Show boss penrose one of the dominant figures in national life for many years has been senator benator boies penrose of pennsylvania when penrose was a young chap at college he be walked off with class honors and was considered one of 0 the post promising of youths in those early days he exhibited every quality of leadership that has since yielded to his domination in the affa affairs I 1 of the politics of his state always mr penrose has been considered a brilliant man but there are plenty of people who insist that politics is his business rather than his public trust but while there are those that cry out against and defame this ulysses of pennsylvania there are others who believe him to be not only a safety valve but a bulwark as well against the encroachments encroach ments ol of radicals who would the united states it is not necessary to quarrel with opinions of 0 men about penrose because friends and enemies alike credit him with being a very smart and able man while most of the leading lights in he was a hero in the political fray bat national ional political life were learning the a b cs of the game by sheer force of mentality and a dominating personality he rose above all t the be crusts of politics and became known as boss penrose less than a half dozen years ago senator penrose possessed all the appearance of a physical giant the other day one could see his big red automobile whizzing along one of the main roads leading out of washington the purring engine the alert chauffeur and the big red devil retained all the sham of the penrose outfit that has become so familiar to washingtonians Washington ians but the lone chief slept wearily slouched in the rear seat leat I 1 of th the e machine ill health and the responsibility of earr carrying ying on the ponderous affairs which he insists on directing have been too much for the pennsylvania senator for more than a year he be played the role of an invalid and remained away from washington but when his party was returned to power he came back to the capital to take up his work as chairman he has hag been threshing out the tf of the finance committee of the senate revenue bill with his colleagues the tariff bill has been pushed aside for athe he present both measures are said to be going the penrose way that way ay apparently has resulted in the tax bill being changed in so many features that its authors will hardly be able to recognize it as their product when hen it gets back to the house it is said that senator penrose finds the house tariff bill very distasteful because some of its schedules build a prohibitive wall against certain classes of commodities in foreign trade jae believes in lower rates no one knows when the tariff bill will get to the senate senator penrose has it in hand and he has made it very plain that he be is in no hurry burry frontiersmen used to glory in dying out in our west in the eaily days with their boots on the same spirit of determination must actuate penrose he seems determined to carry on his bis work utterly regardless of his health and his friends would not be surprised at any moment should he sink beneath the burden of his self imposed duties |