Milford chronicle., 1929-06-28
FRIENDSHIP WITH MRS.
EDDY RECALLED BY
SENATOR MOSES
Tells OF Her Serenity When Attack
ed And OF Exactness In Writing
For His Newspaper
By Willis ]. Abbot.

WASHINGTON-C Park la!
cool and green under its branching
trees, despite scorching sun, as
sat in the window of Senator Moses
Office looking out upon it.
The Senate had just flung its def.
ance in the face of the President by
rejecting the conferees' report on the
farm relief bill with the debentures
clause deleted. The air of the CAPT
tai was vibrant with political specu-
lation. Editorial writers were busy
penning articles upon "The End Of
the Hoover Honeymoon"
At the other end of "the Avenue
hangers-On about the White House
were asking how "the Chief was
taking it. Incidentally, it may be
lenge to battle, and his staff noted
that he seemed unusually cheerful
at the prospect.
Senator Moses, as is well known,
was one of the first statesmen of
prominence to declare for the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Hoover. Indeed, he
accepted the famous 81 do not
choose" dictum of President Cool
idge as a literal remuneration of a
nomination with a degree of alacrity
which amazed some of his more
cautious colleagues.
Why He Wanted Hoover
His own reason for his active ad-
vocacy of Mr.. Hoover's nomination
and election was sUch as to give
special Importance to his view upon
the political outcome of the present
struggle between the President and
the Senate. 81 was for Hoover" he
said, because 1 believed he would
be the easiest man to re-elect. Not
to elect, mind you.
"My conviction was that if We
could ever get him nominated over
the stubborn opposition of a great
mass of hostile politicians, and then
elected, he would give the country
an administration that would unite
the idealistS and the realists, the
friends of big business, and the
proponents of lofty social ideals and
make his reelection certain.
81 was playing for 1882 quite as
much as 1928. You can't do much
in one administration, but eight
years straightaway of a coherent
and consistent political policy will
do much to solve a lot of problems. !"
"Well," said 1, docs this smash
I'D over farm relief indicate that he
has come cropper"
mot a bit of it. President Hoover
is in the impregnable position of
urging only what was in the Kansas
City platform. There wasn't word
there about debentures. The topic
was not even discussed.
''He gives his adherence to clear
cut plan for farm relief, providing
commission of practical capable
men, to administer the plan, with a
fund of $5OO,00O,0O0 with which to
operate, and, behold, a group of Re-
publican insurgents join with the
Democrats in an effort to engraft
upon it an illogical and unworkable
subsidy plan.
"When the House, very properly,
refused to accede to this, the un-.
Republican majority in the Senate
notified the country that rather than
abandon debentures, it would repu-
diate the President and block farm
relief altogether.
A Good Prediction
"On such an issue he can fight the
Senate with confidence. But he will
not have to fight. There were many
considerations that animated GER
tain of the senators in their action
which will cease to operate when
the House votes down debentures,
as it certainly will. (The Senator
was speaking before the fact which
afterward came to paSS.)
"The Senate will then reverse its
action and the President will enjoy
the eclat which comes from victory
in his first struggle with the Sen
ate. Not a bad political asset!
"I do not recede an inch from my
original position that Hoover will be
the easiest President to re-elect we
could have nominated. His first three
months have proved his capacity, he
is stronger with the people than he
ever was, and he is learning the
ways of the politicians with sur
prising astuteness."
Senator Moses has always inter-
ested me. A man of liberal educa-
tion, a deep student of Greek in col
lege, he had the opportunity to su-
upon his knowledge of |
the modern Hellenes gained by
term as United States Minister to
Greece.
Nobody would be more disgusted |
than he by the hackneyed appella-
ton, "a scholar in politics" yet he
does bring to public life a ripe cul-
ture which does not wholly disappear
under the garb of the practical poll
tician. For he is eminently practical
how much so I'll not discuss here.
But would like to say, after an ex-
Derience covering at least eight Re-
publican national conventions, he is
The best presiding officer over one of
these turbulent gathering l have
ever known.
Was Mrs. Eddy's Friend
Senator Moses enjoyed one expert
ence not shared by many men in
public life which will be of espe-
cial interest to readers of The Chris
ian Science Monitor. He was a
lrisad of Mary Baker Eddy when
she lived in Concord, N. H. 1 asked
lim to tell me something of her.
"Of course 1 knew Mrs. Eddy
WE'LL" he said, "and esteemed her
highly. Perhaps an expression l Il
nave frequently used in reference
% her expresses my views now in
as it did when she
was still active. I used to say that
The was exactly the sort of woman l
should have liked my grandmother
% have been.
"She was earnest, sincere, culti-
rated. don't mean she had that
,asic culture that is gained from a
college course. In her days there