Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1905 — POLITICS AND POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

Just when Col. Watterson asserts that the college graduate is not a success in politics, a Harvard alumnus landed a job on the Manila police force. Harold A. Loring of Portland, Me., has received an appointment from the Secretary of the Interior as superintendent of native Indian music. Major Gen. John C. Bates, assistant chief of staff, is acting Secretary of War, and will continue to serve until Assistant Secretary Oliver concludes his vacation on Sept. 1. The recent death of Dr. J. H. Stringfellow, Speaker of the first House of Representatives, recalls the fact that ha was the first person to whom the epithet “border ruffian” was applied. Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican national committee, rose to that position in just nine years. He was formerly a newspaper reporter and it is said that his salary was not exorbitant. A statue of J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture under Cleveland and “father of Arbor day,” will be unveiled next month at Nebraska City, Neb., in the public park which he donated to the city. Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador to Groat Britain, has taken Earl Gowper’s residence, Wrest Park, thirtyeight miles from London, and will occupy it this winter. He will travel to Loudon in an’ auto. Senator Sturgis, author of Maine’s most drastic legislation for the enforcement of prohfbition, blandly announcae that he ia not a total abstainer. Jamea Caldwell, M. P., regards legislation as one of the greatest ovils of the age, and has killed more bills than auy other member of the House of Commons. The losses of Ernest Cronier in sugar stock speculation, which caused tht Parisian manufacturer to commit are said to involve $20,000,090. Many Paris banks are reported to have suffered through the disastrous speculation.