Show ROW HOW BOSS PLATT J IN NEW YORK l Washington Star StarIn StarIn StarIa In Ia the lobby of the tha Arlington last evening a group of senators were talking A slender man of medium height with carefully trimmed iron grit gray beard grave im Impassive paa passive ive features dressed with Immaculate immaculate neatness s in IR Prince Al Albert Albert Albert bert passed p through to the elevator He nodded pleasantly to the gentle gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen men who in like manner returned the salutation Senator Platt said one of that senators confreres to his companions has haa held absolute sway as the leader of the Republican party in New York state for nearly a quarter of a century and I consider his political power and control of men to be one of the re remarkable remarkable remarkable instances of American citi citizenship citizenship and American politics The question naturally arises how he has been able to do this and why wh The methods of this American War Yar Warwick Warwick wick are quite dissimilar from the av average average elage leader In polities politics You and I and the rest of us WI in this group will promise premise a man anything within or without reason according a to our re respective respective reSpective temperaments Promises are the stock in trade of the average statesman and politician He perfects the organization among his adherents mainly by promises and welds their separate strength together in the com composite composite composite whole of or his power by promises with a R few performances spattered In the thi tb mortar to make it stick The controller of the destinies of the Republican party in New York never neer promises anything He makes no promises He acts He either does a thing thins or he does not do it He Is 13 either for a man or a measure or against him or It All A the men in his army who enjoy his confidence or whose confidence he be has In turn know jut just when and where they may put their haRts hana on him and aRd he be on them Political leaders lenders will often talk as many ways as the wind blows He talks but hut one way to the point Inde Indecision cUlton cislon is an unknown quantity with him Moves on OR the checker board of politics are carefully con considered considered and thought out a position is taken and there are no backward steps Absolute loyalty to o his friends is 15 the second stone in the foundation of his success sueca as ud a 5 political leader and fac factor j tor A keen observer of men a close I and aRd accurate reader render of or human hU nature a man must get up early In the morn ing log to mislead or 01 deceive him His lieutenants are like those of the cap Jain aln tam of a ship where he be holds bolds their ab absolute absolute absolute solute faith it is swim or sink ac according according according cording to his ideas of navigation These The e continued the senator as he lighted his after dinner danner cigar are two or three of the cardinal reasons why Senator Platt has ruled so easily e and long the easy boss bon of the big state on the other side aide of New Jersey Tersey For years yearn there has not a day passed that the metropolitan press has not con contained contained with reference to him one to half a dosen dozen editorials ranging from mild censure to personal abuse yet things go along the same came as though they were mute muta The public and the theman theman theman man at whom they are directed evi dently take them for what they are worth and his hold on OR the taO helm has never been even unsteady un teady much less shaken and the great treat metropolis throbs and thrills with Its leg ing life Just the as same Mme me line Low of or speech calm of demeanor I quiet of disposition deliberate of ac acI tion methodical and systematical Senator Platt Piatt bears diversified responsibilities I and multifarious duties on his shoulders under which many manyi i stronger men would long ago have hae sue suc or been overthrown In power i No political victory victor against a real red an anI j I such as is the New York De Democracy Democracy Democracy haa baa ever been won except by byI i the labor of ot the man who controls and I I the men who constitute the regular or organization organIzation of ot a party The political machinery of the Republican party In I inI I New York in all an of or Its ramifying in ini i moves with a regularity and precision which has brought many a aI I victory over its toe The Theman Th Theman man who stands on the bridge has but butto butto butto to give a word now and then and the party ship rides out the st on the sea Ilea ea of politics politico And the more remarkable Jle is it alt aU that this work is a ed avoca I 1 Hon tion The head of a great corporation j I several times time a a millionaire politics constitute in tn him hive tb the mental relax I tion that the great statesmen of lg land take ake In hunting and aDd some ROme of our American leaders in fishing Who will net not say sa that the t limits limit of or orAme American Ame n citizenship are smiles endless in the sum of human hum hum ti h endeavor I |