The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-05
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brings you in a yearly revenue Of $500.
in exchange for a Senatorial toga that IS
not worth one-third that much? Besides.
the lecturing business leaves you a free
msn-aye, a king as you proclaim your
self TO be. with good reason"
MY friend" responded the eloquent
S0utherner, there Is more in this life
besides the acquisition Of filthy coin. II is
true. ] can make more out of the plat
form than by coming 70 Washington. and
no doubt ! might have more comfort. but
have been lecturing SC long that I wei
come a change. and was glad Of an op-
pOrtunity Of membership in what has been
styled the finest gentieIaan's club Us the
world Perhaps ] may venture 70 enter
tain the modest hope Of being a factor
for good as a national legislator / shall
certainly try to do something for my
State and country. ] am an optimist as
well as a king and all the terrible
screeds about the treason Of the Senate
and kindred phiIippics do not shake my
nerves The world is getting better ali
the time and the men and women ia It
are distinct improvement on their pred
ecessOrs."
A modest and unassuming gentleman IS
Ar. Newton Bennington, the noted horse
man. who Is spending a few days IN
Washington after a long sojOurn in
Florida, where he went 10 build up his
health. that has been considerably I'm
paired Of late days. Mr. Bennington has
owned and managed some Of the most
noted thoroughbreds Of recent years. in
Guiding the magnificent De Mund and
the peerless Beldame. whose racing quail
ties were leased by him for two seasons.
re Mund has proved himself 10 BE-
worth the $500 for which 7 sold him.
said Mr.. Bennington. Between you and
me. this is the top-nOtch figure for
running horse. all the fables about higher
prices TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
There is a romance about one bringing
81, 600. but they will have to show me.
got the cold cash for De Mund. and 1
consider IL was a good bargain on both
sides for ne has Won since the sale
81. 900 IN stakes and purses, and is only
4 three yedr-oid. with a good future
ahead Of him. Right here I would say
/ that l consider no horse really worth
/ 81. go. and there is no one I ever saw
that l could not let go for that much
money.
! u do not consider the outlook for rae
/ ing AZ all rosy. Everywhere the tendency
/ lation that will put an end 10 contests on
( the turf Public sentiment is cTystallizing
/ against horse-racing on account of the
/ gambling connected with IL, and / think
this sentiment Will increase rather than
diminish"
The governor Of our State and the
! legislature are still wrangling, and il IS
/ hard TO say which viii come out victcr,'
/ said Judge ". Molhollan. q noted lawyer
of Charleston. ". Va. at the New VIII
lard
/ Gov Dawson is one Of the most adr0it
/ politicians in the country. and it Is a
rare thing that his opponents take trick
This time however. ne is up against d
/ hostile element Of his own party and a
| determined Democratic opposition The
/ night is over certain taxing laws the gov
/ eraor wants adopted. His chief idea is to
/ take all the taxes from property and put
/ them on licenses. 50 that the State gov
/ eminent may derive all its revenue from
+ this source. One Of his pet measures is
raising the liquor tax from 800 TO $50 "a
year. There is great opposition 20 the in
/ crease. One method used TO defeat it is
not to allow it TO become operative until
ninety days after the passage Of the Law.
which would extend beyond the Ist OF
/ May, and as all licenses are payable from
/ this date. saloon keepers would be able 20
continue business under the old tax The
State is threatened with a deficit in its
/ revenues which makes the governor all
the more intent on carrying his point"
The members of the convention en-
gagged IN making a constitution for the
new State OF Oklahoma will have only
/ themselves to thank If the constitution is
/ turned down and Statehood temporarily
! defeated" said Gov. Frank FraRtz. tbs
hne-looking young chief executive Of
/ Oklahoma Territory, at the Raleigh.
There is no use going into details
/ as TO the mistakes Of the convention Il
| seems under the leadership Of a former
/ Ohio Democrat. its whole record has been
/ one OF laundering and thousands Of the
/ best Democrats il our country are heart
/ ily ashamed Of the whole course OF the
! convention, Its failure 10 make good
and its lack Of any broad. patriotic quail
/ ties-in fact, the total absence Of Ameri-
/ canism-has brought on this body the con-
| demnation Of nearly all right-thinking
people. independent Of party lines
Judge r. W. T. Duke of Charlottesville.
whom the knowing ones tip as the next
/ governor Of Virginia, was chatting with
| friends last evening in the Raleigh lobby.
He is a good lawyer. and has friends "a
4 lore throughout the length and breadth OF
/ the Old Dominion
/ Judge Duke is proud of the emblem that
! he wears suspended from his gold watch
chain, an old-fashioned key that went
with the ChrOnOmeters Of our fathers. On
/ it was engraved the initials of the ancient
| Greek letter society. Phi Beta Kappa.
/ This society," said Judge Duke. was
founded at William and Mary College in
/ l176, and two of its charter members were
1 Chief Justice Marshall and Judge ArchI-
( bald Stuart. father Of A. II. II. Stuart. who
/ was Secretary Of the Interior in the Cabi-
net Of President Fillmore. Il has long
/ since ceased to be a secret fraternity, and
| its members are elected nowadays from
/ the most proficient seniors in our colleges
and universities.
| MY belief is that of all the men men
/ toned in connection with the Republican
Presidential nomination, Hon. Joseph @.
Cannon is the strongest and most avail
able. said Mr.. G. W Reed. a prominent
Republican of Oakland, Cal, At the New
Willard.
/ 1t is my conviction that Mr. Cannon
would be especially acceptable 10 the
voters of California and it is necessary
TO have popular man in order to save
our State. There is a tremendous degree
! OF independence in California. and much
/ latent as well as open dissatisfaction
with the way things have been engineered
/ from Washington. Unless some candidate
| Of Mr.. CannOn's description Is chosen, it
Is pretty sure thing that the State will
/ go Democratic A Democratic governor
would have been elected in 1906 had il not