The Washington bee., 1911-06-10
Public Men And ThinDs
(By the Sage Of the Potomac.l

country, the race, and the association
| service when they canned Prof.
| helly Miller as president of the asso-
| cation I've been to many an alumni
! meeting; IN fact, have attended all
since L was handed my sheepskin d
lew weary years ago, but this last
one, Tor shOrtsightedness took the
IsWeltzer, and the bologna, too When
they get to introducing low comedy
INTO the classic drama it will be about
time to convert all first-class theaters
INTO Junk shops. When they get TO
introducing petty politics and envy
INTO an alumni association, its about
/, time to dlsband. There were a num-
Der of cheeSecloth drigibles al that
last meeting who thought the asso-
citation had been honoring Kelly Mil
! Ter by electing him president. and so
they concluded they would put the
Istop-watch on this honor race Fun
ny they never stopped to think that
Kelly Miller has been honoring the
association right along by consentine
to serve as president When | saw
Judge Atkinson leave in disgust.
figured it was about time to adjourn
sine die, but when | SURVEYED the
i Kelly Miller, and compared them with
those who worked and voted aaginst
him, | said TO myself, and whispered
to Kelly, It's a victorious defeat"
x =
i Now, Dwight Holmes is mighty
nice man, a very clever fellow. but the
irevOlutiOnists simply used him as a
stalking horse. 1t was anything to
beat Prof. Miller. Shelby Davidson
buttOnhOled a few iconoClasts TO sup
IpOrt him for president, but there was
nothing doing; they thought he would
hardly unite the revOlutionists Prof
Miller, who never played politics IN
his life, and who is as far above in
trigue as the 'velvety kind" is above
limberger, and who trusts every chO-
Coiate drop as implicitly as If they
were sunburnt angels, never suspect
ing that Dr. Wheatland was in SYM
pathy with the TeVOlutionists, put him
i'll the chair, and the Doctor did the
rest. The pity is that many of the
iCOnOClastS at that meeting were those
: who, at times, have been the object
b of solicitation ard benefcenCe at the
, hands of Prof. Miller OF course |
expected Bob Pelham to be against
him Bob is just naturally a social
lst, and must be "agin' everything but
Bob. That's his one besetting sin
r Outside of that, he's all wool and a
yard wide. Shelby Davidson is carry
: ing such a heavy load of ambition
/ that to be consistent he must use the
pulley on lots of people. Outside OF
that, Shelby is a real credit Prof
Jesse Lawson was there with his en-
tire organization, consisting Of him
! self and Jesse, and | figured he, too
| had one eye squinted on the presi-
: denCy. He, too, as against Prof. Mil
Ter Tom Clark-well, | couldn't fig
! ure out how Tom ever got into that
l merry-go-rOund crowd but he was
. against Prof Miller all right. Tom
ought to have known better | was
, | surprised at some of the iCOnOclasts
= but when | found Tom outside of the
l zone Of sanity, and against the great
I est pacihcator of modern times,
I whispered to the lady who sat neai
o me, EFT tn Brutus."
=.
l have nothing against Dwight
g Holmes. There amt a finer fellow
g living who has obeyed his order
Back, back to Baltimore and my
only regret is that so clever a fellow
was ridden into power by jockeys who
h. Just rode him for stalking horse
hope HOWaTd'S Alumni Association
will never experience such a ratty
! low comedy meeting as the last one
/ But returning again to Kelly Miller
= when he considers the class of mem
bers who supported him he can't help
but frame up and hang up on the wall
of his study that beautiful, expressive
, sentence, "A VICTORIOUS DE
| FEAT
: [ have always excluded women
from this column. Not because | am
unalterably opposed to the suffragists.
;, but because | just can't exactly bring
? myself to the idea that dear old sCOld-
Q ing Eve ought to be mixed up in the
sort of pOtPOuri | am labelling out
each week for the measly three dol
= lars Chase has agreed to pay me. I'm
= derstand, | say agreed to pay" How
O ever as Mrs Harris, by being elected
: member of the School Board has
! Crept into the public eye, / can't help
{. but referring to her just slightly
a amt going to say much about her
. one an dWIulIy nice WOUldI, d STedl
= advocate Of temperance. and a woman
l who loves her home. She has an aw-
g fully nice little husband who doesn't
= worry about life so long as he can gel
a cigar to smoke, and so long as peO
pie will borrow money at lofty rate:
of interest. | believe Mrs Harris vii
make a good School Board member
Ny advice to her, and ! won't charge
a cent for the advice, is not to place
= too high an estimate on that buncl
n of congratulatory messages she ha.
: received. Most of those messages
;. Mrs. Harris, contain an ak that is de
sired to be ground. You know, deal
5 Mrs. Harris, here in Washington
i there's always a disposition to shcu
the king is dead, long live the king
And there are always a lot of people
!, around here who are eager to kiss the
new baby in order to gain favor with
: the parents. Just keep your weather
eye open, Mrs. Harris, and figure that
: | the people who were too modest tc
; rush you congratulations by special
delivery may be people who will be