Show GOOD S STORIES ORIES ON NOTABLE PERSONS i vv-o. vv Campa Campaigning gning in Coal Regions This is s according to an interview with Congressman Young published in the Washington Pos Post Up in a little mining little mining town In Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania he said there was a polItical political political cal mass mass meeting at which the principal speakers were a Democrat named Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy and a Republican spellbinder named Plummer It w was as arranged that Kennedy should should- speak first At one point in my sp speech ch he said to Plummer Plummer Plummer Plum Plum- mer 1 I am going to say that before the war I was a Whig but then I became a Democrat I I want you OU to ask me why I did so It will wUI give me a fresh start and and then I can talk for an hour At the proper moment Kennedy made made his statement and Plummer who had gone down in the crowd Interrupted interrupted interrupted inter Inter- him I want to know he said in a loud voice why you became a Democrat At that mo moment ent a muscular miner hit him a tremendous blow with his fist Ill Til show you he said that you cant can't break up a Democratic speaker here When the Republican orator came came to his senses the meeting had adjourned Senator Daviss Davis's Mistake One of the best of the many story storytellers storytellers tellers In the South a section pro prolific in raconteurs of the first order is ex- ex Senator B. B J r ii Jonas In a recent lecture before the students of Tulare university Senator Jonas JOhas indulged according to Leslie's LesUe's Weekly in some entertaining of his ills former associates at Washington among these b being Ing Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Thurman of Indiana Senator Thurman took snuff and was famous for his bandana handkerchief wi with h which he used frequently to blow his nose very loudl loudly especially before he began a speech Senator Davis of West Virginia had risen from the position of ofa ofa a a. br brakeman keman to that of a a. brilliant Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator and wealthy man and one day dar he was taking a nap in the cloakroom when Senator Thurman cleared his nose for lor a. a speech ch Mr ill Davis jumped up in his slumber slumber and began reaching around for forth fortha forthe th the tha brakes under the evident Impression impression sion Zion that he had hear the warning t toot ot of a a. locomotive On the Frontier Delegate Delegat Rodey of New Mexico tells a a. story of ot a cowboy who stopped at a railway room room dining in the Southwest and and called for a piece of pie Then Jhen he asked for for a knife The woman who ran the lunch counter was a stickler for the proprieties We dont don't eat pie w with ith a a. knife here she replied Then maam ma'am pleaded the cowboy will you please bring me an n ax |