The Sunday globe., 1901-07-07
THE OTHER SIDE.
Mr.. Tanner Ably Defends eX-AuditOr
Frank Vanderlip.


bidding for the fayOrs Of eX-Secretary
Frank A. Vanderbilt in the article |
am about to write, because he has sew
cred his connection with the Depart
ment, and is no longer in this city and
] am quite sure will never see or care
anything ! may say about him.
In the main, | am an admirer of
Inc Globe, but The Globe is just as
apt to mistakes in some of the many
subjects it deals with, and those it
cuticises. as any other journal maybe,
and / am quite sure, in common fair
ness, one may come to you and state
their views of men and subjects you
have handled in your paper.
As you say, Mr.. Nanderlip came to
the Treasury Department ineXperi.
enced in its workings He may, as you
say, have been a reporter for a news
paper, and even for all that he may
have acquitted himself most creditably
as an Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, and this, i'm my humble opinion,
he most certainly did do | do not
believe anyone ever entered the Treas
ury Department, inexperienced as he
was, and grasped and mastered the sit
uatiOn with the COnsummate skill and
understanding he did. If he had been
reared in the workings of the Depart
ment from his youth up, he could not
have been more free from errors than
he has, entering it as you picture him
"a green Chicago reporter Of a news
paper. He caught the complicated
threads with a master hand, and he
dealt with subjects that others would
have taken time to consider with that
/ off-hand assurance and ease that comes
/ from an innate consciousness or power
and | would like for any of his crit.
| les or detractors to point to a moment
| he has kept them in suspense, for any
/ busisness transaction, and | would
| challenge anyone to point to single
| instance where he has passed upon
| anything in a business way and that
/ judgment has proven wrong.
He was prOmptness itself, and he eX
pected promptness on the part Of his
| suOOrdinates. His devotion TO duty
was his ruling characteristic, and this
was so strong in him he absolutely
/ could not for one moment tolerate any
/ neglect on his own part or on the par
of others. The Globe must remember
most Government employees by NJ
means work themselves to death. Mr.
Vanderlip was the hardest worker il
the Treasury Department, and if any
man in it could be pronounced over
jealous he was that man
In getting up the famous bond issue
no one is more deserving Of the credi
for that than Frank a. Vanderlip, anC
that credit is the more to be accorded
him for the very reasons urged agains
him by The Globe, simply from hi
humble antecedents, that he shoul'
have carried out this complex matte
with the skill and great success he did
utterly ineXperience as he was Il
such matters, is a monument to tn
man that will remain in the economi
history Of this country as long as
lasts There is no destroying the fac
that Frank A. Vanderlip, howeve
humble his former life, is man q
genius and unbounded enregy, an
that
THE man wDo always seems to win
OF fortunes smiles the greatest shar
, Is he who knows how to begin,
! And when and why, and where
That an humble newspaper report'
l should have worked himself up to
an Assistant Secretary of the Trea
ury. should have fulfilled the duties
Frank A. Vanderlip has, and then r
tired of mis- own free will from
shows the rare qualities and merit
the man.
J. The charges made, and reiterated
h often Of his touring Europe at Il
- expense of the Government" is on
guess work. / believe if the Cover
l. ment bore any part Of his expenses
/, Europe, he earned every cent tn
O have expended in that line, and tn
, he did work for them as he alone W
capable Of doing. This is guesswo
D for guess work, but knowing the co
"a scientious ardor OF the man, and
), keen sense OF duty, / believe | G.
safely assert this as truth.
.' Vanderlip was only an enemy to b.
~ shirker Of duty, and to those he W
D. a terror
J.. I beg 10 say / am not the recipie
e, Of any favors from Mr.. Vanderlip, a
= now that he is no longer in the
." partment / will say this Of hi
IN There never was a more capable, e.
scientious performer Of duty, and
,d man more thoroughly just to
easier of approach by the subordina
iy man Frank A. Vanderlip.
as GEo, c. TANNER
On ROYAL Decorations.