Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-09

large number of friends besought to leave
it off as no victory could come to anyone
wearing an opal !"
The senator won, opal and all He adds to
this passage a. few remarks that should be
very valuable to any young man entering poll
tics.
81 would not have worn a diamond" he
says, ait might have looked too flaShy and
too comfortable for a tribune of the people
to wear. By the same token, tribune of
the people should not be fat or funny His
countenance should be 'Scklied DER with the
pale cast Of thought and his words should
drop like red hot potash on the fostering
sores of the body polite. Imagine Wendell
Phillips, Abraham Lincoln, Garrison or Loveoy
bedecked in diamondS!"
The journal contains other interesting pr-
vate comments on politics by one who is in
them. In one passage he has some good advice
for presidential candidates, and in another some
very cogent suggestions how to hold the
presidential job after you have got it.
Commenting on the defeat of Hughes in
| 1916 he says that if Hughes had just stayed
out of California and kept his mouth shut, he
would have been elected.
Hughes in 1916 and Blaine in 1884 were Sc
cure while within their own Notifications" he
comments. Cali they had to do was to wait
for election day, think little, remain silent, and
each would have been elected. To think but
little and say nothing is the best advice l
could give presidential candidate"
On the day that Wilson was naugurated for
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dental reflections He says that Taft failed
to hold his job because he allowed things to
become dull, and that Roosevelt was a success
as president because he kept things lively.
concludeS' ito be prosaic is the most deadly.
Witness old John Adams, Tyler, Fillmore
Buchanan, Hayes and Harrison"
There certainly appears to be something in
the senator's suggestion that proSaic men are
seldom reelected to office, no matter how
worthy. Here is brand-new slant on national
| politics. Whatever else the public gets, it
must have entertainments
several times during the dinner" he re-
cords, some Of us were in grave peril owing
! to the fact that mOrSelS would find Judgment
! IN our Threats, and we had nothing to wash
them down with; but when the repast was
finished Bryan was forgiven for lack of liquid
! retreShment, as he brought us cigars, one in a
box, and each box marked pipe of peace"
| characteristic entry is that of the day
when Arizona was admitted to statehood. He
begins by comparing the present day Arizona
ress the state has made; but he soon runs off
into description of the desert
! The desert has the regal and SensuouS
poppy, the scarlet glory of poisoning ctus,
the pungent odOr of wild sage" he writes trv-
ing to describe the fascination which the
desert has for his mind "But the desert is
cruel-her heated sands and scorching winds,
her blazing and pitileSS furnace of sun, her
inercIIeSS tail of heat, her poisonous reptiles,
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her receptions and her everlasting SamenesS of
| topography bring awful thirst, confusion. ex-
hanStion, delirium and death when the can
OUT P-N'
The senator has in an unusual degree the
devotion to the soil that produced him which
is characteristic of so many westerners He
writes wittily of personages and trenchantIy
OF events, but when he hits the subject of
Arizona and the early days, he is all eloquence
and sentiment
This is not fair account of the senator's
diary, for it is too short to include any of
his analyses of great questions, his lucid &C.
counts of events. his pictures of social and
poitlcai NE IN Washington, and his characteri-
the public will have the whole book in due
course and meantime, more power to the SEN
atOr'S elbow! NN