The National tribune., 1906-11-15

the ward-thought we were just as
good as Cary and his crowd. They
wouldn't let us in, so we broke in
Merriman Colbert Harris, Mission
airy Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for Japan and Korea, was re-
Gently received by the President, and
they talked for some time about Japan
and the feeling that has been created
there by the refusal of the San Fran
cisco authorities to admit Japanese
children to public schools with white
children.
In speaking of the tender feeling of
the Japanese for their children the
Bishop said:
Japanese are unusually sensitive
about children. In Japan everybody
conspires to make the life of child a
happy one, and so much respect Is
shown for the little ones that grown
people get up from their seats in street
cars and give them to the children up
to a certain age. This sensitive feeling
as to children accounts for the grle1
the japanese felt when they learned
that Japanese children in San Fran
cisco had been deprived of school priv
ileges and of association with other
children They cannot understand how
their children should be discrilninated
against. when Italian children. irish
children. German children and all
other nationalities are received in the
public schools on an equality.
Bishop Harris says that Christianity
is making progress in Japan and Ko-
rea There are about 100000 Christian
Japanese he says, and $4,000 Christian
Koreans The japanese are tolerant OF
Christianity and of the efforts of Chris
tan missionaries and put nothing dis
couraging In their way.
1t will be remembered here that a
former japanese Minister was devoted
to his only son. tiny lad. and that he
and his wife and son were inSeparable
The boy went to all the state recep-
tions at the White House, and was al
ing his hand. He was manly little
fellow, too.
There were some surprises in the
election, and the Republicans really
feel that they did not get all that is
coming to them. For instance, Mr.
Wadsworth. of New York, was defeated.
Now, Mr. Wadsworth was a statesman
and a gentleman. He was businesslike,
energetic farsighted. honest and just.
Why he should have been defeated can
not quite be explained away. 1t is said
that-but then that's another story
He was defeated. and no matter how
ScnI q man mas Deel sent III MS pidct
it will probably take him years to climb
to the place and be of the Importance
in the work of legislation in the Ma
tional House of Representatives that
the man he succeeds held. 1t is dis
tinct loss to the party that Wadsworth
should have been defeated. He was
Chairman of the House Committee on
Agriculture, and because he didn't lose
his head and go straight up in the air
on the stockyards investigation he was
marked" SO they say.
Then, there was young Fred Landis,
of Indiana. He was such kid, it is
true. and rather shone in the reflected
light of his genial brother Charley"
than whom nobody is better liked in
the United States Congress. But he
was a good deal of a man, despite his
youth, and, oh my how he did talk!
1t was said that 1t was "sassiety" that
defeated him for reelection. He came
in in the 59th Congress on a tidal wave,
anyhow, and it's recession, perhaps,
swung him a little further back than
was necessary, but the story they tell
is after this fashion,: Mr.. and Mrs.
Longworth went into his district to
make speeches-Mr. Longworth made
the speeches and Mrs. Longworth did
the society act. Now Mrs Longworth
would not have committed the faux
pas, but in the mighty effort TO do
honor to the daughter of the President
the people of Logansport, Ind, arrang
ed for social functions, and left off the
list the wives. mothers, sisters and
sweethearts of men Who had no
social standing. Result? Well, you
can guess that dead easy. The women
SO snubbed set themselves to work to
organize a revolt, and they did it all
right. The social functions were WON
derfUily brilliant and Swell" and
smart" clothes We're worn, and all
that, but while the society women were
doing their stunt, the women outside the
society pale were also doing theirs, and
at the polls on Tuesday the women not
in the Landis-Longworth society clean
ed up the slate and wiped off all the
scores. Mr.. Lands, in a district nor
mally Republican by 5000, was defeat
ed by 1000, and they do say the women
did it. But, then, that is a campaign
story, you know.
Mr. Babcock, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, and Chairman of the Congressional
Republican Committee. is another ex-
ann pie of pitcher that vent too often
to the well. Mr.. BabcJC. has served
IA years in Congress, and served well.
But the La Toilette organization has
been laying for his scalp for a number
OF years and now they have got 1t.
Mr.. Babcock has been Upon the point
of retiring from Congress several times.
and now he probably wishes that he,
had taken the rest he really needed a
term or two ago. He will be missed
in many ways. for he was always sane"
and correspondingly safe" as a quiet
leader in the Republican Party, where
he has been one of it's most trusted
men.
Hearst. Sullivan and Towne. all of
New York, are elected to stay at home
The first two didn't talk enough; the
last one talked too much. They never
will be missed.
Up in Minnesota they turned Nc
Cleary down. He has served in seven
Congresses and his majority for the
59th Congress was over 5000. He is
a scholarly, educated man of pleasing
presence. and was much liked in Con,
gress, where his work was effective
But you cant most always sometimes
tell just exactly what politics will do
TO n fellow, and so Mr.. McCleary got II
in the neck, so to speak, because he
was "standpatter." so they say" He
was against Tariff Revision. and his dis
trict is said to have been for it strong
So the Republicans bit off their noses
to spite their faces and returned n
Democrat who will stand about as much
show in the Goth Congress as ice would
in blast furnace.
In Idaho the Senatorial situation
dominated everything and dafpita ra