The Washington bee., 1911-02-04

Crit once gave an embryotic CORE
spondent. From what | learn, anC
Bob Waring will stand for it. Olive
Cromwell Randolph first shot acros,
and athwart the blue-valuted and star
hecked horizon as secretary to Wal
dron, COrrothers, Ferguson, Gilchrist
Stewart-the originator of Browns
VILE, back in the perilous days of the
last pro-presidential campaign. Ii
those 'simoomous times" he used tC
soak Roosevelt, Taft, and the sable
and off-colored sons who percheC
themselves on the Taft balustrade
every morning for breakfast. He wa:
not quite so vehement as the rest
though. In fact he did his roasting
with Dated breath, for he was quiet
sort OF a chap. When the steam.
FoIier ran over his anti-cohorts Oil
yer escaped in his pajamas and scoot.
eQ across the desert to the oasis
Wnere the enemies camped, leaving
Waldron, CorrOthers, Ferguson, Gil
christ, Stewart and the rest to form ar
awkward squad. When the "boys
came marching home" after Novem-
per- ne got back into the service, lust
how l have not learned. Later he
and that Silence and fun" proposition
from down below the equator. started
a newspaper, and presto change. he
came a big nigger," as they use to
say about Dug McQuarry before he
broke the bank at Monte Carlo y
Brother COrrothers said, "you can't
expect Ham to stand hitched when a
band of music comes footing bv."
Mebby getting back into the service
was Oliver Cromwells band of music
However, from what | have seen OF
him, by meeting him accidentally and
incidentally, he lmpresses me with the
idea that he's likely fellow, even ii
he is after the main chance, and
guess all of us keep our eyes squinted
for the main chance. He's much OF
a gentleman, as quiet as an unused
graveyard, and men who know him
more intimately than |, say he is a
fellow Of parts. His quiet, gentleman
ly manner has made him likeable, and
the only person or thing that he is
known to knock is The New York
Age. Just what the brOmo-seltzer
editor of The Age ever did to him
deponent sayeth not. But you know
cOlOred editors are still infected with
the fight virus, just like we CORE
spondents use to be. Oliver and his
partner make dandy pair to draw TO
The boy is trying to do something,
and make something of himself, and
that's Commendable
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IT you want some real hard work
done, and a thing made a monumental
success, just call in Charley Pickett
and Old General Purpose Bob Pei
ham. They are the whole confec-
tionary, and a little of the kitchen
thrown in, when it comes to plan
ming and booming a thing. Now this
Charley Pickett, like The Gentleman
from India" is a friend of mine At
least | use to think so. We, who have
arguhed around Washington for about
umteen moons or more, sort of re-
gard him as an "old cit since he mar
ried one of Washington's popular
teachers, who presides over his home
in a most charming manner OF
course ChaTley's real duties in Wash
ington is performing the functions OF
prime minister to Uncle Shelby Cul-
lum, when Congress is III session.
When Congress adjourns Charley
packs his trunk and steals off to Chi
cago, taking Uncle Shelby along for
company, and when he gets there he
dives into Illinois politics up to his
neck. He's about as handsome a
brown-coated qrenadier as ever came
to Washington to draw ST 600 under
an erroneous impression that he is
working daily. He's as quiet and
smooth as castor oil, though not quite
so purgative. He can talk on all po-
litical subjects without even getting IT
the same block of the Lorimer inves-
tigation. He's just that supple. Al
St. Luke's Church he's the chief cook
and bottle washer In fact Charley
must get into the king row, right
from the start, in every game he
plays. And they say he's just as pop
ular IN Chicago, up and down State
street, as he is in Washington. But
somehow, he's an awfully reticent fel-
low He'll string you with whole
lot of dope, and then when you get
to your room, and begin to subtract
and divide, you discover he has just
stalled you with a lot of small talk
that won't go for Sweeney. In this
he reminds me of Auggie Savoy. You
know Auggie will speechify for an
hour, after he's had his after-dinner
brandy and three or four nightcaps,
and then you find he hasn't told you
a frazzling thing about what you want
to know. Charley Pickett's in the
same class. But that's diplomacy and
good sense. The man who coughs up
his chitterlings to every hobo he
meets is hardly fitted for confidential
relations with big men of affairs. But
Charley Pickett IS an awful hustler
regular Baldwin locomotive, and if
you Just put him on a committee,
when the things all over you'll find
he's pitched lot of hay up into the
loft. Uncle Shelby thinks Charley IS
the radium-that's the most precious
stuff, and | guess Uncle Shelby has
lived Just about long enough to know
the real article from the spurious. 1t
was a mighty good thing for this city
of tears, and knocks and deceits that
Charley Pickett camped here.
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