The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-04

as the candidate
Urges Gordon Tor Vice-President
For on the next Demo-
National Ticket. cratic ticket. The
conservative Star
declares that Senator Gordon awoke
the day after his valedictory to fix
himself famous, and that in one houl
he had become not only a national
figure, but a national influence; that
his words of patriotism uttered in the
Senate are echoed and re-echoed from
every quarter. Democrats, Republi-
cans and Populists; ex-Confederates
and e~x-Federals; white and black;
everybody says Amen.
There is a mighty comforting les
son in the way in which the quiet old
country gentleman of Mississippi has
stirred this capital and this country.
1t shows that the heart of the people
is right and is hungering for the
things that are noble and kind and of
good repute. And that wherever, out
Of the murk and the greed and the
~fierceness of social and political life
in the country, any honest man
strikes a sincere and honest note, he
will find his answer in the heart of
lu0 p0OplC, dQQ ISdu LIS lltlC W ldllG
in their swift applause.
1t ought to be a better Senate and
a better country that heard the speech
Of this brave and loving old Southern
gentleman.
Here is one Nick" Longworth is
telling some of his colleagues in the
House:
An old negro was stopped on the
street on Elec-
Nick Longworth's ton Day by a
Yarn About white man who
the Old Negro. asked him if he
had voted.
"Yas indeed, Use voted" replied
the negro.
did you get anything for your
yote?"
ooh, vas, sub. I got paid fob nah
vote"
tWhat did you get?"
well, sub, it was laik dis. De Re-
publicans come to me and dey seys
dey give me eleven dollahs if me and
NAH three boys vote de Republican
ticket, an l took de money; an de
Democrats ONE to me and dey says
dey give me seven dollahs fob nah
vote and nah boys votes, an / took
de money"
"You took money from both sides.
Then which ticket did you vote?"
ooh, l voted de Democratic ticket"
"Why so? The Republicans gave
you the most money"
81 voted for de Democrats fob jes-
dat reason-dey wasn't as corrupt as
de Republicans"
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs has decided to report favor
ably the bill of Representative Loud
providing for the raising of the bat
tleship Maine, which
To Raise lies in Havana Harbor.
the Maine. There were a number OF
bills before the commit
tee, but Secretary Meyer expressed a
preference for the Loud bill. and that
is the bill which will be reported. 1t
authorizes the Secretary of the Navy
to advertise for bids on the work and
provides that the President shall
cause to be concluded a convention
with Cuba permitting the work to be
performed. 1t is not expected that
there will be any serious opposition
to the bill on the floor of the House.
X X X
If DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the Gov.
eminent chemist, has his way, there
will soon be a dearth of luscious,
Pump, white oysters in the market.
DR.. Wiley maintains that
For Pure under the provisions OF
the Pure Food law oysters
which have been sub
mitted TO the bloating process in fresh
water are subject to condemnation,
and he purposes to make an effort
to prevent interstate commerce, at
least, in oysters so treated. Lynn
haven Bays and Buzzard's Bays will
shrink to Blue Points if DR.. Wiley
proves successful, and doubtless the
genuine Blue. Points will have to be
served with a magnifying glass.
X X X
Senator Depew enlivene1 the Sen
ate the otner day with a story which
was new to most of his auditors and
was greeted with every evidence OF
enjoyment by his col
Depew's leagues. The Senator
New Story. from New York was dis
cussing Hawaii and the
high opinion in which that possession
was held by Great Britain. He told
of the great courtesy extended to the
Queen of Hawaii at Queen victoria's
jubilee, and said that the dusky
Queen remarked to Queen Victoria
your Majesty, l am a blood rela-
tive" Replying to the astonished in
curry, How so?p the Hawaiian
Queen replied: my grandfather ate
Captain Cook" MI. Depew also told
a story of King Kalakaua's visit to
Chicago, which Senators Cullom and
Lorimer insist is a libel on the Windy
City. The Senator declared that hav.
ing put in a strenuous day showing
the dusky potentate ."the sights" the
Mayor of Chicago drove the monarch
to the hotel where he vas to be en-
tertained and left him in the lobby
with the remark: Good afternoon
King. We have had a hard day, and
I think you had better go up to your
room and wash up"
X Il
Court Takes Charge of Textile
Mills Corporation in New Orleans
New Orleans.-Receivers for the
Textile Mills Corporation were ap
pointed in the United States Circuit
Court here. The concern has a cap
it~alization of $5,000,000, and oper
ates several large cotton mills IL
Louisiana and Mississippi.
The General Electric Company, Of
New York. with a claim against the
Textile Mills Corporation of $4,000
filed the petition for a r~eceivership
declaring that the corporation was
unable to meet it's obligations.
Jottings About Sports.
Stanley Ketchel was born on Sep
TENDER IA, 1886.
Harvard defeated Yale at hocke.
by a score of 8 to O.
Reading defeated Princeton a