Smyrna times., 1905-05-03
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY
ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON
GIEANINGS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY TOLD IN A SPICY STYLE.

Loss to the United States Senator of Two of
its FOrmOst Members = Contention Over
Possession of John Paul Jones' Body
Have you received the bill for that
Easter bonnet?
With Lent out of the way the world
may again proceed to overeat itself.
The newspapers in some sections are
reporting the killing by frost of crops
which are never planted before Nav 1.
Evidently DR.. Osler never met the
fair Lillian Russell, or a number of
other juvenile comic opera stars.
Whenever a western farmer finds
he can only get 65 cents a bushel for
his wheat hereafter. he will say "Oh
Shaw"
Some railroad magnates are anxious
to postpone railway rate legislation
until an amendment can be added to
the constitution.
The law adopted in some cities
against spit ting on the sidewalks ap-
pears to have added zest to the dirty
performance.
Whether or not the country needs
public ownership of public utilities, it
certainly does need public ownership
of public officials.
The price of beef has increased since
the federal prosecution of the Beef
Trust began. That's easy, the Trust
needs the money to pay legal expenses.
A striking illustration of damning
with faint praise was afforded when q.
H. Rogers said of John D. Rockefeller,
Johns just as nice as I am.''
Johp W. Gates tried the old game of
cornering the wheat market but the
recent drop ID prices suggests that the
bears have given the Gates jar.
There will be no nice little consular
job for the compositor who made the
type declare that President Roosevelt
had "bagged two cinnamon buns" at
New Castle.
Esopus, N. Y, went Republican
last fall and now Oyster Bay has
elected Democratic mayor. Another
instance of no man a prophet in his
own country.
Perhaps the reason that the Presi-
dent asked Secretary Taft to hold
down the lid was because he thought
the vice. President was not enough of
heavyweight.
Major William W. Armstrong, the
inventor of the rooster as the Demo
cratic emblem, has died without hav-
ing invented anything for the bird to
crow about.
John Paul Jones, the first American
Admiral, was allowed to die In penury
and neglect in Paris tenement house.
Now that he has been dead over one
hundred years half the leading cities
in the Union are seeking to do him
honor.
The Senate of the United States has
lost this year, one by the turn of the
political wheel of fortune and one by
death, two of its greatest members
Francis Marion Cockrell, Democrat oi
Missouri, and Orville Hitchcock Platt
Republican of Connecticut. These
statesmen they were far more thar
politicians-stoodfo for all that was de
sirable in a member of the federal Con
gress. With one voice anyone fami
liar with the upper house of Congress
would have suggested their name il
asked which were two of the mos
honest men in the Senate. Boil
staunch partisans, both were broad
patriots. A measure obviously right
commanded the support of both, irres
pective of its author or the politica
affiliation of its promoters. Neithe
men attracted wide attention becaus
neither ''played to the galleries" bu
both were regarded as invaluable to tn
Senate by those who knew them
Deep regret was expressed by Repub
licans when knowledge Of Senate
Cockrell's defeat reached Washington
Senator German and other prominen
Democrats have deplored in sinceres
terms the loss of o. Fl. Platt. Blu
now, of more Importance than tn
careers of these men is the question o