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Is likewise little known, although it in
cluded service for which the State
sang his praises when 1t was rendered
service which required intelligence,
tact and courage. As chairman OF
legislative committee he was required
to 60 into q warning section OF the
State, investigate q bloody election and
determine its merits. It was an armed
camp, from which had come threats
Of instant death to any meddler from
outside, yet the young legislator walked
into 1t, did his duty, aroused the re-
spect of all factions by his calmness,
fairness and courage and came out
unscathed.
One reason that has made it difficult,
or impossible. for Hull to take his light
out from under the bushel is his uni
form courtesy and his uniform habit
of refraining from impugning the mo-
tives Of his opponents. In conversa-
ton, In conference or In debate he
shows the utmost politeness and con-
sideration He attributes honesty OF
opinion to all with whom he differs.
While he uses strong language, Wig
orous expressions and definite state
ments, they are always directed at
principles, facts and events-never at
persons. Therefore, he seldom gets the
headlines. He also believes in and
practices party regularity. What he
calls bloc government" horrif1es him.
Under our form of government he feels
very strongly that the two-party system
is vital to intelligent consideration OF
public questions and to progress. He
fights with all his might, however. to
keep his own party IN the path OF
Democratic rectitude.
Corrotorv Hull ha0Qn his n0litical
activities as a precinct committeeman
in his home county, soon graduating
to county chairman. He knows the
problem of the party worker in the
trenches, for he has come up from the
political trenches through the various
ranks, including national committee
man from his State. and, from 1921 to
1924, the Craftsmanship Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. He pleads
with his party leaders to adopt Demo-
cratic programs and then fight for
them as an organized team, but during
recent years has often been discour-
aged, especially at the attitude OF some
Of his party colleagues. on the tariff
In the Senate last year ne said:
Many Democrats Caught.
Numerous Democrats. regret to
lister tariff) forces, with the result
that they are deaf, dumb and blind
when 1t comes to proposing fundamen-
tai remedies for existing fundamental
panic causes"
On another occasion, more diScour-
aged than usual, he reverted to his boy
hood days on the farm for descrip-
ton Of such Democrats. when he de-
clared they were "a bunch Of colts and
swaybacks- galloping all over the lot"
It may be assumed. therefore. that
Secretary Hull Is under no illusions as
to obstacles to his world tarih pro-
gram which may be encountered
within his own party. In a speech In
the Senate last year he said:
There Is no Disgusting the fact that
powerful interests are at work, either to
commit the Democratic party to high
tariffs and trade isolation or so chloro-
form 1t that in practical effect it will be
handicapped in its efforts to fight for
the economic policies in which its over
whelming rank and file believe. To ask
leadership the Democratic party must
restate its fundamentals and face back
to a clean-cut attitude toward its his
toric tariff and commercial policies,
ridding itself Of such equivocal utter
ances as the Houston platform. We
cannot permit the two old parties to be
merged on economic policies. There is
not room in this country for more than
one special privilege party"
party rid itself of the Houston tariff
plank He wrote the tariff plank on
which President Roosevelt was elected
a plank pledging the party to the Hull
tariff theory-and he feels that the re-
suit of the election constitutes man