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I think he has done it merely because he has been making 

 an after-dinner speech. I allow only one person to call me 

 a peach, and that is my wife, and then only under certain 

 circumstances. ( Laughter. ) President Luther has de- 

 scribed himself as a lemon. Of course, he knows more about 

 himself than I do. (Laughter.) I have never heard him de- 

 scribed before by anybody else as a lemon. He says he is 

 an optimist. Well, an optimist is a man who makes lemon- 

 ade out of the lemons that are handed to him. He has talked 

 a great deal to-night about it, and I guess he has had ex- 

 perience. He is something of a fruit raiser himself. He 

 runs Trinity College, and b}' looking over the college bodies 

 I have decided that there are some fruits raised there. 

 (Laughter.) He says he is conducting the mid-year exam- 

 inations. In other words, he is l^usy picking over the fruit 

 at the college, and casting aside the things he does not care 

 to keep. (Laughter.) He may call me a peach to-night. 

 I do not think he would ever stop to call me that on election 

 day. He has got himself into politics by talking the way he 

 did. Last night he was in New Haven, and he described 

 himself as a sort of an original kind of politician. He said 

 that he was not the kind of a politician whose political hap- 

 piness depended upon a desire to run all the time for ofBce, 

 but he said that his political friends never seemed to think 

 that he had that desire; that they were always restraining 

 him, and that they wanted him to stay out of politics, but 

 so far as the Democrats were concerned that they were per- 

 fectly willing to have ^Ir. Luther run for anything he wished 

 to. (Laughter.) 



We had an accident in Hartford tonight. We had it 

 since you ladies and gentlemen sat down to this table. A 

 thirty-six-inch water main in front of the Union Station 

 broke, and the streets are flooded outside. I turned to Pres- 

 ident Luther when the police report o'f the accident reached 

 me, and told him what had happened, and he thought for 

 a moment, and then he said : "Isn't it curious that the Dem- 

 ocrats do not seem to run things right ?" ( Laughter. ) 



