The Washington herald., 1911-05-28
By JAMES b. MORROW.

A slender man-oldlooking. even though
but orty-four-careessly dressed. with a
long, thin face and a name of disorderly
gray hair, was addressing a meeting Of
celebration and justification. THE people
of Iowa. he said. his voice piping high.
will never look into William S. Kenyon's S
pocket for an explanation of his vote on
any measure assed upon by the Senate
Of the United States"
A burst of cheers showed that the state
ment of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
was accepted as truth and not an amia-
BILE trick of rhetoric. After a prolonged
anI obstinate contest, the legislature of
Iowa, on the siXty-seventh ballot, had
elected the successor OF Jonathan P. Dol
liver. Men came together, therefore, to
jubilate.
In the slang Of Washington. the new
Senator had been President Tafts trust
buster. He had spent the summer of 1910
in battling against the Chicago beef
packers. Wherefore, he and Landis reach
ed conclusions concerning each other
Kenyon feelingly declares that 1t is an
outrage on patriotism and courage to call
Lands an anarchist merely because he
fined the Standard Oil Company $780, 900
for violating the law that penalties re-
hating. The sentence from the speech of
express himself, briefly conveys his meas
ure of Kenyon.
VIII Specialize In Corporations.
A young man. almost a boy when COM
pared with some of his antediluvian as
sociates. Senator-Kenyon will spend a
season in preparation. in learning the
technicalities of legislation. and will then
begin his career as Senatorial specialist
in railroads and other large corporations
Those who know him say that he will
become one of the great leaders OF Con-
gress-not leader of radicalism, but of
progress. He is. it is likewise asserted.
a political economist before he is a poll
tician.
Back in the days when Doll.ver was
living Kenyon used to walk the fields and
woods with that fine wit and orator The
two men were agriculturists together,
owning land on the same creek and plan-
ming prodisious crops for the future and
ELECTRIC lights for the trees along the
water
-Mah boy" Doliiver would say in
voice deep as thunder, sweeping his arm
toward the timber. this is park and
not farm and the loneliest spot in
America" So would open a dialogue
about blooded swine, the price of corn,
deep and shallow plowing, tax on in
comes, and the philosophy of a protected
tariff. Cicero thus taught Gotta, not in
the Tusculan Villa of Crassus, but out in
the open country, four miles from Fort
Dodge. I'm those days." Senator Ken
yon said to me in an enthusiasm not
yet dead, Il thought Dolliver some day
Would be President of the United States"
--&n stature-being six feet and an inch
IN heisht-and in bodily measurements
Kenyon Is much like John Sherman. His
eyes ara very blue. His face is strong,
refined, and handsome. A touch of gray
ts tsnoticeable at the edges and corners OF
his head. His mouth is large and oratori-
cal; his nose managerial and reflective
One leaves him with the conviction that
he 10 sound man Intellectually and
ethically and that he win work hard in
the Senate for Justice to all the classes.
IT am . progressive Republican" he
told me. ''bnt am an ardent friend Of
PreEidert Taft. who Is misunderstcod by
. good many people because he hasn't
the talent. let us say. for ADVERTISING
htmsslf and his works."