Show I 4 21 DEATH OF ALLISON ALLSON REVIVES OLD TALES Whiteside Tells Some Stories of Quaint Old Senator ABOUT SECRETARY LOEB Character Sketch of of President Barrios Barios from the Publics Public I I BY RALPH WHITESIDE Republican Special Service Washington Sept Sept 5 The The death of Senator Allison has hus lson revived many of the time old stories tories about about him All l of which more 0 or less true truo serve to Il II- II 1 lustrato lustrate tho ho remarkable guard he kept upon his ton tongue One day any last session after there thoro had been cen a heavy fall fal of ot snow mow the tho senator asked an appropriation U n of or to t bo be used in removing It from t the tho 0 sidewalks side side- walks of walks Washington Senator Spooner arose to remark that It was going to snow again again May bo ho it I is 1 said Senator Allison Alit Alli AJ son but I make no prediction On another occasion a friend visit In hug ing tho the senator asked cd him the tho time Pulling out his watch Senator Allison Alison said What time lime is It by I your watch r The friend looked hooked Eleven thirty You ar are arc right said l the tho sena senator tor dryly A third story w which Is generally re regarded rim TO- as tho the b best bost st over evor told In Ju of ot his extreme earn care In the tho use of language relates that once ho was waa traveling out omit out West c t with wih somo friends when ono one In tho party part noticed some somo sheep In a field eld rhe They had hud evidently just b bp been n sheared and tho the observer of or tho the animals remarked to th the tho i senator Those sheep havo have been becu sheared Responded the senator This side of them has been sheared sheared- at any rate S w. While I 0 Secretary to tho the President Loob Loeb Lob Is away In the Wilds taking a vacation Its It's a a good time to say tay a good word about this generally reviled and arid occasionally ridiculed person per per- son To begin with wih anyone who picks out JJr Mr Loch Leb as a n fool or a a chump or a mollycoddle Is Ii going to mako abig u a u big mistake Loch Loeb Leb Is really realy one ono of ot the big men ot of the tho present administration administration adminis adminis- and one of the most valuable men in iii every way to tho the President He ho Is 18 one of ot those private secretaries secretaries secretaries secre secre- who develop capacity not unlike that of or their chiefs Loeb Leb was waa a a politician poli poU in Albany before beCore ho he was of ot age ago Ho was as a n district or ward bO boss 8 soon after he ho could vote Ho Ic has been In politics ever inco He Ho knows tho the game from rom the tho precinct up to the nation nation na na- na- na tion ton known it not only In theory but likewise In practice He knows what to say ay an and when to keep still and ad works tho latter later method p-method oftener Hcan He H can hand out just junt tho the necessary suggestion suggestion sus- sus sug sug- or Intimation In la the most geston effective way woy without committing himself himsel or anybody else He Ho can tako take tho the blamo blame and ond smile Ho He knows everybody In tho the United States Ho can n do tho the work of ot ton ten men mono nev never t forgets fors what ho wrote understands every detail of or thc tho the vast complexity of at business that thEt enmeshes the chief let ex executive cx- cx e- e nc ho ets rattled sets gets and and never Loeb began as ns a stenographer E. 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I Leb Harriman saId Bald not long lone Ions ago agro that that the tho best way to make a a railroad prest- prest president dent lent was wal to get a good boy by and make a Rood good of ot him then aSo- aSo asso- asso elate clato him with a big railroad man and let lot him learn the rest by absorption Loob Job it Jn an Illustration ot of tho B same jiamo m plan So was Cortelyou Secretary lx Loeb Lob ob U is II an nn Ideal alter aler e ego BO BOto o oto to his a chief But But ht IB mor t n Be Being e tho time other othor self to a chief woo lies lias a 3 yore verv strong Individuality Loeb ha has a areal areal real too Ho Ire has vi ws on public questions and amid la Is rr probably babb It ft anything a bit hit moro more radical oven than tho the President as to those very 1 Issues which have won von tho the chief executive r j his reputation for radicalism Ho Io Is IB a. a J bettor hetor jud judge o of ot men thai the President I dent people B say aa who have havo havo watched both of ot them them carefully for a a long hong lonE time He Ito Isn't afraid to speak k right out In meeting when whon ho he thinks it jt Is the time time timeto to epe k k On 01 tho the other hand no pressure pros pres sure of Insistence cajolery management management manage manage- ment or fn can pry hIs hla jaw Jaws apart when wilen ho doesn't want to speak peate Maybe if Jr lie he should Rhoul leave leavo the PresIdent President Fresh Fresh- dent demit s employ another could be found to take his place hut but It Is hard to pick tho ho man Loeb knows the traditions tra tra- of things tho the antecedents d the moods and ann tenses tho the record th the thC every everything t Ii in g Tho The thinS secretary is credited with the COUP that fetched th time the 1 I Presidents President's ant tl third anti term announcement announcement announce announce- ment mont when it i came just came Just Just In time line tn to demolish the tho Cortelyou movement If T he did It It ho he pla played cl a great trick for Tuft Taft Tuf Ho Ito is js charged with setting setting- up uptime f time the deal In iii New York led time thA Hughes Hughea campaign n. n Maybe ho did these thesa things timings They SQ say so But Dut Loob Leb never says ays ant anything ln lint lie ho shouldn't sa say and mighty might when ho should say it It Somehow he lie produces results but nobody ever Pl C found out omit now how lOW ho docs does It It For one thing thing however howO ho knows about I. I everything e and doubtless It helps some sense some 5 4 5 One of oC the hardest hard luck stories to crop out in tho the departments recently re- re Is being told by Stephen l K centy Booth Booths of ot the bureau hureau of or the tho census Somo Some tithe time ago Mr Booth accepted accented d a position as ajO a special In tho time Immigration Im lam- migration service under time tho department depart depart- ment of ot Justice He lIe le received ala ais ils cr and after disposing of or his hi hou household effects moved his family to tl his division headquarters In St. St Paul After Attel working one ODe month tile tho month of Juno woking ho was advised by bv tho the department de department do- do that congress failed to grant ant the he amount expected and required forthe for the iho service and amid that It I would be im ces- ces sary to dispense with timo services oC or orthe the new ne appointees himself among among tho the others Mr r. r Booth had resigned his l. l OO clerkship in iii the tho bureau of ot tho census DIrector Director DI- DI 80 io ho iso was without employment to rector ector North camo caine to his rescue and ordered his reinstatement but nad imd a mm t C only in iii mo itiC eue n. n vacancy D Booth finds l 3 t that ho lie o Is iii ivul not ot only y out i tho expense of ot making the trip to tho the West ost with his family and tb the loss sU sustained sus aus- In imi disposing of ot his household effects effect but disposing that he lie Is to receive lc less s per por pOI annum imn In salar salary S S S Ju Judge go Speer of Georgia w whoso whose ose re recent recent recent re- re cent railroad rate decision lm has hut stirred things up down that list wa way Is i well wel known In iii Washington tol and nearly everybody who cornea conies from that section sec see tion of the country has a story or two to ton tell about him him- Captain Cromwell Gibbons speaker of or tho the Florida Florda house of or representatives and ono one of ut tho the lending heading Democrats of t the South who was hero recently teJ tells this one else I 1 stopped stepped off oCt at nt Savannah and while shilo thero dropped into the United States court over which Judge Spoor presides Tho The proceedings were wern moving along monotonously until there thero va was called caled before the tie bar an Ig aged d aM darky a Li l typo tiO of tho time real Teal old Southern darky darin black as night and amid with wih a fringe of J kinky white hair hall covering tho time lower purl lart of his head What at Is your our nAme misuse demanded tho time judge rime Tho old mans man's tooth teeth were chattering but ho he managed to say aay y be between be- be eOn tween chatters Mali Maim Iah name minnie o mah maim name namu Is la Joshwa Jenkins cab eh joshwa Jenkins yo 0 honah honah Jos Joshua ua Joshua arc you ou the the- Joshua who made the time sun sums stop atop shinin shining shin shin- In ing- ing f The Th old oM darky was scared to death death He Imagined ho he was charged with wih an another au an other and moro memo and ho he hl could coul hardly hardt speak But lut he Ie le finally managed to sa say sa n no n yo ye honah Jed jo u A not dat Jos Joshwa dat j u A Vt A 41 W VW wa l u lat k mi made mad a 9 do sun stop shining Alls All's do du Joshwa dat made mado do moonshine You are arc dl discharged said sard Judge Judt Spew Spear Spee get out of ot this court it |