Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-05-29
commoner Notes.

iOiCoI plOoOl foIlon. DuI oOmC VI Iue
days an aroused people will convinc,
Uncle ole" that he hasn't the dead
wood" on q congressional dictator
ship.
The New York baby that is rock
ed in that thousand dollar cradle viii
be subject to the same plebian COLI
that other babies must endure.
The Illinois Republican convention
endorsed Cannon and advocated tar
iff revision. That convention wal
made up Of humorists, not states
men.
President Roosevelt told a Denve,
woman that he "swsars by Colors
do. Doubtless, but he win not sweal
by" Hartman, Long, Shonts, ct al
President Roosevelt may now offel
as a sample Of the administration,
deadly enmity tomards the trusts ths
refusal Of Congress to give the stee
trust a whack at the $4,000, 900 con
tract for four new battleships.
The st. Louis Globe-D Democrat says
the employees on the Panama Cana
who stay through to the finish will
be apt to form a historic organizatio:
Well they might. It would be the on
ly club of centenarians in the world
The denial from Mr.. Fairbanks can
paign managers that he Is about tc
retire is superfluous. ITO retire
means to retreat, to go back. And il
is generally conceded that Mr.. Fair
banks candidacy could not be much
farther back.
The Sioux City Journal reprints &
Chicago Tribune paragraph comment
ing on the number of times that Mr.
Bryan's name appeared in a single
issue of the Commoner. In the same
issue of the Journal Mr.. Bryan's name
appeared fifteen times in one edi
torial.
The United States Senators wht
sought to be funny" when the
Mothers Day" resolution was up fol
discussion will see The serions side
Of it when men who love to pay rev.
erence to their mothers get a chance
to say few appropriate words tc
the aforesaid senators.
The republican organs that de
nounced the democratic administra
tion for having a deficit are now
praising the republican administra
tion for having a deficit, saying i
means getting the money back into
the channels of commerce. That'i
shooting around the hill to hit the
deer.
The newspapers are now speculat
mig on when Mr.. Cannon and Mr.
Aldrich will adjourn.
If Mrs. Guinness is still alive she
doubtless would like to have her case
reviewed by her friends.
Western wool growers are wonder
ing why the tariff on wool is not op
Grating with more zeal for their bene
fit.
This is the season of the year wher
lot of men overlook the lawnmowel
in their anxiety to get some needed
exercise on the golf links.
Speaker Cannon is earning his In
creased wage, bat as to deserving I,
that, as Mr. .Kipling would say. 1:
another story.
-Four members of the Swathmor
football squad have been discharged
for eating pie. As between football
and genuine American pie, give u,
pie.
There never was a better time
says the Pendleton, Ore., Tribune
to show our attachment to the re
publican party" Nor never a bette
time to show your disapprobation.
Speaking of optimism, the prize on
tlmlst seems to be Representatiy,
Hobson who believes that sooner n
later some nation will agree to TAX
the Philippines off of Uncle Sam,
hands.
1t appears that William Waldorf A
ter bought and presented to Grea
Britain the flag Of country that ma
him rich and under which he rein,
es to live and for which he neve
fought.
Under a protective tariff that e,
anles Mr.. Carnegie to enjoy an il
come of approximately $4,000 a da
176.Ooo cotton mill operatives in Ma,
sachusetts had their wages reduce
approximately. s27,5Oo a day.
The New York Worlds editor
writing on What is truly democra
icT We suppose he is not the on
who played Che stock market viii
writing and printing editorials calc
lated to'affect the price of securitie