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Show ate and was Instantly jilcknamrd. "Me too Piatt," and once when ho Induced In-duced Theodore Roosevelt Ij run for vice president with McKlnley, very much against Roosevelt's better Judgment Judg-ment in the fate of his repeated declarations dec-larations that nothing could Induce him to accept th nomination. , Irony Mocks Wisdom. I There could not be a better Instance of Piatt's skill In persuasion and manipulation man-ipulation or of the irony thai mocked his ripest wisdom. McKlnley was shot. Hoosovelf became president, and the days of Piatt's domination in the state lapsed Into senility. His bodily strength decllted rapidly. rapid-ly. He mnde a second marriage which ended In the courts and he was sued by Mae Wood, formerly a clerk in the government employ, for a divorce on the strength of a third marriage, never proved to lime taken place. The episode with Conkllng, which was not exceeded In public excite, ment, say the newspaper files of that day, by anv event In the civil war, was as follows: Piatt was elected to the senate In 1 SSI . H and his colleague Conklln became embroiled with Garfield In a bitter controversy over the- appointment appoint-ment of William H. Robertson to be collecior of the port of New York. The selection wns distasteful to the Now York organization and both Piatt and Conkling refused to confirm it in the senate. Thereupon President Garfield withdrew other nominations made at their instigation among them one, Stewart L. Woodford, to be United Unit-ed States district attorney and Iu F". Payne, recent ly remembererl as an "accelerator of public opinion," to be I'nlteil States marshal. Finding themselves them-selves in a hopeless deadlock, Piatt and Conkllng both resigned. Conkling Conk-ling was caught In the great blizzard of 1SRS and died of exposure. Piatt was supposed to be frozen out of politics, poli-tics, hut he turned his attention to building Influence in the southern tier of New York counties, became a state leader again In 1S04 and In 1S97 was elected a second time to the United Slates senate, nucceedlng David Ben nett Hill He fell out with Governor Frank Plack and to defect his re-nomlnatlon put forward Theodore Roosevelt, a type whom undeveloped possibilities he did not Justly estimate It was Roosevelt's rapid progress toward popularity pop-ularity and power that later led Piatt to suggest him for the vice presidency, presiden-cy, hoping that in the quiet of that dignified office, he might be forgotten. SEN. PL ATT --'BUM New York, March fi. Thomas Collier Col-lier Piatt, formerly United States senator sen-ator from New York, and for many years a national figure In Republican Republi-can polities died at 3:43 o'clock this afternoon In the nporiment of Mr. and Mrs. Gustavo Abelo on West 11th street, from whom ho.had rented three rooms for the last four years. Mrs Abele had been his nurse. Pr. Paul Auterbrldge, his physiclar). said tonight that the cause of death was chronic and pone Brlghfs disease. dis-ease. The body was removed tonight to the home of Frank H Piatt, a son, and will be taken on Tuesday to Oswego, Os-wego, N. Y.. the senator's birthplace, where it will be buried. Funeral services will be hold Wednesday Wed-nesday at the Presbyterian church In Owego. I The end was startlingly sudden. An hour before tho senator died, his two sons, Frank and Udvvnrd. with their j families and his widowed son Harry, with the hitter's daughter Charlotte and son Sherman, had left the house after their usual Sunday visit. The senator said at that time that he felt very well ami thoupht he would read the Sunday papers. At 3 o'clock ho was taken with a fainting r.pell and Pr,' Auterbrldge was hurriedly called The family was notified and returned In haste Mr. Piatt recovered from lils first lapse but sank Into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness agala at half past three, and died 13 minutes later. The relatives rela-tives were all at the ledslde Sketch of Life. Thomas Collier Piatt, the "easy lioss" of the earlier and brighter days was for many years not only the Republican Re-publican leader of his state but a figure in national politics stood shoulder shoul-der to shoulder with men of such rank and reputation as the late Ma-thew Ma-thew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. Both were men of exceptional Intellectual Intel-lectual attainments and both turned them, with signal success to party organization. (Juay died still a power; Piatt outlived out-lived his time and felt himself In late years out of touch with the moving tplrit of events "In twenty years In congress," .Tas. Ci. Blaine described Piatt aa a "busl-r.eppnian "busl-r.eppnian of great personal popularity. popular-ity. He has an aptitude for publie affairs and Is a man of strong influ-pnee influ-pnee In his state. Ke s no debnter, but has strong common sense and quick Judgment of men." Yet with all his native Judgment, wide experience and skill as au organizer, it became tho fate of Piatt to win remenvbranep more for his associations with others than for anything he did of his own initiative. Twlco In his life Plait was the center of the national Etages, once when he resigned with Roscoe Conkling from tho United States sen- |