Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-28
poLLlvER HAS HARD TIME SAW.
ING HIS SAMPLES FROM
coNFIscATloN.
PLUG" PROVES POPULAR
WITH pIeNlFiEp STATESMEN
Hot-Weather Clothing Appears to
Shock Senatorial Disnity-Presiden
Taft Roesn't Like Royal-Like Retin-
ue of Body Guards-Washinston
Gossip.
Especial Correspondence

washington, June 2S-Any man who
will appear on the floor of the senate
with modest hunk of plug tobacco on
his person will discover without de-
lay that the senate is a thoroughly
democratic institution. The truth is
about borrowing a chew" in a rail-
road section gang or sewerl building
force, as there is in the senate.
"Dolliver." said LaFollette. Just
coming into the cloak room after an
animated speech and looking as if he
was in serious need of something, '1
know you to be a public enemy, and
know also that you are my enemy
know that from the platform and in
private YOU have denounced me as a
dangerous party. Your record is an
open book to me: but that doesn't in
terfere With my demanding chaw of
that terbacker''
'LaFollette." replied the Iowan,
you are right as to my views of you
personally: | have acquired inside in
formation about your purposes, and
have disseminated it whenever I could
/ find auditors. Nevertheless, am
proud 10 say that l have here some
excellent Piper Heidsick which no man
ever knew you to have"
Senator Beveridge started out some
months ago to study the iniquities of
! the tobacco trust. He read everything
he could get his hands on. correspond
cd wj6al1 nd lot in,
array of samples of all sorts of to-
hacco. He secured finally some $50
pounds OF ali sorts and conditions of
fine-cut, plug, smoking, cigars, cigar
cts, pipes and everything pertaining to
the aromatic weed. One evening he
took Senator Dolliver up to his house
TO see the layout
Dolliver listened TO the explanation,
apparently a bit preoccupied. When it
was done he demanded:
Say. Beveridge, you don't chew, do
you?"
No; why?"
Because if you're anxious to pass
this amendment of yours. you can help
it by letting the boys see this layout
and intinlating that they've got a
chance to sample it,
A few evenings later Senator Bev-
eridge had LaFollette to look over the
outfit. LaF'ollette, too, was preoccu-
pied. He listened. but seemed to have
something on his mind. Finally 1t came
out
Say, Albert" he said, you must
have more than a hundred pounds of
those various sizes of plugs there.
! Isn't there a little one 1 could take a
bite off OF without spelling your case?"
! At last Bexeridge came on for his
big speech There was good audience
of listeners among the senators, and
/ he made very strong presentation of
/ his case, TO withdraw the special fav-
ors which the tobacco combination is
| alleged to enjoy. When it was over
they crowded around to congratulate
him. but he was trifle naughty.
I'm a bit suspicious" he said II
notice that all you fellows who staid
for the speech are the same ones that
have been trying to beat me out of
those samples of plug
| II develops, however, that the sem
late thinks 1t has claim on the sam
the chewing he wants for the rest OF
| the session.
The Wright brothers have choice
bunch of hero worshipers attached t.
their manage, who are becoming goo6
deal of nuisance. as they become more
persistent and devoted. They come
| from long distances, in many cases
and are men and boys who have reae
of the wonderful exploits of the broth.
ers, and are determined to get ac.
quainted. Some of them are cranks or
air navigation. people who have studied
the subject for years, and want to pa!
tribute to the men whom they consider
to have solved the problem.
These hero worshipers crowd abou
the workshop of the two areoplanist!
and elbow each other about in the eff
fort to get peep into the windows
In Washington there are some score
of women who are perfectly wild" t.
meet the Wrights. They go out to For
Myer on the slightest provocation, il
the> hope of seeing, or, perchance-
exstatic joy!-even meeting one of tn
flyers They are not overlooking an.
chances, and if the young men manag
TO keep their heads level with all thi
adulation aimed at them it will be al
achievement hardly second to that O
flying
Their disposition thus far, however
has been to fly from their admirers a
every opportunity.
Summer clothes have invaded tn
senate in their worst form. Nobod
wears a vest, and marvellous variet
of negligee shirts and ties have APP
Epeared.
i a photographer appeared the o..Ac