The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-06

ous session, represented California in the Senate, and divided his time between dis cussions of prohibition and charges to the effect that the President was in fact a dictator. The two did not indulge in any of the applause in which the more frivolous indulged. Instead they sat mute | and grim and silent. Once, Mir Kenyon significantly nudged MT. Works. And again, MT. Works looked at Kenyon and permitted his upper lip sharply to curl But neither spoke and the address was continued. Two moral men, these, real reformers men to whom God gave the power to see into and search the hearts of their fellow-men, and the light to point the way and guide them! The one wrote his name high when he drove a certain Washington element from cer- tain area into the hotels and apartment houses. The other generously permit ted Captain Hobson to use his govern ment frank after Captain Hobson had split and gone down forever on the shoals of ambition and desire.
 STONE UNPOPULAR
 And there was Bill Stone Since he
 
 the LaFolette fold, since that memor- able day when he acted more in the interest of Germany, it is thought, than in the interest of his country, s1r. stone has not been popular. His friends remind themselves that he is called "Gumshoe Bill" and his enemies call him, now, Stacker Bill At any rate, MT. Stone was there. An hour previous he was seen in the Willard cafe eating ice cream Then, he was not smiling During the address he did not smile It is said that since his detection, he has not smiled. At any rate, as the President read, he was not happy. How glun, how miserably dejected. How well he appeared to fill that description of Lear-"A weak in- firm, despsed old, man" As the Presi- dent read he sat silent, his scared face topped with gray resting in the palm of his hand. He appeared as one who was deceived into believing that on his shoul- ders rested the weight of the world. More than a score of correspondents, noting the dejecton of the Missourian, exclaimed, Poor Yorrick, I knew him we'll"
 l MANN WAS GRIM Of course, there were others. MT. Mann, grim and hirsute, sat silent but with eye sparkling. The republican leader, this writer believes is a patriot. It is pos sible that he was born on Friday, windy March Friday, that he finds no joy in the sunshine,s in the song of birds or the prattle of children. And yet he csn portunity, he opens ms heart, and his lips give expression to sentiments of beauty and kindliness. He was there. He was silent but interested, and filled, it Is be- lieved, with Americanism.
 MT. Gardner, the fire-eater from Mas sachusetts, who has excoriated Mann on 1.-the allegation that Mann's forefathers drank beer in Berlin--a charge entirely figurative-and has found fault with Will son because the President thought it wise to postpone the execution of Kaiser Wilhelm, was overcome with joy. It is not known whether Mr. Gardner will shoulder his gun and enter the trenches, or whether he will continue to legislate to the end that the people might be happy and contented. At any rate, he was obviously overcome with satisfaction in that the President had called Germany l to terms, and charged the Hohenzollerns !, to be on their guard.
 JEFF M'LEMORE } And there was Jeff McLemore, who of fered the famous resolution some months ago, and then when war approached of , fered the government 1000 rangers, real men who can shoot and hit he said; Meyer London socialist and pacifist, who has an idea that the rich man is crush ing the poor man into the bowels of the , earth; George Huddleston, vestless on the windy night, and coiled up like a half opened jack-knife on a seat twice too large; these and many others on whom , the nation, in this emergency, depends, , not as soldiers but as sources from which the necessities of war must come. Washington and Lee