The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-29

Senator Tnlman. who is an Alaskan visitor at the present time has played a very important part in the history of his country during the last quarter of century Few men now in public life have been as active or as influential and his activity and influence have been directed toward making conditions better for his fellow men.
 He began life equipped with great native ability and an Andrew Jackson passion for truth. fair play straightforwardness and efficiency. His keen sym pathles were with the under dog. And again like An drew Jackson. whom he resembles in so many ways he was a born partisan for the things he believed to be right and an uncompromising tighter-one who sought no quarter but was always ready to give it if the giving did not include the sacrifice of principle
 He was one Of the first in the Nation to sense the need for a overwhelming of the public conscience and for wider participation the part of the mass e in the affairs Of government He believed that the people should exercise the functions or sovereignty rather than to permit select few to control govern ment He was a democrat. and was one of the first of the generation to begin the war for democracy agans, plu,ocrats and oligarchy
 His strenuousity and picturesQueness of speech served as a basis for a campaign against him that was Nation wide at the outset of his career campaign that was promoted by interests which were we'll sats- fled with the conditions which he sought to improve " o---~N idea that the South Caronau. who has since come to be recognized as one of the great of the Nation was an uncouth rufran-a buffoon-and they thought of him rather as "Ptchforkg Tnlman than as the learned and scientific farmer whose entrance into poli- tics was in the interest improved educational meth ods in his State
 As a result of Senator Tfimans services as Gov ernor of his State system of technical vocational training was introduced in South Carolina. and i'm proved agricultural and industrial conditions have fol- lowed He secured the establishment of two State coiieces-one of them for women-where agricultural mechanical and industrial training provided. work CT himself he has always urged wori-efficient work upon those Of an classes necessary to good citizen ship
 Senator Tnlman entered the United States Senate in 1895 and since that time there has been no matter of national importance before that body but that he has taken an important part solution He has been striking and influential figure at all National Demo cratic conventions Always and everywhere his voice and vote and organizing capacity have been devoted to the service Of the masses He was with the freeslver men in the 1896 fight when Bryan nominated for the first time and he threw all of his strength into the campaign that followed. In the preeonventon fight of 1912 he was a supporter Of Woodrow Wilson.
 Senator Tnlmans four terms in the United States Senate have obliterated the pitchfork idea of the man. and as they have seen his ideas and theories Of government accepted throughout the country as rules of action the people have given him the credit that is dis due. There are few who will not admit that when the history of today written the South Corolinan win be given place among those at the forefront in the progressive ranks of his time.