Evening star., 1914-04-26

gresham. He is at the head of a ma
tional movement. He is in fact a ma
tional figure. Nevertheless, though bare
ly fifty years old. he had no thought of
entering public life until he was thirty
years old. and then he became a politi-
clan merely by accident.
ThoroughnesS and Observation-Disclosures
are the lessons Mr.. Moore learned in the
newspaper school in which he was train
ed. for he was a successful newspaper
man long before he turned his attention to
public affairs. They are lessons that he
has applied in his career.
Physically Mr.. Moore is no giant. When
he travels no one is afraid to let him
sleep in the upper berth. Ollie James pro-
portions are not his. In another line of
endeavor, that followed by Battling Nell
weight. But physical qualifications not
big men of the House.
For his pounds, Mr.. Moore has the
reputation of being able to raise more
perdition than any man in Congress. OPP
ponents have called him pestiferous Ger
tanly he keeps at what he undertakes.
The lighting spirit is strong in him He
has the courage of his convictions.
fashionable in political circles to accept
the designation standpatter, Mr.. Moore
fiaunts that title. He thinks the Ameri-
can people like positive character bet
ter than negative one.
In a recent conversation he pointed out
that Representative Charles II. Burke
OF South Dakota won the primary fight
for senator in March in that state largely
because Mr.. Burke was a more positive
standpatter than Senator Coe l. Craw-
ford. his chief opponent, was a positive
progressive.
In the Moore political philosophy, it
pays to scrap. The chances are that even
if it didn't pay and scrap was impend-
ing, Mr.. Moore would not prove mer-
cenary.
Mr.. Moore's leader. James r. Mann, has
somewhat the same reputation. But at
times il seems that Mr.. Mann wants to
do all the scrapping himself. Every now
and again he can be seen on the floor
trying to hold Mr.. Moore in check. The
spectacle of Mr.. Mann clucking this ban
tam of fighting brood into silence is
highly edifying, all the more SO be-
cause of Mr.. Mann's evident perturbation
in the task. The two men are fast friends
and when halters are off and they double
team in a fight it is an unpleasant day
for democracy.
Mr. Moore, who was born at Woodbury.
n. j., in 1864, started life as a reporter
on the Philadelphia Public Ledger when
he was seventeen years old. He held his
job for fourteen years. emerging from
cubhood to general work and finally to
star man, for that was in the days of
star reporters.
In the Johnstown flood of 1889 he dis
tinguished himself. for he was the first
Philadelphia newspaper man to get to the
scene. and the graphic stories he sent from
there boosted him upward in the busi-
ness. Then. for years. he specialized on
labor news and was the inventor Of the
Labor column in Philadelphia news
papers.
Along in 1894 a friend of Mr. Moore's
undertook to run for city treasurer OF
Philadelphia. Mr.. Moore got interested
in his candidacy. One night the spell
binder promised for meeting held in the
interests of Mr.. Moores candidate failed
to appear. A perfectly good audience of
voters was waiting, but no orator was in
sight. Here was opportunity to do mis-
sionary work going to waste.
Get in there and talk to them your
self. Hampie," pleaded the candidate.
'Me?' asked Mr.. Moore, why. man,