Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 49

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.--C, hEC‘E)fBER 9, 1928—PART 2. What Will (Continued From First Page.) eand he thinks he can win more votes out in the sticks by friendly greetings and by letters than he can by orating. Performances in the past have proved that whether this was the reason cr not he always piled up the votes. Oniy once since 1907, when he was first nominated for Congress, has he been beaten, and that was in the Republican debacle of 1912, w#en Joseph L. Bristow, a Pro- , was elected. Two years later, he came back to the Senate, festion of the size of his ma- jority, Now the queéstion is this: Will Curtis realize that he is really a national fig- ure and that it is impossible to reach the entire country by his old methods, roved successful so abundantly :in ansas, or will he, his campaign assign- ment concluded, relapse to his former political habits? ‘What Interests Capital. ‘What interests Washington is the old tradition that consigns the Vice Presi- dent of the United States to obscurity. Wi n recalls the theory of old Tom Platt of New York, who, wanting to get Theodore Roosevelt out of the way, forced Mark Hanna to nominate him for Vice President along with Wil- liam MecKinley in 1900. Of course this fafled rather notably, but there are those who believe that if McKinley had lived Platt's purpose would have been served. They are in the minority, of course, for the majority believe Roose- velt would have forced some other op- nity had not fate intervened to put him in the White House. But there is considerable in the old theory. It can readily bz proved by asking some one to name the last six Vice Presidents. The present incum- fent is as colorful a figure as can be fmagined. But Curtis is totally unlike idawes, so far as the public viewpoint s concerned. He works smoothly and 1mder the surface for his results, while i)awes charges with lowered lance and ) eighing steed, to the delight of the 1 sorting instinct of all observers, wheth- ¢ they want him to win or not. Different Methods. _ Dawes storms into a House commit- tee and electrifies the country with printable profanity. Crrtis gets his colleagues, one at a *..ae, usually into a comfortable easv chair with a good cigar and eme:ges oftener than not with a vote ‘or what he wants. Dawes violates #u precedents and makes a speech. at his inauguration denounc- ing he Senate rules. Curtis gets elect- 2d chairman of the rules committee, with never a ripple showing how he got there, and works to bring about such changes as he thinks necessary. Dawes appeals violently to. public senti- ment to force violent solons into line, Curtis plucks them by the buttonhole and points th: way to something they :h:nt if they come along and be “reg- r.” “Regular” is Curtis’ watchword. He 1s almost always regular. Even when he goes off the reservation because of gentiment in his own State, as in the McNary-Haugen farm relief fight, he is likely to come back as he did in that case, when it becomes nec- essary to be “regular” and support the leader—in that case the President of the United States and the “regular” leader of his party. Friends of Curtis wantéd him to be ted for President at Kansas City. e had considerably more strength at that convention, as a -matter of fact, than was anticipated by his opponents. Nor was it only “regulars” who were for him. -For example, Senator William E. -Borah, perhaps the least regular of those who have never bolted their party (Senator George W. Norris might have ranked him for that distinction until he came out for Smith this year), would have been greatly pleased had Curtis ed for ‘higher office. Nor- praised Curtis tis’ word most men’s bonds. Curtis Do? By the same token, some of thes> friends are hoping that Curtis will not permit himself to sink into the obscu- rity that Platt wished unsuccessfully for Roosevelt. They do not want him to disappear utterly from the news col- umns of the daily papers. They want the country to remember that he is in Washington. They want something to appear about their hero besides the highly infrequent occurrence of the Vice President deciding a tie vote. Coolidge found this threat of obscu- rity in the vice presidential office diffi- cult to surmount. There are those who say he would have disappeared if Hard- ing had not died in his first term. There are those who say that if Hard- ing had lived Coolidge would not have been renominated with him. Yet Cool- idge, as Governor of Massachusetts, had become a national figure. The Boston police strike had centered the country's interest on him and built up his popu- larity to such an extent that when the revolt against the “Senate oligarchy” came at the Chicago convention in 1920, when the leaders tried to nominate Lenroot for Vice President, it was easy to start a successful drive for Coolidge. Coolidge fought this enveloping pail of obscurity as best he could. He wrots ‘magazine articles. He made a trip ‘o the Pacific Coast. But it is undeniable that he found few opportunities for keeping himself before the country. Who recollects without considerable effort any act dome by Calvin Coolidge while Vice President? Yet here is a man who, given the opportunity, im- pressed himself upon the country so vigorously and so favorably that his election after little more than a year in office was a landslide, and who, it is generally admitted, could have smashed the third term tradition and been elect- | ed again this year without the slightest difficulty! Sure To Be Regular. No one_doubts that Curtis will be regular. But there is not much news in being regular. That will not get him on the front page at the country’s breakfast tables. Still less will it get him on the front pages of the more sensationally inclined afternoon papers one glances through en route home from the factory or office. He can lay a few corner stones and receive a few promiinent visitors, and thus break into the news reels, but even those will be for very short footages. He could give sensational interviews occa- sionally, but that would be more or less breaking the vice presidential tradition, and Curtis is strong for observing tra- ditions. Also, he dislikes sensational interviews. He has never been one of those to whom the reporters rush when they want comment on this or that. He always has been chary of expressing his views for publication, except along the most regular lines—and regularity is to news value as the South Pole is to the North. No one doubts that Curtis will do a good deal to lubricate the Senate's rusty machinery. He will help it move. He will smooth out difficulties and maneu- vor obstructions out of the way. The ienate will be-able to accomplish more, puobably, than with almost any other uin it public life presiding over it. wut there will never be anything spec- woular about this. It will be done wach in the fashion that Speaker sicholas Longworth has worked in the House, Longworth’s Situation. If one will just examine that House record since Longworth has been Speak- er he will discover exactly what Curtis’ friends now fear. As a matter of fact, every one in Washington agrees that Longworth has madé a most remark- able record in that office. He has re- moved friction and had things accom- plished to an amazing extent. ‘He has performed as a regular of regulars, and yet, the cries of the radicals hdve been stifled. Not since he has been Speaker has that old fight by the radicals for revision of the House rules raised its head. Yet every two years before he came in—from the day the old Cannon For Colds ~ OW many people you know end their colds with Bayer Aspirin! How often you've heard of its quick relief of sore throat and tonsilitis. No wonder millions use these tablets to conquer -colds, neuralgia, rtheumatism; and the aches and pains that go with them. The wonder is that anyone still worries through a winter without them! Friends have told you Bayer Aspirin is marvelous; doctors have declared its action quite harmless, and has no effect whatever on the heart. Every druggist has it, with proven directions. Why not put it to the test? Aspirin s the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacld machine was smashed—that fight has | been made. But there has been nothing spectacu- lar about it. Longworth’s reputation, so far as the country is concerned, rests on | that portion of his life before he became | Speaker. Washington applauds his | work. The rest of the country doesn't hear about it, except in occasional mag- | | azine articles. For it is not front page material. It is “regular.” Borah rises to his feet and makes an oratorical attack on the administration's policy in Nicaragua. It is front page |news everywhere. It is not regular. | Curtis has a series of quiet talks and the resolution Borah was talking about is pigeonholed. That is not front page ||| |news. There is no smash to it. The | only way Curtis could get any publicity | out of that would be for Borah to ris2 | in his seat and attack Curtis personally | | for having done it. But Borah would | not do that. He likes Curtis too much},. | So even Curtis’ friendships occasionall; prevent him from gotting the attention | | he actually deserves. Did a Good Campaign Job. | It so happened that the writer was in a good many Middle Western and | Northwestern cities during the last| dential candidate had spoken in them. ! In every case I found that Curtis had done a good job. 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The Democrats found they were identifying Curtis and also Hoover, whom they attacked as having inspired the veto message, with Calvin Coolidge, and at a time when the tremendous restige which Coolidge had attained ad been enhanced by his refusal to take the nomination. Curtis, however, applied his old ad hominem arguments to communities. No longer able to achieve results by personal contacts, because of the size the pocketbook nerve of the farmers as a class in specific sections. In this connection it might be recalled that Curtis always has been rather cynical in analyzing motives. He has been known to say in private conversations that this or that Progressive would not have gone on a rampage if he had been given what he wanted by the regulars —a committee assignment, a plece of patronage or whatnot. . Tried to Convince All In dealing with his audience and with the communities that would read worked largely on the idea of convinc- ing them that they personally would be better off with another Republican ad- ministration. For example, when he went up into Minnesota, not long after a demonstration for Alfred E. Smith in St. Paul, which convinced Democratic leaders there he was going to carry the State, Curtis showed that he knew just a little more than the New York Gov- ernor about how the Northwestern farmer would reason. Smith made them laugh by reading from various Republican platform pledges on farm relief. Curtis reminded them of what had happened to them under a Democratic tariff. It so hap- pens that farm relief is aimed very largely at grains, and most Easterners think that Minnesota is the biggest wheat State in the Northwest. Actually only 7.1 per cent of the money received by Minnesota farmers comes from wheat. 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