Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — BRIEF AND BREEZY. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Not a sou! has arisen to suggest four years more of Grover.” ~Jp°V a ß®rson has resumed political predictions at the old stand. It just like the Phillipinea to go as bad 1 cho^®ra or something just The most of us will have to be shown a picture of those Toledo ice men in jail before believing it. Tom Johnson is to figure as the hero of a novel. Tom Taggart is already posing as the victim of a plot. • The Shaw boom couldn’t look much flatter if Secretary Taft were to absent-mindedly sit down on it. On the question of a presidential candidate the Democratic party is the greatest standpatter of the age. ~. Ohio is charging John B. Rockefeller with conspiracy, but you can’t make his hair stand on end with charges. •v Even if Pennsylvania employes cannot keep their stock, they retained it long enough so that it will keep them. In his role of schoolmaster, the President will probably give Willie Taft a mark of 100 oh his latest composition. Probably Harry Thaw would like to lose his past or trade it for anything of little value or what have you to offer? Castro has Venezuela so well trained that it lets him be president whenever he can think of nothing more to do. King Edward has 100 new suits every year. If he bad to try each one, it is safe to say he wouldn’t have quite so many. Speaking of courts, the court of Publicity now seems likely to acquit White and find Thaw guilty of an unprovoked act. Ha! That New Zealand gentleman who said President Roosevelt is the greatest man in the world, had an ax to grind after all. About the newest thing in monopolies is the effort of Harry' Thaw’s counsel to corner ail the insanity witnesses in the market. The ice trust professes that it can’t see what business it is of anybody else if it does squeeze a. cool million out of the consumers. Secretary Taft tells the South that it needs two parties. Certainly it heeds them just as much as Pennsylvania needs two parties. An Indiana girl shot her father to keep him from getting married again. Some parents are more difficult to manage than their children. Reports from St. Petersburg indicate that the Czar has not yet learned bow to control the douma. The Czar should write for Speaker Cannon’s recipe. We are informed that every bad man in Pittsburg isn’t a millionaire, and every Pittsburg millionaire isn’t bad, which is a fact well worth knowing. Up to the present time it has not been alleged that Thaw ever ran over anybody with a devil wagon, but about every thing else has been alleged. Grover Cleveland boasts that he has never had a manuscript rejected, and yet he hesitates to send a communication to the literary department of the Bryan boomers. In some cities they are just standing around waiting with a big stick to see how the ice trust prosecutions turn out in some other cities. The thing is quite catching. Thejfc is an epidemic of triplets in Texas, at present, and only a short time ago Senator Bailey tried to convince his hearers that the president’s speeches were of no value to the country? Gov. Folk says that best democrats are such men as Bryan, Roosevelt and'LaFollette. But as Roosevelt declares that lie is out of it, the democrats will have to chose between Bryan and LaFollette. In regard to the proposition that he is the greatest man living, the President has heard from almost everybody but the Japanese who still think that some of their war heroes answer to the specifications. It was rather unfortunate that just as they were both climbing onto the Bryan band wagon, Messrs. Bailey and Hearst found it necessary ttx notify the country that each preferred the other’s room to his company.