The Pensacola journal., 1912-09-29
CZOLGOSZ DYNASTY
Or the Reign of Roosevelt and Taft
He

Taft evidently took his first election
as q matter Of course and no doubt
assumed that a second nomination ana
election would also follow as a matter
OF course. Brother Charles and Theo-
dore and Hitchcock would attend to
that.
He wrote a letter to his very best
friend when he left for Africa, assur-
ing him that he appreciated the favor
that had been rendered him in MAX
ing him president but made the pitt
full mistake Of saying that next to his
Brother Charles, he felt that he was
indebted to him, Roosevelt, for the
job. What do you think of that?
Suppose you had been In position
to own steam roller bigger by
many times than the biggest piece of
machinery ever constructed before and
had behind you a couple of hundred
thousand office holders who responded
every time you said thumbs up and
all the money Of all the trusts that
you might ask for, and all Of these you
used to advance the interests of
friend, and then after you had landed
him and turned over all of them TO
him, and just as you were leaving for
q
ceive letter something like this:
''Giad to hear you are going on a
long trip to Africa to fight lions and
tigers, and while I think of it want
to thank you for what you did to-
my brother, feel that owe you more
than any one else"
Say, in the vernaoular OF the street,
wouldn't it Jar your
And further in the language of the
street, when friend Damon handed"
to friend Pythias this package, don't
you know that there was seething and
sizzling in the internal department Of
Pythias7
And are you surprised that eighteen
months OF this seething and sizzling.
with the beautiful surroundings of Af-
rican jungles, tended to finally change
Pythias into fair imitation Of Mt.
vesuvius In its very worst stage OF
eruption?
Never Wound Mars Vanity.
You can attack mans principles
and he may stand for 1t, but If you
wound his vanity. it's all over.
have no doubt that Roosevelt felt
all that Solomon did when he wrote
How sharper than a serpent's tooth
1t Is to have a thankless child"
But Roosevelt kept his thoughts to
himself until after he came back, and
Taft. through 1t all, enjoyed himself,
waxed fat and slept like a child. When
he finally woke UP to a realisation
that he was not to have the assistance
of his former friend in behalf of a
second term for himself, he must have
felt like the young fellow from New
York who went west.
This young man landed in Butte
City, Idaho. when 1t was a wide open
town. He had q big roll and decided
to roll EN- some. Entering one of the
gambling houses, he was soon playing
in q stiff game OF poker. For while
the cards fell badly for him and he
was quite loser. when finally he
drew four aces which am told is an
almost invincible hand. He bet them
very high OF course, but one man
stayed with him, and there was rails
ing and re-raising for long time till
finally one of them called Laying
down his hand. face up. the tenderfoot
reached for the pot saying:
Guess it's my money. I've got four
aces"
Hold on said the stranger, i've got
a Lulu" laying down a hand with ap-
parently nothing In 1t.
And what pray" asked the young
man rs LuIu?''
The stranger pointed TO sign on
the wall which read: "A hand COM
posed OF a deuce, four. six, eight and