Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party (Volume 2); A Biography and a History (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III In The Senate. 1895-1899 IN view of Burrows' strongly-magnetic personality, his conscientious and indefatigable labors, ?resulting in inestimable service to his Party and to his country, the question naturally comes to the reader as it has to the biographer, why a man with such gifts, with such training, with such loyalty of purpose and such power of accomplishment, should not stand more preeminently as a National figure. It is a fan: statement to make that no single member of the Republican Party has ever contributed more to it in actual constructive service. We find Burrows' name associated with nearly every measure espoused by the Party from its birth down to his death. We find him suggested as a possible candidate for Vice-President and even for President of the United States. We find him one of the few great orators of his Party; and yet others, whose service has been less, or at most no greater, stand more prominently forward whenever the leaders of the Republican Party are named. Perhaps what J. G. Cannon said of him, in answer to this question, is a partial explanation: Burrows H O - 0 -S, S oo Z O O H PS while in the House was certainly one of the leaders but could never be called the leader. He was too great an orator to be a real leader. On the other hand, Burrows was always to be found nearest to the load, and doing more than his share of the work. Burrows was never a seeker after mere popularity. He always avoided that most evanescent of all honors which comes from doing things of little or no value but which serve to win temporary popular applause. His friends often reproached him for failing?through over-modesty?to let his constituents and the country know the extent and importance of his work. Anything that savored of the spect..