The Washington times., 1922-09-02

wheel Of Mr.. Whipples car. seemed
to me to be rather more venerable
than most chauffeurs are, and
asked him how long he had been
driving for Mr.. Whipple.
He replied by saying that he used
TO drive horses for Mr.. Whipple and
that afterward he began to drive
motor cara for him and that Alto
gether he had been driving one thing
and another for Mr.. Whipple for now
some twenty-five years.
impaired to him my congratula-
tons on being as It were the corner
stone Ct Mr.. Whipple's household.
But he was an honest man. He said:
We'll, the gardener began work.
ing for him three months before !
did"
l was rather moved by this fact
and said SO. I said that the life OF
the Whipple family must be a very
steady one.
1T is" said the chauffeur, the
housekeeper began working for Mr.
Whipple the same time the gardener
did. She's been the housekeeper and
the gardeners been doing the gard
ming and I've been doing the driving
ever since. Twenty-Five years now"
These are terrible omens. I fore
see myself having to write a dis.
patch from Washington twenty-five
years or so from now saying:
Senator Whipple Of Massachu.
setts today announced that in his
opinion the great thing in life is
continuity and that accordingly he
would soon begin his campaign for
his fifth term in the Senate. He
said also that he would 10 back
to Massachusetts, by motor in view
OF the fact that his chauffeur now
had the habit Of driving between
Washington and Boston and could
still make It in fifteen days"
There Is something closely akin to
what might be called persistency In
the character OF Sherman whipple.
He started at dead zero in Boston
many years ago as a young lawyer
with no sort OF local influence what
soever. All he had was ancestors
who had known how to wiring q liv-
ing off the hills Of New. Hampshire.
1t was enough. Young Mr.. Whipple
looked at the cobblestones Of Boston
with a knowing friendly eye aud
proceeded to dig into them. They
yield him large crops now of Bos-
tons very best law cases. In repu-
tation for high legal skill Mr.. Whip
pie is q sort Of Bostonian Elihu Root.
And last night at Lowell, TO the
dense masses of citizens in the town
hall square, instead Of talking like
Elihu Root, he talked very much
like Bill Borah OF Idaho.
I was not prepared to hear such
talk in Massachusetts. The crowd
Ill h@h Tn.
peated the Whipple campaign re-
frain which is a very professional
political Jazz line. Whip 'em Whip
ple." They loved the talk. 1t was
totaled an attack on all those who
are not content to let Providence
enforce the Biblical prophecy about
our always having the poor with
US but who start in to assist Provi-
dence by using the powers Of Gov
ernment to make the poor poorer.
whipple is short. His legs are
thin. His hands are small. His pug
nacity Is not apparent In the build
OF his body from his toes and his
fingers up to his neck. Then 1t begins
to appear in O firm, thick neck, a
broad and heavily fleshed face. very
large and thick nose, ears far laid
back and very flat to the skull, a
forehead rounded backward and look.
ing as II hammer would glance off
II and a back head coming almost
straight up. He cuts his hair very
short and parts It very little, and he
thereupon looks very much like
highly educated and highly refined
pugilist.
He is running strong. There is no
doubt on that point. II he gets the
Democratic nomination, the fight be.
tween him and Lodge will be the
supreme olympian fight Of this year,
Lodge is bowling historical
swell who has lived from the top
down. Whipple is a bowling legal
swell who has lived from the bot.
tom up.
Why is whippie so sympathetic
toward the poor2 Why is he so
sympathetic toward peoples en-
ployes7 I guess he thinks that II
any chauffeyr or any other employe
quits his jS before he has worked
twenty-five years at 1t, well, it's
scandal and everybody ought to get
busy and find out what was worry.