The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-10
SECRET OF COL. GEO.
 HARVEY'S SUCCESS
From a Letter to King George Dy

| From a Letter to King george Dy
 Samuel Mccoy. in Ieslies.
 What you would probably like to have me tell you is, Just what is it that makes this George Harvey SC f powerful an American? How come they appointed him the ambassador to my court, the most important in | Europe? What's the secret of his in- fluence over your political leaders! Fron, what I hear. this power of his looks almost uncanny; tell me. whei e Goea he get it?"
 l You and I know that a man arrives in positions of importance through your country he inherits place; or by | influencing the people by his voice; or, by influencing them by his pen: or by privately influencing leaders, W ho. in turn, influence the people.
 Gecrge Harvey is in his present place through the last two reasons
 You krtw all about his ability with his pen, of course. You've read his articles on political subjects, and you know what a gosh awful gift of am aiysis and satire he has. When George has finished dissecting some statesmen's acts or motives and hung the hide up on a printing press to tiy, that jobs been done, and done riett you're sorry For .he victim, tut, ycu can't help snickering at his rcmsins.
 George won't be doing any writing for publication while he's visiting you. He will write private letters, of course to the President, and to the Secretary of State and to others. The ability to bend to his opinions those men whom he conyerses with while seated in leathern armchair in q corner of the club, or at a din- ner-table at which only a few choice souls are gathered--is the secret of George Harvey's greatest successes. ses he achieves while he Is visiting you.
 l happen to have had the pleasure and the honor of meeting George Harvey on two or three occasions. and l can imagine no experience more enjoyable or instructive than that of meeting him daily; to have known him is, if not liberal educa- ton, certainly coalition one.
 To catch merely a glimpse of him as he boards tram ear is to revere him from thenceforth; consider, then, what will be the feelings of those with whom he will breakfast daily in Downing street!
 You may disregard, therefore. the fact that George has been what they call brilliant political analyst and pitiless pubiicist for the past 35 years; as your MT. Keats re- marks, "all yeNknow and all ye need to know" is that he's fast worker in a small ring.
 He stepped from writing politics for newspapers into the job of an advisor to a political officer-the governor of a state-when he was s1 years old; he has had s5 years of experience in telling politicians and statesmen what lc do; and by this time they have all come to the dreadful conviction that the safest policy is to hug him 10 their breasts with the desperation of the man who knows that if he let's go of the bear it may bite him.
 He is credited by the people with the unique and amuzing distinction of having been the chief instrument in the election to the presidency ot two men, of opposite political parties George is at his best in corners; but ycu can not elect President Of the United States solely in corner.
 Nevertheless it Is true that his was the voice which had most to do with the eiection both of Mir. Wilson and of Mir. Harding.