The Washington bee., 1912-02-24
Public Men And ThinDS
(By the Sage of the Potomac.)

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Although l get around pretty gen
orally, | didn't hear until Wednesday
Of this week that The Washington
American had turned up its toes to
the daisies. That just either shows
its presence and going made little i'm
preston, or the people hadn't no
ticed it. OF course | know Chase
never kept his kindness for the two
editors who ran it IN the warm oven
Of affection, but somehow l like the
two amateurs. The trouble with the
boys was some one doped It out
wrong TO them, and then when they
went, blindfolded, to execution, just
| like the rOyalists went to their doom
during the French commune, the
! dopesters couldn't hand them ram
check. The boys are a bit wiser, II
! they are a bit out Of money, and the
| time spent running a paper Tor the
people" has made them long on eXpe-
| rienCe, if it did make them short on
the "spindolix." I've been around
Washington long enough to see many
a noble would-be knight OF the quill
enter the list declaring that he was
i going to right the wrongs OF the race,
iput Chase and his weekly stinger on
= the toboggan, and make a place for
himself in history. And yet, when
the smoke of the first encounter has
been swept away, | have discovered
that We noble would-be knight of the
Quill has folded his tent, and, like the
Arab of the desert, silently stole away,
leaving William Calvin Delegate
Chase hot with anger because they
! didn't furnish him with amusement
longer. Only a few weeks ago, Rich
ard Wordy Thompson, national cor
respondent, national party arranger,
2 national superintendent Of colored
i mems destinies, and so on ad llbltum
II was doing stunts on certain weakly
weekly cOlOred newspaper, and avOw-
ing he was going to hit 'em up all
: down the line, and put the kabOsh
on this and that fellow, and save the
race, the party and the nation, and
incidentally dump Chase in the asf
heap of oblivion, when all OF sud
| den. presto change, Richard Wordy
d | Thompson was mournfully mus1ng tC
- himself, sans wine, sans song, san:
singer. sans end" for his organ wa:
, in an never-ending sleep. Now thi:
I all reminds me that conducting {
T colored newspaper on the beautiful
banks of the classic Potomac IS nC
fried chicken affair, and William Cal
vim Delegate Chase seems about th'
only bit of mahogany human turnl
Iture that can really stand the climate
without contracting newspaper paraly
sis Who'll be the next InnOcen
victim:
II :: s.
isl / was in a bunch of Masous tn
p other evening and they fell to dis
cussing three initials Murray, wh'
dopes out thread-bare fiction to tn
Boston Guardian. 1t seems tn
" brothers Of the square and compass
5. were Just a bit ruffIed because 'thre
all initials Murray persisted in trying f
T., make it appear that Dr. Washington
~ was only near-popular, IN spite OF tn
| TACT that three thousand people wer
unable to get in to hear him at tn
In recent Masonic meeting. Some o
81 the brethren said something abOu
- Murray that if he had heard them h
t might had his hearing restored. III
le fact is there amt no use lOOslng slee
lti over the old three initials. II
would not write facts when BOOke
T.'s name must appear, If you CAV
him the Roosevelt word rate-dOlla
II, woodland he is just so seized wit
lei the grouches that he can't see an
Il good in any one, saint or sinner, VIII
" has kind word for the Tuskegeeal
l. If it were not for his senseless crit
ae cism. his hOme-manutactured lie
al labout Booker T. and BOOker's friend
II Freeman II. NJ Murray would b
fairly popular As it is everybody X
CARDS him "a a wart that sooner {
later will have to be removed by
surgical operation | sort of Symp;
thize with the bushy-haired AleNal
IL drian though, for the reason that e'
= erv fellow whose ear drums are NJ
he working on a second schedule ge
,r the idea that everybody IS knOckln
.ts him. and as a result he gets eros
grained and becomes constitution
kuocker Whenever | read any OF o
three initials dope ! always reCa
that nursery rhyme: "Oh, how OF
ugly trick has spoiled the sweete
of and the best; Matilda, though
re- pleasant child. one grjcvOus fault po
Ie sessed. which, like cloud before Il
.+b skies. hid all her better qualities
= Freeman's propensity to knock hid
pr his better qualities. He ought to g
Of next to himself. As "Alisther' He
mr. inecv saws. this be daum po
void fer the fool who Is always pee
,b in around fer trouble, and toiriI
hisself out wild carrying a hamm
he around" And then OToole respon
ID ed: "Dade yer right Hennecy, b
on mind We. a day comes, begorra. VIII,
as they muzzIe ivry dog suspected
ms having hydreophobia. or whativer
his calls the daum fool who tries to for
a hammer thrust
IF ever they hang out a grand prl
to the fellow who makes the taste
ass time over the paCifying track up
ht Paradise, all the entries will have
he 90 some to beat out Kelly Milo
In Kelly is really unhappy unless h
ca got a Job Of patching up some, ditt'
ences. VOW its Commendahle, b
I've found it a mighty unprohtat
enterprise. Right fresh from a n
race to get the three COlOred membe
to Of the "boad of edicashun and R6
to coe Conkling In-trOuble Bruce
mol agree tc stand for the initiative a.