Glacier County chief., 1940-10-18
A Confession of LOUe
Almost Breaks Up a
Lifelong Friendship
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE

Washington, ID. c., Is city fan
tastic and fey as becomes the cap
tol of a nation which has been
governed by the winners of local
and national popularity contests
for the 1877 years of its existence.
To Washington come the success
full candidates for offices within
the gift Of the people from that
Of the presidency to membership
in congress. They come from every
part Of the nation and from every
walk of life and they bring or
send for the friends they can ap-
point TO the jobs that are the per-
ouiticS OF election winners.
Behind them. come the protectors
rten seIf-appointed-of the people and
he unofficial representative of vast
h.eros'a or determined minorities, the
. tbbvi.rs, And, bringing up the rear
. rock 'he Adventures and adventu~-
ssses, camp followers of the govern
mental army. These are frankly on
I he make and in the national capt. u
thev eviSt-and sometimes live verv
EelI-by favor by their own cleverness
Or even by blackmail
The city's population constantly
changes. renewing itself periodically
md its friendships are even more
tp.ltIltl al tIldll lllt age, governed
s they are by expediency and bound
BIZ the elections. A friend here TODAY
may be defeated and gone tomorrow
AS flenting as Washington friend
ship" me saying is.
But there are exceptions. Twice or
thrice in century. one appears which
ignores expediency and defies time
Such a one was that of Judge Hiram
Dtnwiddie, jurist, diplomat and init
mate friend Of seven presidents. and
United States Senator Henry Andrews
from Judge Dinwiddie's home "a we5t
en- stated.
It spurned the word "ephemeral'
h existing back beyond the memory
Thirty-tour years in Washington alone
Or as time is reckoned there. down
through nine presidential administra-
tens EXpediency did not enter into it
ether because there was nothing that
one possessed which the other couldn't
have had merely by going after It.
During the Harding administration,
FOR instance. Judge Dinwiddic refused
the appointment as Junior senator Of
!ered him by the governor fhis state
81 The behest Of Senator Andrews to
fiji on. the term of Senator Van Ripel.
Who died in office. Refusing 1t, tn"
.IGNF tNpldII'u lIliI Willie ne "iN
CREW holmed by the honor. he pre-
fire. 10 continue in the stable prac-
tire 90 law to embracing the uncor-
tair'ici of a political career
Or he other hand. Senator An.
drew, once smilingly refuSef a full
par, hip In Judge Dinw!ddi",s Law
firm "h"n he was defeated in one
e'ec.3H for reelection % the senate.
He declared that the law was too
bood IS and quiet for him after his
years in the hurry burly Of politics.
L was only a matter Of time. he
pointed out, until he would rcCapture
bis scHatorship. He was returned 10
office in the next senatorial election.
They were a picturesque pair Of
landmarks, almost as familiar in the
d,y as the Washington monument or
he Lincoln memorial. When not about
heir various businesses. they could be
'ound together SO invariably that 4
newspaper man dubbed them. The In
eparables" in a story published back
\ 1924 and the Characterization caught
N and stuck.
At his full stature. Judge Dinwiddie
ooked the perfect conservative elder
tatesman." He was taller than the
yerage but the width of his broad
houldered body took away from his
leight He had a wide, low forehead
nder a mass Of glossy hair once
rown but now grown silver gray