Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — WOULD MAKE A POLITICIAN [ARTICLE]

WOULD MAKE A POLITICIAN

Little Willie's Capacity for Sticking to One Idea Singularly Like Way of Rabid Partisan. “The late Adlal E. Stevenson,” said • Republican leader of Bloomington, “hadn’t, after all much use for politics. He once explained to me why this was. “He said that party politicians believed their side to be always right, and the other side to be always wrong. Whatever the other side advocated, it was hosslble and infernal; whatever their own side advocated was holy. “He said the partisan couldn’t understand that you might arrive at the the right thing by more ways than one—and thus the partisan was like the urchin whose teacher said: ” 'Willie, what does six plus four make?” ” ‘Eleven.’ “'No. Try again.* “ Twelve.’ ” ‘No.’ “ Thirteen.’ “ *No, no, no. You’re just guessing. But why couldn’t you have guessed that six plus four makes tpn?” “ ‘Because it don’t make ten,’ said Willie. ‘Five and five makes ten—l remember that’”