The National tribune., 1906-11-22

own successor. and that all the snap
will be taken out of the election next
April in the Continental Congress of
the D. A. r. Mrs. Mclean has been
touring thru the great Middle West,
attending State conferences and social
functions, and has had many honors
heapt upon her. not the least of which
was the unanimous Endorsement of
some Is States to succeed herself in
the high office she now fills. This speaks
volumes for the manner in which shA
has performed her onerous duties. and
is tribute that has come to but one
President-General before her. While
in Washington attending the November
meeting of the National Board she re-
ceivea the Endorsement of every Re-
gent and member of the National Board
of the District of Columbia, tribute
| which was as unexpected as 1t was
pleasing.
Here is a joke that President Roose-
| welt is fond of telling on himself, so 1t
must be true:
He visited a booksellers. shop in Ida
no just after he had written his THE
| Winning of the West" He picked up
a copy of his book from the counter,
and said to the bookseller, with feign-
ed curiosity:
"Who is the author-Rooseveft?' ~
| oh" was the answer. hes a ranch
| driver up in the cattle country
What do you think of his book?"
"Well,' said the dealer, I've always
| thought I'd like to meet that author
and toll him if he'd stuck to running
ranches and not tried to write books
he'd have cut heap bigger figure at
his trade and been bigger man."
In Ohio there We're few changes in
the political sky which brought to the
fore some old, old names. Among them
was the defeat of the Republican Rep
election in his place of Matthew Den
yer, Democrat. Mr.. Denver is the son
of the late Gen. Denver. and that lakes
you back to 1918, when boy was born
in Winchester, Va, who was to help
| make great gobs of United States hiss
| tory. At least six States are glad TO
| have claimed him as citizen, and in
all of them he had large honors. Born
in Virginia. James w. Denver went to
Ohio with his parents. and after three.
quarters of century there comes from
Ohio to Congress scion of this sturdy
old tree which took root in many
States. From Ohio James w. Denver
went to Missouri, and at the breaking
out of the war was Captain of COM
pany of Missouri militia. But that's
getting ahead of the story. 1t was in
1S41 that he went to the border State,
and he was one of it's prominent edu-
Gators. Then we had the Mexican War.
and as a Captain. under appointment
from President Polk. Denver did good
service. In 1850 he went to California.
and was appointed Secretary of State
by Franklin Pierce. He was elected to
the 34th Congress from there as an
| antiBroderick Democrat. At the end
of his term he was appointed Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs by President
Buchanan, and served but a brief
period, resigning to become Secretary
and then Acting and at last Territorial
Governor of Kansas, in 1858, being the
fourth. He resigned this position in
November that year, and became Com
missioner of Indian Affairs again, but
again resigned in March. 1859. AS
Captain of Missouri Militia he entered
the war of the rebellion, ard made
good, being made a Brigadier-Generai
of Volunteers in 1861. He gave his
name to the wonderful city of Denver.
Colo, and died full Of years and honors
in 1892, being the first of all the Gov
ernors of Kansas. State and Territorial.
to die. Mr.. Matthew Denver, Repre-
sentative in the House from Ohio. has
got to live up to great many tradi-
tions.
Oh, deary met And It was a girl
after ALL that is. the boy was girl
dear me, no! The boy which Gen.
Franklin Bell. Chief of Staff, named for
President Roosevelt turns out to have
been a mistake of the telegraph. and
not boy at all, but girl, and here
Gen. Bell had already wired the Presi-
dent that Theodore Roosevelt Bell"
had arrived. Now he has to name the
kidlet Theodore, and there is disap-
pointment all around.
Senator Shelby NJ Cullom, of Illi-
nois. had severe attack of gastric
trouble while calling on Secretary
Bonaparte at the Navy Department the
other day, and alarming symptoms were
exhibited for a brief space, but he is
now feeling very much better. The
| Senator has not been strong for some
| time.
Senator DRYDEN, the scholarly and
MISUNDERSTANDING Senator from New
Jersey, who gives so many reasons for
life insurance at so much per In the
backs of the magazines. is not going
to get back to the Senate unless he
| takes off his coat and hustles. He has
decided that he has no lieutenant that
he can really trust, and there are six
Republicans who design to vote with
the Democrats to defeat him, and the
six can do it; so he is going to manage
his own campaign for return.
Representative SIMS, or tennessee, Is
coming back to Congress. His defeat
for reelection was announced but the
news came from Nashville that the
complete count gave him a ma IorityI
of 334. He IS a member of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Committee
Nothing succeeds IKE success, and
Victor Murdoch, of the piece OF the
big Seventh" District of Kansas, hav-
ing succeeded in being elected to Con-
gress for the second time, now an
nounces himself as candidate for
United States Senator from Kansas. Up
to date all the Statesmen" from the
Sunflower State have been heard from,
and all carry cards "for United States
Senator from Kansas" Now, some
body has to get left. and why not leave
the kids at home to season awhile, and
send a veteran to the Senate once more
from the great old soldier State. Kan
sas owes ii to herself to do this and
w. A. Calderhead would fill the bill.
There will shortly be added to Mary
lands collection of relics some 20 or
more battlefiags carried by the Mary
land regiments in the civil war Dur,
ing the administration of Gov, War
field the historical old Senate Chamber
and halls of the House of Delegates In
the old portion of the State House have
been converted into a museum. The
battlefiags are now in possession Of tho
Grand Army of the Republic, OF Isalti-
more, which organization plans to hold
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