The National tribune., 1909-02-04

Comrade E,;1ridge, Historian of the
I'd n. II. and Secretary and Treasurer
of the Cooperative Banks of Boston
has put out one of the very prettiesi
calendars of the year, at least patriotic
people think So 1t has a Flag in bril-
liant colors for a background, and
very pretty girl holding it up. 1t rs q
beauty and a prime favorite.
Mr.. Joseph G. Bristow has been elect
ed United States Senator from Kansas
to succeed Senator Chester /. Long
Kansas is and always has been no.
tional. and she never will gain her
mold upon National politics again un-
sil she sends here men who have and
can hold the respect and regard of the
voters of the State and then keep them
here. as she did Plumb and ingalls,.
Senator Long was a valued friend of
the Administration and of President
elect Taft, astute, long-headed, con-
seryative, capable. These qualities did
not seem to suit the Kansans, and SO
they turned him down for ]. G. Bris-
tow Bristow seems to represent the
ultra sentiments of the Republicans
who a few years ago Sheered off into
Populist and other political camps. He
declared in his acceptance of the honor
conferred by electing him that he
thought Morgan, Hartman and several
other railroad men whom he named
ought TO be in the penitentiary or hung
or something of that kind. Senator
elect BriStow seems to be trying to
qualify fer the Jeff Davis-Tillman class.
He will quiet down after he gets here.
Mir. fBristow used to be a sort of list
slippered sort of a statesman when he
was Fourth Assistant Postmaster-G Gen.
eral. and valued for those qualities.
Senator Charles Curtis has fayorably
reported to the Senate a bill to appro-
PIRATE $4,000 for monument to be
erected over the grave of Cen James
Shields in Carrolton, Mo. Brig. Gen.
Shields was a unique character, and
IBIS name naturally comes to the front
at this time, for he is the only man
with whom Lincoln ever engaged to
fight a duel. Shields was the challeng-
er. for some fancied insult in the shape
Of numerous comments in the little
country newspaper which he attributed
to Lincoln. Shields was Spattery sort
of an Irishman, and Lincoln, tired of
his penny dreadful attacks, consented
to fight, ahd named broadswords, which
was funny enough, as neither of them
Gould have fought with them, and Lin
coin least for he was not swordsman
at all. Their friends pulled them both
off before the thing came to blows
Shields had the unique fame of serving
three States IN the United States Sen
ate making some 1S years in all, bat
no two terms eonsecutively.
Funny things happen when men
men would know who are set to do
big things.
Vice President Fairbanks had TO call
the attention of the Senators from Mon
taiisi and Oregon, respectively, to the
fact that the official messengers bear
fng the electoral vote from those States
have failed to deliver the vote within
the limit of time prescribed by law.
A certified copy of the electoral vote
of an States should have been in the
hands of the presiding officer of the
Senate Monday. For failing to arrive
on time the official messenger is liable
to forfeit $1,000, but the imposition of
The forfeiture is in the discretion OF
1he Vice President
The official messenger selected by the
Electors of the State of Montana is
Gen. Charles S. Warren, civil war
Veteran, who resides at Butte. Senator
Dixon, of Montana, wired to the Chair
tnan OF the Republican State Commit
Tee OF Montana Monday night, and was
Surprised to get reply that Gen. War
zen had not started
The General was under the impress
Sion that the vote could be delivered at
any time before Feb. 10. the date on
which. under the terms OF the con-
current resolution, both Houses of Con-
4he Hall of Representative to count
fhe votes and certify the result.
Mrs John A. Logan, widow of the
4ameus General. has been very i'll at
her home here in Washington, but is
new recovering
Senator Jen Davis writes % for his.
When his first speech in the United
States Senate was advertised year or
10 ago. in less than a month after his
4onrfn7 the toga, the world Of Wash
hgtan ;bIIng agape upon his utteranees-
That ended it, Senator JEFF Davis made
enotEieF strangIe grab at the Joctopi and
othee things in the United States Senate
the other day. and he had for an audi
ence the presiding officer, the steuog-
tepilers and the clerks and pages. The
9neinberss of the United States Senate
fled-;to a man they got out and each
had business which would take him
au;si1e the range of the voice of the
Senator from "ArkaDsaw.'
AIr. Thomas G. Whitman, of Kansas
City. Kan. Is in the city. Mr.. Whit
9han. one may state parenthcticaily.
comes from yorktown on the Kaw."
All the great packing houses which
give Kansas City, Mo-. her name and
Zane are really located on Kansas soil,
And are listed in the property of the
Kansas town OF Kansas City. The Mis-
aourf town. ho@eyer, is perfectly will
Ing to hog all the notoriety that
comes from possessing such wealth.
We'll. Mr.. Whitman is just little hard
-on Kansas statesmen. don't you know,
and Vet il is true that the history of
The State shows just about the condi-
lions that he suggests. He says that
S'Bfany bills introduced in the Kansas
Legislature are prompted by selfish
purposes. Every time a Kansan is swim
died on some scheme OF hit financially
In some busiuess venture he runs for
khc Lesisian,Fc, and, IL elected. at
fempis TO cure the evil by Law. Ehe
Nsuai number Of such bills have beer
dumba1 INTO tho legislative hopper al
eeady ,his scssiuii-
senator Hodges" continued Mr.
. Whitman, recently got into dispute
with a fire insurance arrut over the
rates on one of his lumper yards, so he
has introduced a DILL prohibiting in
euiance companies from using the Kan
6as rating book Senator Bender is O
farmer and sheep raiser. He owns nc
Goss Not long age his neighbor's
DOGS killed lot of his sheep. He has
Introduced bill to tax az dogs in the
State, and the fund raised by thai
means is TO be used to pay damages
Knr Shanp I-fJfad hy dnDc