The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-22
GRANDPA DAVIS BOYS
LIVE ON EASY STREET
Grandsons of Vice Presidential
Candidate Dons See How
They Can Lose

"Oh, l don't know anything about
politics, but 1 reckon that there may be
others in our family who do know
something of political affairs laugh
ingly remarked a big, bronzed, wealth
er-beaten young man at the Ryan hotel
yesterday when he had just registered
as Richard Elkins. Washington, D. C.
+ The young man, clad in ose-fit-
ting flannel suit soft shirt with the
cuffs hanging two or three inches be-
low the cuffs of his coat, looked the
personification of youthful vigor.
L am going hunting and fishing out
West, he remarked apologetically,
and then I have just come home from
a trip abroad and the ocean does won
ders in browning ones skin and max
ing him look like real Indian. Say,
what's this? A mothers club or some
thing of that kind?"
He was standing in the hotel lobby,
filled with delegates to the Ladies
Catholic Benevolent society convention.
Young ElkinS is a son of Senator
Stephen d. Eikins, Republican boss OF
West Virginia, and grandson of Henry
GassaWay Davis, Democratic nominee
for the vice. presidency. With him was
his brother, Blaine E1kins, and they
left on the Northern Pacific overland
train at 10 o'clock last night for Seat
tie, Wash, and will hunt and fish in the
mountains for a few weeks. returning
East in time. to resume their studies
at Princeton university. The young
men spent the day in ST. Paul yester-
day, and time hung rather heavily on
their hands, for John De Giraffe Berkey,
the only man whom they knew in ST.
Paul, was not in town.
Hasn't Learned Politics
Politics is something I have not
learned yet" Dick Elkins said as he
sidestepped question as to where his
sympathies We're in the apnroa ching
national election.
DO you want TO see your father win
or would you rather see your grand
father win the vice presidency" his
quesuoner persisted. And then he
showed the inherent law of heredity.
whats the matter with both WIN
nlng?' he said, as his eye lighted UP at
| the thought. Father might carry the
teg1slatuIe ofi'West Virginia and be re-
turned to the United States senate, and
my grandfather, Mr.. Davis, might win in
the national election There is nothing
contradictory about that proposition, is
there? Judge Parker doesn't abso-
1utely need to have West Virginia to
win, and of course sentiment is strong
er in the East that he stands a good
| chance than it is out here in Mime
Sofa ~ -.a
MY grandfather is an old man. it is
| true the grandson said, ''but he is a
wonderfully preserved man, and. no
one IN our family is accustomed to re-
gard him as so advanced in years as
he really is. He is still an active, pro-
gressive business man and sets a pace
for many men among his associates
that Though they are his juniors by
twenty years, they. do not feel like
following. Mr.. Davis has had won
derful career, beginning life as an Or
binary workman in the most humble
vocations, but he has conquered every
obstacle and is regarded as one of the
few remaining :self-nlade' men of ma
tional prominence in the country But
1 am talking about my family" the
young man declared, as he remembered
that he might be talking for publica-
ton, and straightway began to ask
questions about Minnesota politics and
the Northwest in general
Compliments Minnesota Air
"Say, but this weather in Minnesota
Is fine he calculated as he Inhaled
a breastful. why, yesterday in Chi
cago it was insufferable. But I've
heard a lot of Minnesota climate, and
if this is sample I'll believe anything
they teN me after this. Have just
come home from Europe, where l ac-
companied my mother, and the air here
today is not unlike that ON a warm
sunny day on the Atlantic in June
This country must be prosperous, il
the travel is any indication. This hotel
is filled with women to such an extent
that it's impossible to get any but the
cheaper rooms, and We have had lot
of difficulty in securing sleeping car
accommodations through to the coast.
The Yellowstone park seems to at
tract great many tourists and 1 sup
pose many people come North after
doing the fair.
"St. Paul is a pretty town, but a
stranger is at a disadvantage in trying
to see it without a guide. / put in the
day here, but Of course took street
cars that led to the country instead of
to the part Of the town-on the hill
I've heard it called-that 1 wanted to
see SO much"