| Show J The Easy Familiarity of Members o of Congress MAN MA who alt h bad to lu make fluke A a ft dell to Washington to 10 follow up HOW sma pending legislation In hi which certain c western were chiefly Influential returned home HIP other d dal da V bewildered d Three These are men i of If f dignity and Handing he h aid said and ami I 1 never saw H any RII of theft in my lilY life Ilfe and alai yet et mo mint t of them Ulem put on III nt III my shoulder houlder and two put t an nil arm mound me nor while we talker talked The trouble with till this cast ty rays roa the Ih New York YOlk Vest yost was AS that h hll he WAS WIS not familiar vIlh the ways A of or tits Ills ideas Idra of the form of et greeting appropriate to a senator were very 81 likely h obtained from front Mr sir 11 I Ilion lion of or Julius Caesar The Th old ns as a there th re exemplified fied Id was to extend the Ihl bare baro right arm the th hood head bend the theng fingers finger ng downward Incline tho the heed hl 1 forward and then with n a 1 slight flight shudder lower loner the arm again Hut But the which one OM had hind to ot ob erve about th the committee rooms roo of at CIen or or nr now non no outworn This Thill dOll does not mean man that It to III new democracy that ha has haa l a fine flue old form of roue fIur lexy tray Dr Johnson wild acid lel of Langton Sir he has h tio no grimace no Reticulation tion he hI never embraces you ou with nil all overacted cordiality Thus lie hp Im Implied Implied plied that hint even In his day l n I there were K who did em cm embrace m brace you with an au And yet lt this word car carrice rice a 1 slur that IK III nut not altogether fair The man lORn who stakes makes a 1 of poll le lice under average U is I apt alt to he be naturally cordial warmhearted and Interested In III hla hie fellowmen A man temperamentally crab crIb crabbed crabbed bed Le or unsociable could r t with Hi the tho bent beet will In the world and tine tn mot most money mone for the rou ruu routine tine thie of a Tammany u l Of or course cour e the tho kindness to the widow willow and the th and the tho theman man out nut of ot ft a I Job lj I Ip not but LUI If Ir It were tn tit any an wit WI and ani I the man himself did not take lake A it 1 In i pleasing l and helping others other the Ih tie tit between the lender and RII the tho rank t and arul tile the would never nor be what II It t l IR now no Carry tarr the same Inquiry iMo the higher grade of politics politic word and anti not turk turkeys ys and hard hanl c oil too lire irethe the Ih circulating medium m lIum and the retina principle rule The Th man to 11 l whom handshaking and alII homely homel chat with fon li Is I mealy merel Irel a Po Md pad NIt duty would be likely to dl In die from exasperation I thIn lien before he won a 11 nomination to 10 II Jrr Those Thol who reach high places place by br idi shear r force farce of ot character without being good ohl mixers are usually either by 10 some powerful leader lendlr or eNe cos I I are brought brou ht to the front In some somo emergency where personal are sunk for tor the till time being they J h have he not gone Bone through the ordinary preliminary siege of There Is III a I subject for sonic ome doc doctors tors thesis th In the th e of or the Ih emotion motion of or awn ace a as 1111 a R political force I r ono one the story of tho the young officer who ho wagered that ho would dare to 10 slap lal ton Ion on the back Lack and after actually doing the slapping away awa from rout tho the great groat mans glance muttering that he hI had hod toil lost for tor the tho presidential office li it I Ingrained and an a wag sag or Cr of ot that thill kind lg la 1 sat as Ible tn to today day IR ns as It win ryas when made mad Still that Is la pot not the precise sort wrt rt of or ante anecdote dote which Is le likely to be bl preserved regarding any an of our pre since war An ln n old politician who has halt been bean writing wIlting of hl his hili recollection recollections In III a u southern o newspaper of how Henton Menton wAlk as IB If It ho Ito owned tine the earth With head hl acl raked ut at alt ail angle of H S degrees and hands behind his back buck lie he h would talk with liens meas tired tread Ireae doati do AH the Ihl street looking look III neither to 10 the right nor to the left Irl recognizing no tin unc title Extreme 1 near would be Lt the only 1111 ac acceptable explanation X pia nation of ot that attitude today 1018 no nil matter how hot ox exalted the of offic tc fic held by b the man IOnn himself lf That the demonstrative cordiality of f politicians luis line at least a 1 turn tuna of or genuine feeling Is I shown ho 11 by bythe byth bythe the th warmth of the friend that lubI among rs It 11 J Ii la not 1101 altogether that lint use meo up W pares page of or the steno Menn report evory day da In compile each other oilier The rhe representative tive III In s gather Jather In cloak cloakrooms rooms every year nn on moat last night and anI ring ping tho thin tint out to familiar old hi soups songs IlkA Ilk a n lot of ef college boys boy names am Arn the rule there thero as asIn asIn In Mate legislatures Therefore It II t Is riot not hypocrisy or sycophancy coph nl when the western politician jan clan sings out nut HeMf and reaches forth n 1 warm hand ten en paces pace before he hI meets a 11 casual canoe acquaintance when nhen the southerner utters hits his more careless s I 1 od or when either on one declares uh elarce himself delighted III that A t total Iota stranger should hould come como to half halt HII An hour of ot his hie time In talking about pome uninteresting subject It might he hI for any an one ere ole else but not for the statesman In lit n democratic country lie of necessity Wt like Browning Breu dutch CM ens If I we 1 may mR paraphrase a R lino Likes he looks on and his hi looks look are everywhere re Always AIRs excepting of at course th the things which his party p it platform at nt atthe the tho moment happens to denounce and Anti deplore |
