Show A DEMOCRATIC SOLILOQUY i An OldTimer Discusses King and Backman and Other Things The old Democrat was thinking He gazed out reflectively at the bright sunlight Washington will bo a bright and happy place to live In now he mused I understand King Is goIng go-Ing East in a few days When Back man strolls down Pennsylvania avenue with that smllo of his the old street will look more sunshiny than It ever did before And If King can spare enough time from attending to affairs of state and explaining that Roberts resolution to join Gus wont they make a hot pair as they amble King find that little curl he wears for the female voter and Backman with that chronic candidate grin will be the most cheering combination the old town has seen for man a day Oh it will be a great pair I wish I could see them Kings troubles have just commenced com-menced He will be the slave of his ambition for months to come now In the fall he will be wanting to run for Senator or Congressman again and he will just about 1111 himself off in trying to get there Funny aint it Lots of people think a United States Senator Is a man away out of tho or dinary I used to think so too when I was a boy Later I met a lot of them and found out they were not the salt of the earth by a long shot Any man with ordinary ability can get into the United States Senate now and shine The only trouble is getting In The great majority of the Senators are Just dubs I wonder It McCune Is going I to run again I hate the notion of old Dewey brooking into the rjng for the nomination nomina-tion It looks bad Why hed make the hottest kind of a run And then the old duffer is the worst kind of an expansionist The people of the South and the East are strong for expansion and theyd probably have lots of backing from the coast And then too there vguld be a war record to spring on us It dont look a hit good to me Perhaps our Utah delegation can change all that though Theyre an aggressive lot and are all good speakers speak-ers and think of the dough theyve got There Is re another thing that consoles con-soles me 1C Dewey does get the nom ination hell be the hardest kind of a proposition to beau Instead of making campaign speeches in his behalf they would just run around the country ex hibiting panoramas of the battle of Manila bay And theres Clark of Montana There Is only one thing against him and that Is that he Is almost as cold as Joe Riiwllns But he knows his bus iness 1 mean Clark does and ho knows several things besides He is considerable of a student knows a whole lot about art has read a great deal and knows lots about men He ought to make a pretty good Senator better than the average especially the Utah average |