Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-29

Chase. iegalizing title TO certain
lands.
BY joint committee. highway admin
istration bill
LEGISLATIVE LOBBY eosslP.
IBy Ora Wil,iams.l
| II will be moving time pretty soon
| for many: but few will be able TO
equal the record for quick moves ana
shifting back and forth from one eoun-
~ TO the other of sherman Dew Ok,
senator and democrat Senator DsWoh
expsr;snces every week the delightful
sensation OF changing his habitat
without. the accompanying annoyance
iof carpe. beating and stove pipe aG-
| iusting Thru il all ne maintains per
! feet serenity. Il is this MAJ, "hen
Harding IS IN the chair. he becomes
| the senator from Blackhaw S" and re
! mains so al ali times. Efforts nave
been made 10 get him located over a
Reinbeck with Harding III the chair,
but OF no avail. But President Pro
Tenn Savage IS called to handle ne
sayel about every SO often. and sud
denly DeWoif becomes the senator
from Grundy. and SO remains. Thus
the slender slip OF a senator VINO de-
spite his minority rlenloershi? IS
considerable force n the councils o.
thu. senate. shifts back and forth. as 10
his place Of residence. several times :.
week
How quickly men are forgotten?
few days ago one who was commit
tee clerk a dozen years ago paused IN
the press gallery TO exchange gossip
with the boys. He recalled the strong
men OF that day. and as ne referred
IA them how strange il seemed that
all of them are missing from the sen
s,a save and except one. He men
toned Healy. Garsr, Trewin. Giloers
son, Funk. Crussley. Hayward. Harri-
man, Wilson, Porter. Townsend. ana
many Others lie recalled with WING
moss some of the debates. not more
earnest nor more able than now. out
in the irrespective OF dozen years
seeming greater Not one II the SEN
ate whose memory goes back as sen
ator as far as Wilson. of Clinton YET
nor one more modest and retiring. nor
less likely TO inflict his personality on
the public. But in the senate toaas
the men of a dozen years ago are pfac-
tically forgotten: and in the house the
membership of even three sessions ago
is a subject only for the kindly
"reminiscences of the old timers.
| Warden McClaughry, of Anamosa
reformarory. told a good story OF an
experience when he was in charge OF
prison in Atlanta. There was some
sort of big doings in which he had
! a large hand at Atlanta and TO which
men came from all over Georgia AS
/ one feature he had induced big bag
miner fro,r. the stockyards district OF
/; Chicago to go to Atlanta to blow the
pipes and furnish advertisement. The
! big fellow had done his part well, and
somehow he had learned how TO adapt
Marching Thru George" 10 the pipe,
and he topped off by giving them that
before the banquet was over Inc
crowd sat In genteel silence: but pres
( entity a dapper little editor from Macon
caught the Scotchman in corner anc
strutted up TO him with the demand:
! Now. we've played that -- Yam
kee tune. we've got TO give us Dixie on
them pipes"
WHY, mon, what'd ye mean-what
tune?"
40. you know: that marchin' song
about goin' thru Georgia"
shaw. We don't know what your
talking ABBOT" said Sandy, his Quick
wit serving him well. That was the
Seventy seconds Farewell 10 Giorai-
tar and I'll not loot any Dixie for you
are anybody"
And he didn't, for Dixie couldn't be
put on the pipes at all. And Nc
CIaughry saw that the piper was taken
safely 10 the train.
In certain club Of advertising men
! in Chicago few years ago there was
a Sc, of rules and certain one was
made use Of when members were else
where to call down bombastic mem
Der. The rule was secret outside the
club but il finally became known the
rule meant:
Don't take yourself too d seri-
ously.'
Several times the past week the sug-
gestion has been made that each house
OF the legislature needs that RUE
added 10 its fine list.
Some men forget easily parts OF the
political game even recently played es-
pecially losing parts. An Illustration
Last year a lawyer Of Des Moines
whose services are easily secured for
a price for almost any job went to
candidate for the legislature who had
wor. out in The primary and demanded
TO know if ne vas going TO stand cn
the state platform. The information
was that the candidate would do so.
You have got TO come out for the
whole ticket, from Taft down, or youli
never get my support" the lawyer de-
| clared.
! Il shall stand squarely on the plat
form Of my party, that and nothing
more" was the quick answer, and ]
don't want your support
Then a few days later mysterious
boom was started in the papers 1oT
the lawyer dictator to be an indepen-
dent candidate for the Legislature. But
| in the thick of the fight it was all for
gotten.
Yet one day last week, when the
! lawyer aforesaid was made the subject
/ of sharp and incisive denunciation -or
| questionable lobbying before the lesis-
| lature, he calmly went to the same
legislator and begged Of him to rise IN
| mis- seat and defend him against his