The National tribune., 1903-12-10

Comrade George D. Randolph. Past De-
partment Commander of Alabama, who is
a strong candidate for the Post Office at
Admission, Ala, having the Endorsements
of the State. County Cimmittee, Chalrmen,
and the entire business element Oh !ne
town. has been in Washington looking
after his interests. He is in the real estate
business at Admission, and served in the
34th Ky, and also in the 11th and 18th
Ky. Cav.
Poor old Uncle Jerry Smith, the off
ciai duster'' of the White House. has been
superseded, and his days on earth are
proba bly, numbered. Uncle Jerry has been
in the White House employ for 30 years
He went there as the body-servant of Gen.
Grant when he was President, and had
been with him for many years before that
time. Uncle Jerry belongs to the oId-tlme
school of ''colored gen'lmen." He Ger
tainly does. He knows more big words
than Solomon, and he seldom gets them
in their right places; but he was always
smiling, always gentle, always courteous,
but never obsequious. Never lady or
little child passed Jerry when he was
about his duties in the White House that
he failed to say something pleasant to
them. A great, big fellow, with silverlng
head and slouching step, but erect form,
he has gone about the White House, dust
ing-rlg in hand, for these 30 years, and he
probably knows more people all over the
world than anybody else who has ever
lived in the White House.
81 don't jus rightly know jus 'xac'ly
how ole is,' he said to me once, but 1t
do seem like as if l had done live nigh
about a hunnerd yeahs;" but Jerry is not
above so, in ali probability. Among his
duties was that OF hoisting the Flag above
81, D,.aci OF
home. Jerry's sight is failing, and his
glasses dom fit nohow," and he was very
apt to get the Flag upside down. This
happened the day that the Honorable Ar
tillery of London visited the White House.
Jerry put up the Flag that morning with
the blue field down. As the big banner
streamed out over the gables of the White
House, people who regulate their lives by
watching certain clocks and symbols, see
ing the Flag in that distressful condition,
Immediately began to weep and wall, be-
leving that the President had been as
sassinated. Some statesman made hasty
visit to the White House to find out the
meaning of the hailing sign of Distress and
were relieved to find that poor old Jerry
had just made mistake and put the Flag
up wrong through his blindness OF vision.
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1t came mighty near being an lnterna-
tional episode, however. Uncle Jerrys
abject apology didn't seem to cover the
ground, some way, and there are actually
people in high official life who insinuate
that the gentle old colored man was trying
to insinuate himself into politics by
covert sneer at the British red-coats, who
We're that day coming to make social
call at the house which a little less than
hundred years before they had sacked and
burned.
The Navy Department took high UNI
bragg at it, and suggested that it would be
appropriate to have the service of raising
the Flag performed by men acquainted
with the military and Naval regulations,
inasmuch as the President is Commander
in-Chief So old Jerry has been displaced
and a retired enlisted man from the Navy
and retired Sergeant of the Signal Corps
will hereafter perform the duties. Jerry is
at his house, i'll unto death from rheuma-
tism and other troubles.
Secretary Cortelyou intends that the
Department of Commerce and Labor shall
s be respectfully housed. at the present
time it is scattered around over the half OF
Washington. which is very lnconyenlent.
An appropriation of S2,000,0Oe is to be
asked for the construction of a white
granite or marble building.
Rebecca J. Taylor, the clerk in the War
Department whe was dismissed by Secre-
tary Reot, "for the good of the service.
and who has been fighting for reinstate-
ment. is at it again.. She has carried her
case to the Court of Appeals of the Dis
trict. She will probably lose there, as she
has everywhere else. The Secretary of
War will probably appoint and dismiss
just about as he pleases.
Ny. but the delegate from Hawaii has
very Jonah of name. The President
wilted on it the very first pop out of the
box. prince Jonah Kuhie Kalanianoaie"
is the full title of the dark-faced gentle
man from the Sandwich Islands, and it is
pretty big mouthful for anybody. The
President refuses to adopt the title Prince
Cupid" which was bestowed on the dele
gate when he was little lad, and has de-
cided that he win call the Prince Mr..
Kuhio." The President would probably
get insulted if the people were to give up
trying to pronounce his somewhat difficult
Dutch name and called him instead "Mr.
Theodore" but that is what he is doing to
'Mr. Kalanianoale."
The Hawaiian delegate is about six feet
IL hight, brownly dark, with a heavy,
black moustache ierceiy waxed. His very
straight, black hair is ''pompadoured," and
he has an encarnadined taste in neckties
He must buy the scarlet silk beauties he
affects by the box, for they are always as
fresh as can be. He dresses very well, in
deed. and is accompanied everywhere by
his secretary. He has several men in his
suite who do various things for him. Prince
Cupid is probably about as rich a man as
there is in Congress. He seems to be quite
democratic in his ways, however, and a
good deal of a man.
Senator Hanna is not saying whether he
will be Chairman of the National Republi.
can Committee again or not. He says hs
will cross that bridge when he gets to it.
Mr.. Bryan in "chmney-pot hat and
spike-tailed coat, hobnobbing with the no
bility, the House of Lords and all that
must be sight for the gods to weep over
is:. SLING a good deal of the space in the
papers just now. And Madam 16-to-One:
Quien sabe-
Senator Hanna begins to feel as though
he might have life position in the United
States Senate, and is going to arrange his
affairs with that end in view. He is look
ing for an attractive site on which to build
him home such as he wants. He car
find no house in Washington which fill.
his requirements.
Mr.. Cannon wants everybody to "stOI
dat foolin'." He has emphatically de
clared that he will not be a candidate fo
the Vice-Presidency, and that he woult
not accept it under any conditions or cir
y