Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 6 | Senate Changes

SENATE CHANGES. The Democratic party has- recently suffered the. loss of throo senators, Bacon, Ra.ynor and Johnston, two of them boing statesmen of more than ordinary or-dinary ability and loaders in tho party councils, l?aynor's successor has been seated and two now men will shortly be chosen to till the vacancies in Georgia Geor-gia and Alabama, Legislative, bodies, even if they bo continuous liko the senate, are constantly changing. Death and political upheavals do the, work. The Hepublicans have suffered more than the Democrats in this respect during dur-ing the last few years. Tho .Republican .Republi-can lenders of ten years ago are missing miss-ing when the. roll is called in tho- senate. sen-ate. Hoar, Frye. Allison, Dolliver and Cnlhim have paid tho debt of nature ; Aldrich and Hale voluntarily rotirod, while others of less prominenco woro retired by their own party or met do-feat do-feat at tho hands of the Democrats. The senato is not long on statesmanship statesman-ship at tho present timo. Quito the con-trarj con-trarj Tho Democrats havo not been in tho majority long onough to develop and th'o new loaders of tho Republicans have not tho capacity of thoso whom they surcccded. A glanco at the senato chamber plainly reveals tho ravages of lime and turns tho memory back to the era when the Republicans woro in control con-trol and the upper house of congress was regarded as the greatest legislative body in the world. Truly "there were giauts in those days."