The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-30
SEVEN SENATORS DIED
SINCE START OF WAR
BRADY, OF IDAHO, WAS ONLY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DENIED RECORD.

Deaths harvest in the senate of the
United States in the IL short months
since America entered the world war
presents record without precedent
in the annals of the upper house OF
congress, says the New York Sun.
Within the year which has passed
since President Wilson called the 65Ih
congress into extraordinary session for
the purpose Of declaring war against
Germany there have been seven
deaths in the senate's membership of
sc The percentage is almost that of
the mortality in the front line trenches
of France and Flanders. Among the
senators who have died have been
men conspicuous in public life and
leaders Of the democratic party, for,
strange to relate, six of the seven
have been democrats. Senator Brady
of Idaho was the only republican to
die.
The most conspicuous figure of the
seven was William Joel Stone of Mis-
souri,, who died Sunday, April IA, the
53rd anniversary of the murder of
Abraham Lincoln. For As years he
had been an active and a picturesque
figure in the politics of Missouri For
more than score of years he had
been o figure of national prominence,
Three terms had he served in the
house of representatives and ne was
in the midst of his third term Of six
years in the United States senate. In
the period between these two services
he had been governor of Missouri and
for eight years he had served as vice
chairman OF the democratic national
committee.
To his friends Senator Stone was a
gentle natured country squire, slow Of
speech, deliberate In movement, gra-
cious and hospitable in his manners
TO his enemies his name was ana
thema for in politics he was fighter
Of the most virile type, an implacable
enemy and a campaigner of prowess
In appearance Senator Stone was
among the picturesque figures of the
Senate. He affected a studied care
iessness of attire, Well made, but
Loose clothes scarcely fitted his angu-
lar form. Spotlessly neat as to his
linen. he donned his garments as
though they had been hanging upon a
clothesline and he had stepped into
them without a thought of their ad-
justment His thick gray hair he
wore parted at one side and reached
over his Uranium in much the fashion
OF the beaux of the sos. Also he wore
his hair more than modernly long al
the back, with q cute little duck tail
a. the end which was the delight Of
the cartoonists.
When Mr., Stone entered the senate
he was instantly the main attraction
for the galleries. He occupied a seat
in the second row on the democratic
side very close to the middle aisle of
No Mans Land between the demo-
Gratis and the republicans, In the
earnestness of a vital debate he would
stroll all over the chamber. Frequent
ly when he started on an important
speech he began to talk from his own
rosewood desk, but with surprising
agility he would wander ever in the
direction Of his opponent and he might
wind up his peroration with his florid
countenance bent over the senator to
whom primarily his remarks were adj
dressed
first demand of every Missourian when
he entered the senate gallery. so
that's him. huh! Don't look so much
like an ole he-devil does he?"
The last important speech delivered
by Senator Stone was purely political
in character. 1t was in the main an
attack upon the critical attitude as
sumed by Theodore Roosevelt in his
writings regarding the policy of the
war administration. In that speech
he emptied the walls of his wrath up
on the leading citizen of oyster Bay.
Ably Answered by Senator Lodge.
The speech abounded in invective
spoken with that elaboration which
Va Ahi' sctoiiS ou-
dresses He talked for nearly two
hours. speaking at the rate of not
more than so words a minute and
every word scorched. When the
speech was finished it brought Henry |
Cabot Lodge to his feet with a 20 |
minute retort in defense of his friend |
which will be remembered by all who !
heard 1t as the brilliant climax of one
of the most brilliant days the senate !
has known since the time of Vest and !
Evarts and Morgan and Ingalls,.
Senator Stones career in the senate
suffered a serious eclipse during the !
concluding session Of the last con-
gress. He opposed the declaration of
war against Germany and finally vot-
ed NO" along with LaFollette, Gron
na. Hardwick. Norris and Kirby the
remaining half dozen of the once
"Wilful Twelve"
Only SO hours before Senator Stone
passed away Senator Robert f. Brous-
sard OF Louisiana died at his home in
New iberia. La. Senator Broussard
had figured little in the activities of
the present congress. For more than