The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26


like it or not, but IL is true. l mean,
that in the minds of the majority of
people their governmental functions
no longer loom up as coordinate and
co-equal with those of the President.
''Such q Man the Country Needs.
Nov, it happens that Judge Par
ker'S temperament and training are
such that his knowledge of and re-
spect for constitutional government
are equally profound, and no man
could be more sensitive on q point of
personal honor than he would be in
preserving the true balance of gov
eminent. 1t is such q mana man
of fine judicial equipoise, fortified
with great knowledge and common
sense-that the country needs at this
time"
Everything Mr.. Littleton had to say
was said good-humoredly and natur-
ally, with no hint of the spell-bnder.
He did not turn on any oratory for
my benefit, and / could only guess 1T
what he could do before an audience
by the roundness and robustness of
his conversational voice and the elo-
quently dilatable possibilities of his
eyes.
What was the most important
speech you ever made?' I inquired.
Well, he wasn't sure for a moment,
but after reflection decided that the
speech most momentous in it's per-
sonal bearings was one that he had
made at the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn during the municipal CAM
paign last year. Mr.. Littieton was
fighting to keep the Tiger from cross
ing the bridge and feeling was run
ming high. AT the Academy of Music
he faced q hostile audience. His
speech had something to do with the
Circuit and Fornes issue think he
was opposed to their nomination by
his party. But he modestly declined
to go into particulars about the
speech.
MY friends told me I did pretty
Well" was all he would say.
What orator that you have heard
do you admire most?''
"Mr. Bryan" he replied without
hesitation.
"Apropos of Mr.. Bryan, do you
think he will bolt if Judge Parker be
nominated"
He looked startled and thoughtful
for a moment and then replied DELHI
erately with a shake of the head:
mo, / don't think he Will"
What do you think of the Hearst
boom?"
Il don't care to say anything about
that"
"Or of Mr.. Murphy's attitude to-
ward the Parker movement
Nor Of that"
'How did you first become inter
ested in politics."
We'll in rural districts where there
are no theatres or public diversions
OF any kind a you g fellow has to lly
to politics in self lefense. It's the
only entertainment. for him out OF
working hours. The stump speaker
takes the place of theatre, opera, So
cial life, Coney Island and all tn
other diversions that abound in u
great city,
He told roe that he had gone 20
Fort Worth, Texas, as a boy from his
birthplace in the mountains of East
Tennessee.
Had you many wild Western cx-
periences?"
Western enough, but not very
wild"
NO shooting scrapes, lynchings or
hold-ups?"
mo, those things did not seem 20
come my way. | found life in Texas
very quiet and orderly. Oh, you hear
of people being shot sometimes, but
in nine cases out of ten investigation
would show that they had done some
thing demanding pretty drastic ac-
ton
Did you have many hardships in
youth ?"
Nothing much worse than walking
behind plough
What was your ambition as
boy?''
We'll, my fondest ambition just at
that period was to be a shoemaker
had observed that u shoemaker sat
down at his work all day long, and
that seemed to me most desirable
condition. If / could have quit the
plough for Il shoemaker's bench
should have esteemed myself the
most favored of mortals."
How do you find the EaSt?"
The East and the West.
VERY hospitable," he said with
feeling. Far more so than / ever ex-
pected. / came here a perfect stran-
ger, and have met with the greatest
Kindness from everybody"
What difference do you find be-
tween politics there and here?''
We'll, | think we are better fight
ers out West. We recognize the faca
that if you want anything you've got
to fight for it. And there's more in
dependence of thought and action
there. People want to know what
they're about-they won't take one
mans word for everything, as they
do here"
Texas isn't such a good climate for
bosses, Ell 2"
NO, not Dy NAH.
The young Tiger-fghting President
of Brooklyn Borough has proved him
self anything but IL possible man III
municipal politics.
He confessed to a weakness for
golf, which he plays at Garden City,
where his family is staying. Contem-
porary chronicles have it that he was
coached in the game by the Rev. DR.
Hills.
Reading? Yes; reads a great deal
chiefly American history.
Any other hobbies? Well-with
broad smile--he has two fine boys,
and they are hobby enough, he finds.
/ have mixed up my two conversa-
tons with Mr.. Littleton, but that
doesn't matter. On the first occasion
somebody called him up by telephone
to whom he confided, among other
things:
MAUD and the kids came in this
morning. They looked like Indians
You ought to have seen them. They
had picked up Il yellow dog some
where, and he came along with
them.''
Which struck me as a charming
interlude in the grind of municipal
a t,,,. lot.