Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-31
Bottle Pool Beats
Politics Any Old
Day of the Week
From a Staff Correspondent

blNNODN, NED, May SO.-(Special. J.
Il tell you what it is" said Prince
Charlie Bryan the other day while en-
gagged in a game Of bottle pool at the
Commercial club with VIII Owen Jones.
If John Maher thinks he can hurt me
and Brother viii any by digging up
things we thought and hoped had been
forgotten, he is mistaken. The democrats
of Nebraska think too much t7 US"
i think you are right there" replied
VIII owen as he made a shot at a hall
and went in the hole. Bill has done too
much for the democrats, especially him
SELF, to suffer much by anything which
might be said, even II 1t Is the truth"
Yes, you know that stuff about
Brother VIII saying he would pay back
all corporation money used in the cam
paign when he ran for the presidency the
last time is all bosh," remarked the
prince as he stopped to pick up his little
black cap which had fallen off as he
made vicious shot at Ball No. 13 laying
close to the cushion and hit o and IA on
the other side and stopped where Jones
had dead sure line on the bdl he
wanted.
Nobody expected win to do that. for il
would be an impossibility to pay back all
the money donated by the big interests
OF wall street Darn the luck) even II
WIN had chautauqua date every day
in the year"
Gets FlRbbergRstcd,
had thought of that myself" repliel
Jones as he took long squint over mi.
cue at the dead sure shot left him nv
Prince Charlie and the ball jumped the
table and went rolling into the receptIon
room at the other end of the billiard hall
'Thunder! l thought / had that sure but
] hit 1t too Iow)"
A Fellow most always does that when
he thinks he has a sure thing" replied
the prince. Il thought I had a sure
thing on the democratic nomination, but
Maher got in the game and II looks as
il l hit too low"
Yes, l thought so myself" renIied /
Jones as he chalked his cue. You re- |
member / said something about that in
my Moro or Less Personal column the
other day"
Yes read it" answered Brother
charlie But have often thought VIII I
mat you ought to change the name OF
that column to the More or Less Re-
SPohslDle column' You see mighty few
people know who writes it and" Gosh.
thought | had a sure thing on that
shot and then missed again."
Speaking Of responsibility" said Jones
as he sat the bottle on the table after
he had chased it across the room. that
IS one thing | like about the fight YOU
are putting up. There is so little respon-
sibiity about it. Nobody knows Just
what you are going to do and a good
many OF them don't seem TO care. aIers.
that isn't the cue ball, it Just rolled into
the pocket over there. You're playing
po)l now, not politics.
"Of course, II you ever file that petition
you had circulated some time ago yiu
will have little responsibility to face
but as 1t is, the man who stays out and
critcizes the fellow who is in, is a great
deal like the newspsperman who writes
articles for the papers under a monde
plume or does not sign them at all (say,
but that was good shot but | thought
you was after the other ball.
Just then John G. Maher came in and
taking cue from tho rack offered 70 ,
play 'em both, which offer was accepted ,
and politics for the time was forgotten. ,