Show W a P rs as es by etmo et MO SCOTT WATSON boover about to talce take life place among the presidents who have hav been tiia kera of t lili tori phrases or colkers of 0 epigram which have caught the fancy pt fit the e people and have been inex associated with their s iiames liames fia mesi although it ig if never safe to predict what to la likely to survive and what whai will soon tb be forgotten it would seem that somo some of mr mir il obvert apt expressions anro abow a part of our current speech leavo ave better than uneven cence clia oce of being pet enrolled enroll Ml in ilia ftc list of of f tile great tn in a letter to dr IV 0 thompson president dont ot of ohio state university president hoover referred to 0 critics of vie he ad administration i inist ration ms as those elioe bally ally toll la in to alx end vlode ale ri almost immediately newspaper bave give tant piras tt wide lda curre currency ncr a and nd placed inu mud I 1 plo pie jint serB in ahme class with Roosevel tg viti citizens tind and Wil wilsons sons little ban af pf p men but this was not tile the first of oe the iq which drop busily from roin the lips of Americ tins and li ave ve a iati allar ring to weir 0 tirs A noble has a sn onyn for or s since 1 hoofer called it that dur due las 1 11 the campaign of oc 1028 an and it lias has become itlo anc to ns zure swei and our friends that almost under discussion Is basically soune bound since the tha reassured tio tile country that business liula ess ot A M V ni 1 4 aw 1 1 I do da not choose to run for pre dent in 1020 Is g itty sound titter after tile stock hurry last year oar Cnut lona cna its aa a nickname keep coot cool with coolidge na lie a political slogan and coolidge economy na as a inny inay soon bo forgotten but buti vt do ao not note choose to run for president bontin in 1028 11 or more simply 1 I do not choose to ta run kocins destined to have a permanent place among tile the historic american phrase perhaps ono one reason hy it ins haa becot no to so film ous oua if la lecause it so BO much discussion 1 us ua to its real meaning for there find been beca speculation as aa to ko whether 11 resident Cool higo would defy tho the third tradition dUlon and bis be a candidate to sue suc cowl coed hnis cl in am alien lu in Au glist at a with newspaper correspondents in ill rapid city S I 1 V ho he handed andel li out a little typewritten slip of paper bearing those ten words ot of the question which was uppermost in tho the nil ot so anny tunny his hii at statement ate only caused more slie culat ton dia it moan mean that lie ho would not seek seck tho the nomination but that tia lie accept it if it werft forced upon jilla or did it maitti that he would not bo be a 0 candidate under any opinion liisi divided ihl del voine souie declared that ft vas as his file canny ot of d declining L to make tile tha rece but bill lear ing the vay oben open for ills his being 4 tor lor a third term outliers declama decla md mat V K M gl Act to norr raley chow choose 0 ad a distinctively new ens land term tind that when ulion a yankee says 1 I 1 do 10 not choose jt meant post NO il I 1 will hotl not I 1 antei event events proved taftt hat their inter pre tallon was but tt it ls Is alf any blysto sin to ard ord in iii our tang ii hn q yer cr before such vs lon and labile ASI brict that pry vord ra liaa ly aith mitta uie anne kenw 6 16 1 5 A 71 ra V 0 R WI av cov tw wt g T 1 I p f off Q 1 79 W 0 M 1 ai j A 74 11 diw tool 71 N whose daily toil is to mix mud pies to basically sound A noble experiment used it but if the aal americans of 1827 knew that they imd had forgotten itono it lono of tile first recorded instances was its 13 use by our first president aforge washington and alint lint during a political campaign I 1 As in a c latil date tor for membership in the house of bur gesses of Virgi virginia aln in lie wrote a letter to captain van swearingen commenting upon tho the electioneering electioneer ing methods ot of ills opponent col adam stephen na as tol follows lows colo stephens proceed inge Is a matter matte of ye greatest amazement to ine ills con duct throughout the whole la is very obvious to nit nil who will be convinced convince but I 1 blind there ire are some that do not to have eyes ees opened tho of 0 Coolid preil pred in office n G M nov A ID aum 4 U aar apr ai IT 51 N honor lies in honest toll toil innocuous desue desuetude tudo public office it Is a public trust party honesty Is I 1 party eppedi anc oncy af taci gave currency to at least two expressions expression which enjoyed considerable vogue at tile kinle hut but which have hae already been nearly forgotten ono one was ills his front porch campaign at ills his home in ill marion arlon bl ohio anti tho the other hl his declaration that lie he was as to ills hla assistance tha ilia lest best minds 1 in his party but tile hardily express io which apparently hns bae the best chan chance ee for survival la Is one ona e closely i ely akin to the hoover basically sound it if harding did not coth bolh tho the word normalcy at least lie ho made it fain familiar illar to fo many americans who did not suspect that such rt a word oll existed sted in characterizing the period alter after tile tho upheaval caMil of tho the world war ar its as back bach to nor next nest to roosevelt perhaps the most prolific maker of unforgettable phrases was woodrow ile iio began na as president of 0 princeton university Iver sIty an and hla bla reference to tho the ninin teut tent in college education in distinction to tho sideshows Is still fre quentin quoted tu otel america first lias has alo lie property of 0 the whole nation since wolsun arst used asiu it lo in it a speech to in new york early in 1010 but U L ta misuse as aa a slogan by demagogic politicians has detract eil oll andly from its as a patriotic plea 1 Ilo wever it was vas in ills his spee eins chom and alid state papera as president dant that wilson gare to tile tho nation ills la mo moil it memorable expressions ills policy tyng MIS one of watchful waiting for it time lie he to load america antl tle world horld there is s such a thing as am too proud to atit alun we we didko alil go in it t was ras be c aai the world must iribe be made a arv W democracy atthe at the confer I 1 once he be demanded open covenants openly arrive at and a synonym for tile gingue lit hf nations which lie he sponsored was as disentangling tilli alliances ances when tile the senate refused befu sed to ratify angelicas americas membership in that league it was wag due to what wilton mison called a little band of bf willful roen men A more picturesque figure than wll son roosevelt was also a colner coiner of more picturesque phrased A hough hitler and nn an exponent odthe of the strenuous life lie he had an aversion for mollycoddles As n careful student of natural history he disliked nature bakers fakers other pet aversions were ft ere hyphenated americans ro roje water reformers lef muck amuck predatory rich and malefactors of great areat wealth lie ito could tell ills fellow amer icarus while advocating a strong navy to speak softly and carry it a big stick but lio lie himself speak so BO softly when placing his enemies in the ananias club when v waging aging peace or busting the trusts or advocating tile the square deal there were innumerable times when lie ho was Deligh delighted tedi I 1 or feeling Bull dully 1 so in chicago in 1912 1012 when reporters sought him out to inquires inquire about the rumored breakdown of his bis health after ills hla bolt from the liepus luan ilean ranks anti anil the formation of tile the progressive party he declared that he felt like a bull moose thus was tt new party symbol created and that animal joined our natio national nall polli political left r ilk 7 the world mutt must he be made safe ae for democracy america firt first citsay zoo along wIth ath vie the elephant the don ley key and the camet knaller la in 1012 while passing through cleveland ohio lie was vas asked whether he ha would be a candidate for president ile he ro re piled sty sly hat la is in tile the ring rine you will have my answer on oil monday Aton day the hat lu fu the rin ring 11 was not original with roosevelt it was vaa the frontier formula for fop entering a fight and TL T II 11 fa mIllAr with the iha vernacular of tha the frontier made apt use ilse of it and a added it to our political les lexicon icon history credits to grover groer cleveland tit at least six historic phrases phrase 8 and the record as to five ot them la Is licar cicar in a letter accepting the no nomination illation tor for president ort on august IS ism he declared that ll honor ollor lies in honest toll in ills his annual nies sage to congress gl 3 on march 1 lie ia said after nit an exi steave of nearly twenty bears ears of alquist innocuous dosu desuetude etude these laws lawe are brought tit forth that lint copies stun slun innocuous desuetude la Is often tu to have been original with cleveland but b it it lin hal been traced back to humor St porte I orto cra on cin a popular v writer in 11 llo w ver er tt it did not became fa familiar millar to most americans until the president den used it in his message in Clev elands annual message to congress in 1887 he be wrote it Is a condition which confronts us not a theory in reference to the tariff which rany have beanan been an original idea with him or he be may have read the declaration of benjamin disraeli prime minister of england that free trade Is not a principle it Is an ex ped lent and got lila his idea from that in ills hla veto of the dependent dent pension bill on july 5 1888 cleveland du declared 1 I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor and in an interview to in the new york commercial advertiser on september 10 19 1889 1880 he declared party honesty is a party expediency but the most famous of all quotations ascribed to cleveland Is the phrase public office Is a public trust lie ile never said that inso many words the nearest lie he ever came to that was var variations varia tlona lations on the statement that public officials are the trustees of the people made at different times while ho he was serving as mayor of new york city and governor ot of new york ork the idea was an old one edmund bui flurke he had stated it I 1 in n a slightly different form as had thomas jefferson and jolin john 0 calhoun and on slay may 31 1872 charles sumner declared the phrase public office Is a public trust lias has of late become common property it was common pro property pOrty too at the opening of the campaign tor for president in ISM when Clev elands managers V 1 1 11 1 you shall ball not crucify mankind upon a cross cro of gold sixteen to one compiled a campaign document giving his official achievements desiring a short striking title for the outside cover of the document they hit upon public office Is a public trust placed it in quotation marks and abid printed it over hla his signature on the cover two men william C hudson a reporter on tile brooklyn dally daily engle eagle who helped compile the campaign document and daniel S lament are credited with having haing selected the title 13 lie that as it may the public accepted the phrase as a verbatim saying saving of 0 Clev elands it became an effective campaign slogan and has come down to us its as his own coinage most blost picturesque of nil all the democratic lenders lender sand and a great orator wll itam jennings bryan dry in although lit ht could not be elected president in three attempts could and did enrich our language with some unforgettable able phrases one of them occurred I 1 in n the speech with which he stampeded a convention unit electrified the countr country y in ISIO when lie he declared you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of 0 thorns you shall not crucify cruell mankind upon n cross of gold avas this was in answer to the demand for a gold standard by the gold democrats for the question of coinage was the principal issue in this cam AT gaj N V aill 1 1 malefactor of great wealth the life speak softly and carry a bit tich licit pal pangti ti after this wonderful outburst of oratory says s ays one writer he took ns as ills slogan sixteen to 0 one ae was there ever such an anticlimax one might as well have for it a slogan the like rule af f three thre the lie multiplication table or tile fourteenth theorem of I 1 uc 1 id I 1 yo no wonder tile the people re er pud lilma hut but even eian though 1 ac toa to 1 1 mia w a j n poor political slogan it I 1 will nill forever be associated with the nama t f jennings bryan |