Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — BRIEF AND BREEZY. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Some of the Thaws are warm members. The Pennsylvania railroad is busy whitewashing. The Shaw presidential boom ought to warm up now or never. Society would be safer were the Pittsburg millionaires to weav muzzles.

It now appears that Canada’s meats, also, are not what they are tinned up to be. New York still lacks “two senators” of being represented in the upper house of congress. Only a successful balloon voyage stands between Walter Wellman and undying fame (the North Pole). ’ When Congress meets again, the song that will fit some of the members will be “He Never Came Back.” Wisconsin climbs on the Bryan band wagon, and Pennsylvania helps along the horses by a yell or two. When is a trust not a trust? When it is busted by sending the conspirators to the Toledo workhouse. On the day when the automobile doesn’t kill a few, somebody keeps the average up by rocking the boat. According to Mr. Bryan’s London interview, he is not the kind of a man to pluck a boom before it is ripe. Oyster Bay will get all the exercise it needs this summer watching the president taking a real good rest. Smoot has escaped again. The senate was busy with more important matters; it failed to get around to his case.

Still each faction of the republican party in lowa feels that it could lick the democratic party without calling for help. Upton Sinclair is now reported to be muck-raking in Pittsburg. He ought to find something in that town to “soot” him. If the pen with which the President signed the rate bill has been presented to Senator Tillman, the fact has been suppressed. According to the decision of a Missouri court, the state can bust the trusts without the aid of the President if they want to do so. Congress has decided a lock canal at Panama, but the public has a decided opinion that it would prefers lock-jawed canal. Examination of the results of the session, discloses that the reputation of several important senatorial bosses have been badly dented.

One of the peculiar features of of the social tragedies in New York was the apparent reluctance of anyone to defend the name of the man killed. Senator Beveridge recently admitted that he doesn’t know the meaning of the expression ‘‘rush, ing the can.” The senator must keep a case of “it” in his cellar. Candidate Lumpkin, of South Carolina, must be a very big one if he thinks “ancestral claims” can