Evening star., 1925-10-16

God is good, and 1 am His child. y
wrote Samuel NJ Ralston Few weeks
ago to a group of friends who wanted
him to attend an Old Home week in
his native county of Tuscarora, in
Ohio. The late Hoosier Senator was
referring to his illness, to his conhdent
ihope of overcoming it and to his reslg-
tnation to whatever fate might await
him. Ralston was a deeply religious
soul. Few men in American politics
ever evoked the real love the people
of Indiana had for him. AS sure as
ANYTHING in politics can be, Ralston
would have carried Indiana for the
Democratic ticket in 1924, IL ne had
been nominated for the Presidency.
This observer spent memoraoie
morning with Honest Sam at his
farm home outside of Indianapolis at
the end of August. The Senator was
up and around. attending TO his law
practice, though mostly from his liv-
ing room. and was hopeful that by De-
cember he would be able to resume
his duties in the Senate. Hoosiers
will enshrine his memory along with
that of Hendricks. Morton. Gray
Turpie Voorhees,. Fairbanks. Coi1aX
and the other political giants of yes
teryear. To none of these did Indiana
ever cling with more genuine affection
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Gossip's tongue always rolls Off ca
eerly those morsels which concern the
political cronies of Calvin Coolidge.
Now that old lady who has her grand
central headquarters in washington,
Dame Rumor Is busy with the name
of John Garibaldi Sargent. 1t is to
the United States Senate that she con-
signs shim-eventually. The Attorney
General. who is an old bird in Yer
mont politics, is said not to be aVerse
TO suggestions that he would be an
ideal successor to Frank l.. Greene.
Junior Senator from Vermont. II and
when that victim OF bootlegger sharp
shooters does not reaspire in 1873.
The Sargent rumor is associated with
President Coolidge's own political
plans in that year. The G. o. p. high
command is required to envisage the
possibility that William NJ. Butler may
be defeated for reelection by former
Senator David 1. Walsh in Massachu-
setts next year. If Butler succumbs.
and there's another Coolidge presi-
dency after March 4, 1929. there would
be a strong desire at the White House
for some representative in the Senate
as close to "Cal" as Carl" Sargent.
Somebody was introduced to Mrs.
Charles G. Dawes in Washington this
week as DIR" so-and-so. They'd met
before, but the Second Lady Of the
Land didn't know why the title. 1t
was explained that the man in ques-
ton recently became an LII. D., at the
hands of his alma mater. I've been
an LII. d. said Mrs. Dawes, "since
girlhood. Two brothers names Dawes
used to be seen at my home pretty
often. They were both tall and lanky.
My father called them the 'long-legged
Daweses,' and 1 saw so much Of them
that he said he was going to call mo
LII. D. One of them has been my
husband for 36 years.
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One of Everett Sanders callers at
the White House offices the other day
was a Washington newspaper man.
who was chinning with the President s
secretary while awaiting an appoint
ment with the Chief Executive. The
other occupants Of Mr.. Sanders spa
cious office were two ladies-one a
young matron, the other a white-hair-
ed motherly looking person. Ever
ett," piped up the correspondent, Il
want to come in some day and ask
you about a guy in the House named
Alben Barkley of Kentucky" The
younger Of the two women turned
around sharply at the mention Of the