The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
WHEN DAWES
SEES RED HE
IS V0LUBLE
lBy The Associated Press)

tBy The Associated PrcSS)
Red tape, pink teas and every
shade or form of red are anathema
to Charles G. Dawes. banker, sol
der. author, composer and repara-
tons expert, who today prefixed his
name with the title Of Vice President
of the United States.
When he sees red he can talk in
a blue streak.
Hell Maria!' Brig. General Dawes
is reported to have said before the
congressional committee as he de-
Tended Americas conduct o. the war.
That expletive has been connected
with his name ever since.
AS an outspoken man of action,
Dawes friends described him as &.
new type of American leader in poll
ties. His campaign for the Vice
Presidency was marked by attacks
on "pussyfooters" and political
straddlers"
When Frank O. Lowdcn, Illinois
war governor, was being urged for
the Republican Vice Presidential no
mination, and Dawes friends wanted
it for him, Dawes said: "Nominate
Lowden.' Lowden was nominated
but refused to accept and the Cleve-
land convention then turned to
Dawes. The news reached him at
Marietta. Ohio, where he was at
tending his Alma Matters commence
ment week, ana he made this char
acteristicly brief statements:
II accept the nomination by the
Republican party for the Vice Presi-
dency. deeply appreciate the honor
conferred upon me-"
Dawes last previous national ser-
vice was as first director of the ma
tional budget to which he was APP
pointed by President Harding. The
President signed blank executive or
ders which Dawes needed only TO fill
out to make effective, and his budget
making rcdUccd expenditures $780,
100000.
AS lieutenant colonel Of railway
engineers Dawes went to France and
rose to be q brigadier general in
NHo4SC vi PusCHoSSS lOf CItC 'tuIcT'-
can expeditionary forces. He got
guns and horses for the American
soldiers by cutting red tape. In his
"Hell Maria. testimony before the
congressional committee in 1921,
Dawes said the diplomats "were all
tangled up in their red tape,' and
'there was too much pink tea bust
ness"
Mr.. Dawes most signal service,
which made his name known inter-
nationally, took place in 1924 when
he headed the reparations experts
committee chosen to bring order out
of chaos in the reparations impasse.
In the Dawes plan he and his asso-
ciates substituted business control
for political and military dictation.
General Dawes upside down"
pipe became famous and was used as
campaign emblem. He never goes
without it. and his friends say it will
repose in his pocket as he presides
over the. Senate.
Among his forebears was William
Dawes who rode with Paul Revere
the night before Lexington and Con-
cord. The new Vice President is the
son of General Rufus R. Dawes and
was born August ~, 1865, at Mariet-
ia, Ohio. In the Civil War his faith
err raised company at Madison, Wis,
and rose rapidly in the famous Iron
Brigade"
Charles. G. Dawes. was graduated
from Marietta College and the Gin
cinnati Law School, and put out his
single in Lincoln, Nebr, in 1886.
There he became acquainted with
John J. Pershing, William Jennings
Bryan, and the latter's brother,
Charles W. Bryan, who was Dawes
Democratic opponent for the Vice
Presidency last November.
It has been said that the young
lawyer borrowed the money with
which he returned to Cincinnati and
married Caro- ID. Blymer on January
"a, 1889. In Lincoln he became a
public utility counselor. afterward
removing his offices to Chicago and
his home to Evanston, Illinois, when
he became president of the North
western Gas. Light and Coke Com
pany, which was later acquired by
the Peoples Gas Light and Coke
Company.
In 1912 Dawes only son, Rufus
Fearing Dawes, "A Princeton student,
was drowned at Lake Geneva, Wis.
and tribute written by the father
was read at the funeral and after
ward reprinted in hundreds of thou
sands Of copies by the Young Mems
Christian Association. A daughter,
Carolyn, lives in Chicago.
In 1896 Dawes attracted the atten-
ton Of Mark Hanna, and became
manager Of the Illinois campaign for
Mckinley. who appointed him comp
troller of the currency. Afterward
he returned to Chicago and founded
the Central Trust Company Of I'LL