The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-08-06
SIGHTSEEING
In the National Capital Chances
at the Democratic
Administration

IL lub EultUIs AllbT lhhlDS u Tue
Gettysburg reunion we took a run to
Washington expecting to find a Zip
roaring democratic congress cussing
and discussing the tart fl. But all was
quiet on the Potomac. President viii.
son had gone to New Hampshire
that's ii little rlace in the northeast
corner of the u. 8, where Daniel
Webster was born) to get some fresh
air, and the congressman who were in
Washington had a wise look and in
timated that something was doing be
hind the closed doors of the Commit
tee rooms, We were sadly disappoint
ed in not getting any light on the
tariff but we put in the time wi lie in
the city calling on Or. Parks family
at the Howard university, took lunch
with Mrs. Gen. Logan than whom
there probably is not living a more
reliable OF interesting participant 10
the eventful days of the civil war and
the strife of the following days of re-
construction. She cannot forget that
the Philippines cost her the life of
her dear boy, but the same nerve is
still with her which served to sustain
her while m ingling in the crowds of
southern sympathizeis who threatened
the life of her husband while he was
making speeches for the union in 1861,
down in Egypt
We called at the white house,
couldn't get in at the front door.
but to reach the historical east room
where Dolly Madison used to hang
out her washing we were obliged to
take a bull moose track through the
basement. This may be all right tor
the present day brand of democracy,
but I'm thinking old Gen. jackson
would kick down the front door. IT'S
said the president has dicharged a
lot of the tlunkies hanging around the
white house and it is TO be hoped
that four years from now the crop of
funks will be lighter and that the
s lbordinate officials who cannot sign
their names without sticking out
their tongues will have been retired.
We called OF Billy Bryan at his
office, handed our card to a dude
niger who guards the entrance, and
was invited to seats ia the waiting
room, while the secretary dispatched
a delegation of congressman. While
waiting we met several kinds of
humanity, q fellow was vigorously
kicking the Mormons, another want
ed the church to run the state, and
another the state TO run the church.
All was up to Bryan. While they
were disposing Of those important
ubjects i watched an able bodied
bel bug making his way across the
table. | think he might have been
a standpatter of the last administra.
ton. but he was sure making pro-
gress, and may soon be found among
the progressives. He evidently was
looking for something more potent
than grape juice. When admitted to
the sanctum sanctorum Of the Hon.
w. j. we shook hands with and gave
Dim a little advice-of which be said
he was much in need las to how he
should run the country, then bid
him good day, without asking to be
coht d5 diuUupoiuOI W 0hcAlCu.
Notwithstanding all the ridiculing,
lampooning and caracaturing of Bry-
an, q thing is sure he is the most
popular man in Washington today.
South Dakota looks good to us after
two thousand miles in the south and
il anybody here thinks of taking a
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family and refuse substitutes. For
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