Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09

ocratic side. Not altogether, for there were numerous exceptions, but in large degree it was a senate of briga- diers, who through several admins trations had been fighting battles in- cdent to federal legislation.
 Responded to Title of "General."
 They were men of more intense par : tisanship than now prevails, and they Iwere also men of ripe experience and breadth of view. When Cleveland had taken the oath and settled down for quiet Sunday in the White house ! the Southern brigadiers had come into their own in the senate. There were such men as Isham G. Harris, of Ten nessee, fiery and aggressive, who ruled a while as president pro tenn pore in that congress; John T. Nor gan, of Alabama, probably the brain fest and most marvellous man of them all; Matt w. Ransom, who just after the war had been refused admission to the senate; John B. Gordon, who commanded one wing of Lees army at Appomattox; F.. M. Cockrell, James 1 z. George, a constitutional lawyer, and, all in all, a very wise old owl" Edward C. Walthall, George G. Vest and M c. Butler, who in the Spanish war was given high command by President Mckinley. Every man of these Southern senators and more who might be mentioned responded to the title of general and wore that title honestly.
 They were accustomed to discipline, had come up through fire, and stood i four square to the political issues of J the hour. When the failure of three newly created states-Montana, Wash ngton and Wyoming-to elect sena- tors for three existing vacancies had given control of the senate over to the Democrats, these Southern brigadiers- and also number of their seasoned Northern colleagues moved swiftly and surely to their proper stations. Twenty years ago this coming month there was no hull abaloo in the public prints about sen ate reorganization. The neW-fangled methods were not then in vogue. Junior senators sat quietly iii their seats for the first two years of thelr terms. The rule of seniority was not questioned. There were no Hoke Smiths and no Tom Smiths and no Cm' Cores watching out for the } latest senatorial arrivals and button holing them into acquiescence. Short ] time was required for the parleys that ) would convey a general understanding about the reorganization arrange ments. 7 Have All Passed Away. M : Not } single Democratic senator o1 that period now survives in congress Augustus o. Bacon, of Georgia, ano
 Thomas $. Martin, of Virginia, the
 two Democratic seniors, walked up t(
 the presiding officers desk in 1S9o
 just when the erstwhile majority was
 shading into long time minority
 main but two Republicans out of tha
 minority of 1S93-1S95 which com
 prsed many men of national reputa
 ton. They are Gallinger, of Nev
 Hampshire, and Henry Cabot Lodge.
 A new school of politicians is to tn
 fore. From the South are still som
 senators of the Democratic type tha
 logically ensued in that conservativ
 section. They would normally hay
 the same rights as elders that South
 ern senators Of the early 90s enjoyed
 Tillman and Culberson and Bacon an
 Simmons hold the same colgns
 seniority, but they and their sSouther colleagues are by no means all con
 servatives. A group of new Democrat
 are forcing the old-timers into tn
 backsround Their captain is Hok Smith, of Georgia, and his lleuteI ants are Gore, O'Gorman and Kerr Smith has been in the senate littl more. than a year; OCorman an Kern two years. They will hardl take nominal command at the bi coommittee> tables, but at their back are some thirty (out of forty y-nine) SC called progressive Democratic Wilso senators, and in all probability thl quartet of newcomers will prevai They will dominate the senate, enJo the favorable recognition of the il coming Democratic president, and e operate with Wilson leaders in tl