The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-09-28
OLD TO THE Ne W
Changes in the Personnel Of the Uaited
States Senate From That
OF A FEW YEARS AGO

The Type of the Body Has. Under
gone Great Changes, and the Old
Senate Dominated by the Old
Guard Has Became Thing OF the
Past.
When former Senator Thomas Car
ter Of Montana died few days ago
attention was directed to the rapidity
with which the United States is
changing its personnel, says P. H.
MCGOWAN, the Washington CORES
pondent of the Columbia State. Mr..
MCGOWAN goes on to say:
At the present rate of change it
will be only few years until the
present senate has been almost en-
tirely reconstructed. Senator Car
ter's final term in the senate was
from 1905 until 1911. But the SEN
ate, as he knew it, is an utterly chan
ged body.
In the first place the senate with a
few strong men of the old guard, like
Aldrich and Hale and Allison has
passed out of existence. The proba-
bilities are that it will never return.
A new and different type of public
men have come upon the scene. 1t
will never be possible again for q
man OF the Aldrich type to hold the
senate in the hollow of his hand and
vote it almost as he wants to.
The old regime is gone. 1t began
to totter soon after Senator La Fol-
lette came to the senate and started
to talk to empty seats, while his old
guard colleagues scoffed at him from
the clerk rooms. BY himself, La Fol
lette couldn't pry the old guard loose
but it wasn't long until he got help.
Now, the insurgents who believe in
the things that La Toilette believes
in hold the balance of power in the
upper house.
The house Of representatives is
generally thought of as the body of
congress in which these is the most
change, in which service Is the fleet
ing and transitory But, as mat
| ter of fact, it Is little If any more
given to change than the senate, in
these modern days of the direct pri-
mary and the war on the member
who is suspected of having affiliations
with any but the common people.
If one wants to gain an impression
of how the senate is changing let him
pick up a congressional directory of a
few years ago and see how many OF
the men then In the senate are left.
Take for instance, the directory OF
the first session of. the Sixtieth con-
gress. Examine the edition printed at
at the beginning Of the year 1908
That is only about three years and a
half ago.
That nearly half of the senator's
then in service saould now be in their
graves or retired from congress
seems almost unbelievable. Yet
such is the fact. Of the 80 members
of the senate 40 are no longer in that
body. The roll of those retired by
death or by the exigencies Of politics
l., a stirring one. Look it over. The
venerable and Well-beloved Allison is
dead. Nelson f. Aldrich, confronted
if not by defeat at least by discredit
ed leadership in the ser "te, is in re-
tirement. Teller of Colorado is dead
Frye of Maine is dead. Hale has re-
tired because he saf a political storm
coming which he could not breast.
Daniel of Virginia, in his day one of
the most gallant figures that wore the
gray, is dead.
So is Proctor of Vermont, one
time secretary of war. Hansbrough
is retired. Burrows of Michigan was
driven out of public life by the over
whelming vote of his constituents in
favor of a younger and more pro-
gressive man. Uncle Steve Elkins
of West Virginia has gone to his grave
Clay, of Georgia, one of the most
earnest men who ever sat in the SEN
ate is no more. Foraker, because OF
Roosevelt, is out OF office. McEneT,
of Louisiana died in the harness.
Thos. Collier Platt, too, is dead.
Money, Beveridge, Depew, kean,
Scott, Taliaferro-all we'll known fig
ures about Washington for years. and
OF influence in the senate-have been
succeeded and not Of their own voli-
ton, by other men.
The magnificent Dolliver, coverted
from regularity into Jealous progress
sivism, came to tragic end. Bailey
is still in the senate, but has declar-
ed his intention to quit. McLaurln
OF Mississippi and kittredge of South
Dakota both are dead, and so is Lati-
mer of South Carolina.
Ankeny of Washington, Fulton of
Oregon, Hopkins of Illinois. Long of
Kansas, McCreary Of Kentucky, Dick
OF Ohio, are additions to the list of
the retired. Knox left the senate to
enter the cabinet, and, gossip says,
would be glad if he could throw off
the unhappy burdens of his office and
orce more be. senator.
Bulkely, Of Connecticut, was beat
en-. So was Burkett of Nebraska.
Flint quit to practice law in Los
Angeles. Hemenway of Indiana wa!