Glacier County chief., 1940-10-18

LII 10 right are shown Betty Lou Gers
worthy of 4 role in the movies. Thes,
Gray eyes on either side of an aoui-
line nose were uncompromSing and
piercing. His mouth had the mobile
lips OF the orator and his square,
rather heavy chin was cleft by a deep
ounple. His voice was resonant and
melod!oUs and not unlike that of the
late William Jennings Bryan.
His record fulfilled the promise made
BY his appearance. While never hold
ing an elective office-he had been
appointed to his judgeship-he was
known as a power in he inner circles
of his party and a champion of the
people
He had relinquished his judgesh.p
10 accept a mission in the Nicaragua
Canal Zone. When he finished his task
and returned from South Ameri 4 he
was without portfolio, but he refused
to 70 INTO active politics. Instead. he
concentrated on his law practice in
Washington, where a lawyer IS more
/ valuable for his ability to sway law
makers than for defending or prose-
cutting laWbreakcrS.
In his 3O-odd years of practice he
had maintained a high ethical STAN
dard from which he departed only
regime, when he was believed to have
helped a venal public official TO cs-
cape the consequences OF a giant pub
he the. by putting pressure upon GER
tain senators and CCngTC:- m n. An in
VCStigatlOn was started bat died lbOrn-
ing. II 1t had 6 ne through Judge
DnWI'dir might have gone to fe.-
eTal prni.vntlary.
Senator Andrews squaIchcd it. Il
eli, IA In IH n 1is+r
to any suggestion that his friend had
committed Il wrong.
When the judges encmi- S became
insist ut, "GrntlemCn,' the senator
smiled thin!y. Il would quote here
some words from the Bible. Let he
who is without sin among you cast
the first stone And I would remind
you that there are rcprlals.' So the
investigation died. helped by the fac:
that though Judge Dnwiddie was said
to have received $4,000 for his Serv-
ices he continued to live as he always
had on the scale OF a man making a
barely comfortable living.
Senator Andrews could do a thing
like that because he was everything
that Judge DinWiddie was not. He was
tall, lean. blond and irreverent. AL
through his Washington career, he
was known as The Dancing Senator"
not only because he seemed always
on the verge of taking off in ballet
leap when he walked. He was a good
mixer and an avid practical joker.
In his dress. he was almost Top;
fop with a gardenla always In his
buttonhole.
Casual observers often wondered
why a great state in election after
election should send so light-minded
and frivolous a man to represent 1t
in the senate, but those in the know
realized it was no accident Senator
deals had emptied the contents OF
many a pork barrel into the laps Of
his constituents. And at least three
presidents had seen their pet measures
killed by his smiling but implacable
opposition.
Socially, he was always busy, NOV
ing in an aura of slightly sinister ro.,
nance whose shadow grew darker and
more scandalous with the years. He
had been married shortly after his
arrival in Washington to Kathleen
Winters, pretty girl who had come
on from their home town for the cere-
mony and who presided IN MS nome
until her death. But that marriage
had been less than three years old
when the whispers started.
The whispers were of women and
they told an uninterrupted narrative,
a Serial story in which the heroines
were constantly changing. Once his
name was coupled with that OF a
woman lobbyist. Again, with the pas
sionate wife Of an undersecretary Ii
the Latin legation. There were wills
pers of a stage-struck youngSter VINO
came to Washington with theatrical
company and remained month as the
senator's guest. There was said to be
a Stenographer at the public typewriter
stand. But all these were but vague,
shadowy figures moving in world OF
half-wit rumor.
Only one woman stood out clearly
coupled with Senator Andrews in the
annals of capitol gossip and the de-
tails Of even this romantic friend
ship were lacking: She was Lisbeth, a
leading woman In summer STOCK
company. They had been seen togeth-.
er in many semi-public places and
the senator had seemed devoted. But
suddenly and without explanation, Lis,
disappeared, never to be heard from
again. Nobody. not even Senator An
drews, seemed to know why.
:, So The Inseparables," the old Pur-
itan who pursued the right and
summed all women, and the slightly
took the right in his stride, moved
across the Washington scene. drawing
attention by their vivid personalities
and the incongruity of their friend
ship. That friendship seemed outside
the bounds of possibility. 1t just
couldn't be. Yet 1t was. There was an
explanation. of course. There always
Is. There can be no effect without a
cause. But the explanation spreads
over many years and TO understand
1t you must 60 back to the beginning.
It began in . fair-sized western city