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~ and that is to recall instanter
ct sans ceremonie Joseph 81.
Choate, ambassador to the court of
St James, That conspicuous flunky
objected to Americans celebrating the
Fourth Of July in London, even In the
most quiet manner, for fear that It
would ruffle the feelings Of King Ed
ward, who was miles away. II such
f1unkyism as that is not q disgrace
to the American name, it would be i'm
possible to say what is. Mr.. Choate
is great lawyer and famous after
dinner speaker, but he is unfit to hold
his present position because he in no
way represents American principles
or reflects American sentiment, He
is almost as un-American as William
Waldorf Astor, who has declared the
United States to be an unfit place for
a gentleman to live in, who has for
sworn his country and who for years
has been expanding much sweat and
treasure In mad search for title
of nobility. Whatever else he is, Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt is an Ameri-
can, and he owes it to himself, to Ills
countrymen and to the high position he
holds to recall MI. Choate under such
conditions as will constitute public
rebuke.
Mr.. Choate is the same man who
only few years ago advised all
the Irish i'll America to return to the
Emerald Isle on the ground TINT their
room is more desirable than their COM
pany, obliyious to the fact that our cit
liens Of Irish birth and extraction have
done as much as any others to build
up this puissant republic.
It so happens that that other pre-
eminent 1unky, Don M. Dickinson. Ia
in London. 1t is great pity that he
will not settle there permanently. At
great banquet "betwixt the walnuts
and the wine' he nominated Theodore
Roosevelt for president in 1904 and
Joe Choate for president in 1908.
There may have been something more
asinine said somewhere, at some time.
by somebody since the confusion Of
tongues at Babel; If SO, 1t has not been
recorded. Don is evidently roofing"
for another big Office, and If Choate is
to be president (which God forfend
he could not find funky more after
his own heart than Don to fill the Of
fee of minister to Dahomey." With
such things happening one is COM
PEELED to poster his head to discover
If he is awake OF only suffering from
some horrid dream. Send the Irish
back to Ireland, indeed! Any honest
Irishman beating rock on turnpike
or digging ditch who came to Amer
lea because he loved liberty and our
republican institutions is worth a field
full Of such dunkies as Joseph II.
Choate and Don M. Dickinson, to say
nothing OF such 1llustrious Irishmen
as General James Shields, who poured
out his blood like water in defense OF
his adopted country.
A Rising Texan.
Tor years Texas has had one Of the
strongest average delegations in con
gress. in both house and senate. Some
man from Texas has been to the fore
in congress constantly for quarter
of century, or, more properly speak
ing, should say some men, for the
Lone Star State has and, excepting in
the reconstruction period. always has
had more than one of her sons in the
public eye at any one time. The i'm.
press of old Sam Houston and his great
compeers is still upon that mammoth
and magnificent commonwealth. Whe1
Coke, Reagan, Sayers, Mills and Judge
Culberson retired. it was generally
taken for granted that the glory OF
Texas had departed, temporarily at
least,
Not 30, however. The youngsters
who came upon the boards still
maintain the high reputation of the
state. Culberson and Bailey are the
youngest senatorial team in the less
numerOug branch of the national legis-
lature, and they are second to no other
states senators in ability. Her thir-
teen representatives are men of I'M
usual ability on the average. They
are all Democrats. In the next con-
gress she will have sixteen, oil Dem
ocrats, heaven be praised, not only
Democrats nominally, but Democrats
who possess the courage Of their con-
Eictions. And they are good to look
at-big. strapping fellows, with great
heads, set on broad shoulders and
strong necls. They are the glory OF
the republic and Of the human race.
did not, however, start out to write
an essay on the Texans, though the
theme is a tempting one. set out to
tell short tale as to how Thomas H.
Ball of Texas answered Charles e.
Littlefeld Of Maine on the trust ques-
ton.
Ball Is rising man-indeed, he
has already risen. He is as fine a
specimen mentally and physically as
bne will see in n days journey. He is
getting to be one of the best debatcrs in
the house. On the 24th Of June he was
making some remarks on the trusts
when Littiefield, one of the Repub-
lican chieftains, asked him, "What is
the Democratic remedy for trusts?'
Quick as flash the big Texan re-
piled, $40 place all trust made articles
on the free list, to deny the trusts the
power of interstate transportation aud
the use Of the mails and to fnaugurate
an administration which will resort to
penal statutes and not to injunctions
in the prosecution Of trusts" In the
slang of the day Balls answer was a
corker, a daisy, jim dandy, a Joe
darter, sockdologer.
"A Patriotic Republican,