The Washington bee., 1912-03-30
Public Men And ThinUs
(By the Sage. OF the Potomac


ooliege friend, and erstwhile blue.
coated guardian of Seventh and T
street corner, had taken his type
writer In hand, and edited few let
tets on 10 get line on the political
sltqdtion. II appears that my old
coieSe chum Is Teddy man.
mighty queer how some fellows can
| see miracles and change over night
no" l recall along about four years
ago boo WarIng was doing as much
noiierin agln Teddy as a believing
pun. but, OF course, any man caa
Cnahge ms opinion after he gets 4
glimpse OF cloud with silver lin
ing. Bob is a patriot.
And this reminds me that Rev Coz
rothers too, IS busy now working the
political game to save souls iron,
Hades by the ordinary religious
route. | met the Right Reverend
who pastes his hair down close 10 his
scalp with pomade, the other dav
and he handed me out line OF in
dependent political talk, Spliced with
few Democratic superlatives. that
sounded to ME like that old song thew
used to sing: Il done paid him in ad-
vance But Rev. Corrothers like
his bishop, Alexander Walters, as wa
all know, is a man of millionaire Dos,
| sessions and so does not have to ac-
cept any provender from political
bosses. 1t is repeated softly III Sc
lect circles that the Right Reverend
uses hls own, personal, individual
money IN all his political undertak-
| lngs. Of course some people will
| believe in revelations, but | lust have
such peculiarly constructed cocoa
| nut that can't get it through my
| skull that any colored divine is so
unselhsh, and so race-interested. as
| 70 refuse TO pick up stray ten a-
| htty spot handed him by politiciank
But with all OF his feebleness. along
political lines, Rev. Corrothers aiu't
| so awfully bad. AS | once before
narrated, he is likely fellow, with
some mighty gCo0 parts, even if he
does have capacious pockets in his
| trousers adapted for bills of large
| denominations. | really like him. He
fills mission in life.
| Well sir, that was an awful Jolt
they handed my dear good friend
Horner at the last meeting of the
board. And the lemon they handed
ITunnell was about four degrees
tarter than a lime And Mrs. Har-
! rls-well, my gallantry for the fair
sex won't permit me to discuss her
further than to say she lust naturally
got the wrong view through a bad
pair of glasses. i was up on the hiH
a couple of times this week. and #
Tunnel had heard some of the bon
mots thrown at him he would have
concluded that he had missed his
calling when ne went on the board
The fact IS the eX-head of King Hall.
a now defunCt Episcopal school Of
which he tailed to make a howling
| success, as a member of the school,
board has been a dismal failure He
reminds me of the old colored fellOvA
down in the mountains OF Virginia
| who, when asked who he was for.
replied Il amt for, Is agin" The
trouble with Tunnel is he started TO
win fortune and fame and snatch
popularity out of the maelstrom of
trouble by hugging a delusiye hope
that some day he might rule the
rOOst Now | know both him and
LIttl Lord Fauntleroy well / used
to matriculate under him in history.
and used to confab with L. L. F. on
terms of equality in or at various So
cIal functions. when | was a beau
brOmel before the charley horse
cllnChed my under pins, and | can say
without fear of contradiction, even
| by Kelly Miller, that when it comes
to that serum they call brains, thl
teacher OF history at Howard amt III
the same county with the unkempt-
vandyked individual who was named
after Roscoe COnkling. But some
how. Prof King Hall Tunnel has
got it into his West Indian gray mat
ter that he's powerful just because he
possesses a megaphone voice that is
as musical as a yollcy fired by Ma
dero's army Some people do say
/ that Tunnel was led to slaughter by
the more persuasive brain OF a prod
! uCt of Warrenton. Va. Now these
two gentlemen. during the remaindeS
OF the time allotted to them to va
rIgate around these diggings. ought
to initiate that little biyalve they call
a clam, and just have nothing more
to say. | wonder what old Hague
Tribunal Kelly Miller Is saying now
that his peculiar friend and faculty
associate went down with dull, sick
ening thud. Kelly's representations.
like the Aliens, down III Virginia,
went wront But Kelly meant well.
He really thought that both Tunnel
and Horner could hit safe in the first
inning, and make the bleaCher5 beA
lieve they had a chance to sneak over
I, one run. But neither one Of them
, could connect with the public favor
hit, and it was just three strikes and
out. My friend West India Tunnel
! would confer a favor upon Howard,
by getting the cTamp out OF his right
hand long enough to pen one OF those,
instruments in writing they call a res
ignation from the board. My friend
Horner. 7 suppose, will continue Oh.
like a bull in a china shop, doing the
4 disturbance act But their days Of
usefulness. on the board, will, from
} this time on. represent, like *, all uu-
known quantity Really. both Of
these men have it IN them % be use
5 ful fellows. if they will ever get their
minds of themselves.
j I was over IN Baltimore last week,
and while over there two oI three in