The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-15
Mashin Rton Was in It Too.

The campaign has opened merrily
enough. Georgia and Alabama and
South Carolina are resting from their
respective melodramas. Tennessee is
getting ready to throw a At OF special
magnitude. The Congress elections all
over the country will soon be humming
with preparatory fervor. Within a very
few weeks the perfume Of barbecues and
fish fries will make the air go faint with
luxury and the noise Of orators hurting
back and launching ~imprecations at the
bastard foe will the hills TO tremble
with respectful awe.
GoMPERs has bawled and prayed in
Maine and gone away. BEvERIDGE, be-
garlanded and tuneful, has drawn the
hamadryads from their clustered hooks
to dance in checkered woodland aisles to
the compelling music of his chin. The
hot New England blood has boiled in
swollen veins. The ardent New England
temperament has responded to a thou
sand poetic and unshirted overtures. And
all this while the stir Of greater battles
freiShts the atmosphere. FORAKER and
DICK are getting sponged on for the
second round in far Ohio, and that dizzy
and majestic peak Mount Fairbanks is
settling into the zone Of vegetation.
Meanwhile, Westinghouse refer to
the capital Of our common country-con-
tributes to the general hustle in a fashion
which it were simply stupid to ignore.
Washington, in fact, infuses into the stu
alton an element Of artless gayety almost
too tender to be true. While the States,
from one ocean to the other and from
the Great Lakes TO the Gulf of Mexico,
are bristling with martial preparation,
Washington has declared itself for a great
commercial and industrial boom. More
than a hundred Of that city's business
men went into profound Capitalization
several weeks ago. Every time a door
opened the noise of eager eloquence
ESCAPED, like the smell Of boiling cabbage
from an unguarded kitchen. Then COM
mittees were appointed and the local
newspapers began to reek with language.
Our Mutual Friend VENEERING rallied his
friends around him. Doors and BREWER
took cabs and went about. Great enthu-
siasm and still greater vociferation ran
amuck, if we may strain that hardy meta
phor. Some one vent fishing early in
August and deepest gloom ensued. Later,
when all was once more bounce and ac-
clamation, two of the captains crossed the
Potomac to shoot plover and the wheels
of progressh hung upon hot axles n dbegan
to smoke. The reed bird and ortolan sea-
son is now upon them; and calamity may
fall with crushing force at any moment.
But the friends of Washington will not
lose heart even in this trying moment.
They will reflect upon the fact that no.
body is holding the boomers andth they
can build factories if they want to and
have the price. Besides, as everybody
knows, the town will soon fill up. bust
ness will reopen, the general elections will
come off, and then Washington, no longer
laboring under a of inferiority while
other towns are having so much fuss. will
settle down ~contentedly and be as quiet
as the rest.
But Washington can then fall back
upon the proud reflection that she was
not both dumb and idle while her neigh
bors buzzed and fumed and talked.
Moreover, Washington will have the
same ~expedient al hand the ext time
other towns break out in pe%rspiration
over nothing in particular.