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"Old Hickory" Chips.
(By Our Associate EditorA
IfgepubIIcao sepators could ada
s2S0OO d year 70 ,he Senate pay.
rolliu a single month, how long
would Il take them to spend the
Treasury surpIusf
The man who really thinks that
there is . single Europeao nation
that would not down this copnry
IL the oppottauiiy offered IsIn,n need
ofa new thinkery.
Teddy ! is progressing. He now
sends for the republican Congress
ioual leaders to come to the White
House aud berates them for iailure
to be more prompt 10 obeying bis
orders. He may yet try the Rus.
sian knoat,on them.
They are getting so Engl,sh 10
Washington that Mr.. Rooseyelt
may Offer bis haUd TO be kisssd. To-
stead oil shaken, by his callers,
Governor Taft says the Filipinos
are corrupt because they have bsen
fused to corruption. From all &C.
counts, there are Americans over
there who are giving them plenty
,of what they have been usedlo, too.
New Yorks ioadies appear 20 be
hnder the impression that the 22nd
he Prince Henry day rather than
Washiugton's birthday.
IL the practice Of the Detroit
canrts in the case Of Andrews, the
bank buster-requirlng only $685..
0e0 bond for theft of 100000
were TO become the regular thing,
bank.bustlug would soon be one of
the recognized industries of the
country. Perhaps II is regarded by
that jndge as an "infant Industry"
that needs protection"
Mr., Roosevelt practices and .ad.
mires the bossy method of doing
things, but he bncked op the gag
rule used by the republican House
bosses to shut out amendments TO
the bill for the repeal of the war
taxes.
"Wbo will haYe faith in the creed
of a party IL the party stands ready
to barter away lis Ctssd in ex-
change for promise of pstronageS"
Hon. W, J. Bryan.
-"4'Thougn a revolution in our
form of government NAV not yet
be on foot. the plain tendencies of
the policies and measures of the
dominant party, siace the outbreak
of the Spanish war, is to destroy
the ideals which were once the pc
culiar glory of the American
people" Hon. Richard 0lneY.
The latest is Il savings bank trust
with headquarters at Cleveland.
Wonder how much etock Hanna
has in III
Senator Tiliman says he Is the
best advertised man in Congress,
and that be neither pays nor asks
for the advertising.
Postmaster General Payne has
served aotice on the fourtb-class
postmasters that it rs time for them
to get into the Roosevelt band
wagon.
The ground hog doesn't draw a
salary, but be made the United
States Weather Bureau look like u
republican Philippine report this
year.
If the republicans have aothiDg
better to base their hopes Of retain.
ing control Of the house upon than
Ccngressman Wbeeler's antlfnnk.
eyism speech they are 10 bad way,
indeed,
An inapt expression or two did
not affect the truthfulness Of Con-
gresham Wheeter.s arrangement Of
the republican administration for |
its trIculency. to great Britain.
Congressman Corliss of Michigan
didn't mince his words in describ-
log the schemes of the would.be
grabbers of Pacific cable privileges.
The only astonishing thing about
it is that Mr:.Gorliss is republican,.
Attorney General Knox has rem.
dered an opinion that the transfer
of the emplnyes of the Government
Printing Office to the classified civil |
service was illegal, which means
more pie for republican candidates
for congress. And Mr.. Roosevelt
once posed as a civil service