Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — POLITICIANS and POLITICIANS [ARTICLE]

POLITICIANS and POLITICIANS

In the neighborhood of his home in Mississippi, John Sharp Williams is always called “John Sharp.” This is because the family of the Congressman's mother were the Sharps—the great people of that section. Richard F. Pettigrew of South Dakota wants to be the first socialist to sit in the United States Senate as such. Ha has served two terms already. Being an eclectic in politics he was first elected as a Republican, afterward re elected as a Demo-Populist, and in three years will hoist the Socialist banner. Bob Taylor, the ex-Governor of Tennessee, who has just won a Un fed States senatorship at hi* party’s prime Hes. Waa the author of, the*Temark about Mason and Dixon's line that it waa “the line of demarcation between hot biscu'- and cold bread.” Senators Knox and Spoon u* are the Damon and Pythias of the &na*e. One day Alger came out of the Cloakroom and ran against Dolliver. “Whe;v'e Spooner?” asked Alger. “Do you want to find him?” said Dolliver. “Sure,” replied Alger. “Well, find' Knox then and you’ll have Spooner.”