"BOB JR. HAS LEVELEST HEAD IN THE SENATE"
"Bob Jr. Has Levelest Head in The Senate" Writer in Collier's Pays Tribute to Wisconsin Senator "He has the levelest head in the senate." This is the tribute paid to Sen. Rob:ri M. La Follette by...
...tain, lining up the votes, planning tac-| tics, reaching understandings, and at the same time furnishing the coalition with Its intellectual ammunition...
...He is extremely likeable...
...He is a man who is likely to go far in the public life of this country...
...Borah as a leader stands young Bob La Follette...
...Will try and get you a few more readers.—Geo...
...And the funny part of it is, I suspect, that he has loved his new role...
...His support of Hoover In 1928 lent color to the idea that better than the Old Guard he represented the Hoover view on the tariff...
...But it is only fair to Mr...
...He is conciliatory in manner but firm in his opinions...
...I think I can say of him that h» has never in his years in the Senate made an enemy, and that he has not had to sacrifice a conviction in order to win the friendly regard oi all classes and conditions of senators...
...Besides, he knows the ame of politics...
...His purity of character, his intelligence, his disinterestedness, his moderation, his importance politically, made him a man whom the rest could follow without misgivings...
...I do not know anyone else who combines in himself so many of the qualities that get one on- in the world of politics as he does...
...A lot of brickbats have whizzed by Mr...
...He and young Bob La Follette are the leaders of the Progressive Republican element in the coalition, Just as Pat Harrison and Simmons are the leaders of the Democrats in it...
...He makes an excellent speech...
...Borah's head as the author of Mr...
...Discussing present political augnm°nts at Washington, Mr...
...Gilbert is th_> Washington correspondent of The Philadelphia Public Ledger and one of the best known political writers in Washington...
...H. Haushalter...
...It used to be jaid of Borah that If he found three or four men agreeing with him, he at once reexamined his position for foar thcie might be something wrong with it...
...He was the handwriting on the wall, the moving finger that writes and moves on, the admonitory voice of the public conscience And now In this session In his new capacity as the leader of a bloc he has been as busy as an election district cap...
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...He always knows what he thinks...
...Gilbert says, in part: The most amazing thing that the revolution has done has been to bring Borah out of his ivory ower and down to the earth of practical politics...
...Rob:ri M. La Follette by Clinton W. Gl.ucrt in an article in this week's issue of Collier's Weekly entitled "Crashing tne Party...
...H:re he was...
...No one cite could have done what he has done...
...He always sees things exactly as they are...
...Hoover in the 1928 campaign to call one as a means of propitiating the farmer...
...It was Mr...
...Borah who caused the calling of the special session by advising Mr...
...He never becomes excited, never loses his poise, takes defeat in good part, and is never made vain by success...
...Whoever advised the President to open the vay to increased duties on other commodities suffering from competition opened the way for the fatal coalition...
...He has the levelest head in the Senate...
...Borah to say that he advised the calling of Congress to revise only agricultural tariff rates...
...And It was generally agreed that he disliked responsibility, was indolent, except intellectually, and loved the stage play of remoteness from the petty concerns of the Senate, into which he would make dramatic entrances with a message received on Mount Sinai...
...The change in Borah Is the most remarkable thing that has happened In Washington in many a year...
...He is moderate...
...Alongside of Mr...
...Xt used also to be said of him that it was practically Impossible to get him Into a conference, that when he was prevailed . upon to come to one he would remain | ten minutes and then find some exiure to slip away...
...Just a voice crying in the wijicr-ncss, and the greater the wildtrnj.ss the better he liked It...
...He is aware of the virtue of hard wotk...
...Hoover's troubles on the Hill...
...HOODWINKED BY MONEY POWER '< Hamburg, N. Y., Jan...
Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8
