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Show MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON I By R. T. S. 1 A T- " (Copyright, 19:':, by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) WASHINGTON. July 29. Tho whirligig as polities is played in tho primaries, has turned up an Interesting Inter-esting 6ltuation in that two governors govern-ors who wero not permitted to 6er".o their full terms In that high offlco of state, are offering themselves today for the United States senate Farmer Governor L nn Frazler, of North Dakota, already has won tho Republican nomination from that state, deleatlng Senator Porter J M-Cumber, M-Cumber, chairman of tho all-powerful senate finance committee a place coveted by Boies Penrose In preference prefer-ence to the presidency. Governor Frazler was hurled out of office not so long ago at a recall election held as the result of a hiiK'e petition signed by those who did not belli vo In his administration of the Et iti a a ffnlrs Jn Texas, "Farmer Jim" Ferguson, thrown out of the office of governor h Impeachment proceedings, has car-ri car-ri n nl8 case to the people and won the right to a place in the "run-oft" primarj which Will settle tho Democratic Demo-cratic senatorial nomination in tho Lone Star state. "Farmer Jim" is pitted against Mayfield, the Ku Klux Klan candidate, and while the latter would appear to be a probable easy winner from the original primarj' figures, fig-ures, the toga does not always go thuti lj There is no question byt that antl-Klan influence all over the country coun-try will turn to help defeat Mayfield arid the only means of encompassing thai end will be to nominate Ferguson Fergu-son The Texas drys are In something of a dilemma Farmer Jim 13 a liberal and somewhat "damp" candidate Bo the prohibitionists in ordi r to def( it him will have to vote for Mayfield It v. ill be a grand mix-up. this run-off primary In Texas, and well worth going go-ing miles to Bee. But the point of this story is that the primary permits some great come-ba come-ba ke In politics. Both Frazler and Ferguson would uot have leen con-sldered con-sldered by political "bosses." Having I,, . n ri-called or lmpeacli'-d .th. y would have been regarded as having I no hold whatever upon tho "dear pee-pul," pee-pul," and yet the primary balloting has shown just tho oontrary. Unquestionably one of the most beautiful sights In Washington these midsummer evt-nlngs is the Lincoln Memorial bathed in a white radiance Hum a broadly focused searchlight. Wonderfully impressive by day. the memorial with its towering column.! becomes even more so iu nlphr do-scends do-scends and the flood light brings n out white n.l stately agaiusl th blai k background of the surrounding du rkness By day there is a sort of Intimacy about the memorial The surroundings surround-ings are green and familiar The Potomac Po-tomac flows placidly a few hundred yards away behind a screen of weeping weep-ing willows. By night all Is changed and there is a ghostly stillness and illusion. Driving toward the memo-rial memo-rial through on' of the converging roads, the great pile with the cHt- -trie whiteness playing full upon it seems to recede as you draw nearer. Visitors to Washington are astonished aston-ished When told that the night lighting light-ing effect is not the wrk of the government, gov-ernment, but the contribution of a ho- i tel roof garden. They ask what Is! to happen to the memorial after the roof garden closes for the season I Naturally Potomac park will not be frequented during the cold season .is much as It Is now, but unquestionably there Is a general demand that the Illumination be taken up and continued contin-ued by the government. The same hotel roof garden sends a second shaft of light each night to the tip of tho Washington monument. The cap-itol cap-itol dome is Illuminated each night by the government. The capltol, tho monument and the Lincoln memorial stund in a direct line and tho view of the three summer evenings Is as Inspiring In-spiring as any in all tho world. And now along comes th Honorable Honor-able Joseph Patrick Tumulty with an 'entirely new philosophy of politics and patronage. There Is an old saying say-ing that the only good Indian is a dead Indian Joe Tumulty avows that the only good Democrat Is the Democrat Demo-crat out of a job. ' The popular idea that former Presl-f dent Wilson's former secretary Is ! tearing his hair at the dismissal cT ! Democrats from the government service serv-ice by the new administration turns out to be allrrong. Every Democrat Demo-crat dismissed by the Republicans becomes be-comes a militant asset to Lis party, asseverates Mr Tumulty. He wants to got back In office and he knows th only way he can get back is for tho Democrats to win. On the other hand, take a Democrat Demo-crat In office under a Republican ad-1 ministration. He ,1, votes himself to I trying to stay In thnt office and In; that effort he loses all sense of loy-j alty or devotion to the Democratic cause. "If you want to spoil a good part7 man, just give him a Job," says Joe. "They Immediately get too lazy to work or to vote." Perhaps there were too many Democrats Dem-ocrats In office In November, 1920. In any event something happened to cut down the party vote disastrously. Perhaps also that Is why some senators sen-ators have be-n turned down recently recent-ly at the primary polls. The folks at home have thought they might be better Democrats and better Republicans Republi-cans after a few months or years out of comfortable Washington offices. It seems as if the old farmer was right after all. The story was told at the White Hour!"- the other day. and it uav par-1 tlcularly fitting' that it should be told there at the time. Naturally the twin strikes were the subject of converratlon And they recalled re-called the story of the farmer. After a particularly wet spell tho son of the soil was asked by a stranger stran-ger In his midst. "Do you think it's ever going to stop raining?" "Well." drawled the old farmer. "It always has " Meaning that when anyone naked at the White House if the strikes! would be settled, they got tho conti-j dent reply that "they always have' I ici-n " |