Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-07
SENATORIAL, "A! ELl0QUENCE
Where ! 0ratory IS Practlced as a
= PaStime
Big MEN LIKE TO TALK and DO IT
La Toilette Hypnotic and Energetic
.'-Johnson Peppery as Machine
Gun-Borah Thundered-Lodse Dig

/ -Johneon Peppery as Machine
Gun-Borah Thundered-lodge Dig.
nified.,
Variety is the spice Of life every
where but in the United States senate
writes Washington correspondent to
the New York Sun. oratory Is the
spice of life in the senate, but it does
not necessarily follow that there is not
variety in the oratory.
There are ninety-six senators and
there are ninety-six varieties or !oratory
ranging from spectacular spread eagle
down to the unobtrusive variety that
reminds one of the recitations on the
last day OF school, and there are sena-
tors who are not orators.
For oratory Robert Marion lie Fol-
lette Of Wisconsin Is recognized as
without q peer in the senate. II SEN
ator La Toilette had gone into the show
businc32 irGtcad Of the senate he would
probably have made far more than the
$500 year that Uncle Sam pays him,
at least in the. days when hypnotists
were good drawing cards.
The La Toilette brand of oratory is
hypnotic. Perhaps 1t is the rippling
fingers Senator La Toilette, has pc
culiar manner Of rippling his fingers in
the air as he speaks, and this seems to
Isoothe his audience and hold their at
tention.
F Dramatic oratory is Senator La Fol-
lette's forte, SO much so that In the
long winter evenings the La Toilette
children ofteh invite their friends in
to hear him. The senator from Wis
consin uses every bit Of his energy
when he is speaking and all Of his
body from the fluffy gray hair to the
little feet which he manipulates much
after the fashion of Loupokova.
Fourth of July oratory is rather
passing out in the senate. 1t doesn't
make the appeal to the galleries that
it used to and the senator's are learn
ing it TOO. But there are still two in
the senate, who follow the old school.
Senator James Watson of Indiana and
Senator 'Hoke Smith of Georgia can
wave the American flag rattling good
Fourth of July oratory verbally in such
a manner as to make George "A Co.
han seem an apprentice F7
There are but two senators who have
mufflers on their oratOry. These are
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and SEN
ator Walsh Of Montana Both are
masters of dignity and diction and they
have none of the fiery sort Of oratory
johnson Like. Machine Gun.
Hiram Johnson, senator from Cali
fornia, has his own style Of oratory,
and there has never been another sem
ator who had just the same style. The
Johnson style is full Of pep. He speaks
more rapidly than machine gun barks
and in very much the same sort OF
manner for each word Is snapped out
staccato. fashion and is followed i'm
mediately by another. Senator john
son attains a high pitch Of voice and
keeps there. in his voice
is feat that he is still unframed In.
The very unusual manner of his ora
tory is sufficient to assure him OF an
audience, and he also has reputation
Of saying things that count.
The oratorical surprise party for
visitors to the senate is Senator Borah
of Idaho. No gallery fan ever sus-
poets the long haired, rather Wild
West looking individual Of being an
orator; but he is. Senator Borah Is OF
the laundering school of oratorry. He
can make his words rumble through
the long corridors all of the way to the
house of representatives. He also uses
his hands to good advantage in max,
ing emphatic those things that hs
wants to impress upon his auditors,
and at times he resorts to q shaking
of his long haired head until his brown
locks sweep down into his eyes. Draw
ing a long breath he sweeps them back
and begins anew. Senator Borah fol-
lows the Billy Sunday style Of Keeping
attention. He follows one line or
thought that he desires to impress un-
til he finds his auditors wearying, and
then he bursts an oratorical bomb,
shocks every one into attention and
Jumps back to the same train OF
thought that was boring every one u
few minutes before.
Many of the senators were district
attorneys at some time in their careers
and some of them have never re-
covered. 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 of his orations and stamps
about q good deal and shakes his
fingers in the faces Of those about him,
and generally conducts himself very
much after the fashion of the sort OF
a prosecutor who first attacks and
then cajoles the jury.
The Marathon Orator.
Senator France of Maryland is the
only Marathon orator in the senate.
Not that he consumes so much time,
but because he uses up great deal OF
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