Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.


The United States Marines or, as
the English call them, ''Jollies, >
soldier and sailor too, are to used to
collect bad debts in San to Domingo.
Really the burden of the strikers
in Russia was sufficient without the
handicap of the approval of Eugene
Debs.
1t is said that more then one
third of the voters of Philadelphia
didn't go to the polls at last election.
Nevertheless somebody carried the
Keystone State one-half a million
majority.
A fashion bulletin hasa the IN
formation that checks will continue
to be popular, but most people will
prefer cash, New York draft or a
money order.
Beef packer Swift claims that he
does not know there is a beef trust.
Would it not be we'll for some friends
to send him marked copies of new
papers. Any date of the last year
will do. But by this time he may
have heard of the Supreme court
decision.
Great Britain claims that she has
been affronted by Russian officials
in St. Petersburg and Warsaw. Let
her avenge herself, by ordering the
Poet Lauriate to write an ode on
Russia.
Hoch der Kansas. for Governor
Hook has ordered that State en-
ployees who act as lobbyists before
the legislature shall loose Gheir
official heads. Has the millennium
come? Is political purity contagious?
Folk of Missouri, Hook of Kansas,
Dlneen of Illinois!
There is no wonder that the Sher-
lock Holmes of Russia is unable to
find Father Gopen if he looks like
all the pictures of himself that have
been printed in the American news
papers.
And now we read that Japan,
after having sunk and sunk again
and many times blown up those
Russian ships proposes to drain the
Yellow Sea in order to recover
them.
Why should Senator Stewart be
ridiculed for appearing in evening
dress In the Senate Chamber. Would
the public have him Udress like
Gunga Din? He is one of the few
Senators who on account of a
patriarchal beard can go decollette
and defy pneumonia.
Mr.. Littlefield, of Main saws the
greatest problem before Congress is
one OF revenue, but why confine his
brilliant discovery to Congress.
Our friends who want to know
about Senator elect LaFollette's
political leanings are informed that
he is a left center right oppotunist
notions of his own.
When Miss Lillian Russell de.
clined to sing at a dinner given by
lady of the New York four hun
dred thousand, she merely intimat-
ed that she did not wish to compete
with Harry Lehr in his buffoonery
and baboonery.
Judge Larcombe of New York is
to be impeached because he has de-
layed decision for score of years.
He might. sight in defense the case
of Jarndyce and Jarndyce and per-
haps some United Seates Supreme
Court presidents.
A Connecticut mayor has re-
quested that his salary be reduced.
After all the alienists who report
insanity on the increase in this
country must be correct.
The legislature in Mr.. Bryan's
state has passed law providing an
eight-hour day for organ grinders
and monkeys. This legislation is
in the interest of our Simian an
cesters and their suffering descend
ants.
The Governor of Georgia will not
allow the sun-burst negro military
companies to take part in the In
augural ceremonies. This will be a