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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
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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
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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*
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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
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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
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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. They think
they are going to get the (money, bat
yoa know you ain't* v
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AFTER
FOURYEARS
OF MISERY
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
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iiiitiuHT.-, Mil.— "For four years
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extreme nervous
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gone feeling in my
stomach. I had
^iven up hope of
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vlien I began to
1 ?ke Lydia E. Pink
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Remember
Compound. Then
felt as though
new life had been
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193N Lansdowne St, Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
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If you would like special advice
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Ached and pains and languor and
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W. J. Grrham, Vice Poes. and Actuary.
George E. Towle, Treas.
Robert E. Efterly, Sec.
John T. Baxter, Council.
Henry \V. Cook, Medical Diredflf.
F. M. Stickney, Cashier.
H. F. White, Auditor.
Edgar Eshbaugfc, Agency Director
F. Ball, District Manager
F- Stoitzman and S. G. Westaby Solicits
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