South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-06-13
STA TESMEN
REAL AND NEAR
BY FRED {. KELLY.
ny FRED C. KELLY.

WASHINGTON.-The main thing
about this story is the fact that Rep.
George W. Rauch of Indiana talked
long enough to utter a brief bon mot.
Rauch usually says never "A word, and
he takes pride In being a silent man.
Louis Ludlow once said of him that
he could ride from here TO IndianapO-
lis on the keyboard of an ordinary up
right piano without making sound.
kauch is not only silent, but shuns
publicity OF whatever kind or descrip-
ton. This well-meaning little piece
about him Will doubtless cause him TO
break out into cold perspiratiOn ii
he should see IT.
We shall now leave Rauch for a
few moments while we take up our
narrative in regular order. Two or
three mischievOus congressman were
teasing Victor Murdoch. the progress
siVe floor leader, about being a fol-
lower of Theodore Roosevelt. Victor
stood heir chatting good naturedly, and
remarked:
You know we have changed our
party song. Instead of Onward Chris
tian Soldiers, we're going TO sing We
Shall Gather at the River"
IL was then that George Rauch
started in and did more talking than
ne had done for long, long time.
Without changing expression, he in
salt River?"
Chairman Foster. of the house COM
mittee on mines and mining, went to
New York some time ago TO confer
with John ID. Rockefeller, jr., regard
ing the Colorado strike situation.
Young John, jr., has his office at his
papa's place at &c Broadway, and F'os-
ter had TO work his way through a
labyrinth of rooms. past one attend
ant after another, until at last he
reached the office OF young JOnn. Fos-
ter asked him to do something toward
stopping the bloOdshed in Colorado.
John couldn't see his way clear TO do
that, but after a little chat he invited
Foster over TO the window to see the
nice view he has from his office. Be
low them lay the Battery all spread
out in good panoramic form John.
IT., seemed particularly proud of the
excellent view to be obtained there or
the statue of liberty.
THAT must be an inspiration to
you" suggested Foster, whimsically.
Indeed it is" agreed John. il.
"Oh, it must be-" repeated Foster.
And he went his way without saying
more.
Cities are the chief aversion Of
Stephen G.. Porter, of pittsburgh.
Never in his life has stephen been to a
folks brought him up in Pittsburgh,
so he could not help that, and he has
been to Philadelphia and one or two
other large places where his law buSi-
ness forced him to spend a day. While
he has been compelled to visit lew
cities he draws the line at New York.
SO far he has never seen New York,
and he hopes he never will. Just as
long as he can invent schemes to pre-
vent having to go TO New York he Will
keep out of the metropolis. NOW
that he has spent nearly four years
in Washington, within few hours OF
New York, without ever allowing his
duties TO take him there, he is hope
full that he will live and die without
the Big City of Bluff ever entering his
horizon. Whenever things are not
breaking for StepheI just as well as
they might be he recalls that he has
never seen New York, and thinks OF
various other great American cities he
has not yet been in, and these refiec-
tons make him comparatively cheer-
full.
The thing Porter likes is the great
out doors, particularly the caribou
country UP toward the Arctic circle.
He knows almost as much about
camping as Stewart Edward White. 50
Just now, while congress seems DOOM
ed to endure several weeks OF Wash
1
ing about for a likely spot where he
can pitch his tent along the historic
Potomac and play at camping out
each night. He hopes to place him
self in a frame of mind TO near a
squirrel toying with a nut and imagine
it's the stamping of a caribou
Though Porter hates cities as he
does a pestilence, he ran for mayor
of Pittsburgh a year ago, on the theory
that if a man must live IN city he
aight as well have the running OF II.
And in failing to elect Porter, Pitts
burgh played a joke on itself.
One of the noticeable things about
T. Roosevelt since his return from
south America is that he has taken
on a sort Of PROFESSIONAL, scientific look.
This may be due partly to MS loss OF
weight. Scientific men nearly always
wear clothes that fit loosely. one
noted, also. when T. r. lectured here,
that his trousers were not-a-s we used
to say in Ohio-"gallused up quite
enough.
Few Of US ever cease to feel a
sense Of our own Importance no mat
ter how helpless we may become re-
marked Rep. Wallin, of New FORK,
one day. And he cited, for example,
letter he had just received from a
poor old chap in his district.
Il have been unable TO leave my bed
now for two years and a half" the
writer said, land my wife and daugh-
ter have had to go to work.
Il don't know what Will become OF
nv family" he added. If anything
should happen to me-"
/ Copyright. 1914. by Fred c. Kelly.
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