Evening journal., 1914-06-05
New News Of Yesterday
Two Senators Who Show
ed One Point of
Resemblance
By Holland.

ut would not be possible to bring
together under a single roof two men
as utterly unlike as were Senator
George F. Edmunds of Vermont and
Senator John p. Morgan of Alabama
They were for some years colleagues
I'm the Senate and each had a very
high estimation Of the intellectual
ability Of the other" said the late
Senator Spencer Of Alabama-who
was, / believe, the predecessor of
Senator Morgan in the United States
Senate-tO me.
when / was not particularly in
terested in what was in progress on
the floor OF the Senate" Senator
Spencer continued, IL used to find
good deal Of entertainment I'm watch
ing Edmunds, and then, by way of
change, in studying Senator Morgan.
The two men, as citizens, were as far
apart as the north and south boun-
daries of the United States. Ed
munds' home was at Burlington, VT,
not more than fifty miles from the
Canadian boundary and Morgans
nome was il Central Alabama.
II was told by one Of the men who
was a member Of the Senate at the
time Senator Edmunds took his seat
that Il was almost impossible to be-
lieve that he was no more than
thirty-soven years of age He was
the Oldest-lOOking young man who
ever sat in that body. He never
grew any older looking, apparently,
than he was when he entered the
Senate, in 1867
ION the other hand, Senator Nor
gan was one of the youngest-lool;ing
elderly men / ever saw. He was
tall, stood very erect, and stepped
with vlgOr. His cheeks were tinted
with The iair, pink complexion which
is usually lost soon after childhood
is ended, He wore a short-crOpped
iron gray mustache, and his hair was
slvered. But neither his hair nor
his mustache gave hint of the veneer
able years which Edmunds' hair in
evitably did
II have seen Senator Edmunds sit,
! was going to say by the hour, ap-
parenty absent-minded, nothing to
indicate that he was awake excepting
the constant twirling of his thumbs.
All of sudden he would rise to his
feet and make some remark which
made It clear that he had been close
ly listening TO all that was being
said in the Senate.
"On the other hand, / never saw
Senator Morgan in his seat when he
was not busily engaged either in
writing or in studying some document
or intently listening to some speech,
d. al Il De-
that he could more closely eye the
speaker. Furthermore, he always
spoke with a rapid, and yet entirely
distinct utterance. He was one CT
the fastest takers in the Senate.
"Edmunds, on the other hand, spoke
slowly and usually as though he were
engaged IN conversation with he
VicePresident. There was one feat
ure Of the career Of each OF these
men, however, which / think was UNI
precendented in the history OF the
Senate. Neither of these great Sen
ators ever by work, by letter. or by
indirect deal, asked for support as
candidate for the United States SEN
ate, or asked a member of his legis-
lature % vote for him after he had
been nominated in caucus. Further
more, ! think that neither of them
ever made the rounds OF the depart
ments for the sake OF obtaining
patrIlage.
Copyright, 1914, by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will .ell
of Last Days Of a Famous New York
Politician"