Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-07

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GEORGE HARVEY is becoming familiar
VI and very welcome figure in Washington,
because, while he rarely talks for publication,
he always says something that is interesting
and original. He Is, In fact, an unusual man.
His fun name is George Brinton Mcclellan
Harvey, because his people thought a great
deal Of General Mcclellan and he was bap-
tzed, or christened as he would say now
since he got away from the Westminster
Standards, that way; but like other great
men he has only kept as much Of his real
name as he found convenient to handle and
is now simply George" That is what
Henry watterson calls him. Mr.. Clevelands
name was stephen Grover, but he cut Off
the stephen" President Wilson's name was
Thomas Woodrow" and some of his old In
Inmates still speak Of him as Tommy" and
at least one Of his fathers old parshioners
in Augusta asked him, when he was down
there after he had entered the race for the
high honors which he wears SO worthily,
"well. is this Tommy, and what are you do
ing for yourself Tommy" None Of these
men could be very much blamed for getting
rid of part Of the baggage with which their
parents loaded them, and every one OF them
suffered no inconvenience by the amputatton'
These three were Presbyterians and stephen
and Thomas held on, while the other let co.
in sense. ore of the many notable things
about them is that, granted their premises,
there was and is no way to escape their con-
clusions. It was the same way with Andy
Jackson's "By the Eternal" 1t Is logic,
logic. logic. That was how It happened Mr..
Cleveland established the gold standard, how
Mr.. Wilson repealed the Canal tolls exemp-
ton and dispersed the lobby, and how Har-
vey guessed the name of the next President
before he had been even thought Of in the
country generally
ALL Of which makes Harveys visits to
"A Washington the occasion Of much and
various comment. One of the stories that
persisted before election was that IL
Gerard went to the Senate as the successor
OF Senator Root, Harvey would go to Ber-
lin as the successor of Ambassador Gerard.
Had the election gone differently, the Presl-
dent couldn't have done better; In fact,
many of his sincerest admirers, even II they
were not "Orginal Wilson men" at Balti-
more, have thought that he would have done
a very good thing had he named his old
friend for one of the big diplomatic places
in the first instance. Harvey is fully equip
ped for the service. He Is a highly trained
newspaper man, to begin with-the late Jo-
Sepn Hunt2ef tnOuBHJ ne was q "OHueI, anu
he is; he has money in the bank, he can
"read English" Cthe test applied to Mr.. Taft
when he went up to register at New Haven
for the election this weelO; he can converse
in French, knows German and can speak
Russian as we'll as Pindell. Of Peoria. Be
Sides he has Travelled extensively and is
familiar with all the ways Of Europe among
the higher classes. Being Ambassador to
Germany would be easy to him as win
ming n game of golf for instance, from the
President himself, that is to say unless he
should "foozle," whatever that is. Moreover,
Harvey is a soldier and If it should become
necessary to shoot any American in Berlin
for the sake of peace, he would doubtless be
willing to bare his breast to the dum-dum
or any other sort of missile just for the sake
of old Peacham in the State of Vermont.
Up there they would put up memorial
stone to him down near the postoffice on
the village green and for generations chance