The Washington bee., 1910-11-19
Public Men And Thinps
(By the Sage of the Potomac.)


followers of the Niagara Movement,
out now classified as members of the
New Forward Movement. If this al
legged New Forward Movement pulls
up at the finish as badly punctured as
the New Nationalism foisted on an
unsuspecting public by the strenuous
Theodore, there will be nothing to it.
And speaking about this New For
ward Movement, at the head of which
stands Prof. Dubois, and with which
| am in hearty accord, | have read the
first issue of its organ, The Crisis
To say that | was disappointed is put
ting a fact in a sugar-coated pill 1t
is next to nothing. The Horizon,
geographically and from a literary
viewpoint, had it beat to a frazzle, and
there was more virility about The
Horizon. 1t would seem that with an
array of talent that The Crisis has
the first issued should have been
hummer. There is Dubois, Kelly
Miller and Max Barber, all three good
quill handlers, when it comes to ed
iting articles for the press, and yet
the first issue of The Crisis is a la
mentable failure At a dollar a year
1t IS petty larceny to give a subscri-
Der twelve issues of this, largely re-
print, punk magazine. The Crisis
looks like the organ of a New Back
ward Movement. Murray and Her
shaw would have been ashamed to
have issued a number of The Hori-
zOn so lacking III all that goes to
make a magazine as the first issue of
The Crisis
I see DR.. Williston has new buzz
wagon, and in it he courses over and
through the avenues and jaCk-o-lan-
tern alleys like streak of lightning
Doc must carry a heavy life ilsur-
ance, or is an immune to accident. or
he would not rival the speed of the
Congressional Limited when it is be-
hind time
Referring to Dr. Williston causes
me to pause long enough to say that
when God created him He made a
man pretty near all heart. There is no
gger-hearted whole-souled man in
this or any other bailiwick than DR.
Williston. Why, even the microbes
love him. He Is always genial, al
ways has a pleasant smile, and if he
had just one dollar left between him
and purgatory, and you needed it, he
would hand it over to bury your
father and feed your mother. They
don't make them much finer than
DR. WilliStOn, this suCcesSul follower
of EsCulapius. He is a physician who
can cure anything from the mumps to
the blues. Run through the whole
gamut of diseases, and Doc. is there
with the goods And when it comes
to giving an antidote for crossed
the blues, disconsolation
and general debility of sorrow, one
grain of Williston's smile mixed with |
a half dram of his good cheer and |
buoying words will dissipate all evi-
dence of these Affections.
Can Roosevelt come back? That is |
a question that is agitating the gray
matter of certain colored statesmen in !
He may, but he has a
long road to come. But were | the |
son of a multi-milliOnaire with an al !
IOwance of one or two millions a year |
for betting frOlicks, | should give odds /
on Taft bringing the bacon home |
along about two years hence. | stood |
out in front of The Post building on
election night, and ever and anon |
Ourneyed into Gray's just to see if |
lis highball syphon was working, and |
vas amused to hear the voteless coll |
)red statesmen here eluCidate on the !
-eturns. They knew it all. The men
Who were voting out in the States
we're but imbecils beside these sta
iOnary statesmen of Washington But
We do love to talk, and some of us
an do that so much better than grub
potatoes
But, speaking about the elections,
wasn't it an awful cyclone? The way
najorities are still piling up it looks
Is though they were still voting out
,eyond the Alleghanies But these
bout Washington who are jollying
,ver the defeat of the Republican
,arty will be eating feathers and
thinking air two years hence, if the
J. o. P. fails to come back. | can
lmOSt now, and | use the word al
most" with apologies to Senator Scott,
ee a long line of ebony-hued citizens
Who draw anywhere from 5000 to ST. /
100 per, making a sad exodus from the
departments to make room for Geor-
,ia crackers, Carolina clay-eaters, Al
bama disqualifers and Texan fire.
vorshipers whose skins are white.
Don't console yourself with the idea
# civil service protection. The Dem
Dcratic party, ferociously hungry, will
lever permit a small matter like civil
ervice to interfere with their plans
md besides, amt the Civil Service
Commission already in the hands of
Democrats, and Southern Democrats ]
t that? Better put a soft pedal on
our vociferations over the defeat of
he Republican party. Two years
ence you may be numbered with the
Those Ohioans who went forth like
phalanx of Don QuiXOtes to javelin
he Democrats have returned. They
vent out with confidence, enthusiasm
nd cockneyed spirits, but returned
Ike Napoleon from Moscow-sadder
ut wiser. Billie Clifford, who usually {
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