The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-02
VICE PRESIDENT DAWES

striking feature OF the outgoing national admins
tration is the esteem which Vice President Charles 6.
Dawes viii take away with him when he returns to Chi
caso his banking Four years ago he
startled stirred and angcred senatorial Washington by
hurting out attack senate practices especially fill
busering he inAugurated vice president before
the upper chamber Of congress. He denounced
fool and . clown and his onslaught the senate
described q diatrbe both incorporate and unwar-
ranted.
There were some wo in the Dawes blast the first
step in aspirations to realize the presidency when the
time to nominate again came around in 1928 He had
ridden high crest Of publicity for years prior to
the 1924 Republican convention and had then been
considered among the minor possibilities for the nations
highest office His work the budget his famous and
colloqual Hell n Maria his part in the formula
ton Of the reparatons plan which took his its
title his mental and his picturesque ways all
calculated to make considerable Of public hero OF the
Chtcagoan. But destiny, it seemed. had not cast him
for the presidency at least he will fade OF the Wash
ngon scene without having made the grade the White
house. One reason possibly for being passed the
failure Of necessity for horse to develop at the
Kansas City convention
Now that he Is retiring the senators who denounced
him four years ago as fool placing quite another
appraisal on his personality and mental capacities
Take Senator George. the Georgia Democrat for in
stance Four years ago he said 1.-The vice president de-
feated change in senate rules by the brutal and
cownsh way he went about It," He has learned to say
now OF Dawes that he made lasting friends in the
senate than other vice president In times His
robustness man and absolute candor made him re-
vered and loved by the whole senate"
Four years ago Senator Ashurst, Democrat Arizona
described the Dawes attack the rules as the
most acrobatc symnastic speech ever heard delivered
from that particular rostrun" Now he says General
Dawes is one Of the most capable presiding officers who
ever welded the senate gavel he courageous abso
utely fair and he protected the rights Of every senator
TO know him intimately brings increase respect for
his manly qualities and his real virtues"
Senator caraway Democrat Arkansas calls attention
TO the fact Dawes is the only vice president office
without reversal on single ruling. Four years ago
Caraway said Dawes was lacking much in knowledge
OF senate rules as he was short on good taste.
One thinks Of Tom Marshall his former critics saw
these nice things Of Charley Dawes Only Marshall was
popular from the beginning Of his vice presidential serv
Ice The encon,iums showered Dawes therefore are
Ill the more amazing They must bring extra twinkle
to his eyes and the wrath Of smile lips between
which he anchors his famous inverted pipe
Dawes at g. will back to the field of endeavor In
which he grew wealthy before his entry into public life
at washington He will become chairman of the board
Of directors Of The combined sleoooooo Central Trust
company and Bank of America, Of Chicago