Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Breezy Paragraphs From the Metropolitan Press. [ARTICLE]

Breezy Paragraphs From the Metropolitan Press.

Mr. Wilson’s health being apparently excellent, we do not see why Tom Marshall should not be VicePresident Charleston News and Courier. * V * Colonel Roosevelt has a pain in his side, but it is as nothing compared to what the Bull Moose party is suffering.—Birmingham Age Herald. * * * Despite all that Hi Johnson can say as to the future, conditions as they stand find George Perkins saving and {Sane.— Washington Post. Jack Johnson is now giving hit views of the great war. Well, isn’t Jack quite an ex-pounder?—Los Angeles Times. * * * It is all right for Colonel Roosevelt to imitate Justice Hughes ic the matter of having “nothing to say” if he wants to, but he is starting too late to get anywhere with it this year.—Kansas City Journal. * * * Now that Japan has a Billy Sunday, we suppose she will soon part with all that coin she lhas made selling munitions to Russia.-—Houston Post. * * * “I walk like Agag,” says the Colonel, evidently forgetting that Agag walked up to the executioners who hewed him to pieces.—Kanesburg Illuminator. * * * All of the national conventions are now over but the pacifists, and they ought to nominate Charlie Chaplin for President.—Los Angeles Times. * * * Both national conventions have adjourned and nobody has "heard what became of Henry Ford. —-Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Whenever Senator Jiniham Lewis hears a reference to “whiskers of -Hughes” he thinks right away i 1 means “whiskers of hues” and takes it as a dqlicate compliment.—Boston Transcript. ■■ ■■■* - * * And. mind you, the country has never elected a presidential tickei with even one Charley on it, lei alone two.—Houston Post. * * * Our own theory is that Roosevelt is merely speechless with indignation.—Columbia State. * * * Suppose Bryan did come out for Wilson. You will see Roosevell boosting for Hughes pretty soon, and Roosevelt will injure Hughes as much as Bryan injures Wilson.— Houston Post. » * * General Pershing doesn’t seem to think any more of a Mexican ultimatum than London does of a Washington protest about seizing mail.—>Pittsburg Dispatch. * * * Carranza is stffl pursuing those bandits crab fashion, while Villa keeps on breaking the record for

low visibility.—Baltimore American. * * * Carranza should have a heart and not start anything just as the department heads are planning vacations.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. * * * Candidate Hughes at least has the policy not to-part his whiskers in the middle.- —Atlanta Journal. * * * Indiana may boast of its two vices, Marshall and Fairbanks.— Chicago News. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.