He will not go out and try to
ferret out little things. He will
try to get the big fellows. He
will try to enforce the law hon
estly and fairly/'
This man was a conscien
tious citizen, and everybody in
the State knew him, at least by
reputation; so we joined in re
commending him. In a day or
two word of the matter got out
4n our State, and in less than a
week a representative of the
bureau here in Washington call
ed at my office in the Senate
Office Building and said “Sen
ator, there are some awful ob
jections to that appointment
you and your colleague have
recommended.” I said, “What
is the matter with the man?
Everybody knows him.” He said,
“Why, he is a Democrat. Did
you not know that?” I said,
“Yes.” He said, “Did Senator
Howell know that?” I said
“Yes; Senator Howell has known
it for years. He lives in the same
town with him. We knew he
was a Democrat. We recom
mended :ym in spite of the fact
that he is a Democrat. Has any
body said he would not enforce
the law? Has anybody said that
he would not do it conscien
tiously and with ability and
fairly?” “Oh, no. The objection
is from the leading Republicans
of your State; that he is a Dem
ocrat and that he will appoint
subordinates who will be Dem
ocrats. They insist on having
something to say about the ap
pointments.”
I told him that, as far as I
was concerned, I did not think
anybody ought to have anything
to say about the appointment
of his subordinates, that I still
stood on the recommendation,
that my colleague undoubtedly
would stand on it and that I
was not going to apologize or
take it back. He tried his best
to have me take it up with Sen
ator Howell, to see if we could
pot recpmmepd somebody else,
and when I declared, he went
away, saying, “Well, if you
Senators insist on it, we will
make the appointment.”
The appointment was made,
and within a very few days the
same man came back and said,
“There are a lot more protests
from your State about this man.
They say that he will appoint
Democrats, and they want to
have it understood that he will
not be allowed to appoint his
subordinates unless they are
satisfactory to the leading Re
publicans, who want to pass on
them.”
I think he saw Senator How
ell; Senator Howell can speak
for himself, however, when he
gets back, as to that, if he de
sires to do so. We both told him
that within the limits of his au
thority we did not want anybody
to interfere with this man’s ap
pointments. I told this gentle
man distinctly that I did not
want anything to say about it,
and I did not want anybody else
to have anything to say about
it, that I did not care whether
the men he appointed were
Democrats or Republicans, and
that I believed that what they
ought to do was to hold this
man responsible for the enforce
ment of the law, and within the
limit of the law, let him ap
point anybody he wanted to.
I remember distinctly that this
representative of the Prohibition
Unit in Washington said to me
at that time—it being just be
for my campaign for reelection
to the Senate came on—“They
will make it hot for you out
there in the campaign if you in
sist on this.” I told him of
course, that they probably
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