roduced into the Cabinet apologetically, as Hays
and Daugherty were, on the plea that the President must appoint a
number of party workers. To the Senate? It is a body which affords
escape from the boredom of small town life for men who have grown
rich on the frontier or in the dull Middle West. It carries with it
an excuse to live in Washington, some social position there, and a
title envied in Marion, Reno, Butte, or Salt Lake City. Senators
who start young serve long and obediently, suppressing all their
natural instincts for self-expression, and attain if they are
lucky the scant distinction of a committee chairmanship in a
legislature that has steadily tended toward submergence. To the
House? Individuals are lost in the House. And the Presidency comes
to few, and by chance.

Knowing his ambition for public distinction and his wealth, men go
to him every day to sell him the road to power and influence, and,
if you will, public service. Let him have the Democratic
organization on condition of paying its debts and financing its
activities. One faction of the Democratic party recently sought
control, spreading the understanding that Mr. Baruch would, in the
event of its success, open wide his pocket book. After the meeting
of the National Committee at which this faction met its defeat I
said to a prominent member of the victorious group: "Now that you
have won you will probably get Baruch's money. He is restless,
eager to find an outlet for his energies, less interested in any
personality than in his party. Hang on and wait and he must come to
you."

"Do you know," he replied, lowering his voice confidentially, "That
is just the way I diagnose it."

And at this very time the Republicans, hearing much of Mr. Baruch's
money and its use to build up such an intensive organization for
the Democrats, as Chairman Hays with a million or two at his
disposal had erected for them, considered seriously whether or not
it would not be wise themselves to occupy Mr. Baruch's energies and
divert his ambitions away from party organization. They debated
putting Mr. Baruch on the commission to reorganize the executive
departments of the government. All had their eyes on the same
ambition and the same wealth!

Several daily newspapers in New York, and I know not how many
magazines and weeklies, have been offered at one time or another to
Mr. Baruch, for it is known that one of his ideas of public service
is to own and edit a great l