The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-30
Bryan and the Senate.

leCt Cudt IL Is HIS uGSlFo 10 leave Inc
cabinet and become candidate for
United States Senator. contesting
the seat of Hon. Gilbert M. Hitch
cock. Somebody ought to do it, and
Iif no other Nebraska Democrat is
strong enough to GUST that gentle
man it is duty Mr.. Bryan owes his
party and his country to take the
job on himself and do it up brown.
Mr.. Hitchcock is labeled a Demo-
crat, but since the Inauguration of
Democratic President Mr. Hitch
cock has repeatedly fetched and car
ried for the adversary in the Senate,
and the daughters of the Philistines
have many times rejoiced over his
conduct
Mr.. Hitchcock was recruited into
the Democratic fold from the Re
publican ranks. His father was a
Republican Senator in Congress
some forty years ago, and it is great
ly to be feared that the sons robe
of Democracy was not washed as
white in the Democratic laundry as
it should have been when he was
converted to the true faith.
In my opinion, Mr.. Bryan made a
mistake in not entering the Senate
years ago, when it was open to him
to do so. That is his true field. He
is a born polemic and much better
fitted for debate than for admins
tration. Had he entered the Senate
the day Mckinley was inaugurated
President and remained there until
the present time his fame as a
statesman would be much greater
than it is, ample as it is. The Sen
ate is in ore need of a batch of
first-class men, and Bryan would be
an overwhelming reinforcement to
his party and to the country in that
body. I
But it is much to be doubted
President Wilson would !
part with Mr.. Bryan, who .
is pillar of the administration; yet ,
as I view it, Bryan in the Senate
would lend a great deal more aid to
the party than in the cabinet. 1t is
a very easy matter to find a first
class Cabinet class
Senate timber is much scarcer. The
late James B. Beck of Kentucky re- S
garded seat in the Senate as
more desirable office than the Presi- /
dency itself, and l am sure he was ]
right. Where did Clay, Calhoun and
make their fame? In the +,
forum, though all were in the cabi-
net. Everyone remembers what they
did in the Senate; few recall what /.
they accomplished in the cabinet,
though Calhoun annexed Texas.
The three most wonderful careers
in our national legislature that
readily recall were carved out by S
Carl Schurz, Ben Hill and E. W. i
Jarmack. Schurz served but sim
gle term in the Senate and was new
er member of the House. Hill was
.wo years in the House, and his .ac-
i've career in the Senate began in
1877 and closed in 1881. Carmack II
was four years in the House and six Q
years in the Senate. No one of the s
.hree served a novitiate. Each was ii
4 leader the moment he took his fl
seat. >,
Schurz showed such commanding T
genius for debate that veterans like
Sumner and Trumbell were content
10 be his followers in the great de- 10
bate on the sale of arms to France o
during the war of 1870 with Prus-
sia, and it was conceded by every D
one that he overcame Conkling, Ed Il
nunds, Sherman, Morton, Carpenter 9,
md all the rest. The consequences -
we're tremendous. Out of it grew :,
he Liberal Republican movement
which would have overthrow the "
party had they had the
Ten to nominate Adams, or Trum-
,ull, for President instead of Horace d
Greeley. y,
Ben Hill was So years old when p
lie became a member of the Forty "
ourth Congress. A few weeks Ii
hereafter he utterly endorsed the %
'Plumed knight" in the tremendous n
lebate on amnesty. Less than two ii,
rears later he was recognized as one of
If the most formidable debaters the Gu
senate of the United States ever
new His ANALYSIS of the ennstif1-