The Washington times., 1925-03-21
MAKE FOES
: APPEAR
BOYS :
Zach Is Master Orator, But
Differ From Others in
Methods of Fighting
WILLTAM HARD.

All washington rings VhSS AnOAS
with comment admiring, or with
comment savage and disparaging,
on Reed of Missouri, Walsh OF
Montana, Borah Of Idaho.
They are the three Senatorial
rladiators who slew Mr.. Warren
Of Michigan, and hacked a deep
and bloody cash in the control
Of the Republican President over
the Republican Senatorial ma
jority.
They are the gladiators who
made their opponents in the Sem
ate in the Warren case look for
the moment like little boys doing
warfare with broomsticks or will
lew wands.
Their Sorts Are Plural
What sort Of persons then are
these three hacking and hewing
champions Of Senatorial debate?
One cannot, though. say what
sort" One has to say what Sorts"
1t has to be plural-very plural.
These three persons are persons al
different from one another as dif-
ferences can go.
Reed il q rough-and,ready fighter,
fighting in any posture. whether
on his feet or on his back, and pre-
pared to use his sword or to knock
the breath out OF his adversary
l. a.
necessary, with his teeth. There
Is no device Of personal argumenta-
tive warfare to which Reed will not
charges and personal public scandals.
Reed Great Orator
He viii turn from a rehearsal Of
such low things to an invocation
to God Almighty and to the destiny
OF the American Republic. Nobody
can go datter to the human ground
70 higher into magnificent rolling
clouds OF sublimity.
Reeds GRAFTON week before last
over the body Of Senator MedilI
Mccormick Of Illinois was, for Ian
guage, for manner, for voice, pPoba-
bly, one Of the greatest funeral ora
tions Of all time.
His capacity for high emotion.
and Tor high rhetoric when his emo
ton IL high, is unmatched.
He is as formidable for the mag
nificence with which he can fight
rs for the meanness with which ne
can fight. He Is In fighting a kind
Of combination Of q street urchin
and an archangel. Fighter, fighter,
dghter-that is what all his col.
leagues first say Of him.
Walsh BeguiIeS His Foes.
Walsh Of Montana is combative,
teo, but in a highly different way.
Walsh il not armed so much with
q sword. He is armed more with
q net. He approaches you care
fully. He beguiles you into get.
ting into some posture that Just
suits his purposes.
Then he throws his net Of argu-
ment and Of conclusion over you
and has you all so tangled up with
your own limbs that you lie help
less on the sand, and he dispatches
you.
The mans subtIety is his formid-
able quality. He sees just what your
argument is going to be. and he
sees just what the weak point in 1t
Is going to be, and he makes you
drive that weak point home into
yourself.
Warren Above PartisansIlip,
1t is not fair to call him merely
q partisan. One of his greatest
exploits was on the occasion when
he abundantly and conclusively
proved that the Democratic Attor-
ney General A Mitchell PIn1er, had
been conducting his famous "raids"I
against the "reds" in a manner
which was highly reprehensible and
highly unlawful.
In fact, IL Walsh had been think
ing merely of the interests of his
party, he might not have attacked
Mr.. Warren at all.
The situation as ii actually in
wardly existed was explained best
in a remark which was made to
this writer on the day Mr.. Warren's
first defeat in the Senate by one
Of the most conspicuous of Demo
cratic Senators. He said:
81 feel sure that we Democrats,
by voting along again in the same
column with Senator Brookhart and
Senator Frazier andN Senator Laid
and the other La Follettites, are
going to hurt ourselves once more
with the voters in general.
His Effect on People.
IL feel sure of it; but what can
do? Walsh has absolutely con-
WINGED me that I cannot consci-
entiously vote for Warren. So what
am going to do? I am going to
90 along with Walsh and let what
may happen to the party
That is the effect that Walsh
has on people. He bags them in
his net and then when they look
at his steady remorseless blue eye
they are ashamed not to admit that
ne has convinced them. Immense
craft in method, while at the same
time immense moral impressiveness
that is Walsh.
Rorah is perhaps sometimes not
30 good with the net as Walsh Is.
He Is perhaps sometimes not so
good with the sword as Reed Is.
Yet he is often really much more
formidable, much more dangerous.
than either of them.
Combines Both Qualities.
This comes from the fact that he
uaes the sword and the net with
equal proficiency. When he is at