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Show .PLATT IS PROUD OF RECORD. Nave York Senator Fully Conscious of Hla Trlumpha. Penator Thomas C. Plult pasaed hla seventieth birthday last week. He remained quietly In bis hotel at Manhattan Man-hattan lleach all day. "It la rather illlllciill." ho suld. "In find new waya of celebrating blrtbilaya when one baa had seventy of them." The senator haa held but four public offlcea. beginning be-ginning as clerk of Tioga county In IMS. In 1872 ho waa elected congressman con-gressman and eight yeara later was apiHilntod quarantine commissioner In New York harbor. In IKK 1 he went to the United Slates senate. In talking of hla political career on hla birthday ha said grimly: "Karh time I terl-outly terl-outly thought of getting out of poll-tlra poll-tlra somebody hit me. I concluded I would not be driven out. Yes, the list of graves of my political opponents oppo-nents Is a long and distinguished one. There may be mure of tboae gravea yet." |