Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — Items From Metropolitan Dailies. [ARTICLE]

Items From Metropolitan Dailies.

Theodore Elijah Burton, Ohio's choice for the Presidency, has been in public lie a long time, but. nobody is familiar enough with him to call him . "Teddy."-- Los Angeles Times. Mr. Tait is indorsing the President's action even though the Presp dent neglected such an excellent opportunity to put him on the supreme bffich. at. Louis 1 Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan might be willing to permit. the I'nited States to have a fairly large army if it were restricted to firing the Chautauqua salute.- Chicago News.

Our notion of something not to get nervously prostrated over is the question as to whether son-in-law Nick will go to war. —Macon Tele-, graph. .

It is safe now to go as far as to say that the name of Colonel Roosevelt’s second choice begins with “R.”—New York Sun. The Colonel doesn’t hestltate to conter with the standpatters and bosses whom he fought four years ago, hut possibly he fumigates and disinfects as soon as they leave him, —Houston Post.

Mr. Barnes isn’t going to be at Chicago, which means, that the poor old constitution will again face the stern duty of taking care of itself.—• New York American. Somebody has overlooked a bet. See nothing about Albert Jeremiah Beveridge as a candidate for the Presidency. Los Angeles Times. The La Follette boom has reached the extremity where it not only is saying nothing but subdividing no w ood. —Anaconda Standard. The first example of hard work in this country is the effort of somebody to sit still at Oyster Bay.— Baltimore Sun.

Quickest way to overawe old Carranza would be to threaten to send" a regiment of barbers after him.—• Columbia State. Henry Ford says be has voted but six times in his life. That won’t make him very strong in Indiana, where every sovereign is supposed to get away with at least that many at' every election.—Macon Telegraph. Mr. Perkins has leased nine floors in a Chicago hotel, but he’d trade ’em all off for the exclusive use of the ground floor at the Republican convention.—New' York Sun.

Hobson’s defeat in Alabama is a strong hint that the once-kissed and twice dry candidate has worn his welcome out at home as he has elsewhere.—Philadelphia Ledger. As nearly as can be determined, Armageddon is an imaginary spot lying somewhere between Chicago and Oyster Bay.—Washington Post. Roosevelt wasn’t’in the great preparedness parade because he won’t do a turn in another person’s show. —Philadelphia Recotfj. The more the Colonel surveys the field of possibilities the poorer his eyesight gets.—Boston Transcript.