The National tribune., 1907-02-28

of Ed Ross to nh the uneXplred term
of Senator Pomeroy, who killed HIM
self:
Il named Ed Ross tor the place on
his merit. He had been a Major in th,'
Union army under Eweil. and was on :
of the most gallant soldiers who ever
went into battle He had three hprs %
shot under him, two / think in one day.
Besides. he was an able writer, one #
the best editors in the State. After ths
time for which Ross was appointed raa
out, the Kan SaS Legislature elected him
for full term
"Then came on the trouble of PreEi-
dent Johnson's impeachment Ross
w>s bitterly blamed for being one Of
the seven Republican Senators Il think
there We're just seven) who yota,.
against impeachment. He was fiercefy
assailed at the time, for it was an era
of passion and bitterness. AS Johnson
only escaped Impeachment by one vote,
the attack Oh Ross was all the harder.
] happened to be in Washington at thu
time. and had some talk with Ross.
He told me that he intended to vote as
his conscience and judgment dictated.
told him he was doing right. His
friends were badly cast down, and
thot he had made a fatal mistake. 1t
was fatal SO far as his political future
was concerned. but looking back now
after the lapse of many years 1 am
constrained TO say that in voting
against the impeachment of the Presi-
dent Senator Ross conferred a benefit
on his party and on the Nation. It
would have been precedent fraught
with untold evil had johnson been sue
cessfuiiy impeached
Ross acted honorably all the way
thru. No suspicion of a corrupt pur-
pose could attach to him. He is now
very old man-far into the eighties
living out in New Mexico. He was
voted a pension of $40 month for his
war service and ;hat VIII keep him un-
til he passes away"
There's man who comes to Wash
ington sometimes who ought to be fired
back to Darkest Africa" and made 70
stay there He is Bishop H NJ. Turner,
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church. and disgrace to the cloth. for
he certainly seems to possess small love
of God, and has no spiritual horizon at
all In one of his latest screeds, which
stamps him as incendiary and unfit to
represent his own or any other race in
civilized community, he declared this
n contemplate Nation" and that i'm
migration is best for the negro. He
arraigned the Supreme Court of the
United States, and said that this "tri-
bunal has dragged the negro and his
rights of citizenship down to hell"
Horatio Greenough was undoubtedly
a greet sculptor. Sculptor-maniacs say
so. and that makes it so, but he had
some of the craZiest conceptions for q
sensible man that ever got shaped up
in marble. For instance. there is his
statue of Washington, which disiigures
the Plaza at the east front of the Capt.
IN. trtfo o1t IsrG<r,
Is the head of Washington, magnificent
In conception. superb in execution, and
entirely noble in every line. following
the best pictures and the death mask
OF the first President, but after that
disgust. The figure sits-on its back
bone-half naked, with sort of Rus
sian BATH towel or a sheet flung over
him. falling across his knees. You can
count every rib in his gaunt figure, all
the bones in his two arms and hands,
one of which is extended as tho offering
the sword which he holds to his country
at least that is the conception of the
artist. Sune irreyerent newspaper men
say that the first President is SAYING:
Here, take my sword and put it down
In the Smithsonian along with my
clothes. I've got no further use for
either" Tx. statue is disgusting There
was no suggestion of the Roman about
Washington. and if he had appeared in
pubic in that indecent lack of cloth
Ing he would have been run in by the
police. The statue cost the Govern.
ment away up in the thousands. and it
shouid how proceed TO expcnd several
other thousands in building A mauso-
leum around The horrid figure or, bet
ter still. present il TO Rome. or Paris,
or most any old place where they en-
JOY seeing their public men thus de-
picted. We don't want the thing that's
sure. 1t ought To be removed from the
Plaza, for il Is the butt of every school
boy and girl the joke of men of un-
clean minds. and gives guests of the
city a jolt whom they first see il. The
marble of Italian qHarries does not
stand this inrlement climate and is dis
iniegrating rapidly. 50 that TO keep the
thing from crumbing into ruins. tho
Plaza has II be :urtber disfigured by q
great wooden hood which is pulled
over the gigantic figure each Winter.
Here's what the next lAttorney-Gcn-
eral thinks about the ~rhaw farce.
Personally. ] take very little interest
I'm the Thaw trial. and have read hardly
anything beyond the headlines and b;it
few of thcs", about ii IN the newspapers
since it began. This is partly because
] have been busy, but mainly because
all the attendant circumstances of the
Tragedy are very reDuisive and disgust
ing. and see no reason to trouble nv
mind with them. 1t *, no doubt, the
duty of the iud:e. the prosecutor and
the jury. and the prisoners counsel.
and the hail!ffs. and the court officers
20 listen TO such revolving details be.
canse this is necessary to the admins
tration of justice
IF l wera one Of them. or If II were
my duty TO do the like for any other
good reason. ] should discharge that
duty without complaint: but as il isn't
j see no reason why | should occupy
my thoughts with nauscating Darticu-
lars of deprayity Somebody must
clean out sinks and cesspooIs to pra-
serve the public health and such worl;
IS as credtablc and useful as any other
but l, at least, feel no inclination to take
part in il as q matter of choice, and
the cleaning out OF these moral sink.
and cesspools thru the operation of the
criminal law. aitho equally vital to the
welfare of the community. H., to my
mind. even more unpleasant
As for the newspapers which give
these detiis, / think they provide wares
their customers want. or which they
think their customers want, and proba-
bly their judgment as to the taste OF
the latter may he trusted"
fheres one thing sure, Washington
officlal women have got the art of at.
tire down To fine point. Indeed. ons
might say that they are lust about tn.
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