Evening star., 1933-03-05

ner Of Uvalde, Tex.
NJ He personifes 64 years of develop
ment under the laws of Nature, and
IS years of devotion to politics
public service.
He is of the people and for the people, and
by the people made Vice President. He thinks
with the people, speaks the common language OF
the people, and has no inclination to grow
away from them. Social activity with him Is
an unpleasant duty, avoided as much as posi-
bic. He prefers to cut his own wood, haul his
own water, do his own cooking-and his own
thinking.
His patron political saint is Andrew Jackson.
who worked in a saddler's shop. defeated the
British at New Orleans and captured Flor1da
two years later.
He Is the first Vice President from the South
since Andrew johnson, who hadn't days
schooling, was tailor and succeeded the
Martyred Lincoln in the White House.
Vice President Garner had scant education
In his youth but has a heap of common sense.
knowledge of life and human sympathies.
His political philosophy is take the people
into your confidence" about the peoples af-
fairs. He religiously considers himself their
agent in self-government
His attitude toward his fellow man Is to
meet him with a smile and reassure him that
we live in a mighty good world, with mighty
fine people.
collection of the most varied kinds OF gavels-
presented by admirers-but he controls by ms
smile and sincerity.
He establishes q precedent by being on one
day both Speaker and Vice President-presidin
over both houses of Congress-and with far
flung vision over the self-governing people IN
48 States of the greatest Nation the world ever
knew.
"A /HO Is this man-Cai.---'
w He is sturdy and stout-hearted. clear
headed American. He is superb Democrat.
militant leader, man of the people. But more
than all ese-he is a great human being.
OF pioneer stock stretching back to the
American Revolution, he has spent his life
among people of his own country. To be able
to say of any man in national political life
that he is all-American is tribute superb. With
John Garner, America always comes first.
1t has been said of him that he is "a thorough
American, race of the soil-the robust sort that
has lived with the common people and does not
have to put his ear to the ground to learn what
people think. He knows by instinct because
he is of the people. He has never risen from
them. He never will Fair play is part Of hts
philosophy of life. He believes in the people
and has confidence in their ultimate judgment
If they are put in possession of the facts"
He accepted the Democratic leadership OF
The House of Representatives as sacred re-
sponsibty not distinguished service
decoration" He will carry the honors and re-
sponsbilities of the Vice Presidency with the
same air of simple, rugged integrity.
Asked what was his secret Of handling
men, he replied somewhat tersely: Being hon.
est with them. Telling them the truth Using
common sense in discussing every subject"
This common sense is his most character
istic endowment as well as a superior sort of
sagacity both of which enable him to make
decisions swiftly and wisely and he has the
God-given power to choose the right word to
drive his point home and convince the skep.
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). The statistics of John Nance Garner, from
the Biographical Directory of American Con-
gress, read as follows: John Nance Garner Q
Representative from Texas; born near Detroit,
Red River County, Texas, November %, 1858:
received limited education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced
practice in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas.
Member of the State House of Representatives
1S98-1902; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Kansas City in 1900 and at st.
Louis in 1904 and 1916; elected as Democrat
to the Fifty y-eighth Congress; served from the
Fffty-eighth through the Seventy-first Con-
crosses. Democratic floor leader and ranking
Democratic member of the Ways and Means
Committee when elected Speaker, December Z,
1881; nominated by the Democratic party for
Vice President, July 2, 1882"
For almost 80 years he has sat under the
dome OF the Capitol. His grasp of tariffs and
taxations of Federal powers and their limita-
tions, of the proper functions of Government
activity and of sound public policies, both do
mestic and foreign, is not surpassed by that OF
any man in public life
Both theory and reality we're his teachers.
Political philosophy is one thing. Its actual
application is another. For almost q genera