The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-03

OFFICES Chic CRica go Title and Tru
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, WEDNESl
So Crum has crumbled.
"
Uncle Sam is beginning to feel
Buenos Ayres oats.
Lucky" Baldwin has run his last
race, and the value of the purse
amounts to nothing.
Missouri is growing SO good-bilI
introduced in the legislature to pro-
hibit Sunday baseball.
A careful reading OF the Piclzwick
papers will put one in touch with re-
publican politics just at this time.
Five commissions Cor Dureaus) au-
fhorized by the sixtietn congress
and yet this country is not named
Russia.
About the best joke of the season
is the winning of prize by the bat
tleship Ohio for economy IN the con-
sumption of coal.
Uncle Joe Cannon has things mix
ed: it isn't the ''rules of the house"
the people object to; it's the auto
cratic rule of Gar Cannon.
frnWpFnnTs nd
of his good county of DeSoto which
has carried off the two grand prizes
at the Tampa state fair.
Speaker Cannon claims to be a dis
Ciple of Jefferson and Monroe, which
is enough to bring a smile to tle
ceIntenance of a dying mule.
Tampa couldn't bear to give Up its
fair-had to run it a week longer,
even without the rollicking range
which disbanded on schedule.
Should Jeffries fight the negro,
johnson. it is certain that so far as
the south goes there will be few
who will wish him a victory.
TIE ape which came over from the
5ungles of Africa on the good ship We
nus does not seem to be after big
game but is rather of a peaceful turn
OF mind.
They have tame wild ducks at West
Palm Beach, according to the News of
that beautiful resort, and it is rumor-
cd that there are a good many wild
domestic birds down there, too.
Reading dispatches from st. Peters
burg one infers that Pinellas county
is cut and dried propositiOn-espec-
tally the cut part. And will Hills
Borough the mighty. tamely submit?
Csruso. who will sing in Atlanta at
the festival next May, will feel almost
as though in the New York monkey
house provided the Georgia city has
enough of its sacred 'possums on ex-
hiDition.
On March 4th William H. Taft will
swear on a copy of the Holy Bible a
century old that he Will defend the
constitution Of the United States. His
oath will be recorded before a Judge
whom no king (and, incidentally, no
trust msgnate) can corrupt"
The fact that more money Will be
spent in the Inauguration ceremon-
les this year than ever before in the
history of the country appears to be
the cause of especial elaJion with a
large part of the nations burning pa
triots
With that steel merger inyestigq-
ton staring him in the face ROose-
welt must feel happy that ne is = re-
publican and that tne stalwarts of the
G. o. P. in the senate value the sal
walton of their party from a scandal
% so rank character even above
their chance to get even with the
presidential mud thrower.
In ordering the return of the pa
pers confiscated from Hearsts spy,
MacReynolds, the supreme court of
Oklahoma in no way endorsed the
assent or his discredited employer. The
decree showed simply that the court
IS composed of loyal men who are
devoted to the administration OF the
written law and who would even
give the devil his due" under the pro-
,.sosans of that law