Judge — September 2, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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EDITORIALS. Shooting “Lame Ducks.” ENATOR BORAH, of Idaho, has in- troduced a bill that '§ will create consterna- tion among ‘‘lame ducks,”” present and prospective. This measure provides that no member of Congress shall be eligible to appointment toa Federal position un- til two years after the expiration of the term for which he was elected. A Sen- ator or Representative who fails to se- cure re-election is an object of sympa- thy in Washington when his term ex- pires and can readily find friends to help him get a good Federal appointment. But after two years he will be for- gotten. Senator Borah’s bill, if it shall pass, will virtually deny Federal appointments to ex-Sena- tors and Representatives. Eccentric Mississippi. FEACH STATE has its own pe- culiar political eccentricities. The peculiarity of Mississippi is that it always has a senatorial campaign in progress. The ses- sions of its Legislature are ar- ranged that it is usual to elect a United States Senator two years before his term begins. Immedi- ately afterward a campaign com- mences for the Senator to be elect- ed next time by the next Legisla- ture. Although John Sharp Wil- liams was elected a Senator two years ago, he has just taken his seat, and a canvass for the next vacancy is in progress. Varda- man, who has been Governor of the State and who was defeated for the Senatorial honor by Williams, is again a candidate. As Jeff Davis confesses to being the choice of the ‘hill Billies’’ of Arkansas, Vardaman has made himself the idol of the ‘‘red Necks’’ of Missis- sippi. If the latter State repudiates this demagogue a second time he will probably go into obscurity. It is hoped that not long afterward the Senator from Arkansas will become his companion. Growth of Gubernatorial Timber. URING the past few years there has been conservation of one of our natu- ral resources. Presidential timber in the Democratic forest reserve has grown abundantly. Four years ago Bryan was the only tall tree in the reserve. Now every Democratic Governor of a North- ern State—except Governor Dix, of New York—and a score of Senators and Rep- resentatives are now regarded as having grown up to the standard of candidates. AN ORDINARY EVENT. “ What a fuss they make about being ‘ presented at court.’ Many a time it 's happened to me!"" Caustic Comment. WHEN the gentle spring arrived there came with it dire predictionsof the advent of the seven- teen-year locusts, which were, accord- ing to the prophets, to eat up all the crops. Explanation was made that the locusts were so named because they dev- astated and consumed growing things every seventeenth summer. Those who had lived more than seventeen years failed to remember when the locusts had lived up to their name. Assuredly they have not done so this year, and unless they hurry up, the crops will all be har- vested and safe from their raids before they appear. * They err who assume that Un- derwood’s castigation of Bryan renders the former a Democratic presidential possibility. Next year no man from the South will head the national ticket. Demo- crats from the North say the time for that has not yet arrived, al- though it is on its way, freight prepaid. It is possible that a border State may be drawn on to furnish a favorite son for that purposs There is also a possibil- ity that in a certain contingency Mr. Underwood, who belongs in Alabama, might get a nomination for Vice-President at the next convention, * It may be late in the day for saying it, but after all, why was not the presence of Jack Johnson at the coronation of King George a most appropriate thing? Wher- ever the illustrious Johnson goes he carries with him two of the most effective dukes in the busi- ness, and he is able to put them up when occasion requires, too. comicbooks.com