Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-29

had a vigorous and remarkably extern
slve vocabulary. a quick-actton brain
and rare power of caustic criticism"
He was strange mixture" suggests
the Albany Evening News He has been
called President maker, but he was
hardly that He did much, of course. 10
bring Woodrow Wilson before the coun-
Try. and. no doubt. more than any other
one man, he furthered Mr. Wilson's
candidacy. He had much TO do. too,
with the selection of President Harding
In many ways he was like the small boy
who goes to the circus. not to see it but
to be part of 1t. perhaps to feed the
animals something that might disagree
with them. Just to see them cavort."
An appraisal of Mr. Harvey's career
comes from the New York Evening
Post: He was ever near the larger
figures of his time. He moved among
them. talked with them, advised them.
wrote about them. ne even created
them. He could make Presidents, but he
could never attain that stature himself.
The passion for words was too strong
upon him. He sacrificed sense to
sound He was essentially a pamphlet
eer: writing was more to him than
doing, and. i'll writing. the sense of
proportion passed from him. Never
theleSS, he was "a figure that put color
into the texture Of our life"
Perhaps Harvey's greatest contribu-
ton to his country" thinks the Little
Rock Arkansas Democrat, was the
lesson of 'pitiless publicity He used
it often and well, But there were
many times when more conservative
folk thought that discretion would have
been far more appropriate. hence his
title of a 'gadfiy.' But Harvey fur
niShed much that today is appreciated
as real humor" The Philadelphia
Record recognizing that Harvey was a
man of unusual ability" regrets that
he did not make more constructive use
of it."
With his undoubted gifts, he might
have been enrolled among the great
men of America" AYERS the Roanoke
World-NewS, with the explanation, His
bitterness alienated his own frie.ldS and
destroyed what might otherwise have
been highly useful career" The
Springfield Republican observes that
his career as whole gave him all the
opportunity for Self-expreSSion that he
could have desired" and that had his
immense personal power been matched
by equal responsibility and delicacy In
It's use, he would have been one of the
great American publiciStS." but that he
had defects in taste, in SenSltiveneSS
and in the quality Of generosity"
Col. Harvey always had following"
states the Columbus Ohio State Journal,
With the conclusion that "he was not
a great man but he was mighty smart
one, and at times very conspicuous
one The Asheyille Times advises.
at A.,f-xy II. l.
courage be magnitied over some of his
defects, He had many virtues
which bitter tongue should not doom
to oblivion" The ST Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat comments, The public has never
been quite sure of the exact estimate To
be placed ON HarVey'S abilities aud
character, but he was one Of the ma
tional dramatiS perSonae of an inter
esting period, and talented news
paper man who played an important
part"
The Harvey political star. which
hung high from 1910 90 1920. lost some
OF its brightness while ne was abroad"
IN the Judgment of the South Bend
tribune, which feels. however. that his
aeath removed a colorful personality
one mat LETT a marked imprint on the
Nation. That paper also teStitieS that
"HarVey's Journalistic campaign for
Wilson undoubtedly paved the way for
the Prineetonians nomination In Balti-
more"
Almost universally kind to Col Har-
vey, says the Oklahoma City Okla
homan, was the fate that directed his
career but II was cruelty unkind in
this he viii be remembered for his
tmplaeable reSentments, when many OF
MS brilliant services shall have been
The Dayton Daily News declares "Me
was a star which no astronomer could
chart, His wind blew whittier Il listed.
and perhaps that is why, being more
eccentric and interesting than the aver
age steady going American. he was
rather welcome diversion ON the Ameri-
ran political and journalistic scene.
lie was one OF the very ahleSt
American journalists and, hy and large,
me Of tina mast f1tila - -