White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08

either speak slightinely tn me D.
give me a more sighting look. My
feelings toward him thereafter can
be imagined. have not forgotten
his kindness 10 this day.
Harry was not a brilliant student
but a steady Flooding me-. When
his father came TO the college to
preach as he did many times, being
a particular friend of President
Hunt, the boys used to talk about his
great ability and his nice, uneffend-
ing sermons, and how much a greater
man he was than ever Harry would
be. Everybody liked Harry but his
father was so well advertised as be-
ing a brainy man and Harry seemed
so commonplace that we used to feel
that he would not amount to much
always with the comparison be-
tween his father and himself In
mind.
Since he has come into the cab
met l have studied on this matter.
I have figured out the secret of his
success politically in two ways. One
was his staying with a place or prop
o~sition. He got hold of his fathers
farm paper and could see 1t was a
good thing If stayed with, so he
stayed. If he had been planted in a
mining camp or a place like Ely
when the shutdown came he would
have done like Scotty Paterson al
McGill, collecting and overhauling
his fishing tackle and stayed with
McGill until 1t started up again. Ny
course has been the opposite. Mine
has been tho move cure for every
thing and l suppose I have moved
mere than twenty times. Wallace's
other point was that of doing with
people as he did with me after Mary
Blood's bawlout-think of the ones
in anguish and go and express his
sympathy; or the way he must have
seen the humiliation of myself and
brother at the breakfast table.
By the policy of the farm paper he
has run, now known as Wallaee's
Farmer, he has won and for many
years held the solid support of the
middle western farmers. And that
backing is what forced him into
President Harding's cabinet.
Knowing him as I did. 7 said at
the time that it would be Secretary
Fall and not Wallace who would re-
tire over their controversy, and as Il
matter of political principles my sym
pathies were with Falls point of
view. for I am anti Pinchot always,
but / was looking at the personal
equation. And | will make the same
prediction with relation to all these
rumors about Wallace intending to
resign. l predict that he will be
there when Hughes, Hoover. Mellon
and all the rest of them quit.
Seeing his picture in the public
prints at first there was something
different to me about the way Mr..
Wallace looked. 1t finally dawneo
on me. When I knew him he
combed his hair pompadour. He has
cut that out.
That old college has produced all
and a little more than its share of
notables. The year before Wallace
and myself went there Carrie Chap
man and George w. Gait graduated.
You have heard of Carrie Chapman
Gait no doubt. From that same class
came Frank Steunenburg, who be-
sides being assassinated by Harry
Orchard when governor of Idaho
was a great man in his W right.
I knew him when he was setting up
his printing plant at Caldwell. In
the years there have been many 9th.
ers.
When Wallace reached Washing
ton. so that I was sure he was going
into the cabinet, I wrote to him from
Ely as follows: