The New York herald., 1922-01-08
Fiery Tom Watson of Georgia Far Differen
From the Quiet Harreld of Oklahoma
Colorado Has Keen Business Man in
Phipps, While Pennsylvania IS Sen
ator, William E. Grow, Is an
Active Politician

cause Watson reckons Bryan with those
that have gone on. But there was day
when it irked him to be compared with
Bryan and to the latter's benefit. 1t was
bareback of this annoyance that he wrote
amusingly of his own obvious superiority
to the Commoner. After enumerating his
own achievements in Congress when
Rryan was member, he said that Bryan
did nothing but the one thing he is capa-
BILE of doing-talked.
AS between them az authors, Watson diff
ferentiated thus:
Bryan and have written books. Where
are his? They sold enormously when they
first came out: that was because of his
reputation and popularity. But who buys
or reads those books now? Nobody. They
are reposing peacefully at the bottom of
the sea. They are dead as Sesostris
and Caesar and Semiramis. On the con-
trary, my own books run through edition
after edition, and sell better at this time
than when they were first published"
Watson is bookfed. He reads enor-
mously. In his library in his home at
Thomson, Ca, he uses 1000 volumes. His
very face gives the impression of being
drawn from the reading of thousands OF
books A good deal of success came to
him as a lawyer in criminal practice, and
it is said that he has lost only one murder
case in an extensive practice. The paper
that he publishes now and into which he
iniects his notions for making over the
world is the Sentinel, published at Thorn
son. but edited in his Office in the Senate
Office Building, hard by the Capitol. In
this Office his managing editor, woman,
Mrs. Alice Louise Lytell holds forth, d.
recting under Watson what goes into the
paper day by day.
ExaItation of His Ideas
Shown by STORY of France
There is no more interesting personality
in the Senate than the new member from
Georgia. Perhaps some measure OF the
exaltation of his ideas may be gathered
from the following quotation from his
STORY of France: And so the world
moves on in Gods mysterious way. The
sound of the rifle which shoots down the
reformer may advertise the reform and
carry it far beyond the limit it otherwise
would have passed. The potter turns his
wheel the weaver's shuttle flies back and
FORTH the statesman molds his laws and
what the finished work in any case may be
the workman himself cannot know
ITO cling tenaciously to the belief that
the humanity of the future will be as free
from depravity as the present is slave of
it; to balance against the actual miseries
of to-day the fancied ecstasies of to-
morrow; to love the human race in the
abstract when the race in the concrete
has set price upon ones head; to bless
those who hound you down and slay you
surely this is the philosopher at his best. "
watson's strange and vivid personality
differs as completely as seems to be pos
sible from the man one has now the pleas
ure of introducing, the new Senator from
Oklahoma John William Harreld. Wat
sons career leading in the inscrutability
of Providence to a seat in the United
States Senate, has been a career OF stormy,
lreadlong protest. He came to place
among the mighty by accomplishing the
fantastic and the unusual. Harreld emerges