The National tribune., 1909-06-03

by spite when It is discovered who
| has been guilty Of such wanton de-
struction of property the authorities are
likely to make short work in Furnishing
| him.
Mr. Harry st. George Tucker. former
| ly member of the House from Vir-
ginia. is now Gesirous of becoming Gov
e.nor of that State, but his hopes may
not be realized. Mr.. Tucker was Presi-
dent of the jamestown Exposition Com
| pany, and he got $4,000 year Tor TWO
| or three years until the company went
| into the hands of receiver. III VIII De
| remembered that the Exposition was
not 4 bowling success; in fact. it was
| a whole lot nearer being L howiinS
| farce. Tho National Tribune remarked
at some length on the unpreparedness
of the place on opening da;, and there
was never any improvement. Indeed,
| things got worse as the days went oy-
| Now Mr. fuckers opponent Judge VIII
liam Howard Mann, is using fuckers $
utter failure to properly manage the
Exposition affairs as club to keep him
from being elected Governor The
things that Judge Mann says, pertinent
and impertinent, about Mr.. fuckers s
management of the Exposition affairs,
will scarcely do to print in great fam
lily newspaper Suffice it to say he calls
Mr.. Tucker the Social" President OF
the Exposition. the Pink Tea" Presi-
dent, and several such terms. Then he
declares that even as a Pink Tea
President Mr.. Tucker utterly failed, the
society women who We're sponsors
of the social affairs having the most
awful rows and actually disgracinS
their sex in their snobbery over the visit
of the royal Prince of Sweden to the
Exposition. In closing this remarkable
roart Judpe Mann saws.
He had his chance to show execu-
tive ability and make a success of the
jamestown Exposition, but he didn't do
it, and yet he aspires to be the Chief
Executive of two millions of Virginians.
If he. proposes to manage the States
affairs as he managed those of the Ex-
position, 1 can only say, God save the
Commonwealth
With the hope of being able to COM
municate by wireless with ships at sea
5000 miles distant, the Navy Depart
ment will erect a 600-foot steel and
concrete tower in Rock Creek Park. 1t
will be As feet higher than the Wash
ington Monument, and one of the tallest
structures in the United States. The
only buildings that are taller are the
Singer and the Metropolitan Life Build
ings, in New York.
one or the things which always as
tonishes Western people who come to
Washington is the fact that liquors are
sold in family grocery stores. Almost
any dealer in fine groceries in Wash
ington is also a vendor of liquors of all
kinds, and even the small grocers do
the same. There is a determined effort
afoot to put stop to the issuing of
licenses to sell liquor in grocery stores.
No child is permitted to go into a sa-
tn yN.sc hi rrfA hut fc ,Rft
ing to prevent their being sent to
grocery store with an order for liquor,
and IL is this phase of the matter that
is alarming the moral sentiment of the
people. All kinds of wines, whisky,
brandy, beer and other intoxicants may
be procured at the grocery stores; but,
of course, it is all bottled goods
Whether he likes it or not. the Presi-
dent owns barrel of saurkraut which
is worth at least SO, but will probably
cost him even more laid down in the
White House cellar. Some time ago
an official of the Perry Victory and In
ternational Centennial Peace Commits
sion was in Washington to invite the
President to attend the celebration. He
presented to the President a ticket
which was to draw one of the prizes
offered at big fair or something of
that sort, and, 10! the Presidents tick
ct drew the sauerkraut.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, convuIsed
the members OF the Senate Friday by
objecting to the haste, ''the undue
haste, the indecent haste" with which
the clerk of the Senate scrambled thru
the reading of the tariff bill and roll
call, thus cutting off Senators who
might want to speak on certain clauses.
Senator Bacon said that he had repeat
nlvt rot fad Utt,lA h.
clerk paid heed he certainly would pro-
ceed to lay bare to the Senate a plot on
the part of Republican Senators to rush
the reading thru purposely to cut off
Democratic objection. This is really
funnier than it reads. The reading
clerk ofseither body is not there to read
SO he can be understood. He is there
because the rules specify that upon GER
tain occasions and on certain demands
he must read-he might read Sanscrit
IL that may be considered the "deadest"
language. and nobody be the wiser. His
reading mas no relation to language and
less to expression. A talking machine
a crow before her tongue is split could
give the reading clerk of either House
a mile start and then come out winner
on expression and clearness of enuncia-
ton. And for Senator Bacon to kick
on the enunciation and indecent haste"
of the reading clerk at this juncture is
really exceedingly "jolie."
Baron and Baroness Uriu, of Japan,
are in the city for a brief visit. Baron
Uriu is known also as Vice Admiral of
the japanese navy and Chief of Staff
of the japanese army. which is certain
ly title enough for one small man. His
full name and title is as follows: Vice
Admiral Baron SotOkichi Uriu, and he
looks every inch a soldier-a small SOL
der. He is not a stranger to the Unit
ed States by any means. but came east
at this time to meet with the class of
1881 at Annapolis. where he was the
guest of honor. He was a graduate of
that class, and was the guest of Super
intendent Badger while there. To meet
the Admiral-Baron at the station when
he arrived were Baron ambassador
Takahira and Representative J. w.
Weeks, of Massachusetts,, who was in
the same class with the Admiral at An
napolis, who greeted the visitor with a
vigorous shake of the hand. Col. J. E.
Mahoney was the next classmate to
greet Admiral Uriu, and then came
Commander w. W. White, u. S. N;
Constructor ]. II. Linnard, U. S. N;
Col. c. H. Lauchbeimer, Capt Charles
Stewart, Col. T. G. Prince and Lieut.
Col. II. c. Haines.
The Baron laughs at the suggestion
of trouble between the United States
and Japan.
1T is beyond me. Il is. what you
call it--a myth. We II Japan are not
thinking of war with any Nation. We
are thinking of our economic advance
ment. We are prospering. and why
should we even think of war;"