The Washington herald., 1920-03-01
Folks and Things
Around Washington
Labert St. Clair.
somewhere In the book OF polite, Il


Is written that It Is easier for a NOV
ing van to go through the eye Of a
needle than for a wealthy man to
enter the portals of the white House.
Search fails to reveal the page and
line where this may be found, but
proof Of IL is that it is lesson which
all candidates now in the field have
learned and are prodtins by. In all
political camps the possessions of the
various Presidential candidates are
being pared down to the last degree.
nd in the camps where the amount
still seems large after the pairing. 1t
Is being declared that HE once was
poor and he got IL honestly"
Perhaps Governor LoUden's man
ayers have made the most vigorous
attempt to get the story OF Lowden's
money before the public in proper
shape II is true that Lowden mar
rfed a wealthy woman. but he was
born the son Of a village blacksmith
and he got his start In life by his
own efforts. That there might be no
, questioning this fact. Lowden's man
ayers recently sent a man to their
candidates birthplace. Sunrise, Min,
to talk with Andy Lind. who runs the
general store. and Eli Nordgen, Hen
voss and 81 Doyce. prominent citi-
hn 70
down and showed him the old black
smith shop, the old swimmin' hole and
everything with the result that he
came back here ready to sign all
kinds OF affidavits that Lowden was
simply dirt poor years ago.
Other candidates and suggested
possibilities have not had to combat
this obstacle as hard as Lowden, but
they have had their fling. One Of the
.arges made against Herbert Hoover.
for instance, was that he earned
SO, go with his brains, and he an
swered that rather neatly by saying
he wished he had such q sum that he
might help feed starving children.
Senator Harding runs newspaper,
hence he is acquitted. without the jury
leaving the box, of having money.
Hiram johnson has been broke most
Of his life and his friends are saying
so frankly. Gen. Wood has saved
nothing out of his army pay. his man
ayers say. William G. McAdco left
the Cabinet because he was practic-
ally broke. Gen. Palmer has no
money.
The only really wealthy man who
has run for President in recent
wears was Coleman I. pu Pont. He
ran in 1916. for a while. though the
fact did not leak out generally.
Vice President Marshall, the latest
of the why not me?" boys to toss
his hat into the Presidential free
for-all, finally has chased the self
appointed censor of his remarks In
the Senate into his hole.
Happily. or unhsppily. as the case
may be, the V. r. has a habit Of
speaking out in meeting. Often
times il has appeared to a certain
clerk who has charge of the manu-
scripts that the V. P.'s remarks
we're not In keeping with the did
nifty of his office, SO he has elimi-
mated them. Thus have some ot
Marshal's best jokes been spoiled.
But something took place-Senate
rumor says II was a straight-out in
terview between the V. p. and the
censor-and now the copy is going
through without a scratch.
Just before the censor was
brought to time the Vice President
sprung this one: A clerk was call
ing the roll, and, after getting re-
sponses from a dozen or more Ben
ators, he prepared to call the roll or
absentees.
Call the roll of Presidential can
didates." Marshall said, solemnly,
after noting that most Of the Sem
ators who are running for President
were absent.
That. remark. which the V. p
thought we'll of. was eliminated
from the record by the censor,
whersupon the V. p. went up in the
air.