The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-21
(By M. E. Hennessy' in bo

(By M. E. Hennessy, in Boston
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 Y+,s ,one stretch of time from 1a53 to 1916. and it represents the gulf that separate the last Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island from the present one chosen at the last election.
 Sixty-three years ago last May the Rhode Island legislature elected Philip Allen, the Democratic. gover- nor, to the United States Senate. GoV. Allen was tariff Democrat. Frank- lin Pierce of New Hampshire was President.
 Last week was the first time that Rhode Island has had chance 10 elect a United States Senator by d. rect vote of the people, and the small est state in the Union turned from the standpat variety to the radlcal brand, defeating Senator Henry F. Lippitt, Republican and electlng Peter Goelet Gerry, Democrat, by more than 1000 plurality.
 When Senator Gerry is introduced to the Senate, March next, he will be one of the youngest men in the upper branch of Congress, if not the baby of the Senate. He was 37 years old last September.
 He is eligible to membership in the Millionaire's Club of the Senate He won't have to go house-huntlng III Washington, because he owns one of the most pretentious dwellings in the National capital, nor will Mrs. Gerry have to be Introduced to Washington society. She has been one of the <eX- elusive social set in Washington for several years.
 She was Miss Townsend before her marriage to MT. Gerry and Wash ington was her home before she came to Rhode Island to, live. MT. and Mrs. Gerry have passed most of their winters at Washington since their marriage
 Harvard Man and Lawyer.
 Senator Gerry is son of Commo- dore Gerry of New. York, one of the old line Democrats of the Empire State, friend and supporter of Grover Cleveland and associate of Daniel Manning, Roswell F. Flower, William C.. Whitney and most of the promi- nent Democrats and captains of in dustry and finance of the last genera ton,
 The new Rhode Island Senator was born in New York city and was grad uated with the degree of B. s. from the Lawrence Scientific school in the class of 1901. Subsequently he studi ed law and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar.
 But MT. Gerry does not have to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and therefore does not have to worry about clients. If perchance a ,yf CL ;nfo oo Io of which he is member looking for him to plead a case the chances are that he would be turned over to one of the working members.
 In electing Gerry to succeed Senator Lippitt, Rhode Island mill operatives have added another Harvard man to the United States Senate and have proven that there are different kinds of Harvard men politically.
 MT. Gerry will, in all probability, run with the Hollis Harvard Sena- torial brand rather than. with the Lodge or Penrose type.
 For many years the Gerry family have lived at Newport the major part of the year. Senator-elect Gerry has always considered it his legal resi- dence, having voted there since he was 21.
 Champagne for the Soldiers.
 Because the new Rhode Island Sen ator-elect is a member of the smart set of Newport and Washington and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, one must not form the hasty opinion that he wears spats, sports a goldheaded cane, wears a topper and monocle when he appears on the street
 To be sure, he rides to hounds, plays golf, is an enthusiastic yachtsman, ex- cels in tennis, belongs to all the fash ionable clubs hereabouts and dimes as well as any Englishrnan ever dined but he is one of the most democratic of men to be found on the streets of Providence, which he makes his bus mess Headquarters.
 His democratic bearing is not as- sumed. He is naturally democratic in manner, approvable, sympathetic and charitable. It's in his blood. His father is one of the most democrat of men and one of the heaviest giyers to charity in New York or Rhode Island
 When the troops came back to Mon tauk Point, at the close of the Spanish American var, old Commodore Ger ry ordered up the wine for the boys in khaki and for a week at the various camps and the hospitals on Long Is1- and, the army salutation ''How" might be heard in almost every tent.
 One of the army doctors said that a little champagne would be, a good thing for the sick in the hospitals and the convalescents in the regimental camps, whereupon the Commodore shipped 500 cases of the bubbIing stuff to Montauk Point It was probab- 1y the largest round of drinks ever ordered by man, and all the soldiers drank his health. Some of them claims that Gerry's champagne saved | their lives.
 Blind Boss Discovered Him.
 The new Senator from this State Knows the Congressional ropes. having served ohe term in the House of Rep reeentatives. He was elected to the 6zd Congress from the second Rhode Island district, although he resided in the first district, of which New port, his old home is part.
 It happened in this way: The Re- pub1icans had nominated one of the most popular men in ths State for Congress, Ex-Goy. Utter, The dis trfet was heavily Republican, A few days before the election Utter died and the Republicans submitted Lieut.. Gov. Zenas W. Bliss. whom the voters ~idn't warm up to because, they said,