The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-23

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mar who sees great visions. The soul
sDack Of them dreams high dreams, aud
YET the face around The eye Is q mask,
mobile but on the whole secretive.
flrtive. Gompers looks c~uriously un-
western. cutiously oriental, ~cuviously
Ike a Persian ~potentate. All he would
need would be the front hall rug and
nes to simulate tho satrap in his
power. Yet he Is the ideal of the
Adoaghty bunch Of Irish labor men who
surround him and his will prevails
without discussion or argument. They
nave learned to believe In him. they
Know they can trust him. He Is abso-
Hntely true, genuinely square In his re-
lntions to those about him. 70, all the
furtlve oriental cast to his face, his
character is western. Fundamentally
American.
Wolf Is Conner"
Nesr him sits short, dark. young.
p~obnactcus, active little man named
Woi. II Rr lives the world vii. hear
mich more OF Wolf. He brings some
strain of blood to America that is
ideal!stic and yet his whole face is
fuH OF strength and a peculiar power.
incidentally he is ambitious. He talks
wen, mas a big aggressive face and a
pusnacioas parliamentary n His
trigger Is a little loose and he goes off
sometimes when he should not. He
has not the self restraint that Gompers
mas, but he Is not as old as Gompers
py half and he is not oriental for q
minute. He might have come on. Of
the Mennonite colony in Kansas or
from around the gas works in Chicago.
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W and he will go far il some Of
llfe's handicaps do not throw him.
In the public group, aside from Gary
and half q dozen interesting figures,
the leader OF the group is Bernard
Raruch, six feet two, probably, trim,
keen. open face, grey eyed. candid as
to countenance. quick moving. decisive.
friendly, rc%sourceful and as little sat
isfied with himself as q handsome man
dare be. He is the newer type Of
American Jew. American life has
pressed almost the last yestige of his
blood from his mein. 1t is a strorg
blood but this is a strong civilization
we are making here and In Baruch we
see the WI forces graphing with one
another, and the western civilization
is fairly we'll prevailing. But he has
- go ASAoA LAAAs A1 0aoSo ~
titles him to, all the capacity for hon
orable compromise, the ability to put
himself in the other mans place. lie
is facile. gentle and has tremendous
personal charm He leads by charm
rather than by force, as David must
have led OF old.
He is yoked in leadership of the pub
lie group with Thomas c. Chadbourne,
a New York corporation lawyer. A
big fellow Of an English caste of face
and figure, a lighting. soul. pleasant
enough but always pleasant from a
heighth; not without charm, but Ill
ways with purpose before charm. He
is the chairman of the committee Of Is
a committee which has in its power the
most important work of the confer
ence. Upon it's work and largely upon
his leadership will depend the success
OF the conference, and in SO far as
leadership must direct the normal
must hold the average, he will do we'll
He is not the Intellectual equal OF
Gary, perhaps, not yer Of Gompers
but he will not make the mistake OF
high browning his leadership. 1t will
be good direct American leadership In
committees. The high and the low
may reasonably expect a good job from
him as head Of this committee. He has
strong important men to deal with.
Elliot Of Harvard.
President Eliot with his W notions
may not be neglected. He insists un-
on being heard when necessary in the
conference. He Is rather the leader OF
the group. He knows their
language. understands their aspira-
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compromises where they would not fol-
low another. He is an intellectual
force rather than a personal one.
The most conspicuous Of the public
group is John Spargo, ~serialist. He IL
smart; no other word fits him. He
knows the game which the conference
is playing, he knows parliamentary
usage, is active, cannot be typed, likes
to talk, is full Of resources, has an un-
breakable will, feels himself detached
from the group. more or less rejected
of men" and is the only crusader in
the conference. He Is Of slight build
wiry bodied, with a hunting dog face
and Drown look as to hair, mustache
complexion and eyes, a brown lcok
which he accentuates in his dress. He
makes a striking figure when he talks
He is restless but never out Of con-
troll and has a quick temper but knows
how to smother it and is the most
combative man in the conference. The
public group think him to be more
radical than he really is. His sug-
gestions are on the whole conservative
rather than radical which indicates
great se~lf-control.
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