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Half an hour before the Nominee's arrival at the Coliseum, appeared the man who once called him "the deadliest foe of moral progress in America," thin-lipped hot-eyed Parson John Roach Straton. There was some altercation, but Dr. Straton clutched his ticket. He had promised to behave. He was admitted and took a seat at the back of the platform. His presence intensified the Nominee's grim earnestness. It was a real Moment in the campaign...
...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...
...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Last week, two men prepared to debate. One was Alfred Emanuel Smith. The other was John Roach Straton, Manhattan pulpiteer, parson of Calvary Baptist Church. Why had the debate been arranged...
...Smith cared nothing for Dr. Straton's opinion of his "true political wisdom." Gov. Smith was to debate prohibition throughout the campaign, had no desire to take time out on this subject with just one parson, however dry. But Gov. Smith has waited for a chance to get at and dispose of this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague...