Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1909 — Brains and Avoirdupois. [ARTICLE]

Brains and Avoirdupois.

There Is bitter irony in the declaration of the Chinese that Leon Ling, wanted for the murder of Elsie Sigel, long since adjured the doctrines of Confucius, and became thoroughly Americanized and professedly Christianized.—lndianapolis News. Senator Beveridge Is quoted as saying that he will not talk state politics in Washington If this is so, where does he talk state politics? He is seldom in Indiana. Since he lias; been in the senate he has paid only infrequent visits to the state which baa honored him. When not in Washington he has been in the “Maine woods"..or at a “summer home" in Massachusetts, lie seems to have a special fondness for the New England climate. At all events he sees his own state only on flying visits. Lorimer. elected to the United States senate from Illinois, by a combination of bolting Republicans and foolish Democrats, signalized his advent into the senate by joining the Aldrich gang. He declares that he will stand with the Rhode Island boss on all tariff matters and the first vote he cast was against free print paper, and in favor of $4 a ton duty. The only thing accomplished by the Democrats in helping to elect Lorimer was to split the Republicans of Illinois into factions which have since entered upon a war of extermination among themselves. And in the end that may produce some good political results. Mrs. Grover Cleveland lias testified under oath that the article credited,, to her husband and used by. the Republicans for a time in the last campaign is a forgery and the rascal who perpetrated the offense Is headed for the penitentiary. It was well known that the relations between Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan were strained, but neither Mr, Bryan nor any other esnsible person ever believed 'that the clumsy "Cleveland article" was genuine. It. was calculated to do Mr. Cleveland's memory much more harm than good, and his widow’s indignant repudiation of It has branded the whole thing as a political Infamy.

Several of the Southern Demcoratto senators who voted with the Aidrich crowd on some of the tariff Items are being bitterly condemned by their constituents And what is more, condidates for their seats are springing up in their states. The result doubtless will be that some of the recreant senators will lose their jobs and retire into a deserved obsurity. Such an ending would serve them right. The masses of the people of this country, and of eyery state in it, are opposed to the* Aidrich schedules, which are arranged for (and by) the trusts and other protected special interests. ( It is especially true that all real Democrats are opposed to the Aldrich proposals. The Dingley law was a legislative Infamy, but the new one we are likely to get Is certain to be even worse.

In his recent correspondence with the railroad commission about the train crew law passed by the last legislature Governor Marshall showed again, as he has proved on other occasions, that he will consent to po act which tends to confine the duties of the three departments of government. The governor holds that each department Is supreme within Its own province and that there must not be enroachment by one upon another. The railroad commission had undertaken to construe the penal provisions of the train crew law and had done it in a manner agreeable o the railroads. Governor Marshall believed that if necessary to construe the law the courts should do it and not the commission. And he said so very plainly.

Cy Sulloway is the biggest man In congress—that Is, if one takes coant physically. Morris Shepard of Texas Is one of the smallest—that" Is, if he is measured on the same lines. They were sitting together at one of the Pennsylvania avenue hotels the other night. "Morris,” said the New Hampshire giant, “why don’t you grow? You talk to me about the whales the sooth produces In avolrdnpols. Pity you don’t send some of them up here. Look at you. Why, I could slather a dime’s worth of butter over you and swallow you!” "And should you,” replied Shepard, "as Alexander Stephens once replied ( to the same suggestion from Butler, you would have more brains In your stomach than you have In your head.”