The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02

transfers and rapid transit. Last year
Mr. LODGE called the Hon. BUTIN MORAN
a Cossack., This year young WHITNEY
Is on the stump every night demanding
that the people express their sentiment
on tariff revision and reciprocity. What
though Governor GUILD has asked the
President to call an extra session." he
viii ask. THE President didn't do it.
He won't even say he's with us. The
Republican national convention may
pledge revision, but il will not specify
whether up or down, and does anybody
now living remember a Republican revis-
ion that wasn't up? Mr.. GUILD has done
what he could, but there wasn't anything
he could do. He belongs to the wrong
party. The only way to wiring anything
from the Republicans is to sacrifice
GUILD, and he ought to be very glad to
be sacrificed. At any rate ] ask your
indulgence, ladies' and gentlemen, while
ushers pass down the aisles with ham,
mers and spikes wherewith to nail our
honored Governor to the wall mex
November"
There is a widely accepted supersti-
ton in politics that the people rarely
punish a candidate twice for the same
alleged offence. The lobby issue against
Mr.. WHITNEY had been looking rather
stale at Republican headquarters and
sporting citizens who offer money on
GUILD asked odds. Suddenly in the
middle distance emerged the terrible
figure Of the New Haven Octopus,
CHARLES SANGER MELLEN. The troubled
look on the Senator's countenance forth
with melted and trickled into the surf,
a GLAD grin taking its place. CURTIS"
said the scholar in politics, Il am going
to cast you for the character part of
JACK the Giant Killer. WHITNEY says
he welcomes this tainted gold of MEL
LENS and believes we can use il in our
business. think so too, but ! shall not
say so. used to be a free trader when
| was a Harvard instructor in economics,
but after ] got into politics ] knew better.
Yesterday you were beaten to a pulp.
This noon you are the next Governor of
Massachusetts. Get out your club. Be
careful not to hit him or iniure his Canvas
bag; this is a play, not a duel; and we
want the gold. But wave the club and
boiler like blazes.'
This was not precisely what the Cover
nor had had in mind when he first spied
the Octopus. He had in fact communed
with the monster and made him agree
TO abide by some new rules which the
Governor recommended 10 the Legisla-
ture. But no man can propose any anti
octopus measures which the man with
the 100 per cent. military chest will not
devour, assimilate and propagate quicker
than thought. The mail is quick, the
telephone is quicker, but Gov. GUILD is
instantaneous. Put a hook through the
oere's midst and hang him UP for a year?
Sure! Elevate him TO the time ball on
top of the Ames Building at high moor
and bump him off to implement on the
lonesome weapon of the unicorn below
if you like. That's GUILD!
The action to the word, the word to
the action. Speaker COLE was sent for.
Mr.. COLE is Beacon Hill. A green guide
on the Common was recently asked by
the lady from Philadelphia: what is
that object with the brass top?" From
here, he replied, lit looks like the sum-
NIT of Speaker COLE or else the State
House dome. ! can certainly distin-
guish." When matters were explained
to the Speaker he replied, But I'm in
favor of MELLEN's merger"
Well. what do you think of that"
cried the Governor. $50 am |. SO is
LODGE. So is everybody. We aren't
going to prevent it. We shall only make
faces at it till November" The result
Of Mr.. COLES subsequent pantomime is
thus announced by our esteemed con-
temporary the Hartford Times:
The Boston politicians arc determined tha,
President MsIIEN shall not he allowed to spend
seO. 600 100 in railroad Improvements In their state
n they can help It."
Exact only by approximation. After
Senator Lodge shall have accomplished
this last and greatest labor, the preserva-
ton of Governor GUILD from the Whit
ney tariff campaign, MIR. MELLEN may
spend all the money he likes in Massa-
chusetts. The restrictions enacted by
the Great and General Court do not apply
to any merger hat is going to occur;
only TO a mirage of a merger, a stage
illusion for this years platform per-
formances. To be a scholar in politics
is to be truly great.
The WrOup E~ay0rite Son