| Show Dont Quote Me I 0 By United Press I 0 words arc are the ones most frequently heard beard by W g items which ton correspondents nc cJ appear In the regular patches and little intimate pictures of public character characters characters' d Lin ui 5 g l appear In this column from time to time WUI S WASHINGTON Feb 23 23 If If the theato late ato Speaker Nick Longworth of Ohio were living he might rub his eyes and look twice at his old crony and successor the present Speaker John Nance Garner o of Texas Texa The rugged ranchman has not exactly ex cx- succeeded Longworth as the best dressed man in the house but he has brushed up considerably since the papers began to talk about him as a possible presidential candidate In the past few weeks an actually distinguished look has come about in inthe inthe the he man who formerly paid l little tUe at to such things as clothes and how low he wore them He now affects a ang awing wing ng collar keeps his hLo white thatch thatch- becomingly sett setting ng off his ruddy complexion com corn closely closely cropped and wears a suit of fine texture which is always carefully brushed and carries not the thel slightest trace of or the familiar bag one sees about the knees of at many congressmen con con- gressmen and used to notice about Garner There is nothing of or the dandy about Garner He dresses now in a style that would please the masses he champions a style that somehow en- en t the breeziness of his c cia ter emphasizes that ness a statesman of the western f ir looks the people He western 5 novels And the congre congressman of nf t tho 5 t sombrero th that M st Jauntily athwart his bushy white while brows brow eye CJe contributes much to this Hes He's still the democratic affable Garner though despite and arid t the outward change that the housS hoUSe ha has known for tor so many years jj He HA Is Ta s the ejaculator still of the warm livin Phrase that is very homely quaint language that The su up a situation vividly still still is b hb his He can cant can't t use it now much from the chit chair though occasionally there is an a an o when the house is Js In m Lt light and md jovial mood He rules the house with a iu HIM hand even more firm than that of L Long worth and enjoys occasional refer to his mastery from the floor loor He grinned and blushed when cS o one o ot oj 1 his Democratic colleagues haired Representative Edgar Hoard long lone of Nebraska onetime secretary William o ci Jennings Bryan twitted for or invoking the most d drastic gag dure rule ule HO Howard IId cli IL ci- o to jam am the Glass fe-ci fe federal r l' l rZ serve bill through the house in three hours men without opportunity for am aS nd- nd Howard told the thc house bouse that he knew our magnificent speaker could not no have been responsible for pS su such pr prOt for had he hc not told him when Republicans resorted to SI the sta roller that if it the Democrats ever eS' eS eScame er e came into power there would i be no such methods employed Garner S cit en Joyed the joke immensely Every day or two some meb member reminds the house that Gamer Garner is a Democratic presidential pro prospect ct but but butas as yet Garner has never been in th th chair on such occasions He need no reminders The trophies and and knick-knacks knick that flow in iii upon th thosa In irs high places are beginning to clutter up his office office and and Texas friends have got out an automobile tag a brilliant yellow that bears the inscription inscription- Garner Gamer for president |
