Hale Quotes
as the Democratic National Convention Parliamentarian The President, the leader of the Party, was concerned about the likely dispute over the seating of the Mississippi Delegation. The Parliamentarian was the officer who would make the legal rulings on the procedures of the convention. This quotation shows Johnson’s tough style. He wanted to be sure the Parliamentarian would rule the way Johnson wanted regardless of the rules. Boggs’ reply was “I just rule for Johnson. Period.” Johnson then used his influence and Boggs was elected as Parliamentarian.
In 1848 a pro-slavery mob in Washington DC Gamaliel Bailey's anti-slavery publication, The National Era, which soon thereafter was the publisher of the serialized Uncle Tom's Cabin. Senator John P. Hale introduced a bill in the Senate outlawing rioting in the District of Columbia. The Southern Senators objected violently and this served as a catalyst for one the for the most extensive and bitter public debate that had ever been held on the slavery issue.
Astronomer George Ellery Hale of the University of Chicago and the President of the University, William Rainey Harper, had solicited Yerkes to fund a new major telescope and observatory. Yerkes was not much interested in science, but Hale realized that he might be motivated to have his name on a very large telescope which would make him famous. That worked. The result was the 60 inch telescope—then the world’s largest.
He was referring to Senator John P. Hale, 1806-1873 who was the first publicly anti-slavery Senator.
