Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — A Matter of High Politics. [ARTICLE]

A Matter of High Politics.

One the ujjttlest EftgUgh peers Is Lord Longford, and he has also earned the reputation of being one of the worst dressed, in spite of the fact that for 20 years he has been in the Second Life Guards. The story goes that a friend once met him tin Ireland garbed in a pair of continuations which were not on speaking terms with his boots, and chaffed him mercilessly about the “lucid Interval” that occurred between them. But “Tommy,” as Lord Longford is known to his Intimates, in nowise disconcerted, blandly explained that it was really a matter of high politics. "You see, my dear fellow, the breeches are made 'by a tailor who i* T a rampant Orangeman, while the boots are the achievement of a*Fenian cobbler, so how can you expect ’em to meet?”