The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-02-03
UNITED STATES SENATOR BuRLFIca.
l"Kineo" in Boston Sunday Herald

l"Kineo" in Boston Sunday Herald
Senator Burleigh went on to Washing.
ton the other day for tn e flrst time since
Congress met in early December. Both
his own illness and the illness of members
OF his family had kept him at his Augusta
nome. but he felt that the Washingto IN
climate would be better pl ace for him
as soon as he was able to travel. His
son-in-law, DR.. Richard H. Stubs, and
two of his daughters. Mrs. Martin and
MRS. williamson, accompanied the sena-
tor and Mrs. Burleigh to Washington and
Will remain with them for the winter.
Senator Burleigh has had one of the
most remarkable careers in the history
OF Maine politics. He has had to fight
hard for each position that he has won.
put ne has always reached his goal. And
he has made good in all the important
positions that he has filled, and no Maine
man OF our generation holds a bigger
place In the hearts of more persons than
Senator Burleigh does. When he fought
hls.Way to the governorship generation
ago ne had to smash the powerful ring
OF that time. Then came the lively
campaigns that took him finally, on the
death OF Congressman Milliken, to Con-
gress, where he remained for a dozen
years. Then there was his election to
the Senate three years ago, after a few
Bull Moose legislators had deadlocked
things until they began to hear from
their constituents. In all that long career
he has shown wonderful genius for or
ganization and for quiet, effective cam
paigning.
The word ''quiet" is used advisedly.
for he never makes a speech, and he
shuns the public appearances that are
the breath OF life to the average man in
politics. But he makes friends and
never forgets them. He is always on
the job that he is elected to do. His hands
are clean and his head is level. His bust
ness investments, in Maine timberlands,
real estate and journalism, have been
profitable, and he has stayed in politics
because of the lure of the game, not for
profit or power. His home life-and no
man ever had happier or more beloved
family of children and grandchildren
has been saddened by several tragedies
that have come as terrible blows-the
death OF son in the prime of life, the
suicide OF one son-in-law and the drown
ing OF another, the tragic death of
grandchildren and much serious illness in
his family. His second son, Lewis A.
Burleigh, is one of the most brilliant
among the younger generation of Maine
men. In law he has shown the qualities
that would make him great judge some
day, but within the past few years he
has pretty we'll given up the law to de-
vote himself to his own and his fathers
extensive business interests, and espec-
tally to the editorial management of the
kennebec journal. He has ably repre-
scented Augusta in the Legislature, and
many predict that later he will receive
the highest political honors that Maine
can give-the governorship or service in
Congress-but he admits no ambitions
OF that sort at present. He has the same
lovable personal qualities that have
made Senator Burleigh so successful,
and has the same thorough way of at
tending to the details of every task that
he undertakes.