Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-02
SIMPLEFUNERAL
FOR SUPER-BOSS,
BOIESPENROSE
Republican Leader and Senator
Dies Unexpectedly Of Heart
Attack At Capital


PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2 = Ar
rangements for the funeral of Sena-
tor Boies Penrose were still incom-
nIeto today. 1t was definitely decid-
cd. however, that it should be strictly
p,,ivate. in accordance with his oft-eX-
nressed wish. 1t whs Indicated a
congressional delegation probably
wonld not come here for the burial.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Unitcd
States Senator Boies Penrose, of
PENNSYLVANIA, one of the leading Re
nublicans of the nation, died here
lust before midnight Saturday night
from an attack of heart failure. The
senator was sitting beside his bed
when he fell off a chair to the floor.
His personal physician, DR.. Roy
Adams, was in the room with him and
when the doctor reached his side the
senator was dead. No member OF
The family was present.
Sc. ator Penrose had been i'll with
heavy cold for a week, having.
taken to his room last Tuesday. His
death, however, was entirely uneX-
pected, as he had been able to walk
about his room during the day.
Both branches of congress, upon
re-convening next Tuesday, will, ad
journ for the day out of respect to
the late senator, but will forego other
customary ceremonies. A request of
Senator Penrose that his funeral
should be private and that no con-
gressional committee should be APP
pointed was communicated today to
Vice President Coolidge and Speaker
Gillett and probably will be fol
lowed.
Senator Penrose's body was taken
Sunday morning to his home at Phla-
delphia, accompanied by his brother,
DR.. Charles B. Penrose, and the sena-
tors secretary. Funeral arrange
ments are to be made at Philadelphia.
Boies Penrose, American politi-
clan.
That's how the International En-
cyclopedia describes the man Wash
ington long set down as the nations
super-politician, the Republican boss
who bossed all other bosses of his
party.
Otheremen distinguished in public
crice are lawyers, statesmen, office
holders; but Penrose, for years, has
been known first and last as politi-
cian-extraordinary.
Politics was Penrose's trade, his
hobby, and his recreation, as illus
trated by this story which has! been
told and rctold of the super-boss:
Shortly after Penrose first had
. been elected to the U. S. Senate ne
came to Washington to look things
over. While here he met the man
ne was to succeed, Senator Don
Cameron.
"PTnrose,' said Cameron, you are
just starting in public life. / advise
you to marry, and establish home
here IN Washington. 1t will give you
a social standing and will benefit YOU
'n a general way as a member of the
senate"
what do you think about it?"
Sehrose asked of Senator QUAY,
'hen boss of Pennsylvania Republi-
can organization,i half amused, half
serious.
Il think Cameron is right" re-
piled Quay.
-, III right" responded Penrose.
'et the organization pick the woman
ooI' and l will marry her."
G. o. p. Failure
years after he was heard to com
pam humorously that the organiza-
t'oh had failed to pick the wife for
HI'n, Hel never married, continuing
~ Vhe last to live in the old family
'ollle IN Spruce street, Philadelphia.
me story gives a fairly accurate
,oea of. Penrose's loyalty to, and
oelef IN, the party organization sys-
'G" Of American politics. To him
,"e organization was the first and
ast word. What the organization
"d and said was right. He never
I0estloned it when he was in the
."nks, and never permitted another to
ighore the organizations orders af-
Ter he became boss.
Penrose, of highly respected old
rhlladelphai family, honor man at
harvard, wealthy, entered politics in
1884, the year after his admission
70 the bar. He was elected to the
[ennsylvania legislature from Phila-
uelphla, He held public office con-
'lnuallY thereafter, going to the
state senate in 1886, and to the U.
- ). senate in 1897.
1t is recalled that when Penrose
was graduated from Harvard his ora
tion was Martini Van Buren, the
Politician"