Evening star., 1932-10-17

On Saturday night, Just before the
President spoke in Cleveland, this radio
scribe referred to him in a broadcast
as the fighting Quaker" A couple Of
hours later an anonymous telegram
came along from New York City signed
Democrat" and reading, Didn't you
mean 'quaking fighter when you said
fighting. Quaker'?" The time this
wisecracking message was dispatched
could have heard Mr.. Hoover. If, later,
the New Yorker did tune in on Cleve-
land he couldn't have been in much
more doubt than the rest Of the radio
audience that it was, indeed, Quaker
with his mitts on, out there on Lake
Erie's shores. Seldom, if ever, has
Hoover registered such belligerency. He
has been forced by the eXigencies Of
the campaign into defensive combat for
the most part, but the Cleveland speech
breathed plenty of aggressiveness, too.
1t was not lacking in that quality, even
though the Californian shuns the lam
basting tactics of the average spell
binder. A few more uppercuts, Jabs,
solar plexus blows and punches straight
to the enemy's jaw, like the Hoover
fisticuffs at Des Moines and CleVelano,
and the G. o. P. will begin to SIT up
dreary world after all.
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Another Mark Twain has come out OF
the Southwest. His name is Washing
ton F. Lilleston; he halls from Wichita,
and he emerged at the closing banquet
of the American Bar Association. This
faded and surfeited community Of
after-dinner "oratory" in years hasn't
listened to such feast of epigram-
matte wit and satire as the Kansas man.
whose expressionless mien isn't unlike
that of Calvin Coolidge, spread before
the dinner company. Chief Justice
Hughes and the Marques OF Reading
must be laughing yet over this sally.
"OId Lord Nottingham" said Lilleston.
was the keeper of the great seal OF
state. He was so jealous of that legen--
Diary symbol of the common law tnat
he took it to bed with him every night.
Later Nottingham became known as the
father of English equity. Poiltlclans
were described as strange bedfelloWs be-
cause "they use the same bunk. Wnen
William Allen White is in Wichita, air
capitaI of the United States" the EN-
poria editor calls it ''the hot air capi-
tai" Quoth Lilleston: And when
Bill's in town it is" The Wichltan
said that nowadays the country lawyer
is "the forgotten man." and tnat KAN
sas is the place where there's more
room than board"
As Mr.. Justice Cardozo wended his
way to the Bar Associations festiVe
board Saturday evening a friend OF ms
Unmarried to this observer an authentic
hit of unrecorded history. When IL was
learned that the President was consider
ing the appointment of Cardozo to the
Holmes vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Justice Stone, one of Mr.. Hoovers
closest confidantes, is said to have gone
to the White House with this message:
"Mr. President, If the fact that Car
dozo's appointment might not be Tea
sible because, with myself. he'd be the
second New Yorker on the bench, please
don't let that deter you from naming
him. I would gladly resign In ms
favor"
It would crafty wide sections OF the
national community if Mr.. Hoovers s
late experience in having his nngers
damaged at a White House handshak-
ing bee were to cause the abandon
ment of that form of American bar
barism. The supposition is that the
President was the victim Though In
this case the culprit was LADY, OF one