The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-05-31
CUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

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Forthcoming raid into the South by
Governor Johnson. of Minnesota, has
aroused much interest in political
circles here. Governor johnson has
accepted an invitation to visit Vicks-
burg at an early date and deliver an
address at the unwilling of monu-
ment to the Minnesota soldiers who
fell on the battlefield there. 1t is
understood that he will extend his visit
several days and probably will make
speeches at other points, in the South.
AS he is the only Democrat ever elect
ed governor of Minnesota and as he has
very healthy boom for the Presi-
Dental nomination in 1908, a we'll
defined plan to capture the Southern
vote is seen in Governor Johnson's visit.
Anyway, the friends of Governor
Hoke Smith, of Geogla, and of William
Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, are de-
cidediy on the ANXIOUS seat.
According to a bulletin fresh from
the press of the Bureau Of Statistics
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, the area of the United States
has grown from less than one million
square miles in 1900 to three-quarter
millions, including Alaska and the
InSural possessions, while the popula-
ton in the same period has increased
from five millions to very nearly one
hundred millions. The report is one
of the most comprehensive ever issu-
ed by the government and is sure to
bring joy to the hearts of statatis-
ticians, for it has something morestban
700 pages, which are devoted almost
exclusively to comparative tables.
president Roosevelt's determination
to make three or four days trip next
fall down the Mississippi river, unless
something at that time develops to
prevent. has caused general satisfac-
ton. His letter accepting the invita-
ton Of the governors of sixteen States
is regarded as an especially strong
one, for ne lays great stress on the
fact that the benefits of DEVELOPMENT
will be felt by States far removed
from the Father of Waters and that
the whole nation will benefit by the
direct saving that ultimately will be
effected by the reduction of trans
portation on tolls. In his letter
he says:
"The basin Of the Mississippi, taken
as whole, from the Gulf to the
Great Lakes, from the Alleghanies
to the Rockies, constitutes the greatest
agricultural empire that men have
ever cultivated and an equally great
system of water highways is needed
to supply any inadequacy of land car
riage for the products of this region. +"
The President will make his voyage
OF inspection early in October and
will accompany the members of the
Inland Waterways Commission from
some point in middle Illinois or Ohio
to Memphis. The commission at the
present time is just completing trip
down the Mississippi from ST. Louis to
New Orleans. 1t is being piloted by
| Congressman Joseph E. Ransdell of
Louisiana, who, in addition to being
a member of the House committee on
rivers and harbors, is president of the
National Rivers 4 Harbors Congress.
This organization has been engaged
for half decade in impressing upon
the Government and the people of the
United States the urgent necessity for
adopting strong, Federal policy of
waterways betterment 1t will con-
tinue its advocacy of this question and
its officers feel that the present in
tereSt being taken in the subject in
creases its responsibility, for if the
interest is not sustained the work
now under way and projected will suf-
fer. To that end its secretary, Capt.
J. F. Ellison, of Cincinnati, O., is
putting forth extra efforts to build up
the organization, which already is
powerful and counts its members in
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Union.
He walked right in,
Then turned around
And walked right out again.
This excerpt from a popular song
sets forth the action of the Hon.
William Eaton Chandler one time
Senator from New Hampshire. 1t was
just year ago that former Senator
Chandler became an unwilling mem Der
of President Roosevelt's Liars
Legion, " through his efforts to act as
peacemaker between the President and
Senators Tillman and Bailey in the
rate question He has not been
near the White House since until
this week, when in an absent-mindeC
mood he was steering for the
Executive Offices. When he had his
hand on the door a number of news.
paper men, who had been petrifeC
with astonishemnt at seeing Mr..
Chandler taking such an unusua
course, hailed him. The former Sena-
tor came to with start, observed hi:
surroundings and, turned on his heel
headed for the State, War and Navy
building where he had business. He
was vlsibly embarrassed. Despite
the cooiness, however, between Mr.
Chandler and the White House he ha.
been reappointed chairman of The
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
for another period Of six months.