The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-04
STORIES OF STATESMEN
BY Fred Kelley.

Washington, Jan ,, When yia
President Marshall was governor Ol
Indiana Il woman came to see him In
regard to getting her husband paroled
from the penitentary.
The food is good" she admitted.
and l don't think he Is oyerworked,
but the life there is altogether too
conflning.
Every year the number Of senator's
who ride In street cars IL cut down,
owing TO the gradual creeping Of the
insidOus automobile into the heart OF
our democratic institutions, The one
great objection senator's have 20 nd.
Ing In Il street car In the annoyance
" having somebody who wants some
thing slip into seat alongsids Of
them and engage them In a long, tire
some conversation. one senator, how.
ever, who makes his trip 10 the Capt
tOl almost invariably In a street car
ls Reed Smoot Of Utah. The moment
Smoot gets seated he takes from his
pocket copy Of the Congressional
Record and forgets whether he is I u
street car or taXicab, as he be
comes more and more engrossed in
the crisp dialogue that the Record
unfolds. And smoot is amply protect
ed against having anybody engage him
In conversation, by the fact that he
has a heavy mustache, like a lion-tam-
er, and looks No solemn that not one
man In n Thousand would dare disturb
him. Even the conductor swallows and
looks embarrassed when he asks
/ SmOot for his fare
Another senator who likes to ride
on street cars Ia old John Sharp VIII.
iams. He says he likes II because Of
te democracy Of the thing A little while
ago, however he got an automobile
NJ sop 10 conyeutlonallty, While
the auto was still new another cur
/ hit II as II was standing lnnocently
at curb and knocked II all out OF
fix.
John Sharp williams just Chuckled
when he heard about the accident.
I'm 20 back to the street car
now" said he, "and find out once
more what people are really talking
and thinking about
Representatives "Hampy" Moore
Of Pennsylvania, and W. II. Stafford
Of Wisconsin were both opposed TO
the Dick Hobson prohibition resolu'
tlon. so when "Hampy" Moore got
up to speak against the measure his
remarks we're frequently punctuated
with applause nv Stafford. On the ay.
erage, Stafford anplauded whenever
"Hampy" came 10 the end OF para
graph.
"There IL more vice right now IN the
District OF Columbia" declared Ham
py, than ever before"
And Stafford, just from force OF
habit, Enthusiastically applauded that,
/ too.
Representative Garrett OF Texas, In
the course OF his speech In favor Of
prohibition, referred 10 those drinks
with fruit ilosting about In them that
society people drink Just before their
dinner
After he had finished Otis Wingo
NJ Arkansas called him 10 one side and
said 10 Garrett;
Of suppose you realize that you
have worked great injury to the
cause " prohibition"
what are you talking aboutf
asked Garrett indignantly.
Just what l say" replied wingo.
oThose drinks with the fruit In them
such ~ you describe are known AZ
cocktails Many Of the members had
not thought Of cocktails for days or
even weeks until you began TO de-
scrihe them NO appeiixingly Your
minute description appealed 10 their
Imagination. Didn't you notice mem
hers begin to file out Of the chamber
while YOU talked From here they went
10 A hotel up the street 10 purchase
the very evil YOU were decrying Al.
fer two or three cocktnils they WIN
align themselves with the forces op'
posed TO temperance. Your speech
has indeed wrought a great amount
OF evil"