Evening star., 1924-08-22
CONTINUED from First PaSe.)

Sea- Girt. You will not be surprised
II hnd my memory turning at this
time to the circumstances OF my
earlier visit. 1t happened on hot
July day. IL years ago. l was one OF
q party Of 200 or more who tramped
in the dust from the station to the
governors house at Sea Girt. At our
head marched that grand old Roman.
Champ Clark, then the Speaker Of
the House of Representatives.
Among the party l recall a Jersey
man who was then my colleague in
Congress and who was soon to take
a seat in the Senate-the loved and
lovable Billy Hughes. We were call
ing on a Governor of New Jersey who
had just received the Democratic
nomination for the presidency.
Most of that company. including
myself. had never made his personal
acquaintance. 1t was our errand to
assure him OF our hearty support and
to place ourselves at his service. The
impressions of that day were summed
up for me by one of my colleagues as
we tramped back to the waiting train.
Said he: When that man comes to
Washington there will be leader in
tho White House
Drove Lobbyist Out.
II recall how quickly this leader
ship asserted itself when Washington
had been attained. Congress met
without delay and the first act in the
drama was the scourging from the
Capitol of the horde Of lobbyists,
hangers-on, seekers for privilege and
representatives of special interests
who had infested it's corridors. Then
came in quick succession under his
energetic impulse the fairest tarif
law since the Civil War: the Federal
reserve act for which the country
had waited half century; the Fed
eral Trade Commission and the Clay
ton act. curbing monopolies and es-
tablishinG the rights of labor; and
through this and succeeding sessions
the Democratic party under his guild
ance moved in solid phalanx, confident
in his leadership.
THE great war broke. There fell
upon him burdens heavier than any
that his predecessors had been called
upon to bear. For two years he strug-
gled to keep America from the mael-
strom. and then when the attack upon
her rights was made directly he threw
himself and his country into the bat
tie with fiery energy that amazed
the world. Men and money and muni-
tionS came at his call and his clear
voice rang out like a trumpet across
the world, giving new meaning to
the struggle and new life to those en-
gagged in it.
Tried to Prevent War.
When the war was ended he gave
to the making of peace the last ounce
of his remaining strength. He en-
deavored TO set up machnry not only
to prevent future vars. but to miti-
gate the evils which this war. the last
and greatest, had brought upon the
world. He never looked upon the
treaty of Versailles as complete and
final settlement. but hoped that
when time had cooled mems passions
the machinery he sought to create
would remove any element of injus-
tice or revenge the treaty might con-
tain, and would give the world a
stable and abiding peace.
And then he fell, broken. thwarted
his work unfinished, but his spirit
unSubdued. They called him an ideal
ist. they pronounced him ahead OF
his times. They forgot that they were
but echoing what the world has said
through all the centuries of those who
sought to lead it. Envy and hate and
malice can touch him now no more
forever, but the thoughts to which