Evening star., 1923-08-12
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

! Senate on platform of changing
the seating arrangement in the Senate
! chamber. Joe wants to put Magma
Yox" Johnson right alongside Henry
! Cabot Lodge.
At another table another Jersey
| man. but A repu bIican. Senator Walt
Edge, and his bride. looking YER
! attractive in simple black gour
Many friends stopped to say wora
| of greeting.
Louis Brush Of Ohio, the risia.
young Lord Northcliffe Of the Buck
tye state" Louis had bought th.
| Marion Star from Warren HARDING
just before the presidential PARTY !ef
Washington for Alaska. He paid
half million dollars for it. and he IA
a half dozen other newspapers in Ono
equally good Before he bought tn"
Star. Marion had two afternoou
recently converted the stars rival
into a morning paper and one Of its
hrst missions was to give the people
OF Marion their first news Of their
own Presidents death
Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin,
looking more and more the patriarch.
He has been in the House of Repre-
sentatives longer than any one except
Speaker Gillett. The Speaker has
served fifteen terms; Cooper, fourteen.
! Uncle Joe Cannon served twenty
| three.
Jimmie" Sloan, once of the secret
| service, but now a broker 1t wa
| t"entN-three years ago that Jimmie"
| had his first White House. duty H
! thought he had gotten away from
| the White House, but they brougr.
| the White House to tho hotel whore
| he is living. Jimmie" was dinirp
with Pete McI-ain Of Canton. the hoIn"
or the last President to he buried
with military honors from Washing
| ton-the martyred NTckinlpy SOM
! days Pete is in the shipping business
Other days he is not. And AT all rf
| the tables some one of Iot. or Of IA Fl
ticular interest. Many senator's, man
| representatives and the governors of
| the commonw wealths-aH atop the
| hotel White House. the first hoi.t
White House Washington has ever
known.
1t develops now that in spite ps
the announcements made by Attorner
General Daugherty and Others. Mr.
Harding had not made up his mind t.
! run for another term in the White
House.
Not SO very long before he left for
Alaska, Mr.. Harding was talking with
one Of his closest associates Of the
cabinet.
Il am tired" ne said. Any one
that wants this job can have ii. For
me the glamour is gone"
Mr.. Harding had begun TO see the
seamy side of the presidency th..
constant fighting and pickering. th-
1ealousieS and the intrigueS that con
stantly go on around a Chief Execu-
! tive. He had had many disappoirt-
ments in the White House. The Sen
| ate had been particularly disappoint-
ing. Having been Of that body hav-
ing served with its members for six
years, having spoken their language
, and understood their attitude toward
! the larger issues of the day. Nr
Harding thought the Senate was Of a
mind to go along with him
But he was wrong. The Senate be
came reCalcitrant. II would not So
| things in the same light that he sax
) them. 1t would nor play ball" a.,
| give him the teamwork h. 50 much
| desired
His own great respect for tho Office
! was not IesseEed one whit He waS
/ saddened that others did not have tn
same respect; he was dlsilIusioned in
! many WAYS
! But. Chief You may have n ru.,
/ II the party demands it" said tn
| cabinet member
| Perhaps so. perhaps 50. sighed tha
President: we shall see"