Show TIMES VAGARIES tim THE whirligig of time brings about some very curious situations and conditions men at any I 1 intermediate point on the ladder of fortune or fame have been brought brough tto to either t end nd of it almost without previous notice and those at either end have in like manner been transferred to the other we can think of no more striking case in recent times than that of ex governor ross of kansas A personal item in an eastern paper states that he is now employed as a printer in the office of f the santa pe fe new american he has been engaged in printing offices in one capacity or another for several years and had about dropped out of sight the mention referred to bringing him once more to the surface those who think the condition represented in being an ex governor all there is of the story are advised that that is not nearly half of it since he ceased being governor he has beep been much higher than that in fact it seems as though the fates had made his flight higher in order that his fall might be greater he was elected to the united states senate by the kansas legislature during the war perio dand while serving in that capacity was one of those who sat in judgment upon andrew johnson then president of the united states the executive was impeached and after a long and memorable trial the senate came to a vote on the last article in the indictment the eleventh it wasa was a republican proceeding and the re be publicans public ans had 42 out of 53 members 1 it looked like a hopeless case for mr johnson as only two thirds were necessary for convict conviction iou and his ad d j versalles ver saries sarles had four fifths but like 1 thunderbolts upon the stalwart ele ment jentof of the party came first ope one then another republic a a v ote of not guilty until seven of them were thus recorded and makin making 9 ae ab certain the vote standing for conviction sa M for acquittal 18 the names of those who th thus us 1 joined the democrats were doolittle Doolit of wisconsin Fesse Feise riden fiden of fowler of tennessee grimes grimea kofl or iowa henderson of missouri rosis of kansas and van winkle of weeta virginia if anyone any one of these hid hada voted with his party the presidents President 1 would have been removed fron office and the civil war that had reit r centle cenal y closed been probably reopened orone founded on different Une shave ve i out since 1 broken president r re ei moving movingly by impeachment was and anda astill is an untried experiment experimenting in this i country no one can tell what have happened but it would have caused great commotion at least i why therefore may we not say of mr PON boss that while stand standing ing at his case and picking up type at a SA small amount per 1000 ems effi he is still the one who saved saed the nat itin from a second conflict perhaps pr served its entirety and its Standi standing tig i among the nations of the earth |