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Gated his historic stand.
1T was a wonderful institution, 7
he said of the league in one Of
his last interviews, with one majol
fault-it just wouldn't work"
This vitriolic orator, who became
one OF the leaders of what Presi-
dent Wilson onoe branded sthe
battalion Of DEATH remained SC
sure of his ground that he brushed
on as "visionaries" all those who
developed plans for a worldwide
order to be set up after this war.
Tall, erect, white-maned, with
eyes that, never lost their glare
when speaking of something he
thought was wrong, Mr.. Reed had
two objections to any postwar plan.
First, he declared, no one had
enough facts to build any workable
organization, Second, he claimed,
human nature would defeat any
plan eventually, even though it
got of to successful start.
This vigorous fighter, who was
read out of his own Democratic
party by President Wilson for his
opposition to the League, later
transferred the scorn he once used
on Mr.. Wilson to Franklin D. Roose-
velt. He opposed President Roosc-
velt in his campaign for third
term, and four years later headed
an important committee on resolu-
tions of the short-lived American
Democratic Committe, pledged to
the defeat of Mr.. Roosevelt for a
fourth term
Called Bayonet Law.
Mr.. Reed, who served only l8
years in the Senate, but who left
there record written indelibly in
the Nations history, declared in a
Kansas City speech this spring:
Roosevelt failed to pack the Su-
preme Court. but he polluted it." He
said the Montgomery Ward case,
then in the news, was an instance
OF "bayoriet law" likely to spread in
the United States.
The word compromise" did not
exist in Mr.. Reeds political career
He fought great court battles, some
as brilliant after he was 10 as when
he was 40 years younger, engaged in
seething political campaigns that
made his name by-word of hate in
his own party, and fought President
Wilson to such a standstill on the
league in the historic Senate fight
that Mr.. Wilson tried to drive him
from the party at the national con-
vention in San Franciso in 1920.
Mr.. Reed fought his way to Sem
ate reelection in 1922, was an un-
successful candidate for the presi-
dencv at Houston in 1928, then VOL
unfairly retired from the Senate to
return to Kansas City to practice
law.
In 1910 Mr.. Reed, who had nomi-
mated Champ Clark of Missouri for
the presidency nearly 80 years
earlier, came out for Wendell Willkie
for President, saying he was "a
better Democrat than Roosevelt"
MI. fSooSeVelt, IN an early press
conference after his nomination at
Chicago in 1910. took cognizance of
this with remark I'VE all remem-
Der that sweatshop matter, of
course" a reference to a NLRB case
against the Donnelly Garment Co. of
Kansas City. of which Mrs. Reed,
once Nell Donnelly. was president
and treasurer, and Mr.. Reed the
counsel. Mr.. Reed married Mrs.
Donnely, whose release fromsa kid
napef he had negotiated, in 1893, a
year after the, first Mrs. Reed died.
Born on a farm near Mansfield
Ohio, MIR. Reed moved with his par
ents to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when
he was 3 years old. He graduated
in law from Coe College, and after
three years practice at Cedar Rap