Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-25
rom BUSY HURLY-BURLY
That Exists Ali Over This Great
Country.
EvADED THE POLITICAL PROBE
Visited Coney Island and Tried
Everything Along Midway
Leaves for the West Tonight.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK. July 25.-When Uncle loo
Cannon came east the other day to show
some OF his boys" of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes how to look after their fences.
he announced with picturesque verbal. en-
broidery that he wanted a real summer va
cation-not the strenuous hay fork and
democratic donkey-chasing kind now so
much in vogue in the west. If rest Is
change of occupation. he found 1t yester-
day in and around New York.
New York Is Americas greatest but least
appreciated summer resort" the Speaker
said as he cooled himself in the shade OF
Senator Penrose and other skyscrapers. He
pointed his white chin whiskers at the
crenellated skyline near the zenith, knotted
his hands restfully under his coat tails and
went on: II went out TO Illinois and tried to
find rest with my back on the grass and my
feet up In the crotch OF a tree. but IL was
no use. With Charlie Fairbanks. the hu-
man sky scraper. pausing In his work or
madly circling a wheat field on his twine-
binder only long enough to absorb jug or
buttermilk: with Secretary Shaw wearing
hickory shirt and. stacking oats. and Taft
building fences. and the horrible example
of the President in pitching hay so fast as
to obscure the sky, the bucolic summer pace
has become too swift for me. Do you know.
the farmers kept coming to me. offering mo
81. .15 a day to help EN- get In their wheat
crop?
Fled to Gotham to Avoid Work.
Talk about unrest all over the country.
There's SO much unrest, due to phe-
nomenal prosperity that 1 had to fee to
quiet old New York to keep from being
rounded UP and compelled to NOW hay for
farmers who drove their cows home In
automobiles. But IT. amt the kind OF up-
rest that's giving the car OF Russia nery-
GUS prostrafion.
"political unrest needn't worry anybody.
It's merely muscular unrest-optimistc' IN
rest-and / like to sit on the fence and
watch IL; only your Uncle Joe is getting
too stiff in the Joints TO pitch nay win
the thermometer monkeying with the DVs. !"
When the car of the House asked
what he would do If he were the head OF
the douma, he looked wise, took fresh
chew of Virginia plug and climbed into an
automobile for spin around the city with
his co-authors of the forthcoming repab-
ncan campaign text book. which will prob
ably be entitled Rally Round the Presi-
dent" and then stand pat. Price. 81.
In the evening Uncle Joe continued his
feverish search for the quiet life by swoop
ing down on Coney Island, shooting the
chutes. humping the bumps, looping the
loops and joining vociferously In the
choruses of the amateur soubrettes on the
Midway"
Praised Coney Island.
At an early hour this morning as tho
Speaker was whirled back to the Waldorf
Astoria in an automobile he continued to
sing the praises OF Coney.
ITS the greatest place of recreation In
America" he said.
At the hotel this morning Mr.. Cannon
was questioned as to the political outlook
He said that Coney and Manhattan had
made a new man of him, but when pressed
on the question of the election outlook no
waved his arms wildly above his head and
said:
Say, boys these are the dog days. and
I'm on q vacation and added with pro
fame emphasis, III a man has nothing to
say he is blankety blanked fool IL he
says IT."
Later Mr.. Cannon saw his friend John
w. Gates and visited Representative Sher-
man, chairman OF the republican congress
sional committee, at the new headquarters
in the st. James building
He will leave for the west tonight. re-
turning shortly to take part in the cam
paign Of Representative Littlefeld Of Maias-