Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-03

The Hon. Boise Penrose is the tit- ular leader of the United States senate. the successor of Nelson w.. Aldrich in that station, perhaps inc most skillful political manipuiatoT the senate ever knew. In reality Aidrich was leader of both sides and for at least 9 doZen years ne was in the United States senate. Of course a rebellion was bound to overtake his absolute sway, as b did that of Diaz, and when Deliver made his brilliant campaign Of in- surgency. AldTich saw his reign was over and retired. taking MT Hale with him. Aldrich was not only the United States senate his last two terms. but he was the United States congress, ruling the house as ef- fectuaily as he did the senate. Noth- ing could become a law that he op- posed; everything became the law that he approved.
 Penrose is unfoTtunate in that he halls from the Plum Orchard, which is the state Of Pennsylvania, and he was trained in the political school of Addition, Division and Silence. Not that he is personally corrupt, not that he would grOw rich iE the public service. He IS too honest and proud for that; but Peurose actually ! believed that certain interests should be granted privileges and advantages ill order that they may take care of the people IL is the reudaIisna of arms. The Steel trust could ask nothing of the republt
 E- n be firm in the belief that he was doing his country and the American people a great and benefieient ser vice. There is popular belief that ! Penrose is only a brutal ward poll tician 1t is mistake. He IS
 man Of great ability. highly educated and admirably cultured. If Peprose had been reared in Iowa. or Mime sota, long ago he would have been looked pon as presidential timber But his lines were cast in Pennsyl vania, and in Philadelphia at that He fetched and carried for the old Cameron machine. and when Matt Quay gTasped the crown h. made Penrose his vizier, his chief or-staI. Quay died and the croHr fell to Penrose, and he is just as good as any Of them and far better than many of them.
 ! Quay was a vicious character He had profound contempt for hu
 man nature It IS possible that he held some woman to be chaste; it is certain that he believed in nt man to be honest. He speculated i' the public funds, was indicted upof Q charge that reached to the dignits Of a felony, and stood ais tFia
 without shame and with insolenee : He, too. was a man of very grea
 ability and much culture. In his Ii
 Frary were thousands of volumes treating of the individuality ana 1 the career Of Napoleon B7naUara and it Is possible that Quay was better versed iR the history and character of the COrsiean demtgot
 than any other American Of his ol any other day. And in fact he prac
 ficed in politics Napoleonic tactics as no other American ever did. ant t is to be hoped, as no other Amer
 iean ever will
 Ben Harrison was nominated fol | president in 1888 with the assent, i
 not the approval oi Quay He wal
 elected because Quay managed th' campaign and had at command UT 2 limited boodle. fat fried ont of thu } protected interests. With NaI.oleonh } genius Quay saw that the eiaetioi gas to be decided by the votes O men who lived within a radius 0 . five miles of the New York cit.
 hall lie directed that the boodii ? bc poured into Brooklyn. and El [ carried the election right there oi 3 Long Island.
 Harrison had been defeated fo - governor Of Indiana in 1876 D. Blue jeans" Williams; but in 1Ss ? he got Joseph 3. MeD0aald's seat il 5 the United States senate. The da | he wenK into the body James C Blaine went out Of lt. and thos ]. two men were practical stranger E. when Harrison appointed Blaine SC,
 retary of state in March, IS6. s Neither dN Quay nor Tom Plat r know Harrison. Had they and. Blain
 known him as well the summer c Q 1 1888 as they did the summer C ., 1889, Pen Harrisca WOi.ld aot hay 3 heen Dominated for president in 1sS