Potosi journal., 1912-04-17

Si.OO Per Annum.
Missouri will be for the Colonel &
the national convention.
Roosevelt and Taft are alternat tel
kicking each others dog around fhes
days. The dogs don't seem to mind
The President is opposed to the re
call Naturely, when he g4ts throug
in the White House he may want t
sit on the bench again.
Now that the fishing and base bal
season has opened up, We can view
the political turmoil that is going OF
with eQuaninrity and patience
The great political parties have t,
take up socialistic. ideas these day
as matter of self-protection IL
such things all are for protection.
A man named Boeschenstein, it j!
reported, will succeed Roger Sullivan
as head of the. Illinois Democracy
Its down with the Irish this time.
just now our own Champ seems tc
be the big noise in the Democratic
party. He beat Wilson and the resi-
of em to fraZzle in the Illinois
primaries.
Home rulers in ireland have troi:--
bles much like the popular govern
ment advocates in this country have
to contend with. The interests are
feminist it.
The mining of lead, zinc and baryt
in Missouri don't get much encour-
agement from congressman Of the
Hensley stripe. So far as he is con-
cerned these industries may so to.
One of the leading Republican pape
of Washington, d. C., says The Taft
managers at the capital have practi-
cally given up hope of renomlnatlnS
the President. If the sentiment again
him continues to grow as it mas been
doing lately, we look for M. Taft's
withdrawal from the race.
Major-General Frederick Dent Grant
eldest son of the great Ulysses s.,
died suddenly in New York last Thu 8
day night of throat trouble by
which he ichoked to death. He was
a good man. but never made much
stir in the affairs of this country. He
was a son OF hisfathher merely.
If Taft don't get it and Roosevelt
can't get it, Senator Beverage OF IL
diana would be a good compromise
candidate. All Republicans would get
together on Beverage. Even Demo-
Gratis would be inclined to vote for
him, because his name sounds SO
much like drink.
The American people are fast get
ting set against the idea that the ma
tural recources and they themselves
are here only to be exploited by a
circle of capitalists, continually grow
ing smaller. whose multimillions must
always be given precedence to the W'h
fare and happiness Of the people the n
selves.
In the Michigan Republican state
convention one day last week the
governor had to call out the state
troops before the Taftites could be il =
duced to give the Rooseveltians even
look into the convention hall, to
say nothing of a chance to elect del
egates. This is the idea OF fairness
OF the average Taft crowd.
J. Pierp. Morgan is still in Europe
where he went to dodge testifying bel
fore the Stanley investigating com
mittee that is making a congression-
al probe into the affairs of the Steel
Trust. Soon as the committee makes
it safe for him to return, J. Pierp. |
will come back to us with an en-
hanced fine art collection and a re-
newed appetite for raking in mort
millions.
Old Senator Cullum of Illinois, af-
ter having been i'll politics all his
life and trying to stay in a while
longer. only to gAt his recall from
the voters at the recent primary cleo
tion there. now advises young men
to keep out of politics, saying there
is nothirg in it but poverty or ras-
cality, according to the way YOU are
disposed Funny how long the Sena-
tor has been finding this out,
Miss Clara Barton, founder of the
Red Cross Society died last Friday at
her home in MMaryland. at the ad-
vanced age of 81 years. The society
she organized and built up is now a
worldwide institution and where
ever the forces of war or nature raw