Show Srim Reaper Cuts Deep Into Ranks Of Both Parties Appalling Total of Shining Marks That Have Died Weaken Political Machines Mush Mush- Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom room Leaders Add to Uncertain Uncertain tam tain Situation B ROBERT ROBIRT ROB CUT T suun Cop right 1923 19 WASHINGTON June 2 The death ot of Representative Claude Kitchin of ot North Carolina tu t 0 days ago brings up to un n appall appall- appallIng appalling ing total the tile shining marks In Inthe inthe the political world claimed by the th grim reaper In the last t two tao 0 sears ears ars Perhaps in these deaths Is found foun the answer to tho the paramount Ques- Ques tion Question ot the day Wat Is the matter m with 1 11 tics or the corollary to this In- In Interrogation Why where here are tho th two tao old parties drifting Tho The truth Is that both lican and Democrats have lost losso so many old hands at the tho wheel It I Is h not surprising that things are arc getting out of o hand It Is la not to tobo tobe bo be wondered at that mushroom leaders should grow up here ana ano there assuming the role of mastel whether hether suited to it o 01 oi not n M AI An Mi FD Nor is It surprising to find rind miny keen heen political observers opining that no man can say definitely jut just what hat the tho next Republican and the th next Democratic national com conen- conen en- en will do either cither in the way o OL or ot of o J platforms It Is I presumed of course that If it Ident harding at the time of ot the com contention should ac- ac actually actually desiro he con can obtain that honor But Dut Buthe the old masters s of the tho G C 0 P many of them theta are gone and It Is 1 freely being said saU that the smooth running machinery of the past may ma maybe be lacking next ear and that 1 iu lack laet of steady dominating herds may result In a con condition ml ht make on any tiling possible p Kitchin was wa the thear ar ar leader Iader of the house of representatives For tight eight i ars piloto to 1918 1919 he ho was in command of o the th popular of ot th the legislature lature and since that time he I has be been n the militant leader of the Ills His death takes tak's another figuie fule from the life liCe o Washington leader loader tron the tho rapidly thinning ranks ranis in the house hous G C 0 I 1 ILI IL Tho have suffered J greater fosses lossee by death than the Democrats since the tho nt nl notional om contention nhon of ot 1920 The los loss loss- of nois Bols Penrose alone was a stag stag- staggering gering blow for tor them them Wh Whiter lh er crone one might think of Penrose one always lI knew where he stood tood on any public question which was as as up for tor I ote or 01 discussion and even een en his worst enemies respected him as lS I fighter P Penrose was the bIg fellow for tor so many years In the pirty that his hi passing passim not only rocked locked his part party nationally ou Du nearly vv reeked it In his home homo of Pennsylvania In addition to Senator death Senator C Knox of Pennsylvania Pennsyl and Sen- Sen Sen Senator lator ator 1 ill lam L 1 L of the same state It also ro claimed State Sen- Sen Senator Sen Senator ator Ed 1 1 Vare Yare of ot nh With these four tour big leaders out of othe the tho way It Is email wonder onder tL th Gifford Pinchot a hull bull In 1512 had risen to the top of oC the hell hep and possesses about the tho only sort of ot leadership the G 0 P can claim In the rock ribbed keystone sLate stae sia e today toda mv LV uin n-uin JilT Nc Nett t to l anla New i ew York has been ben one of ol the hardest t hit hll tales tates in the lat last two tears ears ars the tho th last laet of the empire commons recording such auch exalted called ailed mmes nimes as Richard Croker Croler Bourke Coch Coeh- Coeh- Coeh uan i an George W Aldridge Lei Led Tho The losses In New York state sat Continued on PC Pa GRIM REAPER UPSETS RANKS I Continued from P ec One were evenly divided between tho th Republicans and Democrats Massachusetts and the nation at large lost former Senator Murray Cran Crane a I man who has teen been bee member member of OC the Inner cirCle circio In Intile inthe Inthe tile the making of Republican pres- pres presIdents for tor so o man years that there wore were few tew at his death able to re- re recall recall re call the timo when Crane was notI not a I familiar figure In inthe the national conventions of oC his party There Where Penrose was a fighter Crane Crano was a II fixer and the thet t tao 0 functioned together as smooth smoothly I ly aa as clock clockwork ork The political field lost lo-it at least JIll an e extremely Jue CI figure ure In inthe Inthe the tho death of United States Senator Tom Tom of oC Georgi Wat Watson son was indeed the stormy petrel of oC American politics Of him In ho he truth it could be lie said Mid that sore ore no mans man's collar Bene a aro ro g 1 and perhaps a vin vindictive m mind nd of oC many prejudices Tons Tom had bad the culture of oC a II education and sharp tongued In debate lie he was wa even more exceptional as a writer and his works of OC history will nill live livelong long in the bright pages of Am American m literature ILLINOIS LOSS ross Illinois Republicans suffered an Irretrievable loss in the tho death of oC Jam Jamss JamOS s R 11 tann There pre ere re few Cew men mn In public ho ho got more pleasure out oC polities politics than Jim Mann He lIe was as wasa wasa a great leader In house of representatives the s 's the opponent of OC Claude who has toll followed owed him to that bourne whence hence no traveler re- re re Jim Im Jim Mann rann w win was Jas 3 0 a 0 perfect fiend In iii debate He lIe was not net a foe Coe Ho lie did not hesitate to use hIs greater learning his greater mastery of oC parliamentary rules hh hi marvelous memory of oC precedent to cut a less Is learned colleague to the quick Jim Mann isas the hornet of ot the house of rep rep- representatives rep representatives A greit grett stalwart Republican was cut down but a few Cew weeke ago In inthe the death of oC Sentor Knute Nel- Nel Nelson Nel Nelson son Minnesota Here again Is IsSE SE seen n the chaos that often otten ensues in a party where a leader of oC many mony years ears Is la suddenly taken awaY A great scramble is on in Minne Minnesota sota it b began ln almost before plans nero cre m made de for tor the burial of OC the deceased senator the tho scramble and It Its conse conse- consequences consequences consequences will me mean n to 10 the U 0 0 P In Minnesota no one at this time can ay ay aT This much however Is certain the death of oC Senator N Nel Nelson I son eon nI be ha keenly kenly felt for tor many l llong along long icar car both In his Ills home sute an ani here hero In Washington OTHERS P 1 A AWAY WAY It is not the purpose of this writer Titer to sot set t down o all the recent deaths of oC public men nien but in ad- ad ad addition dillon to the above are arc such as th these e Former Representatives Charles Blandis of ot Indiana n pr H P Kinkaid of oC 1 Nebraska Prince Cu Cupid Jj dele dale delegate pate dele gate fron from Hawaii and a figure In life for tor a quarter of oft ofa ofa t a century Richard A of ot Wash Wash- WashIngton WashIngton Washington ington secretary of the interior In Inthe Inthe inthe the cabinet of or President T Rod and ible ible toe foe of oC Gifford pinchot now int In Pennsylvania Martin i Dies of ot Te Texas M Clarence B n Miller secretary ox ot Republican national committee e c Padgett of oC Ten Ten- Tenness Tennessee Ten ness for tor many ears chairman of oC the committee On naval affairs Former Senator of oC Colorado Glenn Plumb author of the famous Plumb plan and a rising fIgure gure In national politics In the ranks of American diplo diplo- diplo diplomacy diplomacy m macy cy the grim reaper also was active and among those thoc who had held high posts abroad tho the follow follow- follow in Ins inc base but recently passed an 53 ThOD I Nelson Page one tim to Great Britain Fred G 0 Penfield former Cormer ambas anibas ambassador to Austria William G C Sharp former am- am am ambassador to France Bellamy m Storer-he Storer he of the fam fain famous famous ous near Maria Incident dt ot C the Roosevelt administration StANy Y When In addition to all these deaths death one on takes into account th number th-number number of dl distinguished hed men inca who either or retired fro from n political life lIre on the fourth of OC last March it al el almost most os IS if It a black plague had hadI I truck k the political Import of ot the nation Th hou house e lost lot by retirement I three Undo of OC o its oldest members Un members Un ci 11 do Joe Cannon the olde oldest t of then I All who had served 23 terms Pr k Mondell the floor leder Iwho who had bad ser ser 1 13 2 te ter sm r a f n and i Un Uncle l- l lj j Joe OC ef Michigan who ho had hart served 12 I terms This was a aT T triumvirate The Tho two Uncle Joes lust naturally decided tl t ont politics Mr Ir Mondell do- do de decided to rl ri nil n a for tor the senate and r de a i bad guess In a bad lean Ica lean n year rC From Irom the senate ma many ny Cam familiar ilia r C q hive have disappeared limon among th ln John sharp harp Williams oi 01 who ho retired Sr r- r Ity it Ity rIty and Senators Kellogg Kello of Min Min- Minnesota Mm Min Minnesota and Pomerene of OC Ohio who were ere defeated at th the tho polI polls Mr was nas considered a l most promising pre pos possibility On One can hardly wind UI up the th great grat political losses of ot the country without referring to the retiring from rom the tho cabinet of Will H Haves now the of eC th the mo mosies But who what t politics lost 11 the movies won in Sn nth the th score in Wills Will's case casc seems all but square |