Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-07
WHAT TYPE OF SENATOR WOULD
EACH ASPIRANT BE.

Il
EACH ASPIRANT BE.
There's a new view of senatorial
duties on the part of the public,
there's new style of senatorial cam
paigns, and there is an ever increas-
ing number of a new style of senat-
ors in the upper house at Washing
ton. That is about the tenor of num-
erous articles appearing in the mag
azines and newspapers these days. and
it is about the conclusion reached by
writer in Munsey's who deals with
The New Regime in the Senate"
Just at this time when Georgia is
in the throes of a senatorial selection
it is of more than ordinary interest
to know that a different type of SEN
ators is required by public opinion
from the old class who ornamented the
halls of that venerable body for three
quarters of a century, and especially
during the past twenty years. Dig
nifty. comfort, acquiescence in the set
tied order of things, Nle conservation
of property, heredity and special priv
iIege, are going by the boards, this
and other writer's on the topic say,
and the senators who are breaking
into the American House of Lords are
breezy, determined, vigorous, scrap
by, not devoted to precedent or GUS
tom, in touch with the actual aspira-
tons of the people, and inclined to
serve the people rather than the cor
porations. The writer in Munsey sum-
marizes the difference between the
old and the new, or rather the com
ing, regimes, as follows;
The old Senate was composed of
amiable gentlemen who found that
the badge of senatorial distinction
gratifyingly compared with their no
tons of personal dignity. 1t was a
nice thing to be a senator.
Under the old regime, gentlemen
with political ambitions fought to get
into the senate.
Under the new, the people fight to
put men into the senate.
Under the old regime, attainment
of senatorial seat was the gratifica-
ton of ambition.
Under the new, it is merely the
achievement of an opportunity to
crafty ambition.
Distinction was the inspiration and
and motive with which men used to
seek the toga
Service is the inspiration which to-
day moves men to seek the oppor-
tunity of senatorial usefulness.
Men used to fight to get into the
senate; now they go into the senate
to fight. The fighting used to be the
means and the senatorship the end;
now, the senatorship is the means anC
the fighting the end"
This sort of reading is inclined tC
make one sit up and wonder what the
senatorial candidates at Atlanta pro
pose doing if they should get to Wash
ington. Where does each and every
one of them stand? Is he seeking the
seat for the honor it carries with it
fnr a n1no Mt Of off;
cial high life at the capitol, with itI
social enjOyments, or is he seeking i
for the service he can do the public
not only of Georgia, but of the ma.
ton at large, in breaking down de
partmental abuses, in restoring the
government into the hands of thu
people, in eliminating injustices ant
eXtrayagances wherever found to ex
list, in uncovering and exposing
wrongdoing and enforcing punishment
of wrCngdoers? What is their pur
pose in seeking the seat left vacan
by Clay?
Georgia has not had much aggres
siveness in its senatorial delegation
in recent years. It's progressivenes
has been of a mild type. OF wha
caliber, in this respect, are the can
didates now before the elective bod.
at Atlanta? Are they, to quote from
the Munsey article, seeking the graf
ification of an ambition, or are the.
seeking opportunity for service of al
unselfsh character in behalf of tn,
people?