Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — POLITICS and POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICS and POLITICIANS

Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia is editing the memoirs of Gen, Jubal A. Early. Keir Hardy, the radical and eccentric member of the British parliament, has abandoned shoes for sandals. Ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Long prefers to make a speech rather than to listen to one. He declares that both are bores. John Grant Lawson, chairman of committees and deputy speaker of the house of commons, on Ms mother’s side is the grandson of the original of one of Dickens’ “Cheeryble Brothers." Joseph Chamberlain, the celebrated Englishman, is not a graduate of any university nor large public school. He was a full fledged business man at the age of 16, and when 38 his fortune hud assumed such proportions that he was able to retire from commercial life and devote himself to the study and practice of politics. Green McCurtain, Governor of the Choctaw Nation, will take his place among the millionaires ere long. He settled up the affairs of the tribe recently, Involving the sale of coal lands worth $40,000,000. Of this purchase price Gov. McCurtain will receive 10 per cent The Hon. J. W. Lowther, M. P., and now speaker of the House of Parliament, has a peculiar mannerism. Ho lays his eye glasses, which he only uses for reading, on a little table at his right hand side. Then he balances them on, their edge, only to lay them flat on U»*ir face and repeat the operation