New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1919, Page 8

PEgrany redd Hey i ATISS on the part of President, n E#o perform the duties of his oftfce, thosa The Constitution pro. vides for this Under ordinary circumstances a Vice President’s chief obligation apjears to be self-effacement. There pro no other public function country swhose bad o of oftice is so closely and completely linked with modest oblivior And now. all of a sudden, the spo is turned upon him. Tor the question has been raised hy no less distinguished a jurist than George W. Wickersham, former United States At- torney Ge: eral. whether the courts might not even proceed to ‘“man- damu Vice President Marshail to dential duties by rea. perform the pre son of the mere fact that President Wilson is out of the country. Although the consensus of opiniol among other distinguished Luwyers is that President Wilson's absence from the count is in full accord with his threefold capacity as treaty maker and commar.der-in-chief of the army and of the navy. and that therefore the “ina- bility,” contemplated by the Constitu- tion does not apply, nevertheless the fact remains that the Guestion has been rshall s declared that, if ordered mooted., and Vice President Ma tmself by a competent tribunal. he would, as a law-abiding citizen, acquiesce, ana take a seat in the presidential chair “I Am a Fatalist” Meanwhile. however. be it known, Mr. Mars cussion to interfere with his slumbers 1] is not allowing this dis- He is a firm Dbeliever in the doctrir and !l wiil Le wiil be. Shortly after his electio < Governor of ln- diana 1910, \id in an interview I ain. in & measure, a f& In my law practice and everything else I do all taat I while I am in the fight: but 1 never worry about the outcome. [ am not responsible for re- sults. If my client is accused of crime and the jury is out I go to bed and to sleep and get the news after break- fast in the morning. What is to be will e and staying awake wou't change it.” Vice President Marshail, horn March 14, 1854, at North Manchester, Ind., is nia family of Mar- a scion of the Virg sballs, one of whom, was the world-famous John Marshail, “hief Justice of the United States. And on his mother’s side he is a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrolton, a signer of the Declaration of Inde his granduncle, pendence. In 1873, when he was nineteen, Mr. Marshall was graduated from Wabash College with the degree of bachelor of arts. The reputation which he estab- lished for himself in scholarship at college has never been rivaled there. On his twenty-first birth anniv sary he was admitted to the Indiana bar and soon became known as one of the ablest lawyers in that State. In 1893 he was appointed special Judge of the Circ Ind. The deputy clerk of this court was Miss Lois Kimsey, the daughter of the chief clerk. Her wit, vivacity at Angola, brilliant conversational powe and On the night he was elected Governor Mr. Marshall went to bed and slept peacefully until Mrs. Marshall awakened him at 3 o’clock to break the pnews of his victory fated for Gov SYRoT o, emoerdjic ticket in 190+ 1 N e " hisawife was withihina on all his cam paisn tours. He said afterward: it was reported that Mrs, Marshal was a committee of one appointed by my campaign managers to see to it that 1 kept sober. This, of course, was a bit of pleasantry gotten up for I fact, 1 never ( litical effect; for, as a matter o ink any kind of liqu not even at banyuets.” When He Became Governor Mrs. Marshall's loyal devotion was vewarded. Her husband, as was his wont, had been extr:mealy frank in his stump speeches, telling his s lences: “Although I am running for Gov nor on the Democratic ticket, I am no man’s man—neither the brewers' nor the pr itionists’, I intend giving the State honest government: to-be the Governor of the Republicans as well as of the Democrats. T have a good law | ctice, and if you men don’t want me you can bet all the money you have that I don’t want the office. either, for which I am a can didate.” The truth was that the candidacy ad been foisted upon Lim by a mila compulsion by léaders, who woin him the only salvation for their p at that ne. “Politicians warned me that [ blun dered whenever I opened my mouth,” said Mr. Marshall, *'W there ever such a fool of a candidate” they said tmong themselves and to me, too, in signs, if not in so many words. But I knew that T was going to be elected I never doubted it except once, and that was after the vote had been cast. hhe ive: t crossed in bringing the news to my house and at midnight 1 said to Mrs. Marshall, ‘The battle is lost, T guess” Then I went to bed In a few minutes I was asl ep. At in the morning Mrs. Marshall awoke me and exclaimed joyfully, ‘Governor Marshall, let me be the first to con- gratulate you.'” Mr. Ma 1all admits talking is a weakne: the love of 1 he makes no effort to resist “My wife telis me,” he said, “that I am as willing and precipitate in regard to talking as was the negro laundress to whom Sam anted to propos Sam lacked the courage to do so face to face, so hie called her up by tele- phone Is that you, Maude? he asked. ‘In his confusion he neglected to tell her who he was ““Tt sure I was Maude’s reply ““Will you marry me? Sam next inquired. “‘Yes,” Maude yelled back instantl ‘who’s talk “Mrs. Marshall says that when any one asks me if T will converse T ex- claim, ‘Certainly; what do you want me to converse about?' ™ Educated at Waubash Mr. Marshall's fondness for talking is the result of early training as well as of natural disposition. “It was believed at Wabash College, where I studied fou '8, he shid that, as Lord Bacon p it. ‘reading maketh a full man, writing an accu rate man and talking a ready man.’ | B mnoiy (1 Hon is called ‘the gift 1 could present things in a manner to please those delivered hy great deal and I became rather ' Grote's ‘Greece,’ ind Macau- gland,’ Rolling's . d’Aubigne's ‘Reformation’ Hendricks, ame to Crawf the courts.” In the Legal Profession eloquence legal profes that T thonght a lawyer had the oppor- took advantage of law or was in- of the court. ake no boast; profession le and that T made an honest circumstances interesting father, who was a very compete consumptives. Copyri 1018 b lzer Clc VIN THE WHOLE UNITED STATES!” - Viv o tondness tor taikis rvesult of early trainir College™ t Wabash came and opened a dry goods sto there and my father practiced his pro- fession “T heard t and Douglas in the town of Freeport, 1e debate between Lincoln sitting on Lincoln’s lap while Douglas spoke and on Dougl &s lap while Lin that one was tall ar and that the short man irvitated me by patting the top of my Fead.” coln ke, T recollect on mat 1 the other sh I'ew men are so ready for self-con- demnation for what they rezard as faults or mistakes as is Vice President Marshall. He furnished a historic in- stance of this unusual and amiable trait at the dedication of the Al Liberty in Madison Square, New York city, on September 28 last came here,” he said, “partly to make an apology, an apology for my attitude during almost two years and a half of the fat apoiogy that & (‘~d-fearing man in the twentieth cc of civinzation could nation, any people or any man 1d be mneutral when right was fighting with wrong. “For five years last past I have been wondering what it profited a man to gzain the vice presidency if he lost himself; for 1 have been one of those who belicved in the individual, who thought that he constituted .he unit of civilization, and T still so believe; eful conflict; an have dreamed that ¢ became 1 i conceive ii to be far more im- portant to examine myseif than to othe cross-examine o e i PSSRSO A While serving as special Judge of the Circuit Court at Angola, ind., Mr. Marshall met the viva- cious Miss Lois Kimsey, daughter of the chief clerk—and s <. Marshall ith » be made safe and I here and now avow my f that the world is only for democr search his soul and prove himself cy when every man will worthy to be a democrat Six months before, during the cen- tennial celehration of the Royal Arch Masons at Wilmington, Del., speaking of the participation of the United , Mr. M “The time has come when man can States in the we all said: answer God with Cain’s old no longe , ‘Am 1 my brother's keeper? ¥ an- 6000 years men have made t swer. Thank God that the American people have had the courage to an- swer to that cry, ‘Yes, under God, we are brothers.’ * * Secret Diplomacy “When this war is over we may not have what we had when the war be. gan; we may lose some of our tradi tions. When the American people know what the right is they stand for the right. Patriotism from now on is going to consist of a determination to make any sacrifice that the country’s honor may be maintained. Don’t talk of your rights. What counts is your willingne to make sacrifice. One of the objects which he said he hoped the war would at was the abolition of secret treaties. “I want this fight to go on to the end,” he said. there is no finer form of Zovernment “No compromise. No secret treaty Senate of to remove the han of secrecy peace quc this peopl: resentatives what their rep- indicated h wbhorrence of secrecy in diplomacy. however, taken the con- to secret treatie said to the 1 private conferences, but it is inexpedi- will avoid the appearance of evil. show you a good time the day after he introduced ax to grind, and h wood with intends to chop “There is no money in honest public office has some one holding the Beware of the warning let me suggest immunity that brib- If personal constitutional unpunished. log-rolling votes be allowed to pass pet measures, be charged spoilsmen Your success or the standard of whether measured by this State.” Satire for Corruption President. the cham- in public as well as private life; and has endeared himself by the dry humor of the sat corruption and injustice of eve was sworn for his second term of the vice presi- dency, March 5, 1917, this country was on the verge of going to war. Marshall's tendencies gracefully give vent, in his inaugural address, to sentiments of a belligerent would it have been tact- ful at that time to say anything that might have savored of a desire to halt circumstanc were decidedly warlike. inaugural therefore he regarded as a masterpiece of adroitness record-breaking Its brevity, species of “Everywhere and strident voices pro- He who seeks out of them one clear note of love for conceive it to examine myself patriotisn. all to select country may far more importaut “To be tender and true to humanity is the highest reward of life” T make bold to insert in the Record eed which I have adopted in this period of retro- spection and introspection? It does not embrace what I know, but holds part of what I believe. “I have faith that this Government of ours was divinely ordained to dis- close whether men are by nature fitted or can by education be made fit for some elements of the ¢ self-government; to teach Jew and Greek, bondman and free alike, the es sential equality of all men before the law and to be tender and true to hue manity everywhere and under all cir- cumstances. To reveal that service is the highest reward of life. I cannot believe otherwise when I read the words and recall the sacrifices of the fathers. If ours is not the Golden Rule of government, then Washington wrought and Lincoln died in vain. First Duty—Patriotism “I believe that the world, now ad vancing and now retreating, is never- theless moving forward to a far-oft divine event wherein the tongues of 3abel will again be blended in the lan- guage of & common brotherhood; and I believe that I can reach the highest ideal of my tradition and my lineage as an American—as a man, as a cit: zen and as a public official—when I judge my fellow men twithout mal and with charity, when 1 worry mors about my own motives and conduct and less about the conduct of others. The time I am liable to be wholly wrong is when I think I am abso- lutely right. In an individualistic re- public I am the unit of patriotism and if T keep myself keyed in unison with the music of the Union, my fellow me 11 catch the note and fall inte time and step. “I believe there is no finer form ot w government than the one under which we live, and that I ought to be willing to live or die, as God decrees, that it may not perish from the earth through treachery within or without, and 1 believe that though my first right is to be a partisan, my first duty, when the principles on which tree government is based are being strained, is to be a patriot and to fol- low, in a wilderness of words, that clear call which bids me guard and defend the ark of our national cove- nant A Neutral Nimrod Mr. Marshall was at one time moved by a “call of the wild” to take up a fishing rod. So, he and Mrs. Marshall went forth to fish on the Lake of Pe- toskey. “Mrs. Marshall caught a fine string of perch and pike. I got five dog- fish. I have never fished since, I wil} never fish again.” Whether this resolve was based upon the horror of inflicting pain un. necessarily upon animals or disappoint- ment in not having done better in his catch, Mr. Marshall did not make clear. Probably the former reason is the correct one, for he has said, “I wouldn’t step on a worm if I could help it.” And certain it is also that he never hunts, presumably for the same reason “Just Before the Battle’’—Revelation of a Soldier’s Heart " WHAT does a soldier think the 0 In the Luxembourg, Paris, is & mas- night hefore he goes into battle? terpiece of Tdouard Detaille entitied “The Dreara.” It shows a long line of Irench soldiors sleeping near their stacked muskets. Sleeping with them are their dogs. In the clouds above is a vision of a victorious army charg- ing beneath the banners, cheering as they move onward, According to the palnter of dra- ‘vietory” was the thing s mind the night before b ¢ scone o1 “the soldi the battle It happened that a Missour! soldier in France wrote to his wife just before the battle after which he was pro- moted from mujor to lieutenant colonel for zallantry in action. Major Jj. E Rieger, of Kirkville, Mo.. led into at- tack on 1 a battalion of 1000 me gonne fores , of which only 400 came out uninjured. A machine-gun bullet broke Major Rieger’s field glasses and he was struck by a piece of shrapnel. He commanded the Second Batts y-fifth - Division, lion, 139th Regiment, Thir A. E. F, in the Argonne hattle Major Rieger js a 1awyc well known in the Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri. He is a tall, slender man, with peculiarly keen eyes, and is quick of movement. He gpeaks With a mu- sical drawl and in manner as A woman. For many vears before the war he drilleq and commanded a company of National Guards in his home town and had served with them nds in Kirkville ess him as “Jim in Mexico. His f and Macon always ad Just before the great battle in which his battalion was destined to suffer so severely, and which action caused his promotion by General Pershing on the battlefield, Major Rieger wrote this and mailed it to his wife in Kirk ville Front Lines, Oct. 21, 1918 Just Before the Battle The long, long night marches had ended, the dragging ol weary o ove ugh mud and through rain and black 1l The gropir ness, made doubly so by dense fores: cealed in the was done and now, co forest of the Argonne by day, the army of attack quietly rested The order of battle was handed me and I vead it sembled battal- ion. The day for which the long to training. danger and hardships had been incurred had come at last. We were to attack the hill where 40,000 Irench soldiers had fallen in defeat two years before; but death was there, artillery, machine guns, mines, wire, stronghold. trenches, tunnels, a migl We were to be ably supported. I told my men all The order was received in silence; thelr fac took on a determined look, but no fear was there. T noticed them later; all wore smiles, for the hour of vindication had come; soon was hearq the songs about mother, short stanzas of baby songs, cradle rhymes, lullabies of mother. unmusical, friend—all forgot- Then, as the truth came to them that some might not re- songs of religion, by, were heard mingled to- long-forgotten learned in days gone MAJOR J. E. RIEGER gether were the notes of love and protection of mother ¢ others were forgotten. 1d Jesus—all Later I heard those same volices when in the attack; not now the soft voice of song, but the shout of combat mighty roa The voice of the people is not the voice of God, but the mighty voice of soldier men Seeing before them those who had pillaged and murdered and burned and en wved, they became as the avengers of God and spoke with His voice and acted with His powe Never will T forget. their look. their voice! We swept everything before us, capturing and wounding and killing the enemy in the face of artillery and machine guns worked with desperate speed. I heard voices again, now subdued— they were of mother and Jesus still. I heard the wounded—not a cry, just a song, strong for mother as the wounded one felt the earth strong be- neath him, but a sort of farewell to her who bore him and ¢ clinging to an unseen hand of power as life slowly slipped away. Mother, you are honored above the kin great of earth. The song of heroes fs of you. Could you ask more than to be first and last by those whom the liberty-loving world delights to honor? Your name and that of Jesus bound together in a hero's life , the president, the general, the and death. “Mother, hehold thy son; son, behold thy mother.”