The National tribune., 1906-10-25

a hunching forward gait and with hi:
mouth open, and he really does no
look as though he had lived for the last
half century. But he has, and dom
you forget it. He is very much alive
liarity Is his shiny black broadcloth. il
is never new; indeed. he seems never
to have had new suit of clothes, al
ways looks shabby genteel. Mrs. Cock
treti was magnificent looking woman
| carried a heap o STYLE" and knew
what was what, but she never could gel
the Senator to look any other than just
common, because he simply would not
pay any attention to his clothes. The
i Senator also hates the society way OF
| sending out tickets. Once upon a time
some society leaders sent him some tick
cts to a swell function at SIS per" for
the relief of the Confederate Veterans
. fund. He was honored with five tick
is. When the affair was over, the So
iety women went to Senator Cockrell
| o collect $25. But they didn't. not on
our life. they didn't What they did
| collect was just about the hottest piece
Of advice delivered in the reddest-col-
ored language that society woman's
| ears were ever greeted with, and il
came from Senator Cockrell. He in
formed them that he threw the tickets
in the fire, and all such sent in that
way would go into the fire; that he
would not be held up by any woman
or any set of women for any project on
earth. Oh, it was rich, because the
women who sent the tickets had to
stand the loss. since they could not re-
| turn them. Senator Cockrell said that
| that way of sending out tickets, unso-
iicited, was just highway robbery, and
that one reason he abominated society
was because its leaders held up men and
got money that should go to pay honest
debts.
| There are romances, even in politics.
In the 18th Congressional District, New
York City, Father-in-law Shober. a
Hearst worker, has been nominated for
Congress. and his son-in-law, William
H. Beers, is running for the State AS
which is inside Of his father-in-law's s
Congressional District. Mr.. Beers is
young, very, very young, but he was
younger two years ago, when he was
only %. While Father-in-law Shober
and Mother-in-law Shober were in
Washington two years ago, where Mr..
Shober was doing the Congressional act
and Mrs. Shober was attending pink
teas and playing at official society life,
the daughter. who is also very. very
young, ran off up in New York and
married young Mr.. Beers. There was
the usual forbidding parent, the stern
mother, the weeping daughter and the
irate son-in-law. and then they all kist
and made up. Now the youngster ex-
poets his father-in-law to pull him
thru in his campaign in State poli-
tics, for they will probably stand or fall
together.
The Aztec Club held its 49th annual
| meeting in Washington last week. The
Aztec Club was organized in the City
of Mexico on Oct. 13, 1s47, by the Off
GERS of the American army of occupa-
ton. 1t is composed of the commits
stoned officers who fought in Mexico,
and one descendant of a deceased Off
Ger, the right of membership passing
under the law of primogeniture. The
society is not and never can be large,
its membership at the last annual meet
ing being 225. OF these there are %
| primary members who actually took
part in the war and helped to storm
the halls Of the Montezumas. Among
them are Gen. Horatio G. Gibson and
Richard c. Drum, of this city.
Just IL days from the issuance of
the Presidents order for an expedition
Of 5000 to go to Cuba, the last Of the
| first expedition sailed from Newport
News on Thursday for Havana
The successful embarkation of these
/ X
as great triumph for Quartermaster-
General Humphrey and his assistants,
as only one transport. the Sumner, was
available at the time the order was is
sued for the expedition to sail and the
troops to take part in 1t were scattered
as far west as Vancouver Barracks,
| Wash. If transports had been available
at once the entire expedition could have
sailed within a week from the time the
order was issued.
Ex-senator J. Ralph Burton has been
sentenced to Jail, and it is singular
turn Of fortunes wheel that his per-
sonal friend and one whom he had
greatly assisted should try. convict and
sentence him. This friend, Judge Will
| lis Van de Venter. who presided at the
second trial of the Senator, Is an alum
nus Of Depauw University, which In
diana seat of learning is Burton's alma
mater, and where he won the oratorical
honors of his class. Altho there arc
several years difference In the ages of
the two men. they entered the univer-
| sity about the same time, and there
formed friendship which ripened into
a bond Of affection. When Burton came
to the Senate he found his old college
| friend living in Washington as Solicit of
of the Interior Department. At the
mention of Van de Venters name for
promotion to the Federal bench nobody
rejoiced more than the then Senator
Burton, and in spite Of the fact that
Van de Venter was a resident of Wyo-
ming the Kansas Senator insisted upon
| the privilege of moving in executive
session of the Senate the immediate
confirmation OF the nomination The
Aecond trial Of the Burton case fell to
Judge Van de Venter by reason Of the
death Of Judge Adams, who presided at
the first trial in the Federal Court at
st. Louis.
Washington has been selected as the
next meeting place of the International
| Association of Fire Engineers A hard
| fight was made between six or eight OF
the most important cities to secure the
next convention. The contest finally
narrowed down t. Boston and Wash
ington, the latter winning by a vote OF
81 to 81. The exact date Of the conven-
ton has not been selected.
Gen. Wood objects to the proposed
reduction Of forces in the Philippines,
and what he says should have some
force. He says:
j I'VE are far from home, and in case
of foreign disturbance. even with all
our troops concentrated at Manila. the
force available would be barely sufTl-
cient to defend II from serious attack
Moreover, a strong garrison should be
maintained here until conditions per-
ltaining to the civil Government are well
established. and the animosities and
disappointments incident to the build
ing up Of a local Government under
new and perhaps strained conditions
have passed away"
j Gen. Wood suggests that It would be
:, all = 1T A.