The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

nN kItaN ihNh Va NAS ~A' "F1
rndianisu. the strong men in a State or the
nation and the trusted men In small communi-
ties are Those whose Judgments slowly mature,
whose acts are governed by methodioal eXaot-
ness Of thought and who study not the in"
t~eusities Of the currents about them, but who
look 20 the present and the future effects OF
movements which seem to be at the moment
desirable aud necessary"
Speaking Of some Of these New York Re-
publicans county leaders" remarked q white
haired. bay Widowed. mahogany visaged
Republican at the Republican Club last even
ing, Il AM reminded that Swift said:
"a fea
Has smaller neas that on hun prey
And these have smaller fess to bite 'emi
And so proceed ad inrnituTn.
The illness of Senator German and the re-
newed prominence of Bryan as a Democratic
Presidential possibility recall an incident in
Germans long and notable career.
After his nomination in 1895 Bryan, the late
John p. Altgeld and others selected James X.
Jones, then a United States Senator for Ar
kansas. to be chairman Of the Democratic
national committee. Jones. as a collea que
of German in the Senate. had great admiration
for the Marylander's political sklll. as shown
III the first Cleveland campaign OF 1884 and
in the defeat Of the Force bill. He wanted
German as a member of the executive COM
mittee of the national committee. and Bryan
aud Altseld were willing. The executive
committee plans and executes through myriad
channels the campa ign IN ali the States,
Mrs. Bryan vetoed the German idea. She
didn't doubt Germans capabilities as a cam
paigner, but German had been a political and
social chum of those who had opposed her
husbands nomination. So German was
passed by.
i've had manvdefoats in my life. "smilin ely
-.- nI,n CNrrnp ~ xnhAn hA 1aaTnn1 how no
came TO he rejected. but this is the first time
/ was ever turned dow by a pett!coat,'
Here is another story OF Mrs. Bryan in
that campaign OF 1895:
David B. Hill had been selected by the
Democratic national committee to be tenn
porary chairman of the. convention, but the
Bryauites in the convention rejected Hill
and made Hills old friend, Senator John W.
Daniel Of Virginia, temporary chairman.
ltwas In that convention that Hill proclaimed:
Il am a Democrat, but l am not q revolu-
zionist"
The Bryaus came East to the enemy's
country, " as Bryan put It. and In the natural
course Of political events were to be enter
tanned by Hill at Woltert's Roost. Hill had
heard OF the German rundown and he asked
an old friend:
What sort of a woman is Mrs. Bryant
"Clever. very clever, was the reply,
Inc DTNdlB III que TIME we're ullol pN
Hill at the Roost. Shortly afteTward Hill
met his friend and rather stifly said:
81 thought you told me Mrs. Bryan was
clever. [ didn't see any evidences Of it.
She sat at my table and didn't open her lips"
The friend reluctantly reminded Hill that
Mrs. Bryan's silence at his table was ind eed
an evidence Of her cleverness, and this was
proved when Hill didn't open his lips for
Bryan during the campaign.
In political circles ingenious wives are
frequently relied upon by curious and per-
haps designing persons to speak OF matters
which long political training teaches their
husbands to avoid as subjects OF general
conversation.
Mayor Thomas J.. Reilly of Meridrn. Conn.
after being three months in office. has given
ND his Job. Mr.. Reilly was chosen in a close
contest. Before election he was a newspaper
man. Incidentally he ran three or four
baseball teams. He says: The occu patton
of mayoring has them all beaten to a FRAGILE, "
Since coming into office he has been harassed
to distraction by office seekers.
The winner OF the office Of Mayor Of Ida
Grove. Iowa, may be determined by the flip
of a coin or a cast of the dice. The result Ia
now a tie. This strange result Is collapsed
by the fact that the warning candidates are
brothers- in law, both Republicans and men,
bers OF the same business firm.
Robert L. Cherry Of Estill Springs, Tenn.
speaking OF the famous lines on "Oppor-
tunity" ascribed TO the late United States
Senator John j. Ingalls, of Kansas, says:
1T is fact. not generally known, perhaps,
that ingalls, did not write Opportunity.
and that it is a translation OF a poem entitled
II Fato,' which appeared In IL Sre0hgt, 9
newspaper Of Naples, Italy, in 1887, The
suthor il DR.. Nioofi G~igliotti, A. NJ, II" D.
N. D., of Erie. Pa. Italian poet. literary
critic and philosopher.
Alaska was purchased from Russia thirty
nine years ago for 1920 900, The purchase
u,as the nroduct Of the farsighted statesman
slim OF William Ii. Seward, tGoyernor Of New
York, United States Senator for the state
and later Secretary OF state In Lincolni
Cabinet.
The proper name Of. me proposed Rus
4 Sian National Assembly Is Gosudarstvsn.
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