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4 Paragraphs About Men and 'Measures By SA. M W . SMALL What trust has Roosevelt busted? That Harriman letter may yet hatch out a third term rooster. Under which T. R. —Tariff Reform or Theodore Roosevelt? Foraker declares for state’s rights. Does he mean Jim Crow cars and all? “Babe” Bailey is very becomingly making a noise like a deaf and dumb man. Cuba is not a marooned nation, nor a dragooned one —but just a Magoon ed one. The weather man and the fruit crop prevaricator have renewed their al liance. March fooled April into taking off her flannels —hence the past chilly fortnight. Secretary Taft’s bulk is in Cuba, but his boom is trying to make itself seen in Ohio. Peonage seems to be one of those crimes that is “easy to charge and hard to prove.” Those two postobiter senators in Alabama must think it is a long time between funerals. Fortunately, Mr. Bryan has learned not to take all the advice that is handed out to him. It is not strange that every one who agitates the negro problem still further unsettles it. Jim Hill wants the-public to explain to him how securities can be “float ed” without “water”? Most of us have regarded tennis as a mollycoddle game, yet the president is strongly devoted to it. It is charged that the constitutional convention in Oklahoma made a code instead of a constitution. What monopoly price of any article has been reduced by all of Roosevelt’s grand stand chin-music? Ex-Secretary Shaw is not now so much in the public eye, but is much more into the public’s pocket. Thaw ought to consider that a disa greement is better than a discharge of electricity into his carcass. It looks funny to see the Czar knock ing at the door of the Douma and ask ing for government dough. The king of Spain shows a laud able Curiosity* to' see if it will be “the image of its father”? The Thaw jury was as hopelessly divided as to what its verdict should be as the general public was. That story of a $5,000,000 campaign fund in Wall street must make Cortel you’s mouth water at the corners. The Republican corporations have already got their man picked. Watch them line up for the lean horse from Hoosierdom. WATSON’S SvEEREY‘JEFFERSONIAN. Senator Morgan will soon be “the dean of the senate.” He has already been its docent for a long period. Foraker has committed lese majeste by intimating that Nick Longworth doesn’t say anything when he talks. The fact that the president wants our water ways improved is no sign that he has turned prohibitionist. We seem to be right in the midst of that era when “prices go up the elevator while wages climb the stairs.” The Georgia railroad is mighty lucky in picking railroad commissioners and “experts” to furnish it bills of health. Whitelaw Reid told the Englishman that “the greatest fact in history” is the United States. And that’s no lie! Philadelphia is the Gomorrah of Graft. And Harrisburg seems to be a close by Sodom of official stealings. We w r onder if the next national Dem ocratic convention will allow Jockey Belmont to pick its horse for it to ride? Mr. Hearst has probably concluded to let Chicago be held up and shaken down to her Republican heart’s con tent. It is funny how unblushingly the railway magnates complain that they cannot serve the public on honest terms. California seems to have sacrificed state’s rights for the federal promise to keep a few Japanese coolies off our shores. It is to be hoped that there will come no turn of the Thaw case that will call for Evelyn’s return to the stage. What the country needs is not more Roosevelt, but more tariff revision to put monopolies and trusts out of business. Tennessee will send a Roosevelt del egation to the next national Republi can convention. Whisper it gently to Foraker. Governor Hughes is trying to be a real reformer in New York. In that he is disappointing the expectations of his party. Mr. Bryan is committed to the one term principle for presidents. Mr. Graves should read Bryan’s biography more closely. Rhode Island cannot see any dif ference between having no senator and having Wetmore passing for one in Washington. It ought not to take the coming session of the Georgia legislature longer than a week to pass a lobbyist felony bill. Think of the Democrats of South Carolina swallowing Roosevelt a la Crum and the Mississippi Democrats gulping down Roosevelt a la Minnie Cox! Yet Mr. Graves can imagine all that! That asinine war about a mule in Central America is ended, and only the friends of the mule are kicking about the result. If Roosevelt does not get a renom ination from his own party he could hardly hope to get one from the Dem ocratic party. It is said the south has no pres idential timber. Still we have plenty of alleged statesmen who are “big sticks” a-plenty. Delmas need not patent his “de mentia Americana.” No other lawyer is ever likely to try it on another American jury. Secretary Taft is to be ordered to Ohio to press his presidential boom. And this is what we have a secretary of war for, is it? The people of Iceland want their independence. There is a chance for Fairbanks to run for president in a congenial country. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw says she doesn’t understand why the jury could not agree. She never has understood any thing good for her to know. Now is the time for the corporations to step around to the White House and claim a “refund” of their campaign assessments in 1904. We imagine the railways will con tinue to enjoy all the credit in the money markets to which their real assets entitle them. The failure of a fruit crop must be pleasant for railway managers. It will help them to relieve “the con gestion of traffic.” Thomas, of Lynchburg, looks like the man who can make Tom Ryan jump off the back of the Virginia Democracy. Here’s luck to him! If the president was “dee-lighted” by the speech of Hon. J. T. Graves at Chattanooga he has not yet caught his breath sufficiently to say so. The president seems to have con cluded that Hughes is too candid a reformer to carry New York again, ev en as a presidential candidate. Beveridge asserts his fealty to the Fairbanks boom in Indiana. Evident ly the senator is not eager to saw hts limb on the wrong side of himself. The fact that Root holds on to the secretary of state job proves that he can still be useful to the corporations even in a Roosevelt cabinet. What is really hurting the railway magnates in their vitals is the steady march of the movement to select Unit ed States senators by popular vote. Busse, the new Republican mayor of Chicago, calls himself Busy. He looks to us like the Bizzy-Izzy of the street railway cormorants of his city. Come to think of it, John Graves’ proposition to the Democratic party to renominate Roosevelt Is no worse than the ones it accepted in 1872 and 1904. ■ « I mu u - -grill* i *_-~n Senator Tillman will scarcely get a debate with ex-Governor Northen on the negro problem. The latter gave up the pitchfork business many years ago. Has Mr. Graves considered the Book er Washington power at the White House as an argument in favor of Roosevelt’s renomnination by the dem ocrats? Every Georgia legislator should be provided with a map of the last state primary, so that he may remember what that Georgia unanimity demands of him. Emma Eames made the mistake of marrying an artist. Two artists can never agree with each other. What she needs is some sort of plain sec ond-fiddle fellow. We will probably not know the real reason why John Coit Spooner resign ed from the senate until after May Ist, when he lands in his new job with “the interests.” That Abe Rues, the San Francisco grafter, should be brought to justice by a man named Spreckles, tends to prove that our American civilization is rapidly playing out. The railroads say they cannot make a living at two cents a mile fares. Still they manage to do so with a big list of fellows continually traveling on free passes. Senator Rayner thinks Senator Dan iel of Virginia is the right southern man to boom for the presidency. But has Senator Rayner consulted Tom Ryan about that matter? Rockefeller cackled when Harriman blurted out the truth on the witness stand. It will be remembered that on a similar occasion John D. swore the truth out of court. The railroads complain that they cannot borrow any more money. Per haps the money lenders have exam ined their “securities,” and that is what’s the matter. Uncle Joe Cannon bases his presi dential hopes on the fact that the Republican party does not dare to reform the tariff. That would be to saw its own legs off. Judge Parker feels vindicated about those campaign funds. The fact that he can feel at all indicates that he is recovering from the stunning fall he got in 1904. Senator Culberson refuses to think himself a candidate for the presi dential nomination. The senator is the wrong man upon whom to try to work off a delusion like that. All the old ringsters and “watch for the label” politicians in Mississip pi are following John Sharp Williams, but the plain people will send Varda man to the senate, just the same. — ■ 11 —1 >lll Chicago has decided that twenty years more of street railway private monopoly is better than municipal ownership. But there is no account ing for taste —in Uitlander Chicago.