The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-03

In beauty lying under
The spell of song and mirth.
The iH blissfu i ' worm a nas spoken
Dawn land again His token
or life, OF light and lovei
York Sun.
Andrew Johnson's End.
There was one man of those whom
ne considered his enemies whom Mr.
Johnson had not forgiven. 1t was only
day or two after he took his seat in
the senate that he sent for me to come
to his hotel-the old Willard. on Penn
syivanla avenue. I found him, on a
nearer view, looking very little chang
go. he was older. of course; there was
more gray in his hair: his whole face
looked bleached. He seemed finer to
me, not less, strong, but more delicate.
Ihere were no more lines in his face:
those that had been there were deeper
craven; that was ALL
I asked for all the family. and he
told me what there was to tell. Mrs.
Johnson, I knew, was still living, but
poor Robert Johnson had died soon
after his father returned to Tennessee
He spoke to me of them both. The
grandchildren were growing up. He
told me of his fight for election.
And now" he said, 81 want you to
tell me where l can find notices about
Grant in my scrapbooks. You remem-
Der where you pasted them in.
don't" He got the scrapbooks and I
put slips of paper in to mark the ref
erences he wanted. AS / rose to go,
he said:
Crook. have come back to the
senate with two purposes. One Is to
do what 1 can to punish the Southern
brigadiers. They led the south into
secession, and they have never had
their deserts. The other" He paused,
and his face darkened
What is the other, Mr.. Johnson?"
I asked.
"The other is to make a speech
against Grant. And 1 am going to
make it this session.
He made the speech in less than two
weeks from that evening. 1t was a
clever one. too, and bitter. Every
point of Gen. Grants career which
might be considered vulnerable was
very skillfully attacked. The fact that
he had taken gifts and that it was
suspected that he desired a third term
did what he had intended to do, had
been intending to do ever since he left
the Whit eHouse. He was the best ha-
ter I ever knew.
He went back home at the end of
the session, and then to visit his
daughter, Mrs. Slower, in eastern Ten
nessee. There, given up to the family
associations he chung to-, and with the
grandchildren he loved, he was strick-
en- suddenly with paralysis, and July
81, 1875, he died. 1t seemed as if, with
his speech against President Grant
some spring of action which had kept
him fighting broke. The rest was
peace.-W. H. Cook in Century Maya
zine.
VIII Break Great Record.
If the Republicans carry the coun-
try in 1908 they will break all records
in length of continuous sway in both
branches of congress simultaneously.
In the Jefferson Madison Monroe era
the Democrats held unbroken control
of all branches of the government for
over a quarter of a century, but for
a large part of that time theirs was
the only party in the country. The
Hartford convention of 1914, with it's
imagined reasonable designs. killed
Gratis had the field to themselves until
the rise of the national Republicans in
John Quincy Adams administration
and the advent of the Wings in 1894,
in Jackson's second term.
In the more than three-quarters of a
century which has passed since two
big parties have been struggling con-
stantly for the supremacy, fourteen
years has been the longest time which
any party has held power without in
terruption in both senate and house
at the same time. The Republicans
struction period. Beginning with the
entrance OF Lincoln into office in 1851,
the Republicans held control of both
branches of congress continuously I'M
til 1875, when the Democratic house
of representatives elected in 1874, in
the middle of Grants term, went into
power. Beginning with the election of
1894, in the second half of Cleveland's
second term, the Republicans have
controlled both branches of congress
to the present day, or fourteen years.
The present stretch of Republican
sway is far more notable than the ear
Her one was. During a large part of
the time between 1861 and 1875, many
states in the Democratic quarter of the
country were unrepresented in con-
gress, and the Democrats of the rest
of the nation were to a large degree
demoralized and discredited. In the
present period, on the other hand, the
Democratic party, while often discord-
and has been active and aggressive
everywhere.
A Republican victory in 1908 will
mean only sixteen years Of unbroken
sway in the presidency, compared with
twenty-four in the Lincoln-Arthur
rupted control which it will give the
Republicans in both branches OF the
national legislature will be unparal-
leled in our annaIs.-Les1ie's Weekly.
Selling Crickets.
There may be nothing new under
the sun. and this may have happened
before. but 1t certainly is new to me-"
said the suburbanite as he left the
Forty-second street station the other
day. 81 noticed one fellow-townsman
on the train this morning. He had two
large pals; one of the pals was mark
ed C and the other w. These labels
aroused my curiosity. so asked ques-
lions.
&C stands for crickets and w for
worms was his primer-like response.
"'You don't mean that pail is full of
crickets p said I, very much interested.
" Indeed, do said he. This is
great year for the little pests. There