American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1911-01-07
Inaugural Program Subject of
Badinage Between Republic
ans and Democrats.
WAR TALK is PO0H-P00ED
Attributed to "CockIness" Of Japanese
Oficers-change Wanted in Senate
Rules to Expedite Business
Hughes Has No Presi-
dental Bee.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

0AAoAo 1>AA
ocrats and Republicans in Washing
ton has been reused by the word
from Ohio that Judson Harmon made
arrangement that upon his re-entry
into b Office of governor he would
have no inaugural parade, no cele-
bration and no inaugural address. The
extreme simplicity of the governors
program not only has Interested Re-
publicans, but has made some of them
smile and has caused them to vent a
few i~ntended-to-be humorous thrusts
at their Democratic brethren.
The Republicans say that Mr.. Har-
mon In going back to Jeffersonian
simplicity is trying to make an ap-
peal to the common people" and that
he feels this is necessary because as
he Republicans put it, a good many
people have an idea hat Mr.. Harmon
Is a man of that extreme conservative
II not aristocratic type to which ex-
ception has been taken by thousands
Of voters of both parties in recent
years.
The Democrats retort that the SIM
plicity of Mr.. Harmon's program Is
due to his nature and nothing else,
and that the Republicans find in 1t
something to talk about only because
simplicity and lack of ostentation are
such entirely novel things to the Re-
publican party.
The Jefferson Legend.
The legend has it that Thomas JET
ferson. prior to taking the oath of Of
dce as president of the United States.
rode to the capitol on horse back.
practically unattended, tied his horse
to a fence rail, and then mounted the
platform In an extremely democratic
manner to take the oath of office.
Old guides at the capitol who have
had stories handed down to them by
other guides-and 1t takes only about
three generations of them to go back
to Jefferson's time-say that Jeffer-
son did not hitch his horse to a fence
rail, but to the limb of an elm tres
which stood about one hundred feet
southeast of the capitol. The guides
further say that the elm tree which
grows on the exact spot today is a
child" OF the old elm. The guides
story has been transmitted to the
men on the sightseeing automobiles
and the story of the horse hitched
to the fence" is rapidly being sup
planted by the story of the horse
hitched to the tree"
Going back to the recent war
scare" and to the confidential" re.
port concerning the likelihood of a
conflict with Japan, it may be said
1t is much more than likely that
American army and navy officers de-
rived their belief hat trouble with
Japan is a possibility of the future
from what they call the attitude of
"cockiness" which Japanese military
service officers have displayed toward
American officers ever since the Jap
anese-Russian war ended.
Japs Are FIippant.
American officers who have served
In the east from time to time since
the peace of Portsmouth say that
Japanese soldiers and sailors of rank
nave treated them in a fippant and
condescending way when they happen
to meet. At first the Americans say
that they set this manifested spirit
down to a feeling of assurance and
superiority which had come to the
Orientals as the result of their sue
cess in sinking the Russian fleet and
in winning battles on land. Finally
the American officers found out that
the Japanese were not treating Off
GERS of other services in the way
that the Americans were being treat
ed, and SO they came to the conclu-
sion that Japan did not like America.
Officials in Washington when talk
ing privately say that the Japanese
school trouble in San Francisco and
half a dozen other things have made
the Japanese angry with Americans
and that the masses of the Empire
are perfectly willing to go to war,
but that the officials have Deer hold
ing them in check and probably will
continue to hold them In check for a
long time to come.
No M in Washington seemingly
believes that war with Japan is a pos
sibility of the neal future. The Orien-
tai Empire 1t is said is no. In q imam
cial condition to allow it to go to war.
and moreover while there has beer a
tremendous amount OF friction over
seemingly small matters in the past,
there is belief here that matters will
assume a smoother aspect quickly
and that the two countries eventually
will get back to he plane of their
old friendly relations.
Want Business Expedited.
In the senate while some OF the
members are trying to secure modifi-
cations Of the rules so that, as they
view 1t. business may be expedited.
there are house members who are try
ing to show that the change in the
regulations for that chamber forced at
the last session of cOncrass not cpjv