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Vfc V*1. IV & I f: *. it a $ FT' §r t:r IV |8, UBy £.. A K':' Mm A V V- U"v Vi Jr. av & 'V Victor In a Great Senatorial Battle Tfffifflfore E. Burton, Otlfo's Brafny New Senator, Who Does His Own Thinking, Is a Lover of Peace and Unpreten tious—Expert on Rivers and Harbors—Scholarly Statesman Who Lives Much With Books. JAMES A. EDGER.TON. NCLE OK CANNON once said of the newly elected senator from Ohio, "Burton is the ablest man in the house, bu£'— That tells the story from the stand pat, organization viewpoint, for Theodore E. Burton insists on doing his own thinking, is often an Insurgent, op poses a big navy, ship subsidy and other things dear to the heart of a ma jority of his party, favors tariff re vision, stands Iietween the United States treasury and innumerable con gressmen hungry for "pork" and knows more about rivers and harbors and some other things than any man in either branch of the congress and more on a few lines perhaps than all of them put together. The ascendency of Theodore E. Bur ton Is a case of the triumph of sheer Intellect. He has no magnetism, little humor, but a bitter wit, ia not a man of the people or a mixer, has no effu siveness In meeting men, denying their reqnests bluntly, is not a politician In the ordinary sense of the term. Is an gular tart has the student's stoop, has oo recreations, is unmarried and gen erally Is about the furthest possible removed from the popular conception of the American public man. Ho is of the type of John Sherman, whose life he has written. His very friends ac cuse him of lacking vim. Yet this cold, unemotional man made in the im age of a thinking machine, this man fresh from a defeat for mayor of Cleve land that would have obliterated a lesser figure, is the one who has Just triumphed In a great senatorial battle over Joseph Benson Foraker with the Standard Oil at bis back, over a broth er of the president elect and over a & Bans hip as well as the stage acting i sort. The people arc humbugged, (iod knows how shamefully, but they find it out sooner or inter, and then they prove that they do not like it by the, verdict they pass 011 the man guilty of the Imposition. We need more sln cere, unpretentious, independent, able Burtons in public life. They are the salt of the earth anl outlive the wind bags. That may be a mixing of meta phors, but everybody will understand irhat It means. We need more sincer ity, more facts, more logic and more t'ommon sense. We have had enough posing, gallery playing, balderdash and plain bullconning to last for a thou sand years. Give us more plain men who love peace and progress and mean what they say. That is another thing 1 like about Burton- he stands for pence. Here Is something of his on that line that is worth quoting: "Nations," It hu been truly said, "are now conquered not by armies, but by ideas." With the development of the hu man Intellect, tho increasing employment in Intellectual pursuits and the growth of moral forces In every part of the world, war is becoming more and more a prac tice suitable only for barbarians. The Goths, the Vandals, the Scythians and the Huhb have been swallowed up and fight no longer. Even rellRion has ceased to be a cause for bloodshed. The day of uni versal peace, therefore, white and not crimson, Is drawing near. There Is no beating of tomtoms, no appeal to prejudice, no calling forth of the animal In man, about that. It does not come from a demagogue nor a Jingo. It is in keeping with the best thought of the day. It rings true. Courageous Without Bluster. Tes, politics and pnrtisanNm aside, I like Burton, and I never saw him In laofi HAHRie XlLLUjJUiO. iiu strongly Intrenched political machine. Prom all of which it is evident that the American people, and especially those of the president making state of Ohio, love brains. We have heard much of the student 1b politics, but if the term had never been invented it would have to be coined to describe Burton. With him the burning of midnight oil is not a virtue, but a h$bit. He is the sort of man who never speaks until he gains all possible information on bis subject. In bouse debates he is sometimes worsted by the shifty politicians and rough and tumble wits, but Burton's strength comes from the fact that the other members have implicit faith in his knowledge and honesty. Ho Pretender and Loves Peace. Burton is incapable of posing. He cannot act a part for his own admira tion. He cannot pretend, has no fads and cannot seem to like a man when be does not or to be amused when he is not He is a simple, unassuming, un pretentious, studious, peace loving, progressive man who is touched by the humanities, who must go to the front by force of unadorned merit if at all. Barton Is so sincere he cannot even pretend to believe in his party when he does not believe in it. For my sim ple self I must confess that he is of a type that makeb infinite appeal to me. There Is no fustian, swashbuckling, grand stand playing about him. Bar B«m once said that the American peo ple like to be humbugged, and maybe tfcay do, hot I do not believe it. The mmtag to the front of a man like Bar* ton pmivm that they like real state* ti» A my Itta. Be haa brains and honesty. He knows things. He Is of the type that really loves his country and hu manity. He will not pose before the crowd. He will not play the toady to gain favor. lie has courage without bluster and is a reformer without being a common scold or blatherskite. He is a balanced, level headed sort. He may apiear cold, because he Is not gush.v, but l»e does not lack sentiment or emotion, as was shown when ac knowledging bis election to the sen ate. We should have more of his kind in politics. Ohio has had many great senators, but if I properly size up the man Theodore E. Burton will measure with the best of them. Frank and Independent Here are three characteristic tne* fleets that reveal something of Bur ton's quality: When first elected to congress in 1S8S he was a warm friend of William McKinley, doing some special research work for the then chairman of the ways and means committee. In 1802, however, Mr. Burton advised McKIn iey not to run for president, as It was Democratic year, a prediction that proved true. For this frank advice he i«ild the future president never entire ly forgave him. The second Incident occurred after Burton had been in congress several years. He became' disgusted with po lities and quietly said to some of his friends that he intended to retire from public life. When Cleveland heard of that there was a popular wave. Bar ton had always received a large lnde pendent Tote, but now there WM*jk •whi C— *'L Universal uprising regardless of party to urge him to remain In congress. The Democrats told him they would put no opposition candidate in theficb! and lived up to the pledge. The third occurrence Is of more re cent date and is known of all men. When President Elect Taft offered the secretaryship of the treasury to Bur ton that gentleman stood by his guns and said he preferred to be senator. It took courage to do that, especially when there was danger of creating bad blood with a future administration of his own party. The new Buckeye senator has shown I the same sort of Independence all through his career. Whenever there has been an Insurrection In the house Burton was usually found at the he.*«d of It. He led the fight against "senatorial machine" In Ohio, wl both Foraker and Dick league! against him. While he and Preside: ltoosevelt are warm friends, he dM not hesitate to tight Roosevelt's a n o o u a e s i s a n o i else the administration's proposal buy Panama supplies abroad. It is plain that Theodore E. Burton nt only has gray matter, but uses it tire purpose that God and nature ln tended. He Is a party man, yet his conscience Is In his own keeping. One of Burton's most prominent characteristics is caution. He never takes a stand until sure of his ground He is constructive, has nothing in common with the knocker or pessimist. On the matter of appropriations he is not an obstructionist, but there must be sound reason for expending public money before he favors It. A Leader of the Bar. Mr. Burton's middle name is Elijah, which may be the reason that he tries to conceal It. He comes from the Western Reserve, where the New Eng land conscience is still in full force. He was born in 1851 in Jefferson, O., the home of Ben Wade and Joshua II. (Jiddings. In his modest congres sional biography, consisting of eleven lines. Burton says he was educated ut Grand liiver institute, Austinburg, O. Iowa college, Grinnell, Ia., and at Oberlin college, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1872. He first started teaching, then studied law and began practice in Cleveland, where, after the usual vicissitudes and scant living of the young lawyer, he rose to be one of the leaders of the bar. He got into politics by being elected to the council, after which the young men insisted on his going to congress. He served one term, then was out for four years. There was a reason for his being out The reason was Tom L. Johnson, in fact, the two defeats Burton has suf fered were both at the hands of John son. it is a shame that two such good men should slash It into each other when there are so many mean men that need running out of politics. In 1894 Burton went back to con gress to stay. It was Tom Reed ^vho picked him out for the rivers and har bors committee, where he has made life a burden to lobbyists and purvey ors of "pork" ever since. Reed loved men with brains, and he saw signs of promise In the tall, angular, stoop shouldered member from Cleveland. Two of Senator Burton's most con spicuous services in public life, outside of being led up as a lamb for the sacri fice in the mayoralty election of his own city, were his great speech for the Panama canal, in which he convinced congress of the advisability of the lock instead of the sea level type, and his speech nominating William H. Taft for president in the last Republican national convention. In the past few months be has not oaly declined the treasury portfolio in the Taft cabinet, but was the most prominently men tioned candidate for speaker outside of Cannon, which talk he stopped aa soon as It came to hlg ears. Lives Much With Books. In appearance Burton is nearly six feet tall, wears clothes that do not fit too well, has a close cropped gray rnus tache, a contemplative gray eye, a high forehead, sparse brown hair, a grave, almost taciturn demeanor and a smile that is rare enough to be ap preciated when it comes. He lives much with books, having all his rooms at Washington filled with them, even to the gas range and pantry shelves in the kitchen. He sometimes drives in the park for his health, but his few leisure hours are usually devoted to reading French literature and English poetry. He takes an occasional trip to Europe, which he spends in studying the rivers and harbors of the old world. Outside of his life of Sherman, Sena tor Burton has written a book on flnan cial panics which Is an authority. It was thought that Burton never told a story in his life, but one has re cently come to light, the only one in his eighteen years in congress. A dele gation one day waited on hiin. asking for some waterway improvement and Insisting on making an argument. Mr. Burton said it was of no use that he was opposed to the project and so was the committee. "That's a brutai way of patting It, Mr. Burton,** said ths chairman of the delegation. "Perhaps," said Mr. Burton, and the delegation left. To a frienu Mr. Bur ton told his single funny story. "I might have been brutal to that delegation, but that doesn't prove any thing. A man named Elusteln once borrowed $1,000 from a friend named Solomon on the plea of personal friendship. Two days later he made an assignment and neglected to put Solomon In the list of preferred cred itors. This angered Solomon, and he upbraided Einstein for It. 'Well,' said Einstein, that doesn't prove anything. I put those fellows In that preferred list and left you out be cause you are my friend. 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