Arizona republican., 1910-10-06

sponse was automatic. Thus, when MT. Springer. in the heat of contro- versy. exclaimed heroically, MT. Speaker. I would rather be right than be president" it was he and not Mir Reed who was responsible for the instantaneous reply: The chair Is convinced that the gentleman will never be either" Or. again. when member who was notorious for his ill-digested opinions and his halting manner of expressing them began some remarks with, T was thinking. MT. Speaker-I was thinking" and struck fast amid the titters of the house, not battery of artillery could have repressed Reeds appeal: The chair begs that no one will in- terrupt the gentleman's commenda- bIe innovation!"
 His definition of statesman as "a politician who is dead" and his de- scription of a particularly wrong headed, Irresponsible and generally pesky representative from the wool Hest west as the wild ass's fOal of the scriptures" were equally spontan- eous.
 This inability to control natural tendency manifested itself also in certain noiseless physical phenomena; for when the fight against him was hottest, and threats were flying about Washington most freely that the next hostile move would be to drag him by violence out of the chair and eject him from the chamber, I reepat- hot ha
 cry muscle of his body. But any one who mistook for cowardice such involuntary revelations of the tu- mutt which was going on under heath a cynical surface simply did not know Tom" Reed. He would have marched up to the mouth of a Delching cannon if he had set him self that task. with every fiber Of his huge frame in a visible tremor. but without the slightest vibration Tn | his purpose. The fact hat he could stand in one place. day after day, calmly looking into the eyes of a | horde of angry foes and refusing to | be lured by parliamentary tricks or unparliamentary insults into stepping | for one moment aside from the path I stern metal of the man.
 That Mir Reed had hopes at one | time of becoming president was nc secret The professional president makers of that day. however, passed | him over in their calculations be- | cause he was opposed to pretty near | ly everything they wanted, had ar
 unpleasantly trenchant mode of say | ing SO, and too commonly managed \ to have his own way. Our only quar- | rel during an acquaintance of near \ ly twenty years grew out of my in- | sisting upon his asserting himself publicly. in his good old fashion. at g
 crisis in political affairs which would
 have given him his one chance | against the then swelling McKinley
 tide He afterward indirectly admit
 ted that he had made a mistake.
 Though differing widely in theii | views on many phases of public pol
 icy, there existed between Mir. ReeC l and Theodore Roosevelt a mos
 friendly feeling. Each respected anC
 admired the other. though Reed haC
 little active sympathy with th'
 Roosevelt brand of civil service re
 form, and still less with the Roose
 welt creed regarding war. l think
 he looked upon these phenomena as
 mere youthful ebullitions which
 would disappear with the advance oi
 maturity; but even then he could no
 be induced to admit that the futur,
 held any brilliant promise for hi! young friend in public life. One ev-
 ening in the winter of 1923, over
 beefsteak in Wormley's old restau.
 rant, we fell to discussing Roosevelt
 You will see more of him wher
 he becomes president" said I.
 | Reeds expression of face, as ht
 studied mine to assure himself tha
 was not testing, was a mixture o
 sarcasm and pity. I expected cut
 ting epigram in response, but he evi ldently wished to let me down easily by giving my feeble mind a tonic ides
 to work upon.
 | Theodore will never be president, he answered; 'he has no poltica
 background"
 l Casual addition to this verdic
 showed that what he had in minC Twas the need. on the part of can.
 didate for the presidency, of a cer.
 tain record of apprenticeship at /; Itrade of party politics, some expert.
 Fence in management and persona Following which could be measured Fin terms of quantity.
 + Ten years later, when Roosevelt ihad been more than a twelvemonth 1T