Adlai Stevenson

Speaker, our watch-dog of the Treasury, like all other good watch-dogs, never barks when his friends are around!

Wake him up at any hour of the night, and he would be ready upon the instant for an eloquent speech of any length, upon any subject.

His literary attainments were of a high order, and some of the books of which he was the author will no doubt furnish instructive and entertaining reading for many generations to come.

Woe betide the unfortunate antagonist whose record was other than faultless.

He was a born debater, full of resources, and aggressive to the last degree.

He never waited for opportunities, but sought them.

He was the soul of personal and official honor.

Whatever record leaps to light, He never can be shamed.

He once said of a vinegar-visaged member that the only regret he had on earth was that there were no more commandments to keep; what few there were he kept so easily.

As a wit, he was without a rival in his section.

In the highest sense of the expression, he was a gentleman of the old school.

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.