Show The Remarkable Career of Senator Arthur P Who Is a Presidential Potentiality if Not a L S a n presidential pr poten pot en Senator Arthur ArthurI I Pue florman has hils for Cor yours ears pait loomed large upon the political I hb I on Jut but an nR a proba or even Jl Hy Ity he ban haK not nol occupied so great a of ot Rt This Is I por hU own fault for tor his friends nay he h will not unequivocally declare hIm seU lf or rather that he declares him himself self with hU ilIA present Still a II man may be b with such lIuch sucha a II vindication ns 11 Senator florman ho hilI received he may bo L content with the Ih honors Muon he has hlll won In the pout lOt and with there Iho e In prospective and yet et bo willing to 10 accept un Imitation to oc occupy cupy OUI the presidential chair If tendered ns the tj re result uH of ot universal and neol sentiment His 1119 declare that he has hns within him tho tM stuff of or which may I to made that thai he has himself n a leader I of or men and ami of ot vitally lIall connected the national nB existence nce To brine before the public a review of or a 1 life lifelike like that of or the of or this sketch might s em hi u II task Went It not fur fact that for the pait four Cour or five rl Senator Gorman ha from Crom active participation tion In national and h u led lad a comparatively quiet There Ther are probably tho e of nr the younger gen generation who lire not Acquainted with the salient of ot lit Ills life lite de the fact that Mr Ir Gorman German hall ban held h ld office continuously either In III the of ot hie hll mate or country for tor about yean Born In 1 Manh Marth II 1 1619 he ht IB II just Ju l yearn yar of age but halh lived 1100 banded his Vital forien torre he II i to 10 day scarcely more than fifty He comes of ot that ramous famous ancestry to America ones no so much ruch of or Its pioneer blood and perhaps he ht may have hav derived from both father athor ont and mother mol her making for tor tenacity and 1 r which have marked him himas as all a fighter and nn antagonist worthy any mans steel His youthful tutelage was received reche 1 under eye ee of that world famous statesman Stephen A Douglas whose private he became and whom h accompanied In his bin Joint de debate bate bale with Abraham braham Lincoln Enjoying l Intimate friendship of ot Douglas It ItIs Is II not that he should have ll im imbibed Democratic principles nl lit the and hae remained true to those principles during his hili life He can look luok buck lo to a n career such as al few tew politicians of or today may mil bout boast and his reminiscence Include companionship even comradeship with Ith some ome of or the t figures of or our political history years ago aKO In 1852 Arthur Arlhur rue Gorman Introduced to the national nale where from Cram a R humble beginning as a page he rom roee to o eminence and pow power er Throughout his long career In Iho senate he known not only as all a II si silent lent worker In committee but as RI an earnest earnet and ardent champion of or what he the foremost of the hour then looming loom In I he fore Core the politicians ken This Thill medium sized sired man of more the of ot a 1 prosperous merchant than of or the typical statesman has per ller performed formed wonders In his time and aimed d commotions whoso ripples have extend extended ed Id lo tn the boundaries of or this continent He I has haR played games on IIII political chessboard that have the th a lion of or past In III th I h tIne und Lind have hae won on the love loyc and following of ot thousands yet c he has done everything quietly without fuss attention until the time come that he desired It when all ull ullUs ms Us over or ready fur tor the grand coup COU that was to carry his man to the cov position The ho great Ireat secret of at Mr Gorman power Iwer la hi to be found In his admirably equable temper his slaying sla ln qu q R RIlls Ms Ills reserve force by exercise of which he has fairly won on his hili reputation us liS the most consummate party manager In tn the country countr It Is by byno b bno no means through blind chance that he ha hru been reinstated n party parly leader and had of or the steering com committee mittel for Cor he long ago ngo commended himself to 10 his hll fellow Democrats as ns pos pas possessing 8 preeminent qualities for tor lead leadership Ills His generalship In the success successful till ful campaign resulted In land tand landing ing Ilig Grover Cleveland In the Ihl presidential chair c national reputation stamped him as ns a man among thousands thou Quiet and unassuming In his per personality personality Senator Gorman would hardly attract a glance Ilance unless pointed out ns Gorman then he h h the of nil aU eyes eyell especially e If Ir It be that ho he Is 11 going lo 10 bis 1111 great creat gung and train them upon some subject that In his hili opinion should It I battered down In his speeches he Is direct and forceful always effective but rarely If It ever eer oratorical Perhaps the most effective of 01 his speeches and the one In which his hla characteristics were moat prominently displayed dl was that In which he flayed President Cleve Cleveland land for Cor writing thai letter attacking the th Democrats of the United States who ho were then opposing his hl tariff policy polk He spoke sJ tor moi than Ihan t two o hour houri his hll i clearness and force and throughout I to I ARTHUR PUE GORMAN I I I crowded floor noor and galleries his reso resonant nant metallic voice olce reaching every etry lis listener tener The shrewdness of or his hili tactics was 09 also alIo apparent on that occasion when lie 11 at various times called upon th members of oC the finance committee i to narrate their experiences with the I I president pr confirmatory of oC his stale I merits menU He lie triumphed ho also es ta a reputation for tor Incisive tin thai char opinion many man had hed I at t tl evasive and Indirect In put d oI Senator Gorman Is II th Ibe t but a hird bitter ous to come up Rt and ant grim he Is a worker ife d p er and a n calm and speaking only uhn wilen hs h hu a Ii mind Is fully p tutt the re result No doubt h hI is i ft W Want and ant believes In ty bf t b j t leal friends to th exclusion ex of b tI or opponent He lie Ii b Ji J firm cole cold as marble yet rei cite Itself As a 1 tactician and fite rilin he on a 11 crown nunn notably In Mi o t Mr Lodges Ut hI Uthe I Iho he ho led the t to a t tte leptA te l lA A plain man with pose paM plain of oC speech and irl 11 Ii Kt soi M U UKO r i t t tanti anti and g In w h u LJ i elates dates wild a a ita Jt than most nf i f V Ington la tJ a upon his party ahu which h tiMi n r are nore II This 01 summate ummat if H Hof t tor of or the minority c o alert will bo e quirk lo 10 U in aJl of or any an ml moe ea on Ib rr part rf ct b li and It bt ores fn I I t underrate his n i they do He Hr has M his c elm elmee I eye ee upon th the m as i i r presidency and t reach th I hp g d It Jl J conceded that nn no roan roaD via 11 i nr MOr a thin Se Wl y we w In tn the Ih the D party JAMES X N BOW BOL |