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THE OREGON DAILY JOU RNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. mo. CARMI THOMPSON "fin By Lowel MeUett Cnited Newt Staff CorrapoDcUnt ' Washington, Dec. 20. It was pretty generally "agreed during; the campaign by those whose business it Is to tcir the world what's what In politics that Senator ; Harding was another McKinley. This raised, the question of who was or who would be his Mark Hanna. It now seems possible to name the man who will fill the place if Harding must have a Mark Hanna." However, there has begur. to be doubt that the political setting of the next few years will afford a pjace for such a stellar role as the practical-minded Cleveland business man T filled during McKtnley's term. The question Wash ington observers now put' to one another is : "Who will be Harding's Colonel House?" It Is likewise possible to make a well supported surmise concerning the potential successor to the all-Important part played by the Texas statesman if Harding is to have a Colonel House. THOMPSON'S INFLUENCE The six weeks that have elapsed since the record Republican majority engulfed this land of the free and the brave seem to have revealed that the Ohio senator Is quite likely to see his Job through to the finish without either a Hanna or a House. That Is to say, there Is likely to be neither a man of the Hanna type dominating him nor one of the House type exercising a preponderant. If un selfish influence over his policies. ' To take up the Mark Hanna idea first and name the man marked by every ex ternal condition for the part, he is Carml A. Thompson of Hanna's own lakeside metropolis. The Cleveland city" directory 'lists Thompson as a vice president of the Todd-Stambaugh company, operators of a fleet of ore carrying vessels on the Great Lakes. A political directory prob. ably would list him as the man who had more to do with making Harding the president-elect than any other man. Fi;ilJUSIID FUNDS In November. 1919, months before other politicians in his own state, had -thought of takimr Harding's prospects seriously, Thompson was urging the senator to enter the race. Once Hard ing was m Thompson stood by him through thick and thin and it is not forgotten that it was very thin. It was said in Cleveland that he furnished the funds for the primary campaign and was th collector of large funds for the national campaigns. Ohio campaigners, such as Rud Hun loka of Cincinnati and Harry Davis of Cleveland for example, wavered, it is alleged, but Thompson stuck. It Is even dclared that the wholeheartedness of Myron T. Herrlck's support occasioned doubt as late as the week - of the Chi- cago convention, to which he went as delegate at large from Ohio. IS SELF MADE MAN At Chicago, . Thompson, in charge of Harding's headquarters In the Congress hotel, worked day and nlght-rharder at night, perhaps-rfor Harding's nomina tion. He worked intelligently and ef fectively an a result of experience in three previous conventions. Harding's own estimate of Thompson's loyalty and ability can be found in the statement attributed to him that Carml Thompson can have anything he wants now. Thomp .Mii replied to this that there Is nothing he wants. The Cleveland political genius Is the son Vf a slate miner. He worked his way through school, something of a des perate Job under the conditions that faced him, and obtained an education In law. He started practice in the Ohio river town of I ronton. NOW WEALTHY MAN " In '1904 he went to Columbus as a member of the legislature, and the fol lowing term was elected speaker of the house. His quiet geniality and his im partiality made him a friend of Warren O. Harding, who served in the other chamber as a state senator. They have worked together in politics ever since. President Taft In , March, 1911. put Thompson into office as assistant ' sec retary of the interior, to clean up the wreckage of he Ballinger regime. In July, 1912, Taft made him his own sec retary, where he served until November of that year, when he was made secre tary of the treasury, to fill out the re mainder of the administration. Out of office, he went into business, becoming general manager of the Great Northern iron properties, part of the James I. Hill interests, continuing In this capacity until 1917. Since then he has been part of the ore carrying concern of which he is now general manager, and haa be come independently wealthy. Thompson has never been an outdoor campaigner. That, in the case of the Harding campaign for the nomination, was left for Harry Daugherty. In the case of the campaign for the election, it was left to Will Hays. In the first case and the second case the' men who were carrying Harding's couse to the country kept in constant touch with Thompson. Some persons on the inside phrase it even more strongly -"Daughterty and Hays .took their orders from Thompson." Thompson, not being greatly Inclined to the giving of orders, it is likely that over-emphasizes the part he played. All of which perhaps reveals Carml A. Thompson's qualifications for the place If there' Is to be a Mark Hanna in the next administration. . Limitations Put On Esch-Cummins Act Were Not Intended Miami, Fla., Dec. 20. (I. N. S.) The decision of the United States labor board to the effect that the Esch-Cummlns transportation act does not include inter urban or electric lines limits the scope of the -act ' considerably more than in tended by its framers, said Senator Al bert B. Cummins here. The senator said the plan of the com mittee which formulated the act was to include all lines engaged in freight trans portation, no matter by what form of power the carriers were propelled. If the decision is as reported the act will have to be amended and its scope more definitely and clearly defined, said Sena tor Cummins. Moffatt New Head Of Naval Aviation . Washington, Dec. 20. (I. N. S.) Secretary of the Navy Daniels an nounced that Captain William A. Mof fat had been appointed to succeed Cap-. tain T. T. Cravln as director of. naval aviation. Captain Moffat was until re cently in command of the Mississippi with the Pacific fleet and formerly.com' manded the great lakes naval training station, captain cravia baa not been given a new assignment. Labor to Fight for Trade With Russia Washington, Dec. 20. (I, N. S.) Dun can McDonald, former president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, an nounced nere mat organised labor will be cauea to attend nationwide mass meetings to force the opening of trade relations with Russia. 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