Show PASSING OF SENATOR PLATT sudden death of noted republican leader who had been prominent in state and national politics c ile new Y york rk thomas collier platt formerly united baates senator from nev hew york and for many years a na dional figure in republican politics died at sunday afternoon in fit the apartment of mr and mrs airs gustave abele front from whom he had rented three rooms tor for the last four years sirs mrs abele had been ills nurse dr paul auterbridge ills hla physician said that the cause of death was i chronic and a cute acute brights disease the end w was as startlingly sudden an hour before the senator died tits his two sons frank and edward with their families and tits his widowed son harry k with the batters lat daughter charlotte and son sherman had left the house after their usual bunday visit thomas collier platt the cikay easy tooba boss of earlier and brighter days was for many years not only the republican leader of hla his state but a figure in national politics shoulder to shoulder with men of such rank a and na reputation as the late into matthew stanley quay of pennsylvania both were men of exceptional intellectual attainments and both turned them with signal success to party organization quay died still a power il aa t v 01 if P 4 f A af pf HON THOMAS C PLATT platt outlived his time and felt himself in late years out of touch with the moving spirit of events in twenty years in congress james 0 blaine described platt ds as a buil business ness man of great personal popularity he has an aptitude for public affairs and Is a man of sarong st rong influence in hi his s state he la Is no debater but has strong common sense find and quick judgment of men twice in his life platt was the center of the li national adonal stage once when he resigned with roscoe conkling from the united states senate and was instantly nicknamed me ale too platt and once when he induced theodoro theodore roosevelt to run nin for vice dent with mckenley very much against Roosevel ts better beafter judgment platt was born in owego tic eloga ga county na N Y on july 1 15 1833 of oe puritan ancestry he entered yalo yale college with the class of 1849 but left in the middle of his junior year because of ill health by his first marriage to ellen ba barstow of owego lie he had three sons frank H edward T and harry B R platt he had bad been in feeble health tor for some years before beford his death he made ma de a second mar marriage riAgo which ended in the courts and he was sued by it wood formerly a clerk in ili government employ for a divorce on the strength of a third marriage never proved to have taken place |