The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-08
Press Humor Most Mnythine --Have Smile
IN TINA TIE
Correspondence

Washington, d. c., Dec. 8, 1909.
Dear Dad: | have it on the beSt
authority that President Roosevelt
investigated the record of Judge
Horace H. Lurton at the time the
Brown vacancy existed on the sup
rene court, and rejected LurtOn OF
the ground that the Judge possessed
''the railroad mind"
The health of Chief Justice Mel
vile w. Fuller is extremely good
The chief justice has resumed hi.
old habit of working evenings. AL
of which is not good news to Phil
ander Chase Knox, who has thu
promise of Melvilles gown, il
/ see in the papers much tall
about proposed investigation" o
the sugar trust. / thought that be
gan when Atty. Gen. Moody was il
office. l have an impression tha
there is a large bundle of documen
tary evidence which is now in the
hands of Henry L. Stimson in New
York and it would occur to me tha
we had about reached the stage
where prosecution" would be the
word When Hercules took tina
Augean stable assignment it WASH
exactly an investigation"
The president has written a Letter
to Clifford Pinchot in which he says
Il still have entire confidence il
Mr.. Ballinger."
What the president needs is tt
get into wireless communication
with the outside world" said-well
he is an office holder and friend o.
the administration. Taft is
hemmed in completely. He does not
know what is happening. is moi
a diligent reader of the newspapers
and what he hears from his Official
family does not enlighten him or
the real state of public sentiment
Taft's greatest blunder was made
| when he cut communication witt
the Washington correspondents ant
decided to get and give all news
through Aldrich & Co." Which tt
my mind, is only half the truth
Perhaps not that much.
You ask about this Nicaragua
| war" To tell the honest truth the
only real interest l feel is draw
from a feeling of curiosity as t
who has financed this other fellow
Brother Knox and the opposition
party seem to be in partnership
Now it was Kuhn, Loeb & Co. wht
got the contract to collect the Gus
toms Of San Domingo. Who is ii
on this?
| "a thousand marines are ruShin,
upon Nicaragua" read the copy o
the state department press agent
when, in fact, the converted zach
Prairie was hard and fast on a mut
bank in the Delaware bay. Speak
ing of our shipyards, their availabil
! ity, the reason they are located il
certain places, the influence of Pen
rose, the Juggling OF Senator Hall
but why muddy the waters? IT.
a perfectly grand war of course
and we are all going to take off ou
hats and cheer for little Phil
| Chats Knox when the Prairie
gets off the bank and the pres.
agent starts her rushing" again.
Admiral w. A. Kimball was chos
en- for command of Secretar
KnoX's war ON Zelaya because o
his experience just after the Span
ish war with revolution" at Blue
fields. Kimball has been placed OF
the retired list, but he was Gale,
back for this k-z assignment.
President Taft's message, you nc
ticed, was two days behind. It wa
too late to be sent to the wester
press through the mails. You RI
member what l told you abou
Taft's besetting sin. What he need
is a strenuous person with a hi
stick right behind him all tn
time.
They talk of T. r. taking the 10
of digging the Panama canal. A
I know is that If he takes the 10
he will get it done in time for tn
1912 elections, and be ready to qui
it by March 4, 1918.
Secretary Wilson says the reta
butchers make enormous profits
Now, who told the secretary abou
the retailers buying prices? Wa
it the beef trust?
His constituents are now askin
Jonathan Bourne "a senator fror
Oregon il he is still in favor Of &c
second elective term"
| Once a senator ran and wa
elected on the platform, Friends
have-made- in-Washington. but hi
name has not been preserved in tn
|, chronicles of the recent centuries
Sincerely, RATH.
Manila, P. Manila Medical sc
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