Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-01
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TERTAiNlNGLY WRITES OF
EVENTS AT NATIONS
CAPITAL

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EVENTS AT NATIONS
CAPITAL
The other evening It was my pr1Yli-
ege to hear the president talk to mem
bers Of the National Press Club, and
what he said made a deep impression
upon his hearers. 1t was in the ma
ture Of a heart-to-heart talk, for mem
> bers only, with the understanding that
I the details Of the presidents state
ments were not to appear in print.
To say his remarks were interesting
| does not express the true feeling which
those present experienced. Somehow
| his words penetrated to parts beyond
| ears, and all who heard him have a
better understanding of the man, his
, trials, his policies. At the close OF
the meeting the impression prevailed
that a man could hardly hear such a
talk and fail to be with the president,
heart and soul
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The more a person hears and sees
at the National Capital city the more
cne becomes convinced that it is with
the sentiments of Andrew Jackson and
the patient determination of Abraham
Lincoln that Woodrow Wilson is guild
! ing the Ship of State through seas
more storm-tossed than have been
known since Lincoln's death. Demo
Gratis of the Jackson type and Repub-
licans of the Lincoln type will not per
nit the Wilson hand to be shaken
from the helm
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| Few men, il any, have made q bet
ter record in an equally short space
lof time than Senator Husting. A
man in public life here is clasaiss
sized up and folks get his number at
some time. I am glad to say that the
record of Senator Husting is being
favorably commented upon here by
meR who act as critics along Con-
gressional lines. No matter what may
be said about the Senator elsewhere,
folks here as rule respect and ad-
mire Senator Husting for upholding
the President.
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Joseph G. Cannon is eighty years
young, and on the occasion of his
recent anniversary an important leg
islative program was laid aside in
the House of Representatives in or
der that two hours might be devoted
la personal triubte to 'the oldest Con
gresham alive" He is called Uncle
joe" and there is tone of genuine
affection evidenced toward the kindly
Cid man who is hardly willing to ad
NIT, but nevertheless must realize,
that his footsteps are tottering. Mr..
Cannon is one of the most remarka
BILE men of the age, and he led the
old-time machine politicians on to
man an inglorious triumph. 1t was u
revulsion against the methods that
were popular in his day that did more
than anything else toward establish
ing new order of political thought
land action in the United States. And
. yet no one holds any animosity toward
the representative from Danville, Ill.
Withal, Uncle Joe's constituency and
his colleagues in Congress like him
most for his own sake, and the trib
ute paid to him was entirely person
al, and in no wise an endorsement of
his brand of craftsmanship.
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The United States Department of
Agriculture has been carrying on a
propaganda for a great many years to
educate people to use more fish for
food in place of meat. Now shrimp
are very much sought after on the
seabOard, the same as are Holsters,
oysters and snails. There has been
good deal of difficulty in supplying
these foods to the interior Of the
country. The same troubles apply to
the shipment of fish. The federal de-
partment has started off on the new
and worthy tack that it will no longer
ask people in places like Omaha, Ne
braska, to eat stale fish from the At
lantic seabord. The department now
seeks, through it's Investigators, to
perfect improved methods in handl-
/ ing, cleaning and preserving fish and
other sea food and in shipping it to
all parts Of the country.
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There long has been a suspicion
that there are bad eggs in Washing
ton, but nobody suspected that the