The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1909, Page 4

eh thad fallen into the sere and yellow leaf, and that among th BY STAR PUBLISHING Co. 1907-1909 Seventh Ave VERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Rotered at the Poatottios Thos. Collier Platt has been the very embodiment of suc tess in politics and business—the business of politics and the politics of business, He has been a boss. Tike flint against the many movements which have come up in the politics of his time to emancipate the people from the rule | SVE M4 puilmate for ns pf the machine—for he was the machine. Not even his best friends can deny these things; and as for His enemies, he who feels enmity toward the old boss is too} ‘small a creature to be called a man. Friends Mr. Platt has had in plenty, They have fawned | ne ‘on him and made money by him and hurrahed for him and sworn by him, While he was successful, HE SEATT ae eer ee a > = pa — THE STORIES OF TWO OLD MEN He has set his face Not afterwards. His system of Manipulating things and calling the result Life is not the sys ‘tem that fills a man’s declining years with friends. A Constant Mot rorontative of firm ot hauwelid decorators wae one day }oalled to the suburban of an eoventric Bostonian, father of — @ e and Intere family, in ' t Ve, jing an | Was caught by « lege od and prominently displayed the in the room of each girth ont te}ling mo what nodding to thi at's one of dad's td slabt of us girl, you listper's Weenly. * know!" The other day an interviewer tried to get a story out of him | TH £ ETERNAL at his home. To most of the questions, without unclosing his| eyes, he wearily answered, “I don't know,” He is feeble with old age and failing health—-that feeble fess that should call his friends about him in solicitude. Tow-spoken answers are quite in keeping with his failing vital ity, the flickering of the low-burnt candle But when he was asked of his friendships, he roused him _ self and exclaimed, “My God, don’t ask me that! ‘ought to be my friends are not my friends now!” He was thinking, perhaps, of the “Big Four” who now run His FEMININE BY ELMER RIGDON. There was a time when a number of the boys on the Cross Bar ranch secretly pined to win the heart and hand of Angelina Rhodes, but It was Those who | different now, Five years tn col |lefe had given her new ideas and new perspectives. So when she came home richly and tastefully at tired and talked of lofty ideals, New York—Root, Roosevelt, Loeb and Taft, or of any one of a lchels Caen’ @ heceh wreagior hundred others who used to bow before his power to control | the ranch but what knew he could never measure up to her expécta Toot and plunder and pelf and power, but who are now absent. | Won Tt was the case of the old wolf who once gave tongue at the} But Angelina was the boys’ idol, and they swore by Horpet's Knob, head of the pack, but must now keep out of the killing or be | phos had peak looked fike a white torn in pieces by those of stronger jaw and sharper teeth. Polities of the Platt school is wolfish mail and tusk. So is the life of the predatory, i He who gives himself to it must expect the ish Macbeth, who at the last complained that his way of life | came to court Angelina, who sat and ¢ | talked to them on @ rustio bench a thing of tooth and | very phase. of the wolf- aeputchre in the distance, that they'd protect her and eee that ahe got the right man for a husband. Shortly after her return from school young men from dt junder a tree. The embryo lovers “things that should accompany old age, and which he could not | faited to tmpress ber and #he longed to get rid of them. It remained for life, save as a skirm ANY BODY Misunderstood Him. A well-known Denver man, who Is led and lives at. the Shirley show one “Why t give them to the girl us in the dining dont know, Call the dining |“ room Cashier and ask her. The man culled the din phone and, when & who w cotner? “Hf there's any girl in thie dining oom who walis for you on the corner 1 don't know her wald the cashier, indignantly hung up the receiver Ee man turned 10 hin wite home,” he said meekly POINTED PARAGK Bren the dreamer att tention—when he snores. You never boar married man say that eeerre cannot ite. tal 28 a lot of polish to enable @ man to shine In soclety One way to avoid the disappoint mante of love ts to avold lo ‘of talk that soun nothing b te weed te to have, were troops of friends. Let us hope that Mr. Platt, in happier moments, may see “‘Hife in more cheery guise—for that he is quite without friends be true. He is rich, and is tenderly cared for as he ‘should be. But the friends of the wolf-pack days are gone. Jas. B. Weaver of Iowa was a contemporary of Platt long} ago in congress. He, too, is old. wolf-pack, Weaver, seeing the vision of better things, and ig the life of spoils, threw away his political prospects dropped out of the republican party, out of success, out of | er on the firing line, preaching re m, while the world laughed and sneered Platt must have thought Weaver a fool Thought so, too, at times, but he went on determined to be an} “intrepid soldier, even if a fool. When Platt stayed in} Weaver may have But the other day Weaver's} DW citizens, nearly all of them his opponents in politics, | : his portrait in the state's Hall of History, and amid tears} ij laughter lifted the gallant old fighter on the shields of love and admiration, while he saw things swim in the of happiness and pride that dimmed his eyes. to be poor and a Weaver than rich and a Platt? pack systern of life, in politics or elsewhere, really pay? Young man, with the choice of life before you, think about) |, story of Piatt and Weaver. -OUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE POOSOSRS OSES CSCS OO OHEGOOS RIGHT Tess Pook, AR. war 10 1n# FRONT | PEBBLE BRAIN LE THAT CANT SIF 1 POLITE + COMPANY WITHOUT STARTING ARGU> MENTS ON RELIGION WON'T 86 TOLERATED UNDER DowT worry AB0vrT YOUR WAT AND VHINGS — 744 FIRE THEM OUF INTO Int STREET To You & THtS ROOF | Angelina in & new gown was a | © | picture of feminine loveliness as REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. & tool thinks he ean not long ago, His ‘wife was {li and coujdn't go out and he had @ business engagement, Ie didn’t know what to do with the oe known rT came fron room canbhier anewered, sald Say, this ia Mr Blank. What is the name of the «irt ts on me ever in the non “tt r to the quart ma that the waltress has gone Iayeeh Weil, come on ove 4 the other avked. * was the reply. ere several crowbara there?” Now York Press. Kdltor's Wife to he #0 abment-mind John, you'd led when | well is ; it’ you'd some more pudding you repited that, sound that’s unsound. | preswure on 4 Kasistance we got tw seldom wotistactory. The best way in not | “weHizz | puncbers, tu ofter a solution to the difficuity ‘We ali air fer you, Mins Ange ina.” remarked the sage, stroking | his gristled beard, “and frum our <= | preserved seats at the Boston Exm-! portum we kin see that the dudes much of a hit with you. and I've evolved an idee wharb jof ‘em you don’t like, without thefr }knowtn’ you air in an the play.” | “Ob, Sandy,” sald Angelina, i you could help me.” | enough to take a hint and tight out, all you have to do ts to put your hand to your head and we'll do the rest Angelina clapped her hands gies. folly and fell in with the pian sug gented sistent and objectionable suitor, called, and when the girl raised her | hand to her head the boys at the madly down street. Whiz went a rie and doing his utmost to keep on his feet. After practically all the breath in hix body was jolted out of his horse and sent home |great success, and in three days | than risk having thelr limbs broken by a crowd of exuberant cowboys. |} Then came Lieutenant James WASHINGTON, D. ©, Maret | There's a whote lot of grinding of woth here over the first stepa of what President Taft has announced | jwil be @ roorganteation of the t- fy. |toratate commerce commission, and @ movement to repeal some features of the Hepburn rate law. To Atty Gen. Geo. ©, Wickersham the det@ile of this task have been tur Mr. Wh Mr, ©. Nagel, the new head of fhe department of commerce and lair “To protect business from heid- lose and unnecessary Interferein ) and to do away, once and for fll, with those methods which Have brought disrepute upon good oot rations as well as bad.” h In the above words Mr, Ti Knickerbocker Trust receivership | , Se ie wit, Mr. Wiokersharg), and with | @ outlined the purpose of his enter- z Conferences have been tnay rated between the attorney gondii), | ratiway the secretary of commerce and @r-|would dawn upon the railway resentatives and the senate, Plans are entirely tentative as yet, but the! objects sought are admittedly a tranafer of the bureau of corpore tone #0 that it will con juriadiotion of the attorney and a stripping of the tn Of prosecution and possibly those powers which are in part of a judi cla) character. jmmown In all franknows it should be stat 4 that the good faith of the whole affair te mistrusted. The words in which Mr. ‘Taft dectares the nur, |Tule® Mr. Townsend's service to| ' eens 12 RUF" lithe organization has endeared his | to all the friends of Cannon. At} |the same time it is not possible for} other people to overlook @ hint of | complish look to many like | plain repudiation of the rail jroad p Heed) ence with business” ts not what members of the Moosevelt cabinet told him he was guilty of when he urged the paseage of the rate law. | On the other hand, that ts oxactty| what the ratiroads called it mt | jtowne and neighboring ranches! The Qureau of verporations wna Hoosevelt’s cariiest triumph Itejhave seemed te show « studied of work has been the one worst thorn |fort to repudiate the personne! and im the corporations’ penaitic oe oe oe ~-_ = a HE’S BIG BUILT AFT ca ee HOSTON, March 30.-—-All Far yard, dona apd undergrads, ate laughing just now at a leaflet whieh has gained currency on the campus, It t# mainly taken up } with the plaint of President Eliot lover the alleged misquoting of ad- dreasea delivered during bis trip through the South, in which ts in- terworon many lncal bits, The sere of the leaflet, however, is what | !s dénominated an “affecting little | ditty,” and whieh rome as follows: | es WENTALARIAT. | Bil Isn't it bet- _— sibioatiesi Does the| Seedy Ferguson, one of the cow | _Nor ald the poor and debtor There may be many another » And, ponsibly, some better; But one thing cannot be den Of Big Bi Taft We point to him with glee Ho's BIG BUILY AFT galavantin® ‘round here ain't makin’ | ¢ you gite rid! “Well, here's my plan. While you! atr sittin’ under the tree with one) jof them dudes that hain't got sense | The next day Horace Wild, a per-| Boston Emporium unbdurtened | themselves of bioodcurdiing yells} and, mounting their horses, galloped | jariat, and Horace Wild found him-| | self bounding alrtly across the prat-} him the young man was tossed m | Sandy Ferguson's scheme was a} severa! other undestrable suitors de- | elded to give up Angelina rather | Crewes from the fort had met | the girl at a military dance and lost| [his heart. The Heutenant was tall) }and fine looking, and the boys at | the Boston Emportum ebuckled mer: | \rfly at the prospect of the fun in| | store for them. and the ha to the rustic bench, while the boys watched closely from a distance. Thar's the signal, exclaimed Sandy as he saw Angelina's hand rising slowly to her head, and the boys were in thelr saddies immo- diately. In leas time than !t takes to tell it a larint Mashed over the and he found himself leaving hia fair companion in a most abrupt and undignified manner Cowboys were whooping and brandishing glittering weapons and shining sol- dier buttons were in the air. It wae great sport for the ranchers, and they kept the lle rnant on the jump until he was almost exhaust afternoon lent an added | 64 Finally strong hands placed him on his terse and sent him gal loping back to headquarters. | But when the ranchers returned |they found the beautiful Angelina highly indignant, “I didn’t want you to do that, boys,” she said, angrily stamping her little foot, ‘He was the nicest man that had |been here and I was beginning to | Mike him.” The boys looked at each other in open-mouthed amazement, “Why, What have I done| Miss Angelina,” observed Sandy, apologetically, “we only obeyed your signal.” “Oh, | know, but when I put my The Best Clothing in America head of the neatly-groomed officer | hand to my head I merely wanted }to seo if my hat was on straight.” THE STAR—TULSDAY, MARCH 30, 1909, ORGANIZING ERA OF GOOD FEELING FOR| STAR _ HARRIMAN, HILL & C0. BY GILSON GARONER, onmary Interferenge” with much of |thelr pregsnt and contemplated business. The powers of the Inter- |atate commerce oummisaton—pow which have been used in wiping out rebates and fr disertmina |tton and in collects fines for the governm garded Itkewlse by certain corpora tion lawyers as calculated to “bring A caher. y well as bad.” With the division of prosecutions of the Interstate commerce mis sion and the bureau of « rations transferred to the Jur jotton he department of juaties, and with |the department of justice presided over by the late attorney for J, P Morgan and the late counsel for the eorsham in to be asniat the details of railroad prosecutions intrusted to the new solicitor gen Mr. Bowers, late general coun for the Chicago & N ora of good Hold Many Conferences. | embers of the house of world. Townsend to Fight. It may not have significance, but it is worth recording that the mem Inder the | DOr Of congrems chonen to negotinte | with the new attorney general t# EB. Townsend of Michigan, known a* author of the Town fend ratiway bfil Mr. Townsend }has of late, however, become better he man who helped be tray the republican members of the |house tn their gallant fight to over throw Cannon and the old Cannon mminaion of tte powe which he see te a0 fea of his prodecossor @ und Unnecessary interfer. |S2mething savoring of treachery in the selection of this particular In tormediary Tt is antirely pomsitle that suspt cion does President Taft a sertous |injustion. It cannot be od however, that the suspicious state of mind does exist So many things have happened lately which has cmfetac meon emfwyp yvbgka After Corporations. } % The crim-| policies of the previous adoiniat in the present rate| ton, that cach new move t» serutt od by the corporation| nized with more and more suapi lawyers as a “heedlees and unnec- ' clon. Sade tenet - @isropute upon good corporations aa | Pt \° You, but tm afrata ean’ | a le . east ? than igi! 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