Show THE TH KNOX CA CANDIDACY The Nation treats the nomination of of- Senator Knox Kno for J President resident by the Pen Pennsylvania sylvania State convention convention con con- with unpardonable levity and levity in th the Nation is is is' a ponderous innovation on the met methods of that great journal It admits admits' that Mr 11 Knox is isa isa a solemn as well as able man map notes that he takes fakes his lis nomination on with great seriousness admits that h t sixty-eight sixty votes in a national convention all united and earnest w would uld be form formidable dable but cites the fact fac that th the Camerons We Were e given to tying up conventions conven conven- Hons that way in order to have something to trade on on that Quay the same rule e. e and nd that Penrose Penrose Penrose Pen- Pen rose is an apt scholar and broad broadly y hints that Knox is is' being played by the politicians and intimates intimates' that no one ta takes es the nomination nation of Knox seriously Worse still it calls attention to the fact that Knox nox has all his life been a corporation lawyer and seems to question whether such sucha a man could ever receive receive receive re re- re- re a nomination for President From nothing that the Nati Nation n says but from what it hints we conclude le that the possible nom nomination of Sena Senator or Knox Kno for President is not by any means probable b e. e He is no doubt a great lawyer but it is clear that those who know him best do not hold him as a great man His argument in the Smoot cae case was indeed a corporation brief He looked upon it from a lawyers lawyer's not a statesman's standpoint From the report of the election to tg him Senator Smoot had rece received ved a legal title to his seat That w was s as fa far as he pleased to consider the case I Like e Shylock he insisted upon the terms of the bond ond and did not care to consider the eq equities involved at all He seems to be much a man manas manas manas as that Blount whom President Cleveland sent as an independent to H Hawaii Seeing the sailors sail sail- j jors ors washing the ships ship's deck one morning with water that they pumped for the purpose Blount wanted to know now where they got all th that t water |