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colleague, Hon. Stephen g. Elkins.
Scott does not propose to be overshad-
/ owed by Elkins any longer. By the
way, Senator Elkins, who Is rated high
among senatorial scholars, is grad
uate Of the University of Missouri.
| The Washington Post says;
Judge Gray declares that John sharp
Williams II a Democratic presidential pos
sibility. That might be true II Mr.. VIII
liams was not suffering from geographic
disability.
Now surely the Post 10 not going into
the condemned performance Of waving
the bloody shirt, as the above para
graph would indicate that 1t is. True,
Williams lives in Mississippi, but what
OF that? The southern people are as
loyal as those Of New England. Sensi-
bic men are growing weary of seeing
the citizens of dozen states barred 10
completely from the presidency us If
they lived in Timbuktu simply be-
cause they lie south of the Ohio and
the Potomac.
Commissioner Of Pensions Ware has
brought large sized hornets nest about
his ears by stating before congress.
sional committee on civil service re-
form that lie can take 100 ablebodied
young men and cause them to do NIL
the work now performed by 500 Of
those who are incapacitated by age.
He'll know better next time.
The death Of William G. Whitney,
while universally deplored. has served
to revive the profitless dispute as
whether he or William Z. Chandler II
father Of our modern navy That con-
troversy will no doubt be transmitted
to posterity along with those touching
the identity of the Man In the Iron
Mask, the authorship of the Letters Of
Junius and the name Of the unmanner-
~ individual who struck William Pat
terson.
II the Filipinos are thoroughly paci-
fled and have come to glory in their
American citizenship, how does 1t hap
pen that about 100 constables in our
service took their arms and what mon
ey they could grab and went into re-
volt? II that were all 1t would be q
small thing, but II that is merely d
symptom of a general disease, such a.
walking" typhoid fever, 1t becomes ut
j once of vast Importance. Sometimes,
notwithstanding the rosy pictures
drawn by the ,jingoes, 1t looks like We
would have to repacify the Filipinos-
with club or gun.
Should Senator Charles W. Fair.
banks Of Indiana be elected to the vice
! presidency he will be the tallest vice
president ever. He is about six feet
four. Up to date Thomas Jefferson was
the tallest vice president, being six
feet two and half. Lincoln was the
tallest president, being six feet four,
| Washington and Jefferson coming next
with six feet two and a half each.
Mr.. Alfred +. Stevens is no doubt q
most excellent citizen. One thing cock
sure-he has lots of nerve. This 10
evidenced by the fact that he has
brought suit to compel the United
States Steel corporation, commonly
called the trust, to pay dividends on
its common stock. Wonder II BEer
Stevens ever heard Of the man who
tried to get blood ont Of a t4rnip?
Hon, Gas Addtcks Of Delaware
will soon meet In convention and select
delegates to represent him In the Re-
publican national convention. On dit
that he will instruct them for Colonel
Roosevelt. No doubt the colonel will nc.
cept them gladly on the theory that 1t Is
not polite to look gift horse in the
mouth. One thing is certain-Hon.
Gas" will have no trouble In plump
ing his delegation. His word will be
| law With it.
The Republican supreme court Of
Minnesota has found technically by
which to liberate ex-Mayor Ames, con.
yicted By the lower court Of higi,
crimes and misdemeanprs This has
been q great winter for the discovery
pf technicalfties by courts through
which to set prominent sinners free:
The breath was not out of Senator
Hanna's body before the Buckeye Re.
publicans began to scramble for his
seat in the senate There are "oodies''
Of aspirants. Among them Is Hon.
George B. Cox, the hoodlum chief OF
Cincinnati. George should press his
claims. he makes and unmakes Ohio
Statesmen. Why not take the tosa him.
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