The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-20
MAY CALL ROOT STUFFED
PROPHET OF UPPER HOUSE
Disposition To Make sx-SecretarY OF
State The Oracle OF The Senate.

idea that if he can Just get Root to
be for his proposition the rest of
the Senate will have to be for it.
The wise ex-Secretary of State
doesn't say much. He is quoted
as complaining good deal in
private about the way the tariff bill
has been made up, but he doesn't
do much on the floor that seems
revolutionary. However, he did
intimate a disaffection with the
glass schedule, and that intimation
resulted in the sensational story
being sent out to the country that
Mr.. Root had become a recaIci-
trant, and that he was going to
take charge from this time forth
and revise things to suit himself.
The Senate always needs an ora
Gle. Allison used to serve the
purpose, and when he was gone
there was threat of advertising
for successor. The New York
Legislature came along with Mr..
Root Just in time to avoid this HUI
initiating necessity.
Now they look upon Mr.. Root
as the oracle, and, of course, the
New Yorker has to pay the penal
ty of such distinction.
Some mean and jealous states
men have privately indicated the
opinion that unless Senator Root
be careful he will presently be
known as the new STUFFED prophet
of the upper house"
The opinion of Senator Scott of
West Virginia that the Dingley
tariff law is good enough for the
country and revision of the tariff
is all nonsense is not a new idea
with him. He had it last autumn
when he was in the habit of visit
ing Mr. Taft at Hot Springs. Va.
One day he expressed his views
ITO the new Vice President.
They were that the tariff could be
revised in the short session of Con
gress, that there was no use in re-
vising it anyhow, but, if it had to
be done, it should be done in few
months while Congress was busy
with other matters.
Mr.. Sherman heard him through
in appreciative silence. Then he
said:
1T can't be done
"Oh, yes; it can" said Scott.
But the subsequent developments
have showed that Sherman was
right. Moreover, Scott believes
that his own theory was right. He
always will believe it.
Rear Admiral Lent, command
ant at the Washington Navy yard,
has the reputation at the Navy
Department of being the strictest
disciplinarian in the service.
Shortly after taking up the work
at the navy-yard, and before.. the
workmen there had the opportuni-
ty to size up the new commandant,
Rear Admiral Lehtz was strolling
about the yard looking things over
in an informal way. He came
across several workingmen sitting
on large section of sewer pipe
He spoke to the men pleasantly
and asked why they were not at
work. One quick witted fellow
remarked that they had been car
rylng the pipe, but had stopped to
rest for a moment. The Admiral
nodded and walked away.
A short distance down the path
he stopped and looked at the work
men, who, becoming uneasy, saw
there was nothing to do but make
good their bluff. They picked up
the heavy pipe and carried it
around corner of a building, and
!. were about to get back to the
shops, when the admiral arrived
upon the scene and remarked that
the pipe could not possibly be in
tended for the spot where it rested.
The men picked up their burden
and sought another resting place,
butkthe Admiral was always at
their heels. Finally they became
weary and confessed that they had