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Show All of a sudden, the air seems too summery for comfort. The elimination of tho Hoosovclt claims shows that tho high mark of insane political buncombo has been passed. Tt was a terrible political blow B which the Jtupuhlicnns of Montana de-fl de-fl livercd to Senator Dixon in not al-B al-B lowing him to be a delegate to the B National convention. mm Memphis Commercial Appeal: "The B 'preferential presidential primary-' is B what the old darkey- called 'pretty B words for conversation.' but as a real B indicator of public .sentiment it 13 a B blooming fake.,J B Roosevelt protests that he "utterly B loathed the thought of coining out for B the nomination." Wh-, then, did he B do it? A loathing so soon got over, B wasn 't very deep. But his course is B a powerful pica for the 'one-term B amendmout. B A mill to make paper from bear B grass is about to be constructed at El B Paso. It is said that there are ample B supplios of the grass, which is sclf- B perpetuating, and that an aero, of it B will produce as much paper as an acre B of Maine spruce. It is an unexpected and most wclcouio addition to tho raw B material supply for paper-making. B The proposed constitutional amentl- B mcnt introduced in Congress, making B the Presidential term six years and B making any one who has ever been President ineligible for re-election, is pronounced by Col. Roosevelt to bo "a torn-fool proposition. JJ As Such, if it were now a part of the Constitution, ho would, of course, pay uo attention to it. H Springfield (Mass.) Kepubliran: At B last the secret is out. "My greatest B asset," says the Colonel, "ia that 1 B have never been excited over my can-B can-B didacy one wav or the other." Tho B calm has indeed becu almost oppres-B oppres-B sivc. As a lady observed in a play b-B b-B one of Maeterlinck's disciples, "1 am H calm! I will be calm! Oh, my God! B how calm 1 am!" B Boston Traveler: "It now seems that H Senator La Pollclto was offered and B refused nsuraiico that if ho would B throw his support to Col. Roosevelt in B this campaign, tho colonel would in turn B name La toilette as his successor. Bvi-B Bvi-B dently two considerations moved the H Wisconsin man. First, the indefinite waiting for the succession, and, second, B the remembranco of the treatment of H Taft." B The Smoot organ continues to pro- B lest that it was Tho Tribuuo's M "threat" of a real Taft delegation B from this Stale, which alone prevented B the Federal bunch from knifing the B President' at tho late convention at B Provo. And so the State has The Trib-Hj Trib-Hj uno to thank for the prevention of this B bit of contemplated Ireachory. All B right; wo accopt the responsibility. B M'ncc tho organ insists, for printing the news of what was coming in caso of treachery. Hi resident Taft's secretary, Mr. B Charles D. Hilles, makes ' Roosevelt "s poltroonery and subservience to the B Harvester tnibt very clear. For two B years Roosevelt was held stiff-scared and did not dare to proceed with tho Bj prosecution of that trust, for fear that the Morgan financial interests would B fight him. as Pcrkiua threatened. It was a bhameful exhibition of Kiibservi-enco Kiibservi-enco on the part of a Prcsidont of tho United State, who did not dare to per-form per-form his sworn duty for fear of a fight of money upon him. Springfield (Mass.) Union: "The dry docking of the battleship Utah at Brooklyn navy yard recently has been W the cause of considerable comment, not becaneo tho vpnio! had to bo docked, but because the dock, which cost $2,800,000, har. been one of the mot deapairing jobs the government over fH undertook, and then was fear that it jH might not work propurly. But the fm great dreadnought easily slid into po-I'T po-I'T sitioiif and her dented plates will be r - ? placed. Although the dork h the big . gcat tny the Tnitcd State, i is too small for the nccommodatioii of a vessel like tho Olynipic. ami had tho ill-starred Titanic been ablo to Jimp to New York it-would havo boon impossibla to dock Jier." |