The Washington herald., 1907-04-29
MEN AND THINGS.
First Blood for raft.

I HAFaG Etood Tor Tafts
Attorney General Wade Hampton Ellis
decision against the legality Of a primary
TO decide on Ohios fayorite son In the
municipal elections next fail IS regarded
here as a triumph for Taft. It Will be re-
called that Senator Foraker pro-
posed the primary. and only after he had
consulted Senator Dick, chairman OF the
State committee. did Mr.. Foraker chal-
lenge Judge Taft to submit the issue Of
his Presidential candidacy TO the Repub-
ncan voters Of the State at so early a
period Of the contest. A primary election
Is 50 strictly party affair that it can be
manipulated by the managers Of the or
ganization or machine. In tbs Secretary
absence from the country his brother,
Charles 2. Taft, accepted the Senator'S
challenge. and even boldly announced
that the Cabinet officer would also, In the
same primary, contest the senatorship
with Mr.. Foraker. This programme un-
doubtedly suited the INSTRUMENTATION
forces to a T. and they were preparing TO
get their organization in lighting trim
for the contest before the Taft cohorts
could have time TO organize.
Attorney General Ellis has never been
a Foraker man. He IS a Kentuckian by
birth and rearing, and at the outstart OF
his career In Cincinnati he was a Demo-
crat. as the first part of his name indi-
Gates. For several years he was the edi-
tor Of a newspaper at Cincinnati that
fought Foraker at every turn. Soon after
Mr. Ellis began 10 practice law he joined
the Republican party. and when Boss
George Cox was taken away from For
aker by Mark Hanna, Ellis was taken
along as one Of the assets. He and Presi-
dent Roosevelt are great friends, and Mr..
/ Ellis frequently has been called 20 Wash
ington by the President for consultation
on the Standard OIL prosecutions which
a year or two ago were instituted by
Ohio against that huge concern,
Guild Not a General.
All Of the papers are now referring TO
the governor Of Massachusetts as Cen"
Guild. The governor was here Saturday
70 attend the annual dinner Of the So
ciety Of the Seventh Army Corps. Spanish
War Veterans. and every newspaper man
who wrote about him stated that he com
manded a brigade IN that corps. GOV.
Guild protests against the rapid military
promotion given to him by the newspaper
men, one Of whom he was himself until
he became governor. At the outbreak OF
the war with Spain he declined a majority
/ Ia the regiment OF Rough Riders raised
by his old friend now the President be
/ cause he preferred 10 be with Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, who had been selected by the
powers at Washington 10 lead the assault
| on Havana. He was accordingly com
missioned by President Mckinley a lieu
I tenant colonel on the stan Of the In
| spect0r General OF the army and was as
signed 10 the Seventh Army Corps. COM
manded by Gen, Lee. Col. Guild was
made inspector general of the corps, and
remained on Gen. Lees stan until "a few
months before the corps was mustered
out. He accompanied the corps 10 Ha-
vana after the signing Of the peace prot0-
! col. and was called back TO Boston by
the Illness Of his father Should he be
reelected governor this year, il is believed
! he VIII be the New England candidate for
Vice President on the Republican ticket
Mark Tvain's Double.
In a local art store there was hung a
few days ago the latest Oil painting OF
Mark Twain. 1t is an excellent picture
OF the great humorist. and when first re-
ceived il attracted the attention Of unusu-
ally large Groves. The art dealer was de-
lighted His sales Of various lines were
increased. He was congratulating himself
that he had acquired q strong drawing
card for his shop. Imagine his surprise
when he learned that most of the people
attracted 10 his store 10 see the picture
thought il was that Of Ambrose Bierce.
the Washington author and satirist There
is remarkable resemblance between
Mr. Bierce and Mark Twain. except that
I the Bierce partisans stoutIy maintain
that he is a handsomer man than the
/ humorist. Years ago the two were CON
temporarles In California, and their re-
/ semblance then was the cause of many
an amusing incident They lived IN Lon
don a year or two at the same time and
! in that city each has been addressed as
the other Mr. Clemens is ten or a dozen
years older than Mr.. Bierce. and when
they are seen together this difference in
age IS aecentuated. The Washington man
has none Of the ecCentricities Of dress or
manners that characterize Mark Twain.
Steam, and Not Horse Power.
Felix AIcCluskey, a Brooklyn Demo
cratic politician. used to be an official at
the Capitol. When the late Lord Ran
dOlph Churchill brought his American
wife, who was a Miss Jerome. of New
York. to Washington on a bridal tour.
he was shown around the great building
by McCluskey. The Englishman was par
tcularly struck by the machinery in the
sub-basement Of the Capitol, and re-
marked to McCluskey:
1T must take an immense horsepower
to run this machinery"
I
isher! Horsepower be banked Its steam
power. ye greenhorn-steam power. and
We American bride there ought To teach
ye few things about her country before
We take her across the water
who Resigned with PIattg
Two men. whose attire and speech in
Dictated that they were of more than
ordinary intelligence. came into The
Herald Offices yesterday to have bet
settled. One had bet that it was Warner
Miller who resigned from the United
States Senate with T. c. Platt at the
beginning of the Garfield administration
in 1881, and the other bet that it was Da-
vid Bennett Hill. though, he said, he was
| prepared 10 believe that It was Chauncey
/ Depew." Would the member Of the edi-
torial staff whom they approached be kind
enough forthwith 20 straighten the mat
ter out? The men were angry. Evidently
they had debated the subject for hours,
if not for days, and although they de-
! clared themselves TO be old friends. they
were ready to fly at each others throat
over this issue. Wouldn't The Herald
man. please, speak out instantly and
decide the question?
What was the man thus addressed to
do2 Here were two men Of annarent in