The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
THE PRESIDENT AND "1RoNau1LL.

the new pension commissioner for the first
time, when the former was passing through
Kansas On his way to the reunion of the
Rough Riders Of Oklahoma two years ago.
He had just been nominated for the vice
presidency. David w. Mulvane, the national
committeeman for Kansas, was in charge OF
the excursion through Kansas, and quite u
party of kansans were on board. Turning to
Congressman Long after leaving Kansas
City, and just before Topeka was reached
Mr.. Roosevelt inquired: Where does Iron
quill live?" He was informed that Ware was
resident Of Topeka, and at once said II
should like very much to meet him.
When the train reached Topeka there were
perhaps 5000 people assembled. Congressman
Long jumped off the train and began looking
for Ware. He finally located him far in the
outskirts Of the crowd, calmly sizing up the
situation. Ware was asked to meet the presi-
dent and did So No sooner had he been in
troduced than Roosevelt began to quote from
the poems Of "Ironquill" Nothing more EN-
barrassed Ware than a reference to his poems
by stranger. But the nominee for vice
president insisted upon talking about them
and Ware rode with him to Usage City Sub
seqrently without consulting the Kansas dele
cation the president appointed Ware one of
the commission to West Point
Two months ago, when Ware came to Wash
ington to represent Kansas in the suit against
Arkansas river, he called at the White House
The president invited him to luncheon and
on second visit to Washington a few weeks
later, Ware was once more a White House
guest. The president told him he considered
the office of pension commissioner personal
compliment and that it ranked in Importance
with a cabinet position Ware protested that
the salary was not sufficient to Justify him
in giving up his law practice, even te1nporar-
lly but the president appealed to him on the
grounds OF patriotism, and he accepted the
place.
Below are given few more of the poems Of
the new commissioner:
POLITICS.
Many the childhood friends Of mine
That started ahead of me,
Fearless in Ignorance, buoyant in hope,
To sail on the vitriol sea.
Little they knew of the depth or the scope
OF the treacherous vitriol sea-
Some of them sailed in painted boats.
Most beautiful things to see;
Gossamer boats of ephemeral wood,
AS fragile ever could be;
Soon to discover that wood was not good
In the cankering vtriol sea.
Many tried brass, and some tried glass,
To sail on the vitriol sea;
Mindless alike of .corrosion or storms.
They sailed with hilarious glee
Happy to-day, but to morrow in swarms
10 be sunk in the vitriol sea.
Where did they wish to co. you ask,
That sailed the vitriol sea?''
That is something never shall know,
tbs mystery even to me.
Still they did go, and continue to go,
And sail on the vitrol sea-
DER SUNNY KANSAS.
Ger sunny Kansas
Some commercial Cadmus
In days unknown,
The teeth of golden dragons must have
SoWn
For when the prairies
Feel the breath of summer
The trowels ring.
And from the soil the FURNISHED cities
spring.
A KANSAS IDYL.
"a true incident)
Into frontier town of Kansas came
An aborigine with moccasins and war-paint;
And he-bore the look-wan look--of the
untutored savage. And there also came
proud Caucasian, In boots and spurs and
pistols
Clad-a rover, full of strange oaths, and
Bearded like his pard. He had a classic
Had been, and deemed a youth Of power and
culture
Bare They. each to each stranger
Sought the Kansas Village in pursuit
OF ardent spirits. Prohibition held full sway,
And the unrelenting man Of drugs and
Merchandise refused to sell the article
lJeldnueu. away III anger ana disgust
The proud Caucasian strobe, and as
His fervid language percolated through
The llmy ether, spectators at distance
Thought that aurora borealis was
On exhibition. Back to his ranch returning,
He went to bed sober. But the aborigine
With more stoicism met refusal from
The man of drugs, and purchasing of hair oil
quart bottle, to his wigwam went.
Into that oil the aborigine some water poured, |
And by a process of dsintegration the
Alcohol, with which the oil was cut,
United with the water, and the OIL
Floating above was gently skinned away.
And the noble aberigine proceeded
To become inebriated, land we'll did he
Succeed, and went to bed in condition
That the rover would have enved.
TITS ever thus with the untutored savage, 4
Who, yearning after natures means and
measures, ia.
With pure and childlke instincts seeks to
ravage
The dim arcana of its mystic pleasures,
And wrest from natures vault its cryptic |
treasures,
While by his side, clogged with redundant
learning,
The proud Caucasian swears and gets left
warming