Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-10
2. Leaving school an ei1rering law

1 CT Leaving school an entering law ! elfice ln l1s n4lEse town at A. ziter | Etne manner ot noSt xzldeflcan le1zo- ] ! CTS fr6m IackS0il to Lincoln. ne p.sKea 1 nps as he wenr afpns selcii edoeatlolr as l l'ne gaIneu. let ner one or cur many | | preslaenrs has won a nasne- rAnsA ln tafs proIexsion. Mnlle oz14y a Doy' so isnlail thar ne had to stand on . nencn l tc addresS Ine J6fy, he scored his nrst , sneeess at me n!ia. At 4y,. ne retired | from practice wftn money enough tor aa man with a Duten thrilt which was mistaken for sunginess by the lezs pradeTf AngD-An4ericz-n around i him. .s
 Equaily' precocious in politics, Van I Buren was chosen a delegate to a [ political conNca ton betore he ws of lage; was appolnted a county srrro- f gate at z5; elected to the state sen
 ate at. 30; appointed attorney gen. seral of the state at 52 and aI 3S he \ was elected a senator of the United States. Already be was at the head fof the Albany Regency which con ttinued to run the democratic machine in New York and to dominate the \ national counseis Of that party for 6e T years to come. His skiu in political fnanipulaticn made him known ah oyer the country as the Little Ma Il giciaf," which a French traveller f translated into a more doubtful com pffrient when he named him the f "American Talleyrand.''
 | Playing the game of politics only as a New Yorker can and as all New Workers in public life do, Van Buren twas the first to make. his. way into ftke White House in gunshoes. Per ! haps his caution as politician has : lost him the credit due him for ms Fl statesmanship. which he displayed in : 'fmnre than one grave emergency. A
 tpopular story reflected the general
 Impression of his artful dodging
 lOuee while he was passenger on 3
 lHgdsen River boat an anti-Van Burer
 Inlan said to a Van Buren man: .I I'll bet you the price of the pas t sage that you can't go to him nov | and get astraight answer to the simpi kkest. question that you can ask"
 H The challenged man, confidently talk ing the bet. went up to his faForit H and inquired if he did not think tn Hweather was fine.
 tt wei" was the careful measure
 [repIy, that is a relative term and .s.
 By thunder" the Van Burenit
 broke ins as he turned to his cha
 tlenger, You've won"
 Van Buren became the pionee
 national campaign manager when b
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 for Jackson. Webster declared tha
 he did more for the election of -Ql
 Hickory than any other ten men
 Does the old gentleman nav
 prayers in his house?" It was nor las an adroft suggestion tha mas a
 lmquiry that this propagandist of
 years ago wrote to a man who wa st lwriting up Jackson for the campaigl fs If SO mention it modestly." atl In that fierce Jackson campaigl st Evan Blren took the party nominatio rn for governor of New York. Bein nj elected. he resigned from the senat e. land then. after only two months iy the governorship, he resigned agai he Ito. be secretary of state in the ne
 cabinet Thus he held within .- weeks three of the highest prizes to G public life and at the same time W. s ,I heir-aPparert to the presidency itsel Ie Monday-The Heir Apparent.
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