Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-10
ON THE WESTERN TRAIL
Washington Correspondents
Guests of Union Pacific.
IRRIGATION $ CONGRESS
HANDSOMELY ENTERTAINED ON
THEIR WAY TO OGDEN
Knowing Democrats in the West Dis
cuss Political Situat1on-Missouri
is Under Control Of New Boss.

cuSS POLITICAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
is Under Control Of New Boss.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, September Z, 1908.
The Washington correspondents who are
en- tour to the Rocky mountain states
struck their first hating place here today.
They left Washington last Saturday at $3.50
| in a special car, in charge Of Mr.. Hendricks
of the Union Pacific railroad. When the
correspondents reached the Pennsylvania
station they fround a tragedy all but i'm
minent. Mr. Hendricks had ordered 100
| sandwiches to hold the boys until the din
ing car should be put on at Harrisburg.
The sandwiches were delivered at the de-
| pot. 1t seems that a Cape May special
| excursion left that afternoon, and the de-
| pot people thinking that the Washington
| men never went anywhere but Cape May
| put the sandwiches on the special" There
| was a loud wall. Mr.. Hendricks by some
| quick work had another consignment pre-
pared, and nobody died on the way to Har-
| risburg.
Hospitality on the Kaw.
The trip to Chicago was made with dis
patch and due decorum. Reaching Chicago
the cars was switched to the Alton tracks
and quick run was made to Kansas City.
Here the delegation was met by a deputa-
ton from the Kansas City Star and the
| Commercial Club and the newspaper men
| were loaded into carriages and given
| drive over the beautiful boulevard system
| Of this city. They also visited the paper
| mill where the Kansas City Star is heading
off the paper trust by manufacturing
| half a million dollars worth of paper a
year.
| Then they wound up at the Country Club,
| where a delightful luncheon was served.
| BY the time the coffee and cigars arrived
| Editor Johnson Of the Star turned the gavel
over to Chairman Dunn of the Washington
| correspondents, and thereafter "Grid1ron
| Club" methods governed the proceedlnss.
| Mr. James 8. Henry of the Philadelphia
Press had prepared song to the tune OF
| Mr.. Dooley," which the boys worked Off.
| It was as follows:
| "Irrigation."
ITO make the desert places bloom in roses, wheat
The western experts have a scheme they work upon
It's guaranteed to make all rich who know what
And when YOU ask them what 1t is, Immediately
they shout:
"'why, irrigation; why. irrigation. with water
Quite economic, and not despotic, lie irrigation
worked by Uncle Sam.
1.-The east is Jealous of the west for stealing this
IT'S Da On Wall street day by day by every
| who
| With stock at par and business good, we hear pro-
Let's form a trust and skin the lambs in the good
od-fashioned way
!. n, s s5I~f not worth dam 'N" me water
Cutie economic although despotic. until the trust
Is swiped by Uncle Sam.
who the man nan. that hath hstched the scheme and
Who Is the man whose name will live in story and
in song?
Who is the man that makes grass grow where moth
And adds ten millions every year to the farmers
| modest storef
why, Mr.. wantland; why, Mr. Wsntland. the
So diplomatic, and democratic, is Mr.. Wantland OF
| the great U. Pr
There is a city on the Kawa hrst-class hustlins
For wealth and push for men with brains, it has
worldwide renown
| We eastern men, with mouths agape have asked
There's so much Of prosperity, and this Is the
| ply:
why Mr.. Johnson; why, Mr.. Johnson;
He brought the city strictly up to par.
Why, Mr.. Johnson; why, Mr. Johnson
| The who runs the Kansas City Star "
Pleasant Greetings.
The visitors were most handsomely enter
tained during the day by the citizens. and
at 1920 in the evening left In special train
over the Union Pacific for their long west
ern journey in charge of Mr.. c. E. Want
land and staff of assistants
AS an instance of the appreciation in
which the visitors were held the following
leading editorial is quoted from the Kansas
City Times
1t will scarcely be regarded by the gen.
tie public as violation Of modesty for
newspaper to say that newspaper men. as
a rule. are pretty interesting fellows. This
proposition seems SO patent that it is sub
mitted for consent rather than for argu-
| ment. OF course. there are occasional ex-
| ceptions, just as there are lawyers who
| are without guile and school teachers who
do not think and act in grooves. But
| among newspaper men, as in the physical
| universe, there Is one glory of the moon
and another glory of the stars. and one
star different from another star in glory.
Thus. while they are broadly speaking, all
| good fellows to know and to talk with and
| to listen to, the Washington correspondent
may Justly be pronounced the prince Of the
| craft.
In the first place, he is bright and up to
SNUFF, or he wouldn't be In Washington: In
| the next place, he operates in a field which
is incomparably richer in resources than
1 any other in the country. Whatever is best
and worst In this country gravitates to
Washington as the political center of the
republic. Az the greatest '.grafters" are
to be found in Washington, so the men who
are touched and inspired by the Hottest
patriotism and the most unselflsh concern
for their country are found there. also.
The Washington correspondent. 1t goes
! without saying. meets and knows all sorts
| and conditions of men. He can give more
| accurate measurement of, Senator Fustian
and Representative Graftwell than a man
could get by voting for either of them
| many consecutive decades. What the
| Washington correspondent writes and
causes to have printed is infinitesimal as
compared with his information which is
mot for publication He can tell you
more interesting secrets about public men
in an hour than an Industrious gossip could
| repeat in a day He is full Of good stories
about the statesmen whom he comes to
read as an open book for public men know
mighty well that 1t is no use to try to bluff
the kind of newspaper men who are sent
| to Washington. !,
The Washington correspondent sends out
| the kind of stuN that the people want to
| read a lot more than the news about bills
| debates nd