The National tribune., 1904-06-16
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ment, that of buying the Legation ant
| Embassy residences abroad. We ough
To own them, and we are plenty ricl
enough to do so.
There is man in Washington who il
sprouting his crown. he certainly is. Las
year he gave the District Commissioners:
orders to furnish all poor people unable
10 buy ice. with a certain amount OF th'
CONCEALED comfort each day and to come
To him for payment of the bills. So, al
last Summer. the poor of this city, thu
sordd poor. had ice. \ philanthropy tha
ought to make the angels laugh for JOY
The other day this same man gave to th'
District Commissioners the very same
order. and all this Summer the blessed
charity will carry cooling comfort to thu
homes of the poor. The man with thu
prospective crown positively declines t.
permit his name to go bounding down th'
corridors of time.
Only % contests are facing the Nationa
Republican Committee. The State dele
cations in which the principal contests
Texas, Ohio. Louisiana. Missouri. Ala
bama. and Delaware. Of course, it is the
old Addicks row in Delaware.
Sergeant-at-Arm Stone of the NatiOna
Republican Convention declares that there
4 VIII LOT DE IL S1ISle uTlllk Stlu IllSIdt vi
Convention walls. There will be restau
rant, and there will be ice water, and
there will be nothing else. Oh, yes. there
will be rooms to which members of the
Convention can retire to smoke. 1t is tc
be business Convention.
Postmaster-General Payne says that
the Post Office Department is not going
into the censorship business at all. 1t is
entering on no crusade against advertis
ing of any character, except such as is
proven to be fraudulent. When the Post
Office finds that certain advertisements
are wholly worthless and that the pro-
mulgators of these are doing so to de-
fraud, the Post Office Department will ex
clude such from the mails. That's all.
Senator Fairbanks's hesitation abont
the Nice-Presidency reminds me of a story
l heard the President tell on a cowboy,
said a politician in the lobby of the Riggs
House the other day. 1T was when MIR.
Roosevelt was on his ranch out West
One day cowboy rode up to the store.
wearing leather chaps The fellow had
been out in the rain, and sitting on his
horse so long the leather had stretched al
the knees of his breeches, until when he
stood up the chaps at the knees stuck
out and gave him the appearance of stand
| ing with his legs bent, just as if about to
jump.
Another cowboy, who had been hitting
up the nose paint in the Red Light sa-
loon, wandered along and. noticing the at
titude Of the seeming jumper, stopped to
watch him make the spring. Finally
after waiting several minutes, the gen;
with the nose paint grew impatient.
| "'Dern ye,' he hiccOughed; If you are
goin' to jump. why, don't you jump"
There are some people so fnicky nice
that they whitewash the paving stones in
the street and line the walls of a convict's
cell with white cambric lest the bare walls
offend his eyes and remind him of where
he is. There is a thoroughfare in Wash
ington known as ''Tenleytown." 1t has
been here since Washington was founded
and is historic. The veterans of the wal
of the rebellion would be unable to find
| themselves if the Tenleytown road were
left out of the landscape. 1t is mentioned
on almost every. page of the operations IN
and about Washington during the war, and
| for half century before. 1t Is not at all
a bad name, is easy to pronounce, and as
easy as the average name to spell, but some
| finicky nice people want to have the name
of '.TenleytOwn Road changed to Wis
consin Ayenue!" OF course, wisconsin
is aristocratic. and when it gets Avenue
tackled to it it has reached the limit in blue
blooded street nomenclature but what is
the matter with Tenleytown! 1t is good
enough for anybody. and it is historic. Why
not let well enough alone:
1t is said that if W. f. Sharon, nephew
of the great bonanza king, cares to do sc
he can come to the United States Senate
/ in the place of Senator Stewart. who de-
clines reelection. Senator Sharon was one
of the picturesque features of the 44th to
the 10th Congresses.
l
of Pensions at the close of the Cleveland
Administration. has been appointed Secre
| tary of the Panama Canal Commission
Mr.. Murphy made conservative, conscien
tious Commissioner. winning the respect
and esteem of all those who had dealings
with him, and his recent appointment is O
deserved recognition of ability. He was
dent Cleveland, Governor Francis, Pres
strongly indorsed for the Office by Ex-Presi
dent Cleveland. Governor Francis, Pres
ident of the st. Louis Exposition; Ex
Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith, Senator
Gallinger, Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Pensions Senator Blackburn, Gen
| Black. Civil Service Commissioner, an(
several other persons of prominence.
Mr.. Murphy has been for some time
editor of the New Century" magazine
devoted to Catholic interests. He is alsC
connected with the law firm of Hopkins
MURPHY anu IiOphiuS. Ol iH1S CITY.
/
| A year or more ago a Miss Rebeccf
Taylor undertook to buck against th,
United States Government. its rules ant
regulations. and incidentally an order o
the President and Of the Secretary of War
which pried her loose from lucrative posi-
ton in the War Department. The reason
for her dismissal was conduct subversiv,
of good discipline. or words to that effect
As a matter of fact the young lady, wht
yields facile pen when the ink is vitriol
''sassed' her superior officers i'm the pub
lie print in letters written and signed b,
herself. and voluntarily contributed to Ger
tain Washington papers.
Miss Taylor sued for reinstatement a.
a clerk, and acted as her own lawyer, de
spite the old saying about the lawyer VIII,
pleads his own case having a fool for
client. Miss Taylor is no fool SHE is
very bright young woman, with good look
to help her out. She made good case
but well. when the President of the Unite,
States fires a clerk that clerk stays fired
Sabe! Miss Taylor lost. and appealed los
and appealed again. and now she ha
reached the limit and has again lost. No
body expected any other outcome.
. Miss Lena Morton, daughter of Ex-Vice
President Morton, lies dead in London from
on operation for appendicitis, and anofhe
: daughter, after two or three years Of Iif