Sea to the Democratic Party.

Circumstances alter cases; Mr. Wilson as a private citizen could
say and think what he pleased; as President he was compelled to
make Mr. Bryan Secretary of State. As Mr. Bryan knew nothing of
history and less of European politics and had a superb disdain of
diplomacy--diplomacy according to the tenets of Bryanism being an
unholy and immoral game in which the foreign players were always
trying to outmaneuver the virtuous and innocent American--he was
provided with a political nurse, mentor, and guardian in the person
of John Bassett Moore, who had a long and brilliant career as an
international lawyer and diplomatist. Mr. Bryan busied himself with
finding soft jobs for deserving Democrats, preaching and
inculcating the virtues of grape juice to the diplomatic corps, and
concocting plans whereby the sword was to be beaten into a
typewriter and war become a lost art. Meanwhile Mr. Moore was doing
the serious work of the Department.

No two men were more unlike than Mr. Bryan and Mr. Moore; Mr. Bryan
a bundle of loosely tied emotions to whom a catchy phrase or an
unsound theory is more precious than a natural law or the wisdom of
the philosopher; Mr. Moore an intellect who has subordinated his
emotions, and to whom facts are as important as mathematics to an
engineer. It was an incompatible union; it could not last. Mr.
Moore became impatient of his chief's vagaries and, about a year
later, returned to the dignified quiet of Columbia University.

This was early in 1914. Now for the random way in which chance
weaves her skein. Mr. Moore went out of the Department and left the
office of Counselor vacant, an office, up to that time, so little
known that the public, if it gave the matter any thought, believed
its occupant was the legal adviser of the Department, while, as a
matter of fact, he is the Under Secretary, which is now the
official designation.

At this stage of his career Mr. Lansing was connected with the
Department as an adviser on international affairs and had
represented the United States in many international arbitrations.
He was known to a small and select circle of lawyers specializing
in international law, but to the public his name meant nothing. He
had always been a good Democrat, although he was married to the
daughter of the late John W. Foster, who wound up a long and
brilliant diplomatic life as Secretary of State in President
Harrison's Cabinet after Mr. Blaine's r