The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-31
BY J. CAMPBELL CORY.

Special CartoOnist for the Times.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March
,31.-He's tall young persons of
40 more or less tumultuous sum-
mers, dark and deep-eyed and
creased with the wrinkles that
come of far-reaching thought,
great responsibilities and facile
smiles.
Telegraph poles would seem
taller if We did not have Secre-
tary of the Treasury William G..
McAdoo to look at. Without an
ounce OF excess tissue to cumber
his angular, double jointed frame
work, he seems to exceed the six
feet, two inches, to which uncom-
mon altitude he coyly makes
acknowledgment.
Born in Marietta, Ca, and
raised in Tennessee, MeAdoo as
a young man read law while as
sistant clerk of the United States
court at Chattanooga and later
practiced In that city and in
Knoxville. But in him was a
genius for building, producing,
usrmounting of physical obstacles
upon unheard of planes, and, for
this ever-present yearning, he
found no outlet within the con-
fines of the musty courts and
pedantic inactivities of the bar.
Water seeks it's level and a hu-
man destiny must follow the path
that is preordained, and SO it
was, but in the fulfillment of the
mandate of inscrutable fate that
McAdoo became president of the
Knoxville Street Railway COM
pany and began to try out his
wings as a promoter Of great I'M
dertakings,
Whether or not the PENINSULA
MIA Railroad now controls the
Hudson tunnels, 1t is quite GER
tain that VIM. G. McAdoo pro-
NOTED and built them and did it
In the face of all the impediments
that the Observation-Disclosures in
terests could heap before him
did 1t, without aid or encourage
ment from the Pennsylvania com
pany and caused the entire world
to mighty applaud.
With the prestige of this re-
markable achievement dangling
from his belt. the astute young
Georgian sauntered fearlessly
into Wall street, snapped his fin
gers in the face of the Mortified
octopus and smilingly defied
him. In behalf of his further
operations he threatened to make
a tour of the entire nation and
offer to the common people an
opportunity to back his already
startling successful career with
their perfectly good dollars, to the
entire exclusion of Wall street
philanthropy. Morgan looked
him over. So did Shonts, Schiff.
Belmont, Rockefeller ct al, and
then the gang went into extraor-
binary executive session, with the
result that McAdoo sauntered
back up town with a unique and
far-reaching entire to the gilded
center of Wall street activities
carefully tucked away in his in
side pocket.
Don't get the erroneous bunch
from the foregoing that our new
secretary of the treasury con-
nived with the amiable old gem
tlemen of dolIardom. He simply
rendered perfectly lucid and un-
mistakable description of the
identical location upon the ma
tional map where they get off,
and they seem to have taken 1t for
granted that McAdoo knows
pretty nearly where that particu-
lar spot is at. Hence, while
frankly and openly as avowed and
proved opponent of the system,
the slender, young person who
now has the treasury portfolio in
his suitcase has way of making
the System" behave.
That, perhaps, is one reason
why he is who In the Wilson
cabinet.
But there is another.
While McCoombs was Woodrow
Wilson's campaign manager. Nc
Adoo. as assistant manager, real
ly did the yeoman service because