The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-11

i Washington, September 1O.-The Washington Star in an editorial analyz- ing Senator Cummins support of La Toilette for President closes it's sarcasm with the following fling; If Taft must to be eligible for nomination, LaFol- lette has a walkoVer'
 Uncle Joe Cannon passed through Washington Wednesday on his way to Danville. H., from short vacation in the east. He was still mad over the unlucky turn that was given the stand pat republicans in the special session. He was not only still mad. but he did not try to hide it.
 Here is what he said when news paper man asked him if he thought the pendulum would swing back to the re- publicans: Tt won't swing back until some organization is formed for re- publicans who are willing to stand up and fight for old time principles; who would rather be licked, so long as they are right, than to mollycoddle around"
 Uncle Joe Is honest in his politics as the longest days are long. He Is a standpat protectionist republican and declares it publicly. In speech just be- fore the closing of the last session he looked about him defiantly and de- clared that he believed in protective tariff for the sake of protection.
 He meant this and everyone who heard him knew he was honest in his contention. Uncle Joe sees defeat for his party, but he is game. He believes in protection, the more the better, and is willing to die fighting for that prin- ciple.
 A clerk in the Washington postof- flee returned a letter addressed to Charles E. Hughes to the sender With the word "deceas sed' marked across its face. It was explained that the clerk made a mistake in not being able to identify the piece of mail as belonging to a member of the supreme court of the United States who probably re- ceives mail frequently through the Washington office. But some argue that the clerk did not make such a big mistake when one comes to consider the political result of Governor Hughes 1odgment on the bench.
 One of the best newspaper corre- Epondents in Washington. now repre- senting one of the big New York dailies, tells a good story on himself
 He came here green from North Carolina less than five years ago. He knew nobody in Washington and struck out to learn the game by himself, which, by the way, is the best way.
 To find the members of his state delegation in congress he had to travel to every floor in the big house office building and to two different floors in the Senate office building. Now, if you have never seen or tried to get through these buildings you can have no idea of the great distances
 There are elevators at every corner, but this young newspaper man thought they were for the exclusive use of sena- tors and congressman and during his first session here he legged 1t up and down the long tiresome marble stair ways and back and forth along the tunnel like corridors.
 He admits now that blowing up and down the hills of North Carolina often came back to him as sweet memory during that first session. When he dis covered that he had as much right to the elevators as any congressman or the President of the United States he began his real careed in Washington and has risen rapidly. But he declares that his early experience gave him a good constitution and fiued him TOT the strenuous life that the conscientious Washington correspondent must persue
 Many newspapers have declared that the cleverest piece of work ever done in Congress by Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas was the introduction of the Free Boston Beans" amendment to the free list. Perhaps it would be hest to keep silent on the innocent mat ter on which the fame of this august legislator seems to rest, but Davis was not the real author of the amendment 4 It was offered for the benefit of Sem ator Lodge of Boston, who in a play ful mood to awake Senator Clarke of Arkansas from snooze offered an