he married
Mrs. Julian T. Janeway. Mrs. Jane
ways first husband was Il travelling man
named Snow, from whom she was di-
vorrgl two years after their marriage,
Later She married DR.. Theodore Jane
way of New York Shortly after DR..
Janeway's death in 1891 Mrs. Jancway
met Plat.
Illness Cuts Short Yale Career.
Thomas Collier Plat was born in Os-
wego \. y, July -, 1888. His collie
giutr career at Yale was cut short by i'll
ness. not however. bcfOr" he had taken
a prize in Latin Believing he was fitted
for a literary career, he took to writing
First he wrote poetry-loye rhymes, at
that-to some maid named Stella. He
never would tell who She was. Then he
had charge Of column Of "Wasps and
Sliugs' in st, Nicholas, paper that
lived les, than year under the
direction uf himself and partner.
From the editors desk the future sen
at"r went to thr prescription counter IN
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was the sauvium snu,turUm Of the mom-
hcrs Of the firm, hut chiefly Of Plat
II Wa4 the scene Of the genesis of the
politician who half century later be-
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nf President HAYES. and. with -rnnt mot.