The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-12
INTEREST IN DEATH OF NORMAN
 E. MACK.

There is scarcely newspaper in the United States. Democratic, Republican independent that has not contained comment concerning the recent death of Norman E. Mack, for thirty-two years a member of the Democratic National Committee and for dozen years Chairman of that committee He was New York's member of the National Commit tee Chairman of the Democratic State Central Com mittee and Chairman at the National Committee at one and the same time. He retired as member of the National Committee at the Chicago Demo- cratic National Convention account of his health but that committee by unanimous vote made him member emiritus for life.
 The New York Herald Tribune, generally regard ed the leading Republican newspaper of the Unit ed States, editorially commenting upon Mir Mack's death. under the heading Political Sportsman, said:
 If Norman E. Mack could not be denom- mated a statesman, neither should he be classed in the tribe of self-seeking polite ians He belonged to intermediate category peculiar to his country and per- haps to his time, that of the political sports man whose sole interest is in the fun of the game. As game he loved politics with absorbing passion and he came to play it with proficiency which elevated him to the Chairmanship of the Democratic National Communities, but each time it suggested to him that he might become a professional in the sense of holding of flee as Governor Senator he promptly vetoed the idea. He didn't like politics that way.
 His whole a consistent de- velopment of this curious relationshp-at ardent and detached--to the sport of his fancy It is recorded of him that he first decided to become newspaper when, at the tender age of eighteen in Wheeling, W. Va, he saw how influential with the politicians the editor of the local paper He determined then to news paper of his own and with characteristic courage and energy set about realizing this preliminary ambition The story of his establishment of "The Buffalo Times" and of it's growth into paper of commanding importance needs repetition here The point is that he could spare the time from it's management he used his paper first to launch himself in local politics and thereafter both as a pawn in the game and as the means of his detach- ment from it. It is significant that he always called himself newspaper man though, of course, nationally he was known for his political activity
 He was lifelong apostle of regularity. Here again expressed his loyalty to the game such which transcended the desire to win as also, to be sure, it suppanted whatever convictions he had respecting party policy. He did not believe in Bryan's currency formula but he sup ported him whole -heartedly none the less his party's canidate, just as he had sup- ported Cleveland beforehand, and as after ward he championed Parker, Wilson, and, in fact every Democratic standard bearer what ever his complexion.
 Naturally he beloved sportsman for sports sake is happy, warm human being whose friendliness is infectious He became famous harmonizer. always in- jecting into the discordant councils of his party some of his own spirit of good d-natured team play. This inconsiderable serv- ice certainly to his party and, if one believes in the essential beneficence of the two-party system, quite as certainly to his country It should not be underestimated His loss will be felt