Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
HARVEY BLOSSOMS OUT
AS PRESLDENT-MAKER
Colonel by Dgntyng Senate in His Editorials Secured Con
fdence Of Group Which Dominated Chicago Convention
BY CLINTON w. GILBERT
.. BY Public Ledger Co.

Chicago. June 14.--To pick one can
didate for President and to participate
in the picking of another candidate for
President is a record for an editor.
But, when you add that this editor
picked candidate for the Democratic
party and then had large part in
choosing one for the Republicans. all In
the brief space of eight years, you will
perceive he Is in an extraordinary per-
| son.
All this is by the way of introducing
Colonel George Harvey, once friend
and now redoubtahle foe of President
stone Hotel Senator Harding was
picked by the Republicans on Friday
night.
Colonel Harvey. nodding editorial
| approval, aided the process of elimi-
nation which gradually removed Wat
son, Hays. Sproul, Hughes, Coolidge,
Knox and finally left Senator Harding,
Of Ohio.
Colonel Harvey is an extraordinary
editor who left journalism to get rich
In street railroads and other public
utilities and then returned to journal
ism when he could afford to do it, in
what is perhaps the ideal way-running
d paper no matter what it costs, with
out advertising, to express his personal
views.
He is an editor Of the old school, be =
ing gifted with an old fashioned abun-
dance of vocabulary, something like
that of Marse Henry Watterson, which
antedates the period when we all be-
came college graduates and began to
write with severe classical stiffness.
We have only TO look at Colonel
Harvey to see that he is a personality.
He has a face that would have made
his fortune upon the stage, il he had
not had the gift for making his for
tune in Wall street or its purlieus. And
| the colonel, having a taste for the pic
| tureseue In his person as well as in his
| vocabulary, sets off this face of his with
an enormous pair of goggles, He has
mouth which matches the goggles
admirably, and out of it flows an abun :
dant stream of extremely clever con
versation. wittier, perhaps than his
writings.
The colonel has other equipment ad
mirably suited to progress, social and
political, IN these times. lie mas, lei
us whisper it, an admirable cellar,
Perhaps some Of it preceded. him to
the Blackstone. He has, moreover, one
of the best animating motives in the
| world. one which will carry you
further toward achievement, perhaps,
than any other.
| He has hatred.
| He hates Wilson with the bitterness
Of n man, who, by all right and titles,
ought to have been the Colonel House
of the Wilson administration, and who
is quite sure that had he been thus
placed the Peace Conference. the war
| the government generally would moi
have all got messed up. Having hatred
the colonel has fine thing to go alonl
with it, one of the best vocabularies o
inyectiVe now extant.
The colonel had happy intuition
He picked long shot. The United
States Senate, along with the Who'll,
Legislative apparatus, was despised anC
rejected of men. The colonel picked
the Senate. He became the Senate
great friend, one might say apologist
but apologist is hardly the word. ii,
treated the Senate in the columns of hi
highly personal weekly journal as IL il
were made up Of Daniel Websters
Henry Clays and John c. Calhouns.
He made the Senate look as if i
were the highly dignifed, intelligent anc