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Show PASSIN3 OF SENATOR PLATT Sudden Death of Noted Republican Leader Who Had Been Prominent in State and National Politics. Nerv York Thomas Collier Piatt, formerly United isiates senator from New York and for many years a national na-tional figure In Republican politics, died at 3:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon In the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Abele, from whom he had rented three rooms for the last four years. Mrs. Abele had been his nurse. Dr. Paul Auterbridge, his physician, said that the cause of death was chronic and acute Brlght's disease. The end was startllngly sudden. An hour before the senator died, his two sons. Prank and Edward, with their families, and his widowed son, Harry, with the latter's daughter. Charlotte, and son, Sherman, had left the house after their usual oiinday visit. Thomas Collier Phut, the "easy boss" of earlier and brighter days, was for many years not only the Republican Re-publican leader of his state, but a figure fig-ure In national politics, shoulder to shoulder with men of such rank and reputation as the late Matthew Stanley Stan-ley Quay of Pennsylvania. Both were men of exceptional intellectual intel-lectual attainments, and both turned them, with signal success, to party organization. Quay died still a power; f , ' , J i ' ' ' He - m i " , j HON. THOMAS C. PLATT, Piatt outlived his time and felt himself him-self in late years out of touch with the moving spirit of events. In "Twenty Years in Congress," James G. Blaine described Piatt as a "business man of great personal popularity. popu-larity. He has an aptitude for public pub-lic affairs and' is a man of strong influence In his state. Lie is no debater, de-bater, hut has strong common sense and quick judgment of men." Twice in his life Piatt was the center cen-ter of the national stage; once when he resigned with Roscoe Conkling from the United States senate and was instantly nicknamed "Me, Too," Piatt, and once when he induced 'theo-dore 'theo-dore Roosevelt to run for vice-president with McKinley, very much against Roosevelt's better judgment Piatt was born in Owego, Tioga county, N. Y., on July 15, 1833, of Puritan ancestry. He entered Yale college with the class of 1S49, but left in the middle of his junior year because of ill health. By his first marriage to Ellen Bar-stow Bar-stow of Owego he had three sons Frank H Edward T. and Harry E. Piatt. He had been in feeble health for some years before his death. He made a second marriage which ended in the courts, and he was sued by Mae Wood, formerly a clerk in government gov-ernment employ, for a divorce on the strength of a third marriage never proved to have taken place. |