Show I MR MR PINDELL OF ILLINOIS I In Its own cynical way the New York Sun pictures in mock heroics Mr Pindell Pendell of Peoria Peolia 1 Ill III whom President Wilson has named for em- em to the court of the czar The Sun has learned that Mr vir Pindell has for years distributed distributed distributed dis dis- the Democratic Democratic- funds in the state of Illinois outside of Chicago In an accompanying accompanying accompany accompany- Ying Y- Y ing cartoon the Sun names some of the men who p I hn in the past have filled the post in St. St Petersburg such men as John Quincy Adams William JS Pinckney John Randolph James Buchanan Cassius M. M f. f Clay Bayard Ta Taylor lOl John W. W Foster Foster Fos Fos- al ter and Andrew White and und b by inference cani carries s the t that at Mr l Pindell II hardly keeps I u up n the standard But maybe the Sun does not know There are many grades of Russians All AU the men the I I Sun names went to Russia fitted only to deal i with the high class They were all scholars but butI I not one of them could have gained the continence conti i nence of the country Democracy of Illinois as to have become their party treasurer and the dis- dis dis dis- 1 of party spoils That Mr lVIr Pindell could is an evidence of subtle ability and the faculty to deal with all classes of men successfully Mr Pindell has done this too in the town I i that manufactures more proof whisky than I any other spot on earth Hence Russian vodka will have no terrors for him There seems to tobe tobe tobe be but one bone of contention between Russia and the United States That is is' the revocation by our government of the ancient treaty of commerce corn com merce and friendship which bound the two countries so long The treaty was revoked because because beuse be be- cause use Russia refused to extend equal rights to Jewish ci citizens ns of the United States who might wan to to nt to visit Russia Maybe to get the matter adjusted a straight business representative may maydo maydo maydo do better work than a merel merely r great scholar or ort t I lawyer could He might tell the czars czar's ministers Ii I in In a straight business way that they are off f wrong better than could a college professor and furthermore that Russia is hurting herself and not the United States by her sulks because the United States has all civilization on her side in considering the question a and d might add Come stop your foolishness and let us fix this business busi busi- ness We have a kind of presentiment that Mr 1 Pindell will win out all right But what will the a Illinois Democracy y do for a aa a distributing agent for its funds |