The sun., 1906-12-30

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The Hon. +. Prentiss Bailey. editor OF the OBJ
server OF Utica, y. v, speaking OF the reported
saving OF Edward II. Hartman that he will
spend $40, o,OoO.ooO to rehabilitate Odell. rises
to remark:
his breast can wish for success with Two
such butchers one in finance and one IN
politics in the lead?"
Some politicians say that the prosperity
of the country lis the stoutest foe to yellow
Journalism"
An Iowa politician married his mothsr-in-
law the other day
Two members OF President Roosevelts
Cabinet were reporters. william II. Taft and
George Bruce CortelyOu.
NO medicine known to man will cure
case OF big head" said David Bennett Hill
at the Hoffman House the other day. speaking
Of particularly heady politician.
Senator smoOt has served four OF the six
years Of his term pending the decision as to
his eligibility.
Uncle Sam Morris. the gentle Republican
spelbinder Of Troy, n. V. is said to have
written the following lines:
KNoCKING.
don't believe In knockin.
For a knocks a sort o boost
That makes your luck go fockh'
TO another fellows roost.
| don't believe in "roastin
Anv thing or any one;
IL only ends in toastln
Things till they are over done.
Tuesday, January I. the pure food law will
90 into effect II was passed at the last
session Of Congress and its administration
has been placed In the hands OF the Agricul-
tural Department. The law provides for a
stan of food inspectors. who will be selected
according to civil service rules and appointed
only after they have passed thorough ex-
aminat ions. While the Agricultural Depart
ment is charged with the administration OF
the law the Treasury Department and the
Department of Justice will take part in its
enforcement
Robert n. Fuller. Gov. Hughes's secretary.
owns a home at Al Kisyth road. Brookline
Mass, where his wife and two daughters
live His reason for making his home in a
place so far removed from that of his duties
is that his children may obtain the benefits
OF a New En- gland school education.
Joseph Mednl Patterson, the young Ave
millionaire Socialist, graduated from Yale in
1901, says IL was the close Obser walton OF
college society methods which induced him
to accept socialism. lie declares that the
honorary societies and clubs OF his alma
mater were dominated by the sons of wealth
and that the less wealthy students had no
chance in college elections.
Sample Of the secret police OF the French
Republic: When Clemenceau, the new
Prime Minister. first poked through the
pigeonhOles OF his department he found
a document relating to certain weekly visits
which he had paid to a mysterious person
aA R,h ha rsNff
with whom he spent an hour OF so on each
occasion. My chiropodst." was the in
dorsement the French Premier ratched on
the document "a he poked 1t back into its
pigeonhole.
welt.
Representative John Wesley Gaines OF
Tennessee has unearthed an old bill OF 1859
which provides that all members Of the House
shall be "docked" $3.50 for each day they
are not present at the session. The law
has never been amended or repealed, and II
enforced now would make things UNPLEASANT
for a platoon OF members. The question IL
asked, why shouldn't an employee OF the
people earn his money like employees OF
business institutions1
A discussion has broken out as to who
was the more accomplished and effective
woman political orator in the United States.
Anna Dickinson or Mary Elizabeth Lease.
Both were employed by Republican national
committees to make campaign speeches.
and both we're born orators" Miss Dickin-
son was always Republican. while Mrs.
Lease was originally a Populst. being known
first as the Joan OF Arc OF the People Alliance,
and IL was through her speeches that the
famous John J. ingalls, was defeated for
reelection to the United States Senate. Miss
Dickinson was a school teacher. and Mrs.
Lease was admitted TO the bar Of Kansas.
Mrs Lease In a graduate OF st. Elizabeth 3
Academy. Allegany county, n. Y.
A New England hard shell Democrat writes
that he IL very gloomy over the political out
look. lie adds;
Ours was Intended TO be the best Govern
ment on earth. butis fast becoming perverted,
and unless a hanRe comes will be destroyed
like the republics OF the past. I am afraid
that as a true republic we are doomed BY
the eternal. say that the money power does
| rule this country. and unless we return to the
| first principles OF true democracy our goose
| IL cooked"
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