Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

Special Wdshinot
TONGRBss will finish It's work this week
~ 1t has been in session since the memory
of man runneth not TO the contrary. 1t is too
early to Judge the merits and defects of what
it has done; but 1t may be said that the good
it has accomplished must be credited to the
mastery leadership of Underwood, who
seems to have had the confidence of both
houses, and the evil must be charged against
those in both the legislative and judicial
branches who have interfered with his sane
and conservative view of public questions.
wv AsH1NGTON is filled this week with
w lawyers from all parts of the country,
and among them are many eminent men who
have mixed at times in partisan politics. They
eschew politics in the business meetings of
the American Bar Association, but many of
them talk politics during recess, and the most
of them speak we'll Of the President, however
they may differ from his opinions on political
issues a member of Congress from West
Virginia who is also a lawyer of distinction
in his own home town, and who claims to
have heen among the first at least of the
Original Wilson men, does not quite under
stand his status at the White House Talk
ing the other night about the situation he ad
mitted that he had found some difficulty in
making himself felt at the presidential man
sion.
81 knew Mr.. Taft very we'll when he
over there" he said. Although did not be-
long to his party and was opposed to him in
politics, 1 used to go over there and could
see him almost any time He would sit down
and talk to me about the little matters in
which was Interested; but 1t is not the same
now, exactly. The President is glad to sec
me, of course and he always looks It; but he
invariably talks to me standing up, and l
never could talk to anybody about serious
matters standing up, and before am able to
tell him what want find that l am through
and out in the entryway without having been
able to make myself understood. OF course,
nothing could be pleasanter, in way, than
my reception; but somehow invariably Won
der whether or not the President really
knows after it is who It is that he has
seen and what it about anyway. This
is a new method of 'dispatching business
and it is all right, but haven't got used to it.
that's all. And after l have got through,
another man goes in, and it is generally the
same way with him. l tell you have never
been able to talk to a man standing up
ANOTHER man and a lawyer, also from
"A West Virginia, gave an account of his eX-
perienCes, or experience, rather, as he tried
it only once last night. when the fight
was on at Baltimore l was one Of the orig
inals and worked all | knew how for the man
who won. My delegation against me and
stood out almost TO the very last in favor of |
the other man. I couldn't bulge them; but |
I worked on and on, and after 1t was all over |
and my man had won and there were pros
poets of rewards for the truly loyal, and |
Judge Goff had been shufIled into the Senate |!
I got an idea that, strange things werc |
happening all the time, it might be possible |
for me to make some progress toward judi |
cia career l repaired to the White House |
with hope in my heart, and prepared with |
documentary evidence to show that l had |
been on the firing line at Baltimore When |
l got there I ran into n sort of harbed wire |
on the outer line. The Presi-
dents secretary had never heard of me- and |
did not know how | had met the opposition /
over in the Maryland town. l told him that .
the President would be glad to see me; that
could not see why he would refuse to
see friend after the election a friend he .
would have welcomed before the election, and
that | would like to go in. But the President
was very busy; would | not come back in n
day or so? I told him that I was a long way
from home that I must see him then or |
could not see him at all. 1t then sug-
gested that I come back in couple of hours;
but this was not possible, as my train left
before the two hours would pass and by
gradual approaches, and being firm in my re-