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particularly burdensome for Chairman Hit.

particularly burdensome for Chairman Hit.
of the committee on foreign affairs. Be-
tween Livernash pulling wires for exclu-
sion and Minister WI protesting against
the insult to his race, the leaders had more
trouble than a cat walking on ny-paper.
Livernash's picture ought to be framed In
a crescent; he works while everybody else
awake. he is a marked man In appearance,
small In stature. with a thin, sallow counte-
Renee sh and a and sapSor fsrm hea nrs r nGnn ID
spectacles balanced far out toward us
end. He always counts ten before ne
speaks; after he has begun. he goes on ana
on like a Puritan preacher, and all the
forces OF the underworld cannot stop him.
IL was as a freak artist In journalism.
however. that he gained fame. His speciai-
wild newspaper to do. He would sit all day
in a big bare room and think and n his
mind brought forth would make a stone
image turn somersaults.
Not the least remarkable feature of his
career was the style OF attack OF which
his enemies made him a target during the
late campaign. One of their tricks was TO
reprint unfiattering articles about him
which had appeared before he became a
member of it's stan. In the paper for which
into the byways and hedges, and raked
out and published broadcast all the dis
agreeable stories they could attach his
name to. Many of these were literature
of the hair-raising sort. To show how little
we of the East realize what a Pacific coast
campaign of personalities is like. IL may
be mentioned that one of the broadsides
of the opposition accused Livernash of be-
ing insane, and went on TO describe his
remarkable doings while In that condition.
II told OF his trial for the kill
ing, by poisoned wine and by shooting. or
a man named Ethridge; OF the defense
that Livernash was the victim OF a sort OF
'sleep-walking' condition; OF his being put
under the influence OF a hypnotic expert
in court, having needles stuck into him
without hinching. and telling all about an
imaginary plot against his life at the sug-
gestion OF the hypnotist. Other tales de-
scribed him as masQuerading In female at
tire, and being arrested while carrying a
gripsack filled with chloroform. prussia
acid, etc. Still another told how Liver
nash was assigned to write up. for mis-
paper, the story of John Does suicide. and
how he improved the occasion TO accuse
a rival yellow journal of having contracted
with Doe to pay a hundred dollars to his
widow for an exclusive story OF the act
of self-destruction. written by Doe him
self just before firing the fatal bullet. On
one occasion. IL is said, Livernash was sent
to cover a lynching and barely escaped
becoming a victim himself. the timely in,
PREVENTION OF his managing editor being all
that saved him.
In spite of this line OF attack. Livernash
pulled through by a safe majority. The
Pacific coast has a taste for life stories
Astounding in dramatic action; and in Liver
nash's case IL got just what IL liked and
plenty of IL. His predecessor In Congress
and competitor at the polls was Juliu
Kahn, the ex-actor. A matter of 214 votes
has simply jumped the genius OF melodrama
across the footlights.