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Secretary Hughes' speech Monday night in Symphony Hall raised an old issue in political affairs: "the stump or the desk". Should an administration try to influence the vote on a Congressional election? This, of course, is primarily a question for the voters to decide.
In our political tanglefoot, however, it is Congress itself, its qualities and accomplishments, and not the Administration as a whole which is on the stand, subject to popular scrutiny, favorable or unfavorable as the election returns will show. Congress must hold up its own weight instead of leaning on the...
"With the coming into existence of this new class, many changes were necessary in the laws and institutions which had formerly been sufficient for a rural population. Municipal administration, town courts and corporations came into existence."
Mr. James Montgomery Beck, who, with Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, will speak at the Union, was formerly United States Attorney in Pennsylvania and Assistant Attorney-General during the administration of President Roosevelt. He now occupies the post of Solicitor-General of the United States.
Mr. Beck was admitted to the bar in 1884, four years after his graduation from Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1896 he became United States Attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and for four years during the administration of President Roosevelt '80 he was Assistant Attorney General of the...