The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-02
POLITICIANS NO.
LONGER fight.
Day Of PugiIistic States
man Is Declared AT An
End In Capital
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1888, United Press)

Copyright 1888, United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 .(UP)
One Of the sad stories about
the new deal is that it has spur
red the passing of the pugiistic
politician.
Once the hot-headed statesman
who would invite an opponent
outside to settle an argument in
three fast rounds. and who was
always having to be restrained
by his friends from punching
somebody, was the joy Of Wash
ington. But there are only a
few of them left nOw-princi-
lpally Senator Huey Long.
The reason that the new
deal dotes on sweetness and
light. 1t is also so. very gent
lcmanly that nobody h S a
chance to work up a real mad.
Even the most bellicose of the
lot, General Hugh S. Johnson,
says it with smile.
President Roosevelt has set
the smiling pace. Though his
press conferences are pleasantly
chatty, one woman reporter in
trudcd a rather pointed inquiry,
but nothing happened. The pres
idcnt smiled and with mock in
dignation said, "two, that's a
mean question"
Even Secretary of Interior
Ickcs, naturally a rather sor-
rowing soul, considering the evil
politics which he has fought
against so long, has thawed un-
| der the sunny atmosphere.
| In another administration the
controversy between Secretary
Of State Hull and his late assist
ant, Professor Moley, would have
drawn upon the whole vocabulary
of epithets. But they have
uarted, each lathered with sooth,
| ing syrup. No sharpnotes, such
as the one with which Woodrow
Wilson sent Secretary of State
Lansing out of office.
General jim Farley has had
his troubles with cabinet mem
bcrs. But there has never been
cross look among them public
Ily. Secretary of Labor Perkins
refused Farley's offer of Ed
ward McGrady to be her assist
ant secretary. But a few weeks
later McGrady turned up with
the appointment. Sc CT G a r.
Ickes would have nothing to do
with Farley's patronage needs
But eventually Farley's chief
patronage aide Emil Hurja, turn,
ed up as an assistant to Ickes.
Huey Long told the admins
tration publicly the other day
that it could take its patronage
and go to hell. There is reason
to believe that a short time be-
fore, jim Farley had given SIM
liar travelling directions to Huey
Long. But it is not the policy
of the new deal to talk about
such little unpleasantnesses.
pugiHstic politics is out at
Washington now. There is some
times linen to be washed but
orders are to do it in the base
mcnt, not out on the sidewalk.
The idea is to get public bust
ness done, not to put on a show.
Washington will be glad to
see congress come back for it is
there that the fighting states
men have the ring to themselves,
those who are left. Impartial
mentary remarks and the chal-
lenge of fists help to make
Washington interesting. Full de-
tails fly around at cocktail part
les and dinner tables. Everyone
wants to know what Senator
Glass, the irascible fly-weight,
mumbled in an undertone dur
inc that clash on the floor. They
want TO know whether it was
Representative BlantOn or the
other fellow who threw the ink
well across the committee table.
The late Senator Thaddeus
Caraway disappointed a crowded
chamber the day he walked over
to the house looking for his
man and didn't see him. The old
scholar. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, swung on a man who IN
suited him in the capitol rotunda
in the early war days. Then