The National tribune., 1908-01-02
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Mr.. Julius Kahn, Representative from
San Francisco, says that the people oil
the Golden Gate are getting ready to
give the men of Admiral Evans's fleet
the time of their lives when they reach
that stage in their around-the-world
trip.
1.-The presence of this great array of
war vessels is going TO help San Fran
cisco in more ways than one" he says
'It win be a big boom for the city, and,
by giving the people more confidence
will help a whole lot in the rebuilding
of the city. The citizens of San Fran
cisco are planning to give the officers
and men of the fleet reception the like
of which probably never was given any
fleet before. It will mark an event not
only in the history of the city, but of the
United States, and we shall try to make
our greeting commensurate with the
occasion"
Quentin Roosevelt has sweetheart,
so they say. The little lady, who Is
younger than the youngest scion OF the
White House head, is the daughter of q
mail carrier of Washington, and she
goes to the Force School, where Quen-
tin also makes life strenuous for the
same teacher. Christmas morning the
White House carriage drove up to the
house of the mail carrier, and a large
package was delivered there, addressed
to the young lady in Quentin's roundest
hand. When the young man is missed
from the eventide meal at the White
House the Secret Service men trail
down to the house of his young sweet
heart as a usual thing, and find them
having great romps.
Now it will be done in good shape.
Mrs Ruth Bryan Leavitt, who is all
over the daughter of her father, Will
acquire residence in Colorado, and if
she does she will try to be elected a
delegate to the National Democratic
Convention to be held in Denver, and
if she is sent as a delegate she hopes
to be given the chance to nominate her
father for the Presidency. Reminds
you a good deal of the woman who was
counting her chickens before they were
Matched, doesn't it? Mrs Leayitt hasn't
shown any particular powers as an ora
tor nor has she been set down as any
more than a fairly bright young woman.
who ran away and got married against
the wishes of her parents. She was a
very unprepossessing young lady
school girl-pretty much all legs, and
she has not grown into a beauty. 1t is
not at all likely that she will be per-
mitted to nominate her father-not IL
the Democratic Party knows itself. 1t
is said that the women of his family
have a good deal handicapped Mr..
Bryan in his Presidential campaigns.
II is stated on pretty good authority
that the Democratic Committee ordered
Mrs. Bryan and all the other women
off the Presidential train in the last
campaign, and that she fatty declined
to go. She said that she would follow
her husband, and had as good a right
to be with him as anybody-and she
did stay right with him. 1t was Mrs
Bryan's boast in the first years that Mr.
Bryan was in the House that she wrote
his speeches for him. and after reading
one of them il was concluded that a
woman could have written them with
ole hand tied behind her. Mrs. Bryan
has not been much in evidence lately.
N Bryan won't let his daughter
make a fool of herself.
Mr.. Bryan indicates his strenuous
opposition to Secretary of War Taft as
p Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency in a statement, in which he says
in part:
eff the President threw his strength
to Senator La Toilette, who stands for
aggressive reforms, 1T would be a pretty
fight, but the President probably feels
that very little reform can be hoped for
from Republican leaders, and he has
reformer who will excite the least op-
position among the representatives OF
predatory wealth.
Secretary Taft will, If nominated
straddle the issue, and seek to hold the
two wings of the Republican Party to-
gether. He cannot hope to hold all the
radicals that the President would hold
or La Toilette would hold. Neither
would he ALLEVIATE as many of the stand
patters.
with him as a candidate the aim OF
the Democrats would be to show thai
he does not stand for any reforms worth
mentioning, and that his Administra-
ton, if in line with his utterances thus
far. would be colorless."
Now, what will Taft do?
Secretary Bonaparte says that th'
financial stringency struck him so hard
that he was unable to make nearly as
many presents or as costly ones as he
would have liked to make.
Secretary of State Root has tele
graphed congratulations to DR.. Herber
Bolton, VINO had been looking for i'm
portant papers which ii is said tina
Zebulon> Pike carried with him wheI
ne went on his pathfinding expedition
early in 1900.
Pike was making his famous trip VI
the Arkansas River at the time he fel
in with the Spanish soldiers. on a vis
to the Usage and Comanche Indians
The documents related to his mission
and their recovery has long been sought
inasmuch as il was known they threw
important light on historical events o
the early part of the last century.
The IS papers DR.. Bolton found wer'
filed in the archives in the City of Mex
leo, and would readily have been turned
ove- by the Mexican Government to th'
United States had their existence beer
suspected. DIR. Relton is working unde
the Carnegie Institutes auspices.
Altho the number of articles Offered
for sale this year by the Dead-Lette
Office was far below the usual quantity
the Government realized from las
weeks auction nearly $4,000 more thai
the average.
There Were 1855 parcels this year
and they netted the snug sum of 80,
1866. the largest amount in the his
tory of the Post Office Department.
Daniel Webster Hamilton, of Sigour
ney, Iowa, is a Democrat, and is prou
of it. He is member of the Hous
of Representatives, and he is proud 0
that. too.
Daniel Webster Hamilton classifie
himself as a Roosevelt Democrat in IN
autobiography which he supplied to tn
Congressional Directory After tellin
all about many eventfuI happenings i
his career, Representative Hamilto
proceeds thus: