The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-03
N|NETY-SX U.S.. SENATORS DISPLAY
IS KINDS OF 0RAT0RY TO GALLERY

, the senate, who follow the old school.
Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana,
and Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
can wave the American flag, rafting
good Fourth of July oratory verbally
| in such a manner as to make George
M. Cohan to seem an apprentice.
There are but two senators who
have mufflers on their oratory. These
are Senators Henry Cabot and Lodge
and Senator Walsh, of Montana
Both are masters of dignity and die
| ton and they have non of the fiery
| sort of oratory.
johnson Machine Gun.
Hiram Johnson, senator from Cali
| fornia, has his own style of oratory,
and there has never been another SEN
ator who had just the same style. The
Johnson style is full Of pep. He
speaks more rapidly than a machine
gun banks and in very much the same
sort of manner for each word is snap
ped out staccato fashion and is fol-
lowed Immediately by another.
! Senator Johnson attains high pitch
Of voice and keeps it there. Meditation
in his voice Is a feat that he is still
unframed in. The very unusual man
ner Of his oratory is sufficient to as
sure him Of an audience, and he also
has a reputation Of saying things that
count.
The oratorical surprise party for
visitors to the senate is Senator Bora b
Of Idaho. No gallery fan ever suspects
the long-haired, rather wild west look
ing individual of being an orator; but
he is. Senator Borah is Of the thun-
dering school Of oratory.
| He can La hiS words RIM hi a
through the long corridors all Of the
way to the house Of representatives
He also uses his hands to good adj
vantage in making emphatic those
things that he wants to impress upon
| his auditors, and at times he resorts
to a shaking of his long-haired head
until his brown locks sweep down into
his eyes. Drawing a long breath he
sweeps them back and begins anew
Billy Sunday Style.
Senator Borah follows the Billy Sun.
day style Of keeping attention. He
follows one line Of thought that he de-
sires to impress until he finds his au
ditors wearying, and then he bursts
an oratorical bomb, shocks every one
into attention and jumps back to the
same train Of thought that was Dor
ing every one few minutes before.
Many of the senators were district
attorneys at some time in their careers
and some of them have never recov
cred. Senator Pat Harrison, Of Mis-
siSSippi, is one of those who have not
thrown off all of the traits, for he re
sorts to every known appeal to the
emotions in his orations and stamps
about a good deal and shakes his fin
gers in the faces of those about him
and generally conducts himself very
much after the fashion Of the sort O
a prosecutor who first attacks anc
then cajoles the jury
Senator France, Of Maryland, is the
only Marathon orator in the senate
and because he uses up a great dea
of space. Senator France runs anC
walks several miles in the course O
an hour Of grafton, and if he starts hi:
speech in the back row of the Repub
lican side of the chamber he general,
finishes it in the back row of tn
Democratic side of the chamber, onl
after he has covered every part of tn
floor several times. When Senate
France speaks they give him room.
| Senator James Reed, of Missouri
another orator who needs a good dea
OF room for he is a PAGER. Senate
Reed picks out an open space of abou
, ten feet in length and PAGES up an
down that space while he talks, an
it is claimed that he has worn a pat
in the green carpet of the senate nea
his desk
Durable oratOry is also one Of Sci
ator Reeds characteristics He ca
| make little bit Of oratory last Ions
er than any other member of the sci
ate and still keep his audience Sci
J atOr Reed is famous criminal law,
: err when he isn't a senator, and h
. talks as if he were at murder tria
5 for his whole manner Of speaking
similar to that employed by men VIII
: are fighting for the life Of client {
fighting for conviction.