The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-05-23

But what's the use?
Vance. in Staunton Leader.
Robinson. the circus man. has gone
/ broke. When we have watched the
gate receipts at Farmville we hadn't
thought such a thing was possible
Farmville Herald.
The suffragette parade in New
| York was no doubt pleasing to the
millinery tablishments.-Frede
| burg Star.
The British have begun the inves-
! tigatiOn into the Titanic disaster. If
| that boat had moved as slowly as this
/ probe will go there would not have
been a collision.-Charlotte Pro-
! gress.
! The Spectacular fight between T.
/ r. and Taft is the way some head
/ lines express it. Two men covered
with mud Is a spectacle. when you
come to think of it-Advance.
Emptying the United States Treas
\ Ury is usually considered a pretty diff
! ficult business. but it looks now and
/ then as if Congress had hit upon a
simple way.-Petersburg Progress.
For a brief space at Macon the old
1 Confederates lived under a monarch
ial form of government, their ruler
being a beautiful young Queen
! Ledger-Dispatch.
! A headline to a news article in an
| exchange says, THE ColOners Cam
paign Reaches Its Climax" But what
is of more interest to the public is,
has the colonel reached his?-Black-
stone Courier.
President Taft has again accused
many Southern Democrats Of praying
/ one way and voting another. The in
/ dictment is true in some cases, we
/ do not bother about praying.
! Vile Register.
/ When lovely woman has a vote
| Poor man can bake and sweep and
/ And carry in the wood.
/ He'll sit around and look content.
No matter how It goes
But imagine a man like your husband
Darning your thin silk hose.
Vance, in StauntOn Leader.
I'm being hit below the belt" cries
the President. Now we should think
any fellow looking for really vulner-
able point would hit him right over
the belt.-Louisville Herald.
One OF the Commerce Court judges
may deserve recall. but this does not
| Justify Congress in recalling the whole
c9urt.-New York World.
The South Carolinians are consider
| ing Senator Tillman's wish 20 die in
harness. but. Of course, they under
stand that the Senator doesn't want
the trace chains hooked to the single
tree.-Houston Post.
n Indiana man 81 inns n he 6 0OO
years old and TO own every insane asy-
/ lum in the country. And T. r. is
| looking for a running matei-Allen-
town Democrat.
The handsome victory In the Old
Bay State will undoubtedly encourage
President Taft to go ahead with his
eleventh-hour plan of fighting with his
coat off and his sleeves rolled up
Kansas City Journal.
/ In the meantime il would be a good
idea 10 put William ]. Burns on the
trail OF the wretch who wrote the
/ HOun' Dawg song.-Milwaukee Sen
tineI.
Roosevelt may think he has the
| movement of cup winning auto, but
looks more like that or one-horse
hearse to people in the bleachers.-
Wilmington On. c. Dispatch.
Seems evident that when 1t comes
TO preferential primaries this country
/ IS the land OF the free and the home
Of the knave.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Salt River will need a wide bosom
! to accommodate all the Voyagers who
are booked for June and November
this year.-GreensbOrO News.
les1Iary Garden has been suggested
Tor Vice President on the Republican
ticket. PlatfOrm-"the naked truth"
Times Union.
A Connecticut child has lost more
or less time from its play by swallow
ing the main spring of a watch.-Com-
mercial Advertiser.
Mayor Gaynor says there are very
| few crimes in New York. May be he
has not seen some of the shows
r, wsCourier.
President Taft is finding out that
Federal patronage is by no means a
sure thing to depend upon, especially
in a primary election.
Every appointment makes one in
CRATE and nineteen enemies" was the
| peSSlmtStic observation of one states
man. and when Mr.. Taft strikes a
State like Ohio, where they are all
lOE JOD, ne is gong
20 find that the disappointed seekers
are far more numerous than those
who are on the pay roll.-Ledger-
| Dispatch.
The Baltimore Sun and some other
! Democratic newspapers that have
supported Bryan -heartedly or
| opposed him outright are now talking
as if they would welcome an oppor-
tunity to follow his leadership in the
| event that Roosevelt should be the
! Republican candidate. The public will
| excuse Mr.. Bryan while he smiles
| Herald-COurier.
| Billy Finn, of PittSburg, who man
4 aged the Roosevelt primary fight in
Pennsylvania, contributed $4,000 to
the campaign fund. Finn is to be
made senator. George w. Perkins
of the Harvester Trust, contributed
$4,000 to the Roosevelt campaign
fund in New York and lost the State
But Perkins already has received big
favors at the hands of the colonel
and will come in for many more
should Roosevelt succeed Taft. The
; colonel will have to pay many a debt
; of that kind should he win the presi-
Z dency. Favors for votes long has been