Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-16

It's a pretty fine tribute to a states
man when boisterous outlaws greet
the mere suggestion that he could be
guilty Of one of the high crimes and
misdemeanors" punishable under the
Constitution by impeachment. That's
what happened when William e.
Borah's name was dragged into the
Hearst Mexican disclosures" before
the Senate investigating committee
Republican. OF Pennsylvania. chair.
man of the inquiry, had just sworn
Borah. The Idahoan was in the wit.
ness chair. waiting to testify. Reed
read from the Hearst documents that
the auditors department" of The
Mexican foreign Office" had set aside
$500, 900 to be paid to Senator Borah.
The preposterous words had no sooner
fallen from Reeds lips than the pack.
ed committee room burst spontaneous
ty into a chorus of horselaughs. None
present needed Borah's denial of the
yarn. which forthwith ensued, to es-
tablish the grotesqueness of the in
situation. The chairman of the for.
eign relations committee Is prouder
Of his reputation for political morality
than OF any honor that could pos.
sibly come to him. Men differ vio-
IL,
questions his integrity.
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Noble Brandon judah, newly APP
pointed American Ambassador to
Cuba, will present his credentials to
President Machado in Havana within
the next few days. The Chicago SOL
dier.lawyer owes his appointment In
no small degree to the circumstance
that he has teen a student of the
Spanish language and literature tor
more than 20 years. Judah's law
practice has regularly taken him to
Latin American countries. The Ha-
vana embassy under his direction will
probably be the scene of that sump-
tuous hospitality expected nowadays
of the richest country on earth. Mr.
Judah is the possessor of a COM
Portable fortune. partially inherited
from his maternal grandfather, the
late e. p. Hutchinson OF the Chicago
Board of Trade. During the gay
nineties odd Hutch" was the wheat
king of Chicago. Mrs. Judah is a
daughter Of John II. Patterson, for
many years president of the National
Cash Register Co. of Dayton. Ohio,
and some day will be an heiress. Am
bassa6or Judah is trustee of Brown
University and a fellow alumnus of
Charles Evans Hughes, having been
graduated from Brown in 1904.
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Politics, of course, is the principal
course served at the myriad of lunch.
con and dinner parties now rampant
in Washington. It's a poor function
at which some new and hitherto un.
revealed "secret" isn't let out OF the
bag. Most of these tidbits concern
the 1928 presidential campaign. One
Of the very latest is to the effect that
when the Republican convention is
deadlocked at Kansas City in June
President Coolidge is going to trot out
couple of dark horses, both friends
of his. One is Associate Justice Har-
Ian F. Stone Of the United States
Supreme Court and the other Is
Dwight w. Morrow, Ambassador to
Mexico.
Everett Sanders greets White House
callers these days In a brand.new
pair of Harold Lloyd horn-rimmed
glasses. The Presidents right.hand
man avows and AYERS that he's had
to resort to goggles because he needs
them and not to convey the impress
sion that he is college bred. Many
HOLSTERS expect the Terre Haute
statesman to be Senator-elect Sanders
after November, 1928.
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Frank B. Kellogg. Secretary OF
State, made some exceedingly inter
esting International remarks at the
inaugural dinner of the Foreign
Press Association In Washington the
ether night He welcomes, the Score
tary said the growing number OF
newspaper men from abroad who are
pitching their tents on the Potomac.
New York. Chicago. Boston. San Fran.
cisco and other great cities outrival
Washington. Kellogg pointed out. In
size and commercial Importance, but
he declared that foreign correspond
ents are well advised in selecting the
| National Capital as the point of van
tage from which to gauge American
life and times Alright This haupeuS