The Washington herald., 1913-11-23
With the Political Procession.
By +. b G.


John Hays Hammond. savant, philoso-
pher. and friend, also a real Republican,
witn no Progressive pink tea arliiations.
may be trifie new in the political game.
but he learned enough In last years
period of distress to make him mighty
useful by the time the Republicans reach
out for the real thing three years hence.
The best feature OF the Hammond ac-
tivity in the Republican organization Is
that he has no hankering for office, and
donates his efforts with ali the enthusi-
asm Of an old fashioned candle-lighted
Christmas tree. He entangled himself
with the Republican clubs feature Of
last years campaign, but next time he
will be called into the actual organiza-
tion that does the real work of electing
President. While hammond has a
Washington residence in winter, he
counts Gloucester, Mass his voting home,
and his chief business Office is at n
Broadway New York. He feels equally
| at home in London and South Africa,
but however much a cosmopolite and
world-renowned ngure, he is insistent on
being Bay State voter when an election
is near.
The recent sparring match with Sec
retary Lane at a washington banquet
indicates the Hammond spirit, also his
OF the American politicar system. In
fact. that banquet affair has made Repub.
lican managers remark that the Hon.
John Hays viii be given enough to do
! in the next campaign, and before that
campaign begins. y.
Albert jeremiah Beveridge, Nlate Re-
publican Senator from Indiana, now the
most agitated and unyielding of all Pro-
gressives, came down the Willard way
with his devoted friend and ally in the
Progressive game, J. Callan O'Loughlin.
The Indiana statesman was a much
pointed-out man In the palm garden
filled with after-theater parties. but he Is
| used to all that, and thought more OF
proclakming with his old-time fervor and
eloquence that the Progressive party,
with Roosevelt the leader, was in the
game to stay independent of personal
ambitions or past Affiliations Of the
faithful.
When the ardent citizen Of Indiana was
reminded that recent elections indicated
decided slump in Progressive sentiment
he quickly cited as an offset the turning
Of Southern Democrats-think OF ito
the Roosevelt view OF things and the
glorious principles set forth in the Pro-
gressive declarations of last year.
Il was in New Orleans before the late
series Of State campaigns closed" re-
marked the Senator, land was both
startled and gratified to find representa-
tive solid business men aroused TO ad-
miration of the Progressive proposition
] Independent of regard for its leader or
leaders. To the white voters of the South
who decide all elections, the declarations
Of our platform, the views of our most
eminent men, appeal as no Republican
or even Democratic platform has ever
/ appealed before.
1T has dawned upon the solid, substan-
tial men of affairs in the whole South,
and noted it especially in New Orleans,
/ that ii Is wisdom to take up with just
what the Progressive party of1ers-to join
| in a new movement promising so much
| for the commercial and industrial uplift
NORTH and South-an uplift which the
old parties promise, but fail to bestow on
schedule time following a national cam
| paign.'
Independent of who may be leaders
IN the organization of the Progressive
party. the work begun last year will be
continued, and by 1916 States and sections
that were Indifferent in 1912 will be the
most eager in sending delegates to our
| convention"
The promotion Of Robert P. Skinner to
DC Consul General at Berlin certainly in
| hlltHtlOu VI IcslutIl "hSotl
| to keep the consular service out OF poll
| tics and to insure the reward Of merit.
| Skinner is now Consul General at Ham,
burg, the second most important port in
| Germany and he goes to one equal in
rank and Importance to either London
| or Paris.
| In fact Berlin is becoming more pre-
ferable in recent years and fully as i'm
portant in a business way.
| Rohart y Skinner in the
consular service began in 1897 when VIII
liam Mckinley sent him as a plain con-
sui to Marseilles. The post paid well
enough, however, in those good old days
of fees and perquisites and both McKin-
Icy and Skinner had gone over that fea-
ture before deciding on the appointment.
Skinner had been editor of a paper at
Massillon. nine miles from Canton and