The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-09

teenle0 washington IOSl NoihOS
through with first-page article an
nouncing that William Howard Tart
is candidate for reelection. Why
doesn't somebody start the cheers!
President Taft is not without
sense OF humor. | have heard him
tell this story on himself. IL was
when he first got into the running for
president business and had strayed
into Iowa on tail-end jollying expedi-
lion. With him was native OF Iowa
by the name OF Kinkaid. a long, rangy
and well-known politician OF that state.
The train pulled in at little town
and Mr.. Taft waddled out upon the
rear platform. Ahead OF him was Kin
kaid. The coming OF the president
to-be did not arouse enthusiasm, so
Kinkaid reached for the man nearest
him with the shout, Cheer, damn you.
cheer
North Carolina has declared for
President Taft for another term. who
got the postoftice?
Retrenchment and economy (which
Mr.. Secretary Norton has not been
press-agenting so diligently this week.
ought TO take official note OF the fact
that approximately a million dollars
might be saved by presidential veto
applied 10 the. French spoliation
claims In the omnibus claims bill.
Roger Sullivan comes very close to
being the rottenest and most danger
Gus political boss In the United States.
speak whereof ] know. His political
origin and the foundation OF his Tor
tune-he Is now millionaire-was a
rotten gas franchise, later financed as
the Ogden Gas Co, which he and Act
ing Mayor John p. Hopkins put
through the Chicago city council by
UNANIMOUSLY rotten methods. Today
( Roger Sullivan is not merely the DEM
4 ocratic political boss; he Is part OF
the bipartisan special privilege ma
chine OF Illinois. He Is as much re-
sponsible for Billy Lorimer as SEN
ator as any rotten Republican boss
| OF that state. Without Sullivan's help,
I Lorimer could not have pulled through
/ his purchased senatorial honors.
/ Roger Sullivan sent a mutual friend
! TO Woodrow Wilson with message
| TO the effect that Woodrow Wilson
must not oppose former Senator Jim
Smith OF New Jersey in his efforts 20
/ return TO the senate; otherwise MIR.
Wilson need not hope for the Illinois
delegation in the national convention
OF 1912 To Mr. Wilson's everlasting
credit be II recorded that he told
Roger Sullivan TO go plumb TO any
place he might like to go to.
| T. r. is not for Taft. The busy press
agent OF the white house spends one
day putting out the story that Tart
will have T. RS Endorsement, and the
next day that he doesn't need It, Per-
haps he doesn't need il. Anyway. he
won't have IL.
Senator Beverage Is loading up on
the Lorimer case. There are lot OF
senators who are loading up. The
Lorimer case promises TO be the most
spectacular topic OF debate at this SEES
sion. The question clearly put by this
case is this: Can a man whose cleo
ton to the senate is tainted by brih
cry and corruption hold his seat III
that body?
The government has an action fol
$170, 600, 900 against the railroads ol
the United States for money improp
erfy collected by the railroads for car
rying mails. About four years age
you will recall, Victor Murdoch, con
gresham from Kansas, made fighi
lagainst what was called the "falsf
divisor'' used in calculating the weight
OF the railway mail AS a result oil
his fight, Postmaster-General Corte'
YOU issued a special order requiring
that in future the mails should De
weighed seven days, and that the tota
should be divided by seven instead oil
six in computing the average daily
haul. At the time this order was made
the difference between the result
worked out by the two divisors wa
$4,000. 900 annually. The practice o.
using six instead OF seven as the q.
visor had been carried on for "a years
hence approximately $17O,OOO,OOO ex
cess charges were paid out DURING
that period to the railways. Fearing
that the government might move to
recover this enormous sum, the rail-
ways have, through their Hobbies. made
efforts lately to have congress legal
lie" the divisor seven with the pur
pose OF validating these old-time pay
ments.
find In talking TO a majority OF the
Democrats in the house OF represen
tatives that they are not prepared Al
yet to indorse the Judson Harmon can
didacy for president Strange as II
may seem, most members OF the house
are BRYAN Democrats, and viii take
their cue from him and Champ Clark
Woodrow Wilson is being watched
with more than little interest.
Sincerely,
RATH
sKINNEY A. NuFF, THE VILLAGE
CUTAWAY.
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