The age-herald., 1902-02-14
Joe Cannon at Sixty>six Has Lost
 Some of His Fire.

candidate; postoffice inspector, pension agent for twelve atates,a newspaBef founder and newspaper editafI fl judge of chaneery court. elected by million majority, more or less. over the votes for his opponent" And here Is an ss. founding revelation of Gihaons own
 "In 1891 published Chnnoery Suits, book that has become an authority in the courts of Tennesse and other statss.a
 That's what he says. He ia very severe representative of Sevier County.
 William Henry Moody another one af the anti-Southern arch-howlers, lives net far from the Massachusetts town of Tewkshury, where in the noble days of Ben Rutlerism, the hides of dead paupefs from tho almshouso were tanned into shoe.leather. some specimens of which were thoughtfullv submitted to the man who had stolen spoons and insulted Southern ladies In New orleans-the great Beast" ef Spoons" as the Cock eyed One was called.
 That's about all there Is of Moodyl
 While certain noisy Chicagoians arc swinging around the Southern circle in the interest of the Presidential preten- sions of that impossible young man Car ter Harrison, the Hon. David A. DeAr- mond of Butler. Missouri. is limiting to newspaper men, with a wink and you mustn't-tell consent, that the time is come when he feels jest obleeged to take that thar Senatorial cheer what Old Vest has been so long a-keepin' warm.
 But DeArmond has got to first pull down his Vest. The signal for his hercu- lean task in this particular was given by a newspaper of Missouri some three weeks ago in thunderous editorial pro- claiming MT. DeArmond as being we'll seasoned Presidential timber,' the very fit and proper successor of Mir. w. Jen- nings Bryan for the Democratic nomina- tion, and so sensational was that "ar-i tickul' that it was copied as far away from home as Montgomery, Alabama. MT DeArmond, who is 5S years old, was brought up on a farm" he says, and consequently he may run for the Senate as a farmers Vest-puller.
 
 Hon. Champ Clark of Gasconade County, Missouri; for besides writing internima- ble syndicate jokes for the Chattanooga Times and other more or less rural news papers, MT. Clark has ambition for something higher than the House in the cloakrooms of which he is supposed to grind out his anecdotal jokes, or jolS- in a z. picturesque figure in the Senate? Would mt he be It in receiving ten thousand of the hoy policy on New Years Day in the White House?
 Bless us all-politics is an "amoosin' cussr
 Yet at this very moment there Is an unusual enlargement of politics, for right here in a Washington hotel, in which some of us have to labor to such an extent that we have no time for chasing any kind of rainbow, there is band of female suffrage" freaks headed by the brave and Venerable General Susan B. Anthony and the heroine Gen eral Catt whose Christian name is not remembered. One wonders if General Anthony in her youth was called by that too utterly too-too tender diminutive "Susio.'
 How odd-how very odd-that man. nish women who wear outlandish garbs should also wear the tender maiden names which every man of us all has loved all through life to love because man has adored some Susie who could not even mention trousers without the sweet blush of fresh maidenhood
 General Belva V. Lockwood. whom one saw at lawyers banquet the other night. might once have been called by the touching tenderness of "Bellie" for short; and General Mary Walker, the other eminent lawyer, whom one used to often see in his own youth in a certain committee room of Congress-was she ever called Molly" ''Maysie"-stop-- stop-stop.-yet, yes-'May?'