The Washington herald., 1914-07-06
PENROSE GETS
Colonies GOAT
Use Me Again as Target. :
Ha Warns, @andI'I Letthe
Cat Out of the Bag"
MOOSE SHY AT THREAT
Keystone Republicans Defiance to
7. R. Discourases Progressives
in Other States.
BY FRANCIS r. GEssNER.

New York, July SIT was remarked ir
connection with the coming back of
Foraker that other statesmen who have
gone out for a time have returned &c
power, thanks to a reaction of senti-
ment, and Tom Platt's case was cited.
He and Conk1ing left the Senate after
their quarrel with Garfield thirty-three
years ago and failed to achieve vindica-
tiou from. the legislature at Albany.
Fifteen years later Plat came to the
Senate again and during the interim had
rT"t up the strongest political machine
I! Republican party had ever known in
Now York. So good and strong II was
that the memory of it remains today. and
there is yearniug for one like it by the
faithful party leaders who assemble each
week to plan a building up Of things for
this years campaign
The reaction for Plat was wholly po-
htical as he was never hardly in touch
with the people, but he had captains
of ten and captains of hundreds who
knew how to do the personal-reach act
and how to stiffen up an organization,
whether in a back township or the back
room of a grocery in Manhattan.
We all recall in Washington hot others
than Tom Platt have come back after
a period of enforced or preferred exile,
and there was always a demonstration
of personal regard and interest out of the
ordinary in honor of such returns to pow
er. There was Galusha A. Grow. of Penn
sylvania, who had ben a famous figure in
the House before and during the war. He
had also been Speaker and big enough
to be considered for the Presidential nom-
ination. He dropped out for several
years and then was discovered" in re-
tirement, brought out with a whirl and
flourish and sent to Congress again as
member at large.
Case of Gen. Keifcr.
This was the political fortune also of
that fine old soldier, Gen. ]. Warren|
Keifer, who won a major generals straps
in the civil war and came to Congress in
1876. He continued six terms serving as
speaker one term and then retired. The
Spanish war stirred his fighting blood
again and he was once more a major gen.
erl with service that aroused his old dis
trict to again name him for Congress and
he came three terms more. even though
he had reached the three score and ten
mark. He is now seventy-eight years old
and the wopder is that he does not again
take up the Congressional proposition.
With Philadelphia only two hours from
New York there is a frequent running
over of political people who are never
weary of telling how Senator Penross
cleaned up things in the primary of a
month ago. This week they had a new |
topic thanks to. the stirring up OF Senatori
Penrose by Roosevelt in the Pittsburgh |
speech to Progressives and the inner |
circle of Keystope Republicans is eager |
to see the colonel make a few more
breaks of the sort that VIII arouse
the Senatorial ire.
The Penrose people know and appre-
ciate the great reserve power of their
Senator and how intimate he has been
with administration affairs at Wash
ington during seventeen years of Sen
atorship.
That little remark by Penrose that Re
had much unwritten history stored away
but conveniently near at hand is taken
by the Senator's closest adherents 10