The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-25
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Power Of the Speaker Of the House
Maryland Republicans and Nh. Bona
parte - Fairbanks After the Farm
Vote-The Japs ind the Philippines

brave and land of the free. Should
Fairbanks succeed in making himself
the farmers candidate the cake Of Mr..
| Secretary Taft, Mr.. Secretary Shaw.
Mr. Secretary Cortelyou, Senator For
aker and all the rest will be dough.
Cincinnatus was snatched bodily from
his plow to lie made dictator Of Rome.
Diocletian dotted the imperial crown to
luxuriate in his cabbage patch. They
| became famous. Why not Fairbanks
While Secretary Taft is visiting t..
nikado, while Senator Foraker is tr:;
ing to corral the Buckeye Republicans
during Secretary Tafts absence in the
orient. while Secretary Shaw is exploit
ing the theory that man can get rich
| 10y being taxed to death and can lift
himself over the fence by Juggling at
his own boot straps, while the bread
and butter brigade are trying 70 in
duce Colonel Roosevelt t. RIM for pres
ident again. not for his goSr. but their
own. Mr.. Fairbanks will be quietly but
busily making presidential hay while
the sull shines OF his Hoosier farm
The first thing his competitors know
pictures of him in overalls and cotton
shirt blowing corn or shocking wheat
or rounding up calves will begin to ap-
pear numerously. and the Republican
agricultural mind will naturally turn
to Fairbanks. Truth to tell. he is grow
ing as candidate and he is we'll up to
| the front in the running The anarch-
list incident up in Michigan will help
| him, for people will reason that if he
in the vice presidency is a parsonage
Of sufficient Importance to attract the
attention Of the enemies of all govern
ment he must be of presidential stat
ure
The vice president seems to be happy
in being able to express the we'll ac
cepted Republican articles Of faith
without offense to any Of his brethren
He ventures on no new wrinkles He
follows beaten and familiar paths. His
forte is moderation in linguistics. If he
is d stand patter, the revisionists don't
seem to know it. If he is a revisionist.
the stand patters haven't found it out.
Mr.. Secretary Taft injured his pros
poets by his buy where you can buy
the cheapest proposition. He was too
sudden. He Jared the stand patterS.
OF course they needed Earring. but it
was like punching g bald hornets nest
Mr.. Secretary Shaw, thinking that Taft
had killed himself, which he had not
done, jumped into the breach and be-
gan to yell stand patism so vociferous-
~ that all the revisionists lined up in
stanter against him. and they will fight
him viciousiy. to the last ditch. While
all this was happening the vice presi
dent was making pleasant Republican
speeches constantly, avoiding Charybdis
and Scylla. offending nobody and gain
ing ground all the time. No Republican
can find fault with his political ortho-
doxy. Now he comes in the balmy
month of June, while the multitudinous
voice Of the graduate is heard in the
LAND, and says sweetly, Il like farm
ing speech in one sentence which
will cause his stock to jump several
all right Only his politics is bad
awfully bad.
Becoming Sane.
One notable effect of the great Rus
sian naval defeat is the returning
sanity Of Washington bigwigs. Ever
since the war began they have been
giving all the al possible by word of
mouth and by written expression of
opinion to the .I;ps. Notwithstanding
the fact that dur.l-G ;he civil war Rus
STA was the only old world power
friendly to the United States. Now
the Washington bg".gs appear to be
waking Up to the realization of a fact
which humber folk have heretofore
modestly suggested. which is this: If
the Japs finally lick the Russians. they
will be so pufed up that they will be
going around with a chip ca the.r
shoulders shouting for q fight with any
body and everybody. AS we are among
the nearest neighbors by idiotically
holding on to the Philippines, just as
apt as not we will be the first nation
they will tackle. and we will be in a
pretty pickle fighting 1000 miles from
a base for q thing we never ought to
have had, which has been a positive
curse to US ever since we got it and
which we ought to get rid Of at the
earliest possible moment These ideas
are beginning to percolate through the
fuddled brain Of the Washington big
wigs. The dispatches from that de-
lectable city state two facts of inl-
portance on this subject: a. That the
bigwigs are not pleased at the di-
mansions of the Jap naval victory
They wanted the Japs to win. but not
so overwhelmingly; e. That the big
wigs are hurrying battleships, torpedo
boats and munitions Of war to the Phil
ipplnes.
When was boy I knew an old
chap named Jake Stein in the Chapline
river bills in Kentucky who owned q
fine flly which was too skittish to suit
him. He wanted to tame her So he
told his son to hide behind tree and
when he rode by on the lilly to jump
out and yell Boo The junior obeyed
orders with such enthusiasm that the