The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-09-09

If any of the doorkeepers at the Re
publican National convention failed to
receive their pay for their services to
the Grand Old Party, they have Pres
ident Hoover to blame. He's the
man responsibleI
For just as Sergeant-at-Arms Ever
EFT Sanders was passing out the
emoluments of their jobs to these
faithful and favored party stalwarts,
he was summoned post-haste by no.
LITIGATION committee from the Repub-
lican national committee. Arrived, he
was Informed that he had been picked
by the President as manager of the
Hoover 1892 campaign, and that his
selection had been unanimously rati-
fed by the membership of the national
committee.
Sergeant-at-Arms Sanders, thus sud
denly boosted to higher honors and
heavier responsibilities, never did get
back to paying off those doorkeepers.
There are more important things to
do now, Mr.. Chairman" he was told
when he mentioned the fact that his
duties as sergeant-at-arms had been
left bit suspended. "That will be
taken care Of"
most of his public life. Sanders was
hustled into a new job before he had
completely wound up the affairs of
the old one.
AS directing head Of the campaign
to keep Hoover four more years in the
White House, the spotlight of pub
licity will turn more intensively on
this Hoosier Republican than it has
during his tenure in other posts of
party preferment. Just what sort of
chap is he? What is his background?
From what experiences does he draw
the strength and wisdom to direct
what may prove to be crucial cam
paign in the history of the G. o. P?
Physically, Sanders is a substantial
individual Of possibly two hundred
pounds plus, six feet or thereabouts
in height, smooth-shaven, with brown
hair untinged with gray despite his
fifty years. He moves deliberately
rather than slowly, speaks quietly but
positively and dresses unobtrusively.
Perhaps his characteristics can best
be sensed by the public generally if
they but think of him as possessing
the ability, the ''horse-sense" and the
practical turn of mind required by for
mer President Coolidge in a private
secretary. His four years In the
White House executive offices with
Coolidge, following eight years Of leg
islative experience ION the Hill" as
a member of congress, have given him
an all-round experience with problems
governmental and political such as has
been enjoyed by no other national
chairman.
Sanders was born in a log cabin
down in the hills of Clay county, in
southwestern Indiana, on March s,
1882. AS boy, he did every kind of
farm work in the summers and In win
tiers attended the little one-room
neighborhood schoolhouse where read
in, 'ritin' and 'rithmetic were the back
bone of the curriculum.
Terre Haute, % miles away, was
the nearest stable town and was the
metropolis of young Sanders boyhood.
His first pair Of long pants-a
scratchy pair of blue jeans made for
him by his mother-were worn by him
on trip to Terre Haute when he was
thirteen years old. Starting before
daylight with wagonload of apples,
he and his father, James Sanders, who
combined farming with his duties as
a missionary Baptist preacher, drove
the long road to town and peddled out
the apples at 25 cents a bushel. On
that trip he saw his first electric light
and-after the apples were all sold
was treated to his first ride on, an
electric street car.