The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-07
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End Is Unexpected, AL
though Following Long
Illness.
ACHIEVED FAME
AS Poll ITIC AL BOSS
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Was Twice Elected to Senate,
Resigning First Time With
Roscoe Conkling-It Was
He Who Forced Roose-
velt Into Vice-Prcsi-
dency.

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New York, March 6.-Thomas Collier
Plat, formerly United States Senator
from New York, and for many years
national figure in Republican poli-
| tics died at AS o'clock this evening
In the apartments of Mr. and Mrs.
Gustav Adele, on West Eleventh Street,
from whom he had rented three rooms
for the last four years. Mrs. Abele
had been his nurse.
DR.. Paul AuterbrIdgc, his physician.
said tonight that the cause OF death
was chronic and acute Brights dis
ease. The body was removed tonight
to the home of Frank Fl. Platt. his
son, and will be taken on Tuesday to
Owego, N. ", the Senator's birthplace.
where 1t will be buried. Funeral SER
vices will be held Wednesday at the
Presbyterian Church In Owego.
The end was startlingly sudden An
hour before the Senator died his two
sons. Frank and Edward. with their
families. and his widowed son, Harry.
with the latter's daughter, Charlotte.
and son. Sherman, had left the house
after their usual Sunday visit. The
Senator said at the time that he felt
very well and thought he would read
the Sunday papers. At 8 o'clock he
was taken with fainting spell and
DR.. Auterbridge was hurriedly called.
The family was notified and returned
in haste
Relatives at Bed.ide.
Mr.. Plat recovered from his first
lapse, but sank into nnconsciousn ess
again at half-pastss s and died fifteen
minutes later. The relatives were all
at the bedside. sss
Only last week Senator Plat was
at his office downtown. For several
years he had been in feeble health.
and lately the use of his legs had al
most deserted him. but his condition
until to-day was not looked upon as
physician called upon him daily.
In spite OF his frsh ene4 ~; z took a n
active Interest In affairs. and refused
TO neglect his business undl the die
tates OF nature imposed a rest. He
was out Of he'd at o'clock every
morning and always early at his Office
Ranked With Quay.
Thomas Collier Platt. the easy boss"
of earlier and brighter days. was for
ads 1eadsr yearf q Is o state but sure
national, politics shoulder to shoulder
with men of such rank and reputa-
tion as the late Matthew Stanley
men OF exceptional intellectual attain
ments. and both turned them. with
signal success. to party organization.
quay died still power Plat out
late years out Of touch with the nov
ing spirit OF events.
81 Twice in his life Plat was the CEN
ire of the national stage-once when
from the United states Senate and was
instantly nicknamed "A1e T 90" Platt,
and once when he induced Theodore
Roosevelt to run for Vice. President
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Roosevelt's better Judgment. and in
the face OF his repeated declarations
that nothing could induce him to ac-
cept the nomination.
of Platt's skill in persuasion and ma
nipulation. or of the irony that mock
ed his success on this occasion. Nc
Rnley was sh1t i6a Rooseye1t became
minion in the State lapsed into Sc
t,nillty. Ills bodily strength declined
rapidly. He mado a second marriage
which ended n aod the and ne WAS
lin government. employ. for divorce, on
the strength OF a third marriage never
proved to have taken place,
Plntt was first elected to- tho Senate.
In 1851. He and his colleague, Conk-.
ling, became cmbroiled with President
Garfield In n bitter controversy over,
appointments. Finding themselves In
a hopeless deadlock, Platt and Conk-5
ling both resigned.
Elected Second Time.
In 1890 he was elected second
time to the United States Senate, sue
ceeding David B.Hill.
Platt was born Inv Owego, Tioga
county, New York. on July Is, ls33,5
Of puritan ancestry. FIe entered Yale
College with the class otB1S49, n but left
IN the middle OF his junior year be-
cause OF III health. A brief appren-
ticeship at literature was succeeded
by more consenial alaeRiploymentsinb in bus
lie prospered in Michigan in the
lumber trade. returned to Owego and
became president OF the Tioga Ma
tional Bank, was chosen a director and
later president of the Southern Gem
was elected general manager and seo-
retarys of the United States Express
Company, Of which company he hes
came president In l so, so remaining
until his death.
,By his first marriage to Ellen Bar
stow, OF a Owego. he had three sons
Frank H., Edward T. and Harry B.
ii lie had been in feeble health for
some years before his death.
Was Unique Character,
washington, D. c., March 6.--News
OF the death Of former senat Plat
was received by his friends IN both
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