Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-01-21

preparations in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
The Nerve of Some People.
Bidding them not to remember
| how he succeeded in convincing the
best medicine men of the army and
navy that he couldn't live six
months" and thereby securing par
don from prison,-former Banker
Morse Of New York, has asked Con-
gress and the Department of Justice
to investigate the matter of his con-
viction. He alleges in substance
that he wasn't any worse" than the
rest of the big plungers in the New
York financial game in 1907. But
Morse V ent to tie pen and the 9TH
ers did not When AL Jennings was
restored to full citizenship after hav-
ing been pardoned from prison where
he was serving a sentence for train
robbery, it was just after he had
helped to pull off a moving picture
stunt at the White House showing
how wolf could be caught by hand.
Now Jennings is talking of running
for governor of Oklahoma. Washing
as New York does that of Morse,
who independent of his recent Wash
ington excursion, is getting together
few little trusts" and syndicates
at the metropolis.
Standardization of the Post Office.
Standardization in the postoffices
of the country is aimed at by Post
master General Burleson, who has
selected some of his best postoffice
inspectors to tour the country, es-
tablishing uniform methods of hand
ling mail in some of the larger Off
ces.
Six Years; Including the Last Nine
, Months.
Biff-Bang! Congress is off again,
saving the country in the same old
way, and pulling the continuous per-
, Torrance that has now been in pro-
: cess for more than six years Great
years those must have been, too! Six
years ago: Why, Roosevelt was
President then busting the trusts,
t changing the spelling books, lectur-
ing the women on account of the
scarcity of babies, razooing Congress
and putting nature fakirs and lords
of the railroads and frenzied finance
e into the Annanias class. Likewise he
4 was preparing to have the confirma-
= tion Of William Howard Taft made
by the Republican party and voters
i 1t was done Then came the Payne.
Aldrich tariff, and other painful
> things, including reciprocity with
Canada, in which the latter country
!, refused to reciprocate. William
: Howard, it is sometimes said, had a
private wire into Brother Charles
lair, down near Wall Street-any.
q how it has been more or less defin-
] itely settled that those rich broth
ers helped to queer" their poor but
I famous relative. "Howsomever," II
t was generally accepted that "Old
e Bills all right" until period just
before the Chicago convention, when
, 4 eddy started in to recall his ap-
pOintment. Just a little less than
3 two years ago the correspondent OF
the Public Opinion dropped into
Taft Northumberland one thOus-
and dollars a week, and heard the
assistant bazoo of the institution who
still retains a box stall in the Repub-
3 lican Congressional Committee, re-
mark: "Oh, what do we care about
Teddy and his roar-we've got the
delegates. True enough, they had
: EN-. And lest ii be generally ac-
cepted that William Howard Taft
was always considered failure, let
4 us recall that up to the night of cleo
ton, the Republicans in Washington
and they parrot the sentiment of the
country. stood on their very tiptoes
end fairly shouted that "Taft's all
D right" Passing the post mortems
II you please, there was indicted in.
to the Presidency less than a year
n ago a yeritable political upstart
Three years before most people who
3 did not know an alma mater from
9 HOPELESS barrel, or sororiety
from ''sorosis" of the liver, were
n asking: Hey, Wilson, did you say
who's he? Oh yes, Princeton. Grover
Cleveland, Buzzard's Bay. Oh sure
a s-h-u-r-e, /. know about him." Dowr
the avenue came the bands, and the
Democratic Clubs, and Governor
Bill Sulzer wearing SLOUGH ha
v and chewing tobacco. A mackera
d sky and soft warm breezes delighted
the assembled suffragettes and 9th.
:, er millions, in painless contrast tc
\ the bowling. yowling winds and the
binding snow of the fourth OF March
I four years previous. Those were bad
: omens for William Howard Taft