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JUNE 14, 1912-
impeachment at this time, it was re-,
ported, postponing it until the next
session o congress.
Representative Berger, socialist,
of Wisconsin, offered a resolution in
the house for the impeachment o
Federal Judge Hanford of Seattle,
who " recently took away Leonard
Oleson's citizenship on the ground
that Oleson was a socialist. The
house adopted the Berger resolution,
directing the judiciary committee to
investigate.
Gunboats and troops will be sent
to Cuba and the island authorities
have been warned to be ready for
intervention. -
The United States supreme court
lias reversed the commerce court's
decision which said that railroads
could carry coal to be used for railroad-fuel
at lower rates than com
mercial coal. The supreme court
held that the commerce court was
not given new powers but succeeded
to the powers of the circuit courts in
existence, and it was its business to
pass only pfl questions of law. This
ruling wouid restore the powers of
the inter-state commerce commission.
Mr. Taft; people who get or keep
federal ofllco had better avoid
such plainness of speech just now,
but this is no time to tickle any
body's vanity or to beat about the
bush in saying what must bo said
for the public good; the present dan
ger to the republican party is. too
grave, the consequences to the coun
try of a mistake at Chicago would
be too momentous, for any one to
be mealy-mouthed with a clear con
science. The plain truth is that the
people didn't want Taft in 1908 and,
after more than three years' trial,
they wunt him so much less now
than they did then that they won't
have him at any price in 1912; if
they can't get Roosevelt, mark my
"word, they'U take a democrat.
Congressman E. H. Hubbard,
representing the Eleventh Iowa dis
trict, died suddenly in Sioux City on
the day following his nomination.
VICTIM'S SARCASM
"What do you consider the most
important event in the history of
Paris?"
"Well," replied the tourist, who
had grown weary of distributing
tips, "so far as financial prosperity
is concerned, I should say the dis
covery of America was the making
of this town." Washington Herald.
"TOOK TAFT ON FAITH" .
Baltimore Sun: Mr. Charles J.
Bonaparte, who introduced Colonel
Roosevelt at the Lyric, spoke as fol
lows: "Fellow-citizens: Three and a
half years ago I presided at a great
meeting in this hall, introduced Wil
liam H. Taft to you as the republi
can candidate for the presidency and
. urged alii-who .heard me to vote ror
him in November, 1908.
"Now I urge all of you and all
republicans in Maryland not to vote
for William H. Taft, and in a few
moments I shall present to you the
man, the only man, whose nomina
tion at Chicago will give the repub
lican party a fighting chance for vic
tory in November.
"The American people have had
enough' of Mr. Taft; they. didn't
really want him in 1908; they
couldn't gl the man they wanted
then and they took Mr. Taft on faith,
because that man, the man they
really wanted, said Taft would do.
Four years ago the people called for
Roosevelt, as they call for him now,
but Roosevelt wouldn't come then
and sent Taft in his place; the people
had to put up with Taft for want of
Roosevelt; now Roosevelt will come
and the people have no further use
for Taft.
"This is the long and short, the
black and the white of the present
situation ; this is the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth
about Mr. Taft. He knows as well
as you and I do, indeed he knows
even better than either you or I do,
inf in 1908 he was a second choice,
or rather no choice at all; that if
Colonel RooBevelt could have been
persuaded to take a third term then,
he himself would have had no ghost
of a chance for a first term, to say
nothing of a second.
"Probably it isn't altogether
pleasant for him to remember this;
a man doesn't like to think his girl
only married him because she
couldn't-get the man she wanted and
she preferred him to being an old
maid; and one would rather not be
reminded that his country made him
president only because the man it
wanted wouldn't servo and it had to
have a president of some kind.
"It wouldn't be very tactful or
very politic for those in want pf
-jobs to rub in these memories on
REASON FOR HASTE
"I understand that T. A. Edison
says that concrete shoes will be all
the rage soon."
"Gee! I guess I'll speak to your
father' right away." Houston Post.
NOT THERE
Joke-Seller "Did you receive my
letter and that batch of jokes?"
Editor "I received the letter, but
I didn't see the jokes." Satire.
THE HURRICANE
Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh,
I know thy breath in the burning
sky
And I wait with a thrill in every
vein, .
For the coming of the hurricane!
And lo! on the wing of ihe heavy
gales,
Through the boundless arch of
heaven he sails;
Silent and slow, and terribly strong,
The might shadow is borne along,
Like .the dark eternity to come;
While the world below, dismayed
nnrl dumb.
Through the calm of the thick, hot
it in o sdIi or G
Looks up at its gloomy folds with
. fear.
They darken fast; and the golden
blaze
Of the sun is quenched in the lurid
haze
And he sends through the shade a
funeral ray
A glare that Is neither night nor day.
A beam that touches with hues of
death
The clouds above and the earth be
neath. m tfc, nnvor rHripa the silent bird,
While the hurricane's distant voice
is heard,
Uplifted among tho mountains
round; ,
And the forests hear and answer the
sound.
He is come! he is come! do ye not
behold? t
His ample robes on the wind un
rolled? , llt
Giant of the air! we bid thee hail!
How his gray skirts toss in the whirl
ing gale!
How his huge and writhing arms are
Dent
To clasp the zone of the firmament,
And fold, at length, in their dark
embrace,
From mountain to mountain, the
visible Space!
William Cullen Bryant.
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