Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

From Captain to Brigadier. The promotion of John J. Pershing from the rank of captain to that of brigadier general in the United States army over the heads of 862 other officers caused little surprise in army circles. It was known that President Roosevelt desired to reward Captain Pershing, having singled him out In one of his messages to congress for distinguished sendees against the Moros in the Lake Llano country, Philippine Islands. In this campaign Captain Pershing, in command of a battalion, was a winy

from civilization and almost cut off from communication with the outside world. For seven months he kept his base of operations open and supplied his own subsistence. Starting at the lower end of the lake, he fought around its circumference, quelling the natives and making peace with the chiefs. General MacArthur, then in command in the Philippines, recommended bis promotion to brigadier general as the only recognition commensurate with hit services. General Pershing entered West Point in 1882. Last winter he was married to a daughter of Senator Warren of Wyoming, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs, and was shortly afterward assigned to the diplomatic service, being made military attache of the United States embassy at Tokyo. Joke on Secretary Taft. Secretary Taft has found hla way into comic papers all over the world as the result of the joke Associate Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court told on the rotund secretary at the recent Yale commencement. The pleasantry of the distinguished jurist, it will be remembered, was based on a compliment he desired to pay to the chivalry of Yale men. "Yale men everywhere are polite,” said Justice Brewer. “But Secretary Taft is the most polite man I ever saw In my life. Why, the other day I was in the street car with him and he got up and gave his seat to three women.” The Church Bauar. Dr. Henry van Dyke, author, clergyman and professor at Princeton, was talking one day about the best way for churches to raise money, says the New York Tribune. Apropos of bazaars he said: “There was a canny old Scotch minister who said one day from the pulpit, with a dry smile: “ ’Weel, friends, the kirk stands urgently in need of siller, and, as we have failed to get it honestly, we must e'en see now what a bazaar can do for us.’ ” Dryden of New Jersey. The return of United States Senator John F. Dryden of New Jersey to succeed himself was practically determined at the recent primaries. Senator Dryden was opposed by the “new Idea” movement, led by State Senator Everett Colby and Mark Fagan, mayor of Jersey City. The objections urged against Senator Dryden by the Colbyites were that

he is allied with corporations, is president of the Prudential Insurance company and is financially Interested in tha Fidelity Trust company and the Public Service corporation. In answer to this the "regular" Republicans said that the Insurance investigation, both in New York and New Jersey, completely vindicated Mr. Dryden. The campaign was enlivened by the presence of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, who made several speeches in opposition to Senator Dryden.

JOHN J. PERSHING.

JOHN F. DRYDEN.