The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-05
STATESMEN STEP
 INTO OBLIVION Old Guard Passes With Closing of Congress STANDPATTERS FEW Senators Aldrich, Hale, Burrows. Depew, Dick, Warner, Flint, Beveridge, Money and Others
 No More at Capital
By SIDNEY EsPEY

| senate Will step rom ifft idihs ol iSsi' lators and disappear from public life Men grown hoary in the service Of their country, men whose names have been linked with some of the greatest national issues of the past decade, and whose long service in the Senate has earned TOT them membership in what has come 10 be known in newspaper parlance as the
 Senate club of mililonaires,' bade good bye to their sinecures and friends and stepped from the bright light Of puohcity to the obscurity of private hfe-imany of them never to return.
 The passing of the ''old guard and the coming of the new, placing the bal ance of power in the hands of the Virile Insurgents" is little less than epocn- making in the congressional chronicles of Washington.
 The ranks of the stand-patters have been mown down, one by one senator Aldrich abdicated his throne months ago, knowing full well that the popular storm of protest against his rule had grown too strong for him or any group or cen tralzed interests to resist. Senator Hale of Maine, the autocrat of autocrats' whose arrogance has become capitol tradition, also leaves the seat which ne has held for more than 30 years. senator Lodge had a narrow escape from defeat for reelection. Senator Burrows of Michigan. one of the most faithful of the "old guard" received the surprise of his life when he failed to be returned to hts seat. He had come to regard his seat in the Senate oligarchy as birth right.
 In the new Senate" there will be Il democrats, 3S regular republican, and IS insurgents" An analysis of this line LID will show that a combination Of tue democrats with seven republican lnsur- gents-a combination which has been ef- fected before to good advantage and can be effected again--will control the Sem ate It Is not too much 10 say therefore, that the democrats can undertake tariii revision without the fear of obstruction tactics on merely partisan lines They will control the next House by an over whelming majority and can control tn" Senate on all progressive measures.
 Washington will miss some of the pig tlresoue figures which pass out or her ken today. Senators Aldrich. Hale anu Burrows will be joined in retirement by Senator Charles Dick Of Ohio, Victlin Of the uemOCTdllc lcDu5iANc III eiAO '>N~'N eve State: Senator William Warner of Missouri. the idol of the Grand Army or the Republic; Senator Flint of California, who relinouished his seat because ne could not afford fight for reelection; Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who mas been a brilliant leader of progressive leg-' islation in his F years Of servlcet seha- tor Fernando De Soto Money of. MISSES sippi. who gives way to another eloquent
 Iola W1lllAn1S- tor RurSett of Nebraska, Senator Nathan Ray Scott of West Virginia Senator
 xean of New Jersey, Senator Piles anu Senator Depew of New York, who Tell before the democratic wave of last NO vember. m
 Some of the new senators are famlliar figures in the capital. Representative Charles E. Townsend of Michigan, WHO succeeded Julius Caesar Burrows, is one of the strongest men on the republican side of the House He has been a spe- oialist on railroad legislation, and has drawn up some of the most enective measures providing for federal contfoi of rates capitalization and bond issues. John w Kern of Indiana. who takes sen ator Beveridge's seat, IS known as the democratic vice presidential candidate in 19Os and as the possessor ol tne oh, set of whiskers which rivals that or T
 States supreme court.
 Representative Miles Poindexter of Washington, the successor Of senator Piles. is probably the most uncompromis- ing radical in Congress. As an antl-cor- porationist he is even more advanced III | his attitude than LaFollette or Bristow' | Former Gov. George P. Mclean of Con necticut. who will fill the seat of Sen | ator Bulkeley is a strong progressive i democrat. Atlee Pomerene of Ohio IS | young democrat, entirely unknown to | Washington, but of high reputation m | his own state. He climbed into the sen ate because of the support of Governor Harmon and, it is predicted, will make an excellent record. He Is the successor | of Senator Dick. James A. Reed or Ms souri is a tyro in politics, succeeding Sen | ator William Warner. He is brilliant criminal law pleader, and is known fa- | njjisrty as "the' dingling bell of Kansas | City.' His handling of words, his soft | ar era shing sentences, his appeals in a i piaintive voice or castisation in tones l of thunder are much admired in his own state. How he will exercise his talent | in senatorial debate Is matter of spec | ulation.
 \ In Gilbert H. Hitchcock of Nebraska. who takes Senator Burkett's seat, the Senate gets its second newspaper man. | the first being Senator Lafayette Yodng | of Iowa. Hitchcock Is at present mem her of the House of Representatives. and l! is a progressive democrat. Still another | newspaper man comes in the person or Luke Lea of Tennessee, the successor of Senator Frazier, typical southerner of 1 the old school. He promises to be one of | the most effective and influential of the yoi4nger democrats In the Senate.
 Senator Aldrchs successor is Henry F. Iippitt, a high protectionist, who will | continue the Aldrich tradition. He Is a
 wealthy wool manufacturer, who had | r,,ch to do with the making of the Ding law and Payne tariff bills. Senator Hale
 gives way to fighting democrat from | Maine, Charles F. Johnson, who has done much to break up the solid ranks Of re 1 nubliean,sm in New England. John D. | works is the insurgent senator-elect l from California. He has been vigorous onnonent of Southern Pacific railroad l Nomination in that state. The factional eght which finally elected James E. Mar | t,ne as ecnator from New Jersey, sue | ceediug Senator Kean, is current politi- | cal history.
 Political fortune robbed the republicans | of one, Senate seat from West Virginia | and death robbed them of the other. The | ,ate stephen Benton EllSns Is succeeded hv w. E. Chiffon and Senator Scott's
 place will be filled by c. W, Watson Jttlo is known in Washington of these men, ] senate and the oligsrchy that governed its policies for quarter of a century | ,s now A thing of the past
 
 Mrs. w. c. Scott continues to manipu- ,,te the worries at the Best Her playing is phenomenal and alone worth the paltry