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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 51, 15 1926. Colonel Housed Intimate Papers Reveal Secrets of History Silent built a largo house, which beeam the focus of the ooclai and political life of tho region. Tha year 18t was ona of politico-soci.ferment In Europe and the United States, the forces of liberal progTeAsfviem were everywhere , arranged against reaction In Texas the was sharp Governor Hogg snuggle w hose courage and force had made him a dominating influence in the siate, was the center ofthe storm, and because of his advanced ideas many of which found Incorporation in sweeping legislative reforms, he had aroused against himself a powerful group whith protested against his nomination for a second term The fight offeri u the yeung House the had been opportunity for which he nominaliv House was not waiting ' manager of the H gg campaign. write T W Gregory, later attorney general who was then active in Texas hut was chteflv responsible poltMcv, f r the orramntion nd to him Hogg owed a large share erf his victory Partner of War President Pens New MANY POSITIONS. I felt that Governor Hogg s confidence in me was a great compliment, because of mv youth and so far as of my lack o' anyone knew betau political experience House wrote. o in politics I began at the top DECLINES and Astounding Sidelights on ' Great War. Story of Two Men Who Really Governed the Nation in Countrys Historical (Continued from Pago Moment. Ons.) of the War that It must He ditMntruly for the south new the northern state had the ginning d of resources which are potent war and that the eouthem states these, would lose. The block ad which the federal government le al to throw around the southvn ern coast, while not absolute, wai r nd enough to make It difficult to Irnk through and obtain from the intod what waa needed within The terrible days between Lee's s irrender and the bringing of some sort of order out of the chaos In the sruth made & lasting Impression on rr mind I cannot recall just now h w mg the interim was but It rm-- t have been a full year or more There was one regiment of Texas wlhfre that came to Houston and the dlbaiy3ed there. They looted twn They attempted to break into father's storehouse but he stood at . . Murthe doors with a shotgun der whs nfe everywhere there was i o law there wtls no order It was unsafe to go at night to your next-W hen father r neijkhb r 8 had the to d he always reached for his r tgun or ax sho6tr and held It ri u'v to shoot while both going and h nrt in I poml-rall- 1 d mint; the children of the town cauglrt the spirit of recklessness and fen and there were constant broils amongst us. M trother Jamei six years older than We was the leader of our gang i We had had guns and pistols. shooters (small catapults), niggor nnd there were no childish games ex- opting those connected with war We Tvel and breathed In the atmoe-- 1 hnre of strife and destruction. (Mrdfr f ude and 1 11 SCHOOLED AT BATH. cannot remember the time when began to ride and to shoot. Whv I d not kill xnvself one can never know for accidents were common Ms eldest brrthor had the side of his f n e sii t off nnd has been disfigured It all his life He hung between life an I lath for week a but finally no through with one side of his I I d ( lacI gone. lutd manv narrow escapes Twice near klllme one of my play- i ut in the reckless use of firearms 1 hv were ur to., s, and, as a matter d h w a our pJa v mat e I ('fit lhe young d House was taken to is a boy and went to school, at Raih Ki the age of 14, after the death of hi mother, he was sent to school first i uglnia and then in Connec-t- i al expected to be 1able to en-- tr he wrote but found whoilv unprepared and reluctant-entered the Hopktns grammar What school, of the class of '77 , had been taught was of but little use and I would have been better off as fir us latln and Greek were concerned if I had known nothing and I from the beginning lad Mjdlfd but little and I soon found I M. had lair mv-se- lf 1 1 trd rather than at the bottom, and I have been doing ainre that dav pretty much what I am d 'ng now that is advis tng and helping wherever I might " With the euicess of the Hogg campaign the political position of House in Texat evidently became assured From to 1912 (Mr Gregory write) Hmne took continual Interest q the election and the administration of Texas From the first he d!s plived that quality which made him of such value to the urewiv governor and to PreidArt W ilon an al uncanny Ability to foretell the nct effects which anv measure would have He wag offered upon public opinion bv them and declined many positions of honor and power and he might have been governor himself In !8M he managed Culberson s He was ai,aln six cextu! campaign was re in charge when ( ulberson In ISS and 1900 he elected in 186 rerted the successful carrpaigna of Savers He was IaJ(H Joseph I in the Lanham campaigns of 19u2 and lr04 mv habit wrote ft has been ' to put someone else House at the head so that I could do the rcal work undisturbed by the demands which are made upon a chairman. In every campaign I have insisted that the candidate whose fortunes I directed should In no instance make ai. promises either di I recrlv Indirectly or otherwise pointed out that it was bad politics nnd worse nvrals The opposition usually promised everv thing and It v as not Infrequent that two rren would meet that had been promised the same office , In Texas I worked I think Tot onlv for Texas itself but also in the we worked or the Hups that things there would be taken up by the coun-t- r I in this was gratl-fhat large and The great measures which Governor Hogg advocated, lhce the rail- road commission and the stock and bond law were largely written Into Texas was the national law later pioneer of mice awful progressive legnnd It all started during was islation I see it Dorr administration stated from time to time that Califor-- I nla Wisconsin and other states Fere the" first to Impress the progressive movement upon the nation This Is not true Texas was the first in the flfld and the other followed Fven In munh Ipal reform Texas led the way Galveston Initiated the commission form of government, and marly all the other Texas elites of It was then importance followed taken up In Iowa, and I often hear of As a matter the Tes Moines Idea. of fact, they took over the Idea from Texas During rulbercon a terms as governor I devoted myelf as constantly to his administrate n of putffic affairs as I have nine to Woodrow Wilson s as the president I went to his office at apit4 nearly every day and sometimes continued my work there until , nightfall hoqq mXde him colonel. It wa. Governor Hogg who provided Hmse with the title of 'Colonel by appointing him entirely without the re iplent s suspicion, to his staff The staff officer s uniform could be and wol. bestowed upon an ancient and gmtfful darkey, but the title proved Thore Is a certain to be adhesive. poetio justice, almost c assical In in the punishseen be character to ment thus laid upon House, who cpent his life In avoiding office and titles and during the world war exercised as much Ingenuity In escaping European orders sa In his diplomat io negotiations henceforth, deand respite his 'protects, he became ' or even Colonel House, mained the Colonel During all these years, recorded I had never for a moment House, overlooked the national situation, and It was there that my real Interest lay In 1898 I was ready to take part In national affairs. My power in Texas was sufficient to have given me ths plane I desired In the national councils of the party BIDED HIS TIME. The nomination of Brvan In 186 mads me and the free silver feel the unwisdom of entering na-inal party politic under such conditions I therefore b ded my time He proved that he knew how to wait Three national campaigns followed in which the Democratic party was dominated by Mr Bryan or by eastern conservatives, and House stood aloof In each campaign overtures w ere made with the purpose of srlvli g him a responsible share in Its management, but on each mission he evaded them The Democrats must embrace the liberal creed he Insisted, but it must be cleansed of the Bran financial heresiea ' Mr Brvan s daughter Grace, had rmt been well and he wished to spend a winter south," House wrote 'Governor Hogg and I undertook te arrange a home for the Bryans prao tioaily .within Rothe same grounds as oura . ha Mrs. Bryan and the children lived there rext to us and I had many Winter, the during opportunities to discuss with him national affairs and the coming It was the winter, I thick, of 1898 and 1W I found Mrs. Brvan very amenable but Mr. to advice and m ggesthm, Brvan wav as wild v impracticable as ever I do not beber that an von ever succeeded In changing his mind upon asv subject that he had deter. I beHsvs he mined upon , feels that bis Ideas are and are net susceptible to- the mutability of those of the ordinary human would hae difficulty In Joining the ureheads I saw senators and repreclass of 81 In Yale Meanwhile Oil-e- r sentatives to emptv benches T Morton, a son of Senator Oliver and fir thespeak purpose of getting their P Morton, of Indiana and I had be- remarks in the Record Congressional come fast friends and we agreed to sent to their admlnng conMtu-nttutor together and go to Cornell In- I saw too how few public men could stead of Isle Both Morton and I really speak well I can count on the were more bent on mischief than upon fingers of one hand all the speakers booka and, while the mischief was that I thought worth while Inhocent, It made us poor students SETTLED IN HOUSTON. EARLY IN POLITICS "Yet I have been thought without v near-bI ambition That I think is not quite Every political meeting attended and there was no one more true My ambition has bem so great Interested in the nomination and elec- that It has never seemed to me worth tion of the presidential candidates of while to strive to satisfy it 1876 than I At every opportunity 1 Matters might have been different would go tq New York and hang about had it not been for the delicacy of Democratic headquarters which, I re- House s health I member, were at the Everett house p to the time I was 11 or 12 In Union square 1 was I used to see Mr years old, he wrote a roTMden go In and out and wondered bust joungstor One day while I was then how so frail a looking man could swinging high, a rope broke and I make a campaign for president wae thrown on my head Brain fever ' Bayard, Blaine and others I heard ensued and for a long time f hovspeak whenever the opportunity oo ered between life and death I pon curred, and I believe that I was as my recovery malaria fastened upon nearly engrossed In politics as I hate me, and I have nevtr been strong ever been since since In those days, too I had the enThe year after college House tree to the White House I remember married MMs Louleaving tie Hunter of HunGeneral Grant and Mrs Grant and ter, Texas, and after traveling in Euseveral members of his cabineL All rope fra a twelvemonth, returned to this was educational in Its way, but make his home flrwt in Houston and e not the education 1 was placed then In Auin, Texas Cotton farmHopkins grammar school to get, and it ing and commerolai enterprises Is no wonder that I lagged at the end him busv, but more and more he kpt beof my class I had no Interest in my gan to steal time frbm business to desk tasks, but 'I read much arid Was indulge his vital Interest In public learning in a larger and more inter- afflalrs. During what he calls the esting school ear afer he had twilight achieved political success In Texas LIKED PUBLIC AFFAIR8. When I entered Cornell, It was the and before the opportunity for Inservice had opened he same storv , I was (onstantly taste for adventure bv his reading constantly , upon absorbing, con- -1 dulged industrial various in touch with ?nlbHrri, affairs, stantly public knew the name of every United States senator of practically every repreBUILDS A RAILROAD sentative, the governors of all the im"In this connection I undertook the had states eome and knowl- building of the Trinit portant & Lraxos edge of the chief measures before the Hie capital was alley railway people The mas Jefferraided friend my by My Washington experience per- - son Coolidgo, Jr of the Old Colony haps changed my entire career For-- 1 Trust company iif Bouton who or unfortunately for me, I j I out-sasnonally Waited me In Texaj. fj that two or three men In the route and he accepted my ate and two or three In the house and judgment as to Its feasibility the president himself jaJi the gov- For two or three this gave eminent The others w$ merely fig- - me mUoh pleasure andyears absorbed my entire interearL I put but little money in the project, for I had but little therefore, I made but a small sum from It successful as it w as eome $30 000 v lu vlq-le- 19H to 1916 inatrutor of historv in Xaie universh frt m 1915 to IMS assistant professor In 1918 appointed professor of h!stor In the fall of 1917 be ame a of the lnqutry a body of experts organized b Colonel House to mem-ber- veltn return from travel abroad y bv his own outbuist of discontent at the polities adopted b Mr TaJt. w li s select! n as president he hod himself denian led HUNTED FOR CANDIDATE Colonel House was watching the The great problem was opportunity In 1910 he tame to find a leader eiat from Texas, and, like Di genes, man a sought ' I began now to look about he wrote, for a proper candidate fir the L)envxratio nomination for president In talking with Mr Brvan he had mentioned Mav or Gatior of New York as the onlv man tn the eant who he thought measured up to the requirements ' I felt sure the nomination should gt to the eaat and I aleo felt it was practically Impossible to nominate or elv.it a man that Mr brvan opposed I therefore determined to link Mr Gavnpr ovvr with the thought of him as a poesibillri mv I used god friend James Creelman to bring us together Creel-mawas nearer to Gavnor than an. other man He arranged a dinner at the Lotos club at which onlv the three of us werw present, and It was The food and a delightful affair the wme were of the best for Creel- n Austro-Hungaria- I . limit the new born dariev of Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia and Rumania. 4uthr of iifitoral Reforms in The Diplomatic England and Wales Ba kg round of the Woodrow ar, EdiWilson and the World War tor (with Oiotel House) of What Rallv Happened in Paris 'The St ry of the Ieae Conference In 19-- 4 appvdnted visiting professor to the unlvereties of Belgium, and lectured at Brussels Liege Louvain and Ghent, reviving medal of the Lniversitv of Brussels tellow of the lloaJ Historical Society and of the American Geographical s oiet member of board of advisers of Williamstown Institute of R B Kduca-tlc- n Folittcv director pf ( foundation, director of Amertcan-Jugsa- v society, and member of oun.U on Foreign Relations In 120 received degree of I Itt D from Western Reserve university . In 19.2 received degree of LL. D from Irtmtv college major TURNS TO WILSON I wiped Gavnor from mv political he wrote slate for I saw he was impossible CHANCE" 'I preceded to follow up this dinner bringing sin h friends as I thought advisable in touch with him Une da Creelman and I went to the majors office bV appointment to introduce Senator Culberson and Senator R M Johnson editor of Post and Democratic national committeeman from Twxos I got Culberson and Johnson to second mv imitation to Gavnor to go to Texas during the winter and address the Texas legU'ature Oa-nconsented When I went to Texas I asked some memlers of the legislature to Introduce a resolution Inviting him to address them This telewas done and the Invitation A newspaper regraphed to him porter of one of the amall Texas QAYNOR TOSjSrED occasion. CLOSE j TO PRESIDENT. He came along to the Gothang quite promptly at 4, recorded House. and we talked for an hour. He had an engagement to meet Phelan, after ward senator from California, at S o clock, and expressed much regret that he could not continue our oon versatlon We arranged, however, to meet again within a few days, whes at m invitation he came to dine with me Farh time after that we met St the Gotham, as long ae I remained la New )ork that autmn and winter H and whenever he came to the elty. House continued his search From that first meeting and up t had care full considered Senator Cut berson and frequently discussed with today (19ib I have been tn as close him the possibility of the president tom h with Woodrow Wilson as with tial non (nation But Culberson a any man I have ever known. The first health was poor hour n spent together proved to each Wil- rf ui that there was a sound basts I now turned to Woodrow son House wrote then governor of for & fast friendship We found our New Jersev as being the onlv man sieves in such complete sjmpathy In in the eaat who In everj wav mea- so many ways that we soon learned sured up to the offbe for which he to know what each was thinking was a candidate about without either having ex House had never met Wilson but himself. hta attention had been called to btm presRed A few weeks after we met and bv M llson s ambitious reform prowe had exchanged confidences after gram in New Jersej and the success which men usually do not exchange with which he was driving it through except after years of friendship I the legislature He studied his back- asked him if he realised that we had ground which was admirable In that known one another for so short a he had no political record and thus time He replied 'My dear friend, started with no political enemies have known one another always. while his troubled career at Prince- we I And is true. think this ton seemed to label him as an opHOUSE. WILSON IMPRESSED He ponent of aristocratic privilege bestudied his speeches, which he It is curious to note that ft was the finlieved should be classed with the personal amiability of MT. Wilson, est political rhetoric extant There rather than his Intellectual qualities was obviously in him the capacity or political ideas, which for moral leadership late In the House at the outset He Impressed thus re- man was a connoisseur in this line The dinner, lasted until after 12 t ck 1 had been told that Lavnor was brusque even to Rudeness but I dtd n t find him- - so In the slightest He knew perfectly well what the dinner was f r and he seemed to try to put his best side to the front ear House He showed a knowledge of public af- vinced that fairs altogether beond my expecta- slthoughreaa tions and greater Indeed than that film of any pul lie man that I at that GETS time knew personally who was a posT decided sibility history1 should properly have taken place under more dramatie auspices. The smaU hotel room where they met did not add glamour to the returned to Texas con- ported this first Interview to his he had found hla man brother-in-lajet he had never met COLONEL HOUSE TO DR. S. f. BEHIND WILSON to do what I could he to further Governor Wilson's writes I spoke to all mv political fortunes friends and following and lined them This was In up, one after another 1 the winter of with trouble The getting a candidate for president (he wrote, August 20 1911), is that the man that is best fitted for the place cannot be nominated and if nominated could probably not be elected The people seldom take the man best fitted for the Job, therefore, it is necessary to work for the best man who can be nominated and elected, and Just now WUson seems to be that man oodrow Wilson and Colonel House first met on November 24 1911, a year before the presidential election 1 his beginning of what Sir Horace Plunkett called the strangest and most fruitful personal alliance In hu 1910-1- ME2ES. New York, November 25, 1911. I had a delightful Dear Sidney visit from Woodrow Wilson yesterand he Is to dins wtth day afternoon, me alone next Wednesday. 1 am he has arrived, and glad that we had a perfectly bully time He came alone, so that we had an op- ... portunity to try each other out He Is not the biggest man 1 have ever met, but he is one of the pleasantest, and I would rather plav with him than any prospective candidate 1 have seen From what I have heard, I was afraid that he had to have his hats made to order, hut 1 saw not the slightest evidence of It . . . Never before have I found both the man and the opportunity. Fraternally E. M. H. yours, S - - -tomorrow (Continued The Better O tj oan-palf- six-sho- After graduation studied history In Paris at the arbonne and In Rome traveled In Greece, Turkey and Aus Received degree of Doctor of Uh!losoph from Yale in 1911 On Maj 4 ldl, married Miss Giadvs M M atkins, of Scranton Ua Traveled In hpain and Italy From prepare data for the Peace conference in Frig. ipelal assistant tn the department of state, a member of the gtoup aicompaning President WUson to Paris on the George Washington, n and appointed hhf of the division of the American In oommlvslrn to negotiate peace Paris he served as the nited States delegate on the commNslons to de- man d During the '80 Texas was Just passing from the oondltion of a frontier, where law wxm frequently enforced by the individual according a hts hand wu quick and his eye true, and where order was a variable quantity The neareot I ever came to killing a man was in Breckinridge, Oolo. It w as in 1878, when the town was I merely a mining camp," tie wrote had gone to Colorado at the request of Whitney Newton a college friend, at that who was in Rre kenridg time buying gold dust and sending It to the Denver mint by special messengers, the express companies refusing to carry it because of the danger of robbery VISITED IN COLORADO. "In going to BrerkenrVdge In those dare one left the main tine of the rallwav st the little stAtlon of Como, which at that time had hut one house A stage carried one from there to the mining camp. There Is no need to describe it. fur It was like ail other ramrs of that sort gam; rough men and rougher worn n,wax in bltng drinking and killing man I to a whom saloon a talking had known In Texas when the inciof A occurred dent I speak big brwwnr Individual came into the room and began to abuse me In I had never seen the forma man before and could not imagine wae doing thia I retreated wh7 he and Its fcdfcowedL I had my overcoat on at tbs time and had my hand on in my pocket and mr rywdced it Tbs owner of the eabvm over the bar between ua Jumped in five seconds mors I would have An explanation followed kUTed him. which cleared up the mystery. He had taken ms for some one else a grudge and against whom he had ones. I toarnnd whom he had seen but was a popular later that he of Fummit county and that if I had killed him I should have been being. within the hour lynched AW DEMOCRATIC CHANCE. " AIDED in HOGG'S victory. often told me that a man that In LatsT years House ex preseel In- did He not believe tn the free and unobtense amusement at the oathx and. limited coinage of allver- - at H to 1 taxi drivef-wjurgations of PartelAn never fool or a knave He a was either seemed wMcdi. however violent, was w convinced of this that ha wag to reeuH In physical enooontsr to not suenepfTWe argument," "In Texas." ha said. 'It was ths raIn lhX Bryn went down to defeat No words were wasted Fra vers ouanttv tha first Pmptnta f mikl for the second time In 1904 the quar-of the eastern and western DemdiwLpprnval wuld be a blow or ehnt. Psopla praiaa os south ocrats would have Insured disaster In the face of a weaker candieven for our courteous demeanor I returned to than Roosevelt. Ba lasrasd it In a school of neces- date wrote House, Texas discouraged sity ' of the over In Democratic Houston Hours the homeOur prprets where nearly pertv evr he4rg able to rehabilitate wae tha jdao trrcte 8 IK came In came the Itself that third Bryan evtrv d'rtinruihed victor Jefferson candidaj-- v erd defL trt Texee was entertained But already the Imoeratlo sun was ItftviA. I rers-J- . being among the numtn the ber fat er ootinted anvrg his shout to rise. The difficult! friends ths r1h and th poor, tha Republican party which threatened more became obvious Roosevelt under bumbis and ths graaL Ths yourger house foil owed tu his tn the suoneedtrf adminis ration footstep a After moving to Austin bo They were in tec ail ted after Rooae- 1 Professor Charles Seymour, who edited ths Intlmats Papers of Colonel House," was born January X, 1895, In New Haven, Conn , son of Thomas D tie Seymour, professor of Greek in University Educated In New Haven public schools From l$0l until 104 lived in England as an undergraduate at CamReceived degree of bridge university B A and M A Went to Yale, graduating in 108 At Cambridge a member of his college crew and at Yale manager of the varsity crew In the summers studied history in German unjverelt (ireiberg) worked as surveyors assistant for a mining company tn Mexuo and Indulged in a season of mountain climbing in bwitter-lan- d dailies sent Gaynor a telegram asking him about It Gavnor telegraphed hack something to the effect that he had no notion of coming to Texas to address the legislature and had never heard of any such proposal Reasonable explanation of this surprising volte fae on the part of Mavor Oajnor has never been It mav have been that he failed to appre late th value of the Texas- - a vital mlsjudg of support ment, as the BaLUrhore convention of 1J12 proved Or it may have been merely another example of the erratic and whimsical nature of the m Standard and Master Sixes Delivered -- at Salt Lake (Freight and Tax Included.) 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