The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-01
MARSHALL WAS
BEST LIKED OF
VICE PRESIDENTS
Hoosier and Wife Separated
Only One Night in
Thirty Years.
BY G. A. Randau
Times Staff CORRESPONDENT

BY G. A. Randau
Times Staff CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, June Tonight
will be the second time since Otto. Q,
1894. that former Vice President
Marshall and his wife have been
parted. Only once in their nearly
thirty years of married life did the
Marshalls spend the night under
different roofs A New Jersey
snowstorin, during the early part
of the World War broke the perfect
record. The Vice President had gone
to New York to make a speech, and
expecting to be back early in the
night, had not taken Mrs. Marshall
The train was delayed twenty-four
hours.
The Marshalls had been married
nearly a dozen years before they
even realized they had been to-
gether without interruption. Since
then they made poitn Of staying to-
gether. The great decision on this
point had to be made when Marshall
entered public life. Was Mrs. Mar
shall to remain at home, or was the
home to be made secondary and the
campaign trips and being together
the primary thing? Mrs. Marshall
voted for continuing their close union
and went with her husband even dur
ing the strenuous trips when he
stumped the country in 1912 and
1916.
Wife Much Younger
The Marshalls were perfect COM
panions. Before the future Vice
President met Louise A. Kimsey,
when she was deputy clerk in a
northern Indiana court, in which her
father was clerk, he had lived with
his mother. It was nto until his
mother had died and he had passed
40 that he married Miss Kimsey,
nearly twenty years his junior. He
had always taken his mother on
trips and continued the practice with
bide-a practice that continued until
today's sad end.
Washington has seldom seen the
passing of a man whose death was
accompanied with such universal re-
greet. l~ +. ,~..... e,.
No Vice President has ever been
more popular than Marshall. He
was loved by his interiors at the
capitol and at the hotel where he
lived. He was hero to thre en-
ployes of the New Willard, where
he lived for the last six years of
his vice presidential term. The
Senator'S over whom he presided adj
naired and respected him and with
out exception were his friends.
Probably in all the history of Ameri-
can politics no man has had greater
temptations pressed upon him than
Marshall. When President Wilson
left the United States to atatend the
peace conference, constitutional law
yers among Wilson'S bitter enetnies
urged Marshall to declare the office
Of President vacant and to assume
the, power.
This was based on the theory that
to leave the territorial limits of the
United States was forbidden / the.
President. Again, when Wilson lay,
at the point of death in the White
House in 1919, Marshall was urged
to take over the position on the
ground that the President was un-
able to perform his duties, and that
the Constitution provided the Vive
President should step into his place
under such circumstances. Marshall
steadfastly refused to consider the
propositions, though it meant turn
ing down the presidency.
Man of Little Wealth
A man with little desire for
wealth, Marshall lived very closely
up to hi sincome, particularly dur
ing the time he was Governor and
Vice President. While Vive Presi-
dent he augmented his incoming his
income by making frequent
chautauqua speeches, which added
some six or seven thousand to his
income and brought the total to
nearly $4,000 a year, including his
investment income. He spent it all.
He had to, to keep up with his job.
One thing his friends all remen-
Der about Marshall is that his sue
cess never turned his head. He was
still the same Tom Marshall who
hung out his single in Columbia
City, Ind, who knew how to take
care Of Americas officila entertain
ment of future king of England.
It was during these foreign mis-
sion visits that the Senate's eyes
were opened to the real eloquence
Of the presiding officer. Ordinarily
the Vice President is man to be
seen and not heard. Marshall stuck
to this rule, and gave the Senate no
chance 70 know of his ability as an
orator until he had presided over it
for five years. The Senate was
highly pleased, and many members
rushed to him to congratulate him
when he had made his speeches Of
welcome to foreign dignitaries. The
public at large also liked Marshall's
speeches. After he left the Vice
Presidency, he was still a popular
chautauqua lecturer, and found that
his crowds in 1924 were still as
large and enthusiastic as they had
been years before, when he was still
the second ranking official in the
nation. 1t pleased him to know that
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