Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
HULL VOTE PROBE
SEEN AS TR0N|CAL
Tennessee Leader Commands
Sincere Respect for His
Senate Leadership.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Inc peramDulatlon OF the Nye cam
paign Expenditures Committee through
primary in which Corden Hull was
nominated for o seat In the United
States has an aspect both of instruc-
tive realism and Of profound irony. In
vestigators in the employ Of the COM
n1ittee reported some Irregularities in
the conduct Of the primary In question
and in the tabulating of its results.
probably very few Senators indeed on
whose behalf unprincipled local organ
izations and unprincipled local individ-
uals have not committed Irregularities,
small or great, scattered or concerted,
in primaries and in regular elections for
reasons partisan or factional.
The irony Is that In the midst Of it
and raised to the top Of 1t there are
really 50 many personalities 20 Aloof
unscrupulousness may lie about them
and underneath them In the political
organism Of which, after all, they are
. part and q product. Mr.. Hull Is
peculiarly striking example Of this con-
trast between the general murkiness OF
the American political atmosphere and
the clarity Of many Of the national
characters who emerge out Of It.
Smokes Too Much.
It is dificuIt to speak Of Mr.. Hull
without falling into language that might
seem to set him worshipfully too Far
of from the frAilties Of flesh. One Is
glad that he smokes too much.
To observe him is to look upon serene,
unperturbed, contemplative intellectual
leadership. It Is q leadership 20 ac-
knowledged that It altogether justifies
the incessant revivals Of Q suggested
10 ~ RAfhaP
for the Democratic nomination for the
presidency. 1t Is o leadership, never
theless, so unaggressive, 90 unaSsuming,
so uninsistent that 1t seems less an ex-
tension Of effort on his part than q
demonstration Of devotion by attracted
followers, who approach him almost IS
they might approach . statue Of Bud
dha to ind out what wisdom his calm
eyes are seeing.
To produce this effect, In the land Of
Lincoln, Mr.. Hull should be tall, and Is.
He should be spare, and Is. He should
stoop. and does. He should talk very
deliberately and ruminatively, and It e
so. He should not be seen causelessly
violently exerting himself, as In sports,
and he Is not. He should ut al times
present an appearance Of long and lank
and almost langlid reposeful, powerful
dignity, and he presents It, He should
seem simultaneously to be seated with
majesty upon the throne Of the Repub-
upon the cracker barrel In the corner
store. and Mr.. Hull, to double degree
not together observed In any other ma.
tional public man Of our hour, fulnlls
that requirement. The cigar Is the un-
intended stage property that perfects
the picture. Smoking it, and looking
up from the book In his hands to oh:
serve the distant horizon Of national
destiny with prophetic glance, Mr..
sympathy that he Is and the man Of
impersonal vision that he also u.
Leads Constituency Quietly.
Without raising his voice he tells his
constituents that they should not want
those things-such as special privilege
tariff favors-which good Democrats
would never want. Unexcitedly, he
informs his party that it Is not demo-
interruptedly he strives to extrtcate 1t
from its limitations Of Republication.
SedulousIy, but with not the slightest
genius for noise, he endeavors to group
the leaders Of the Democratic party into
the formulation and enunciation Of
genuinely democratic salvations Of DO
ciety. Outstanding in his party IS 3
tariffs. outstanding Is Q persistent stu
dent Of national and international eco
Monies, he maintains, even In occa-
sional utter loneliness, the standard OF
the doctrine Of q special social mission
for an unalloyed and uncontaminated
democracy He grants to true Repub-
licanism the title Of . philosophy. He
claims for true democracy the title also
OF o philosophy. He thinks the coun.
try should 60 on course. He deploses
the present zig-zagging TO no port. He
would probably prefer either port TO
none. He Is precisely what we are not
with q chart and with . destination.