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Were the Republicans attacking the Democrats for lending so much to the Allies? Senator McAdoo would arise and instruct the chamber on what he, as Secretary of the Treasury, had done on foreign loans. Was a bill up to make over the Federal Reserve? Senator McAdoo would oblige with an account of how he, its first chairman, started the system. Railroads? Senator McAdoo had run them for a year as Director General. Labor? Senator McAdoo had raised rail workers' pay $875,000,000 back in 1918. Agriculture? Senator McAdoo, as its first chairman, put the Federal Farm Loan Board...
Cackles & Shakes. As if to pave his way into the sacred chamber, Mr. McAdoo dropped into the Senate lobby last July before adjournment. Democrats, aware that he had just nominated their presidential candidate at Chicago, nocked about him warmly, wrung his bony hand. Mississippi's Harrison and Georgia's Cohen sang his praises to the Press. Even California's Republican Johnson had a friendly greeting for him. The McAdoo grin permeated the lobby. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello . . . hello," he cackled to one & all. Suddenly his narrow eye fell upon Senator Shortridge, his probable opponent in November, sitting quietly...
...hello! hello, there!" he shrilled before Senator Shortridge could sneak decently out of sight. Bubbling enthusiastically, Mr. McAdoo insisted upon shaking the Shortridge hand...
...Come on! Let's!" crowed Mr. McAdoo. Cameras clicked and resultant photographs exhibited California's tallest political rivals pumping hands like old friends...
First Call. If not elected to the Senate, what part would Mr. McAdoo play in a Roosevelt administration? That he would play some part is generally taken for granted. Governor Roosevelt owes him an incalculable political debt for delivering 90 convention votes when they meant the difference between triumph and disaster. And Mr. McAdoo did not turn the course of history for nothing. He expected and got the vice-presidential nomination for his and Hearst's man Garner. He stopped the bolt-to-Baker. He crushed Alfred Emanuel Smith, thus avenging Madison Square Garden. Above all, by all the rules...