Evening star., 1932-10-06

4 The death Of 'the last of the
Romans" John Sharp Williams, for
mer Senator from Mississippi, recalls
! his personality and his achievements
more vividly, though ne had not been
/ in fact forgotten by those who knew
! him in his senatorial career. which he
| Voluntarily ended a decade ago.
LOYALTY personifed. Eloquence at
/ its highest. Craftsmanship unto per-
fection. A patriot is dead. MISSISSIPPI
| and the Nation pay due tribute. Such
is the thought of the Meridian (MlSs)
Star ~.
The fitness OF his qualities and MS
attainments is emphasized by edltorS
ayervwhere .sHe was a scholar, gen.
tleman and a true Democrat IN tne
broad sense of the word" declares tne
louisville Courier Journal. But ms
1 scholarliness was not pedantry. as tie
Atlanta Journal makes clear in It's COM
ment: "A master of several languages
and lover Of the classics, ne was aS
far removed from the conVentloTal
.highbroW' as a forest oak from Hot-
house sprig His mind could pay as
we'll as strive. He could take ms ease
in his inn He was at once cosmopon-
tan and charmingly provincial. onnls-
takablv a Southerner and unsWervlngly
i a DeUlOCIdl, llC "oo -
| American and statesman"
/ "Aristocratic by birth. democratic py
nature. happy in disposition four-square
/ to the beauty, justice. charity ana CO
operation required for lives worth nv
| inc :" is the way the Fort Worth Star
Telegram sizes up his qualities. The
DAYTON Daily News declares that one
of the most picturesque characters oI
all time passes with the death OF Jonn
Sharp williams" Picturing him as
having grown up in q romantlc az
mosphere of the deep Soutn-come
down from ante-bellum, even Colonial
days-which has survived on the Mis-
sissippi plantation as hardly anywhere
else" the San Antonia Express COM
ments: Though gifted with statesman
like insight and breadth OF vision. ne
was never quite out from under that
spell. It tinged his outlook upon ma
tional and world problems and upon
life itself"
His retirement from the Senate In
1922 was a great loss to that body, as
is attested by many papers. He re-
tired from the Senate when Henry
Cabot Lodge succeeded with his cabal
AGAINST woodrow Wilson," declares the
Miami Daily News, after having eX-
pressed his aversion to 'the methods
which had been employed not only to
create fear, distrust and misunderstana-
ing in America, but to set us on the
way of political isolation, which was
to be followed inevitably by economic
isolation" The Scranton Times recalls
that when John Sharp Williams quit
the Senate a decade or SO ago there
was genuine regret at his leaving public
life which he had graced for 80 years. "
The Houston Chronicle records: The
defeat of the League broke the heart
of Woodrow Wilson. It broke the spirit
Of John Sharp williams" The Roanoke
World-News Is reminded of his famous
statement: I'D rather be hound dog
and bay at the moon from my Missis-
sippi plantation than remain In the
United States Senate" words spoken
"when the Senate rejected Wilson's plea
for American participation in the
League Of Nations"
"His was a long career Of active poll
tics and statecraft," points out the
Oklahoma City Times. As to his power
in the Senate, the Hartford Daily Times
remembers him as q brilliant and