Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-02-14
Especial letter.

\Opecidl Letter.
~ HE Presidents old rough
N rider comrades are a
source of keen delight to
him. They have in
creased in numbers since
last September, like Aus
tralian rabbits or coun-
try mushrooms, and
they spring up Unexpectedly from
every hole and corner in the Union.
The President is always awfully glad
to see them. asks them to lunch and
gets great deal of fun out of talking
over old times. He rarely gets impa-
tient, no matter how pressing the de-
mands of his old comrades are, and he
receives their requests with good ma
ture, even though 1t is impossible often
to act upon them favorably. Some of
these gallant fellows, as the President
often explains to his friends, are to
say the least, rough diamonds" but
he will not admit that any Of them
are really bad and always presents
them to the public in the very best
light possible
The strained re-
Senatorial lati ons between
r... Senator Vest of
Missouri and Sena-
tor Morgan of Alabama dre well I'M
derstood in Washington. The other
day Senator Clapp, who is newcomer
and consequently not well informed re-
garding the feuds and animosities ex-
listing between the members of that
body. approached Senator Vest just
after third senator had stirred
Clapp's ire. The Minnesota statesman
said to Vest:
isn't Jones the worst ass that ever
broke into public life?"
WELL" said the frail and withered
statesman from Missouri, 81 can't say.
You know am pretty thoroughly COM
mitted on that proposition to Morgan"
Mrs. Roosevelt Is
Praise Mrs. Roose-a delightful con-
r.,. versationalist, but
she is not a great
talker. She sees and hears everything
that passes around her, being very OBJ
serving and nothing of a dreamer. Her
will is strong and her reason and in
telligence are we'll poised. She is cool,
calm, intellectual. One cannot by any
freak Of fancy imagine Mrs. Roosevelt
losing her head" or having Mysteries
She Is born manager. If Mrs. Roose-
welt were a poor woman she would
manage somehow to keep out of debt
and educate her children, and both they
and she would be neatly dressed. She
is not sentimental or emotional, but
she would die for her children none
the less because she is their wise train
er and the director of their education.
while so far as her own personal ambi-
lions are concerned she has simply
blotted herself out and merged her ex-
istence into that of her husband. She
is linguist, musician and woman
of literary tastes. She has singularly
graceful and dignified carriage and a
low cultivated voice She has two Pc
culiarities-a sense of humor and no
fads
Senator Perkins |
Thought He wouIdof California
Die. thought he was 60
ing to die the other |
night. He had a twinge of intercostal |
rheumatism which caught him in the I
vicinity of the heart, and, as he says,
he thought the time had come to pass
in his chips. He was telling friend !
about it: II got up" said he, and |
prepared telegram to the governor in
regard to appointing a successor to fill
out my unexpired term. thought if
were going to have to quit in this sum-
mary fashion, the least favor the gov
ernor could do me would be to let me
make an Endorsement of the man to
carry on the work. But when the doc
tor came he said the telegram would
be premature"
Mrs. Kearns, the wife of the senator