"Friend of Man"

Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke:

"A great, stupendous task devolves upon me. It seems that for a moment eloquence has gone to sleep and cobwebs have overgrown the brain, searching about for a Cicero. My task is Herculean. It takes a man with the wisdom of Solomon, the thought of Shakespeare and the oratory of Patrick Henry to properly introduce this Friend of Man.

"I heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Caesar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this man.

"The prince has come out of Egypt and no greater honor can come to anyone than the privilege of introducing this matchless statesman, this Republican wheelhorse, this Friend of Man who has etched his name on the portals of fame, Maurice Maschke."

Boss Maschke then began his speech by saying that he had been put to an oratorical disadvantage.

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