New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-05

War. politics and peace politics
which seem not at all alike when one
is colloquializcd as plotting and the
other. more euphemistically as states
manship"- have at least one attribute
in common. Both lend themselves to
the making of strange bedfellows.
Eight bcdfellows wrigglng under
the same ovcrwarm legal coverlet in
Federal Judge Cushman's court,
stranger. perhaps. than any ever
thrown together outside the realm OF
the best seller. provide current dem
onstration Of this intcrreation be-
tween ringing word and ringing steel.
Among the eight charged with hav-
ing conspired to keep American NUM-
tons out of the hands and the guns
of the Entente Allies are three men
who lately doomed as types Of sturdy
Americanism, two as Congressman ana
the third as a trust buster of Middle
Western habitat but nationwide fame.
The workingman has his representa-
ton. too, in the person of Jacob c.
Taylor, who climbed TO labor leadership
through the Cigar Makers Union; the
hau.e monde in Franz Rintelen, who
lived at the New York Yacht Club in
his heyday and was a social lion; Wall
Street in David Lamar, who even in
that zone of deadly peril to the stray
inc lamb was conceded title as the
Wolf"
Nor will tho connoisseur of color be
dissppointed in No. and No. s-Her-
man Schulteis and H. B. Martin, soft
shoe brother lobbyists, who have traV-
elled in and out of the national Capt.
tol for many years so lightly as TO
leave scarce a footprint
Sees Good Points in Laws
Rintelen, dapper and on his dignity
so far as the other defendants are con-
cerned, seems to have decided the
United States laws have their good
points, after all.
For the very same statutes in fear
Of whose workings he left the country
lust before Labor's National Peace
Council fell to pieces-the same stat
utes which enforced his silence when
he discovered il was not the Iron cross
but the double cross which Lamar hah
lifted as the standard Of the great
S5O0.0 900 munitions plot-have now
swung around 10 avenge him.
Although he has had many advent
ures since New York friends last sa"
him (including a period in the Tower
of London, Rintelen, save for the loss
of his little blond mustache, has no'
changed in appearance. Immaculate IN
a suit of gray tweeds, slender, unwor-
ried, his pink skinned face and sharp
features as remindful as ever as those
Of his friend, the Crown Prince. ne mas
elected TO occupy seat behind the jury
box, remote from his fellow defendants.
His is the air Of a man rather bidlng
his time than one vitally interested IN
the proceedings And when his time
comes Lamar, "Wolf of Wall Street
may discover the meaning OF the quiet
smile ne often finds turned upon him.
Lamar's is the dominant figure among
the defendants All his life it has been
his business to dominate situations IN
which a loss Of poise might spell ruin.
So he dominated financial circles in At
lanta and other Southern cities when,
in earlier days of his Wallingford ca
reer, he was laying the foundations OF
d fortune, preparing for the onslaught.
on New York. So, too, he stood forth
in Wall Street as the enemy of big
business, profiting extensively thereby;
and so, until the bag was empty, he
held Rintelen in the belief that every
one of the Kaiser's thousands which
passed through his hands was saving
the lives of so many OF the Kaiser's
men.
Wolf often on His Feet
Half the time the wolf" is on MS
feet. with his hand on the shoulder OF
VI. Martin Dolphin. his lawyer. and his
lips TO the attorneys ear. whispering
suggestions which never fail to find
their way into the ross-exsmination.
For the first few days shabby pep
-and-salt suit covered his rotund
body. This is the garb in which he
was brought from Atlanta, where of