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.V the 111 men wh at present make
up the Democratic and Republican
National committees, now busy pre
paring; for the big Presidential conven
tions, there is one man who proudly pro
claims that he has neither ever aspired to
nor heM public office, elective or ap
pointive. This member is none other than
lames M. Guffcy familiarly known as
"Colonel Jim' at one and the same time
the largest single producer of oil In this
country and of ideas for the Democracy
of the Keystpne State.
That Colonel Guffey's record in this re
spect is unique among the committeemen
a cursory glance at the political records
of his colleagues and rivals serves amply
to show. On the Republican committee
there are five United States Senators
Crane, Heyburn, Penrose, Ankeny and
Scott, of Massachusetts, Idaho, Pennsyl
vania, Washington and 'West Virginia
and two Federal representatives, W. P.
Brownlow and Frank O. Lowden, of Ten
nessee and Illinois, respectively. The
Democratic committee boasts of one Sen
ator Tillman, of South Carolina and two
members in the other wing of the Capitol,
J. C. F. Talbot and Henry D. Clayton, of
Maryland and Alabama. Among former
Democratic members of one branch or
other of Congress are N. C. Blanchard, of
Louisiana, now Governor of his state;
Richard R. Kenney, of Delaware; Tom L.
Johnson, of Ohio; Martin J. Wade, of
Iowa; John E. Osborne, of Wyoming, and
among Republicans, J. W. Babcock, of
Wisconsin, and Powell Clayton, of Arkan
sas. Republican ex-Governors are, My
ron T. Herrick, of Ohio; Franklin Murphy,
of New Jersey; Powell Clayton, of Arkan
sas; Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, and
John F. Hill, of Maine; while among
former Democratic State Executives are:
"Ben" Tillman, of South Carolina, and
Osborne of Wyoming.
A nice little Aiayors' association could
be formed by Thomas Taggart, Demo
cratic chairman, among his own commit
teemen. He himself is a former Execu
tive of Indianapolis. James C. Danlman,
representing Nebraska, occupies Omaha's
chief chair, and Tom I.. Johnson, repre
senting Ohio,' does the same thing for
Cleveland, as all the country knows
pretty well by this time. H. S. Cummlngs,
of Connecticut, besides . marrying the
daughter of a former Mayor, was Mayor
of Stamford for several terms. One of
Osborne of Wyoming's numerous offices
has been that of Mayor of Rawlins; while
George W. Greene, or Rhode Island, is a
former Executive of Woonsooket. Being
a man of great sociability, Tom Taggart,
did he form this little organization, would
3robably extend an invitation to Join to
Republicans Levi Ankeny, of Washington,
first Mayor of Lewiston, Idaho, and
Robert H. Todd, of Porto Rico, until last
year at the head of the government of
that Island's picturesque capital city. ,
An association of state and county of
ficers, elective and appointive Assembly
men, Senators, Sheriffs, Judges and Jus
tices, Governors' staff officers, etc., etc.
would take in probably 90 per cent of the
combined membership of the committees.
Harry S. New, of Indiana, chairman of
the Republican committee, would be the
logical head of such an association; the
highest elective public office he ever has
held has been that of State Senator. Two
of his prominent colleagues, Senators Pen
rose and Scott, of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia, were State Legislators before
they were promoted to the National Held.
Daniel J. Campau, of Michigan, the na
tionally prominent horseman, and Clark
Howell, of Georgia, would be well known
Democratic members, and from the same
side of the fence also would come Jeffer
son B. Browne, of Florida; W. A. Roth
well, of Missouri, and W. B. Gourley, of
New Jersey.
Among the numerous Republicans eligi
ble to this inter-committee organization
are E. C. Duncan, of North Carolina; A.
M. Stevenson, of Colorado; Charles F.
Brooker, of Connecticut; Tearl Wight, of
Louisiana, and John G. -Capers, of South
Carolina, who, until the first McKinley
Bryan campaign, was a stanch Democrat.
In the same campaign Stevenson, of
Colorado, went over to the Democrats,
hut when the money question ceased to be
the paramount political question he re
turned to his old love and has remained
faithful ever since.
The defeated candidates for elective or
appointive office embrace about all the
committeemen on both sides of the fence
not already mentioned, and some already
mentioned as well. Prominent among this
corps Is J. Edward Addicks. Republican,
of Delaware, who made of that state a
seething political caldron what years he
frantically attempted to become a United
States Senator from It. Another dramatic,
but not so long-drawn-out defeat, was
sustained by John B. McGraw, Democrat,
of West Virginia, in 1S99, when his rival
committeeman, Nathan B. Scott, beat him
out by one vote in the race for a seat in
the Federal Senate. W. A. Gaston, of
Massachusetts, has twice been unsuccess
ful as Democratic candidate for Governor.
His California colleague, M. F. Tarpey,
former president of the Pacific Coast
Jockey Club, and one of the big racing
men of the West, failed of election as
Lieutenant-Governor, and Greene. of
Rhode Island, was an unsuccessful aspi
rant for Democratic Gubernatorial honors.
Defeated state and National legislative
candidates are far too numerous to men
tion by name, and the same holds true of
the disappointed seekers after appointive
public positions In state and Nation.
From all of which it may be gathered
that the National committee are corn
Dosed largely of men who are veterans In
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the political game, and that Colonel Guf
fey's non-offlce-holding-and-seeking record
is truly unique so far as these two bodies
are concerned.
Picturesque Committeemen.
But the Colonel cannot lay, claim to
being the only picturesque member of the
committee, even though his "Southern
Colonel" hat, pleated shirt, and Lord By
ron tie form a combination to delight the
Keystone State newspaper cartoonists.
Colonel "Jim's" committee chief is known
far and wide as a practical joker, as well
as an astute politician and successful
hotel proprietor, and stories of his pranks
and sayings are told wherever politicians
get their heads together. Josephus Dan
iels, Democrat, is heralded throughout the
Carolinas as the stormy petrel of North
Carolina politics. Scarcely a week passes
that he does not tear out some one in his
newspaper, which is subscribed to by
many Just to see who or what Its editor
la going to lambast next.
"Ben" Tillman, of course, has been
among the topnotch picturesque charac
ters of the land since the day he fought
his way from the cornfield to the Gover
norship of South Carolina. Charles R.
Brayton, Republican, of Rhode Island,
has achieved wide notoriety because Bray
ton, blind, continues to hold the littlest
state of the Union in the hollow of his
hand as effectively, as ever he did when
he had the full use of his eyes. His
moves in gas and politics have served to
place J. Edward Addicks among the no
table picturesque. Mayor "Jim" Dahl
man has been nicknamed "the Cowboy
Mayor." and Roger C. Sullivan, Illinois
Democratic committeeman, showed the
picturesque streak In his make-up when.
after Bryan's first onslaught against him
as National committeeman, he got the
state convention to Indorse hig famous
enemy.
Sullivan, in fact, owes his .National
prominence since the last National cam
paign to Mr. Bryan's several attacks on
him. Contrariwise, Mayor Danlman, of
Omaha, has been much in the public eye
of late years largely because of the most
famous Nebraskan's friendship for him.
Both Sullivan and Dahlman are compara
tively young men. Each has got up the
world's ladder by his own efforts, and
each is a party boss In his own state.
Sullivan shares with John P. Hopkins, of
Chicago, the leadership of Democracy's
cohorts in Illinois: and, of course. Mayor
Dahlman listens to the councils of Mr.
Bryan.
When Sullivan hit Chicago in 1879
he was then 18 years old he got a Job
as machinist in the shops of a street
railway company. His first political
Job was that of Deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue during Cleveland's first
administration. By that time he had
risen to be a general contractor, and
had begun to lay away for a rainy day.
The year before Sullivan sought out
the Western metropolis, Dahlman, then
22, leaving his Texas home. Journeyed
to the plains of Western Nebraska,
where he took up the art of cowpunch
Ing. He graduated from this strenu
ous to the still more exciting- game of
politics Bix years later when he be
came a member of the Council of the
little town of Chadron. Neb. From that
day to tills. his leading hand has been
political, and he has sat so successfully
in the game that, next to Bryan, he is
the best known of the Nebraska Dem
ocrats. Dahlman the politician has not hesi
tated to be as unconventional and plain
spoken as Dahlman the cowboy ever was.
When he was Mayor of Chadron it was
his boast that the town was delight
fully wide open. When he headed the
Nebraska delegation to New York to
welcome Bryan back home from his
trip around the world, "Jim" brought
his lariat, and when he spied Mr. Bryan
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WHICH 3HALL NOMINATE MEN
on the tug that brought him up the
harbor he swung that coil of rope and
thje noose settled gracefully about the
distinguished traveler's ehoulders.
Prior to the arrival of the ship the
Mayor amused himself and numerous
natives of New York by playfully las
soing downcast cab horses and proud
automobilists.
When Dahlman was running for
Mayor of Omaha a couple of years ago
the Republicans made the mistake of
crying out that he had once been a
cowpuncher. "Jim" at once let loose
this effective bit of political ammuni
tion in the direction of the enemy: "I
was a cowboy. I am a cowboy. And
when I become Mayor I'm going to use
cowboy methods to throw and brand
the grafters." Then the opposition
tacked and discovered that "Jim" was
extremely fond of sitting in the great
American game (not politics). Dahl
man gracefully admitted the soft im
peachment, adding that if any man had
played poker with him and didn't know
it he'd like to see what manner of
creature it was.
In sheer desperation the Republicans
finally announced that Dahlman wrote
English as she is often spoke, and
tearfully asked if that was the sort of
man to head the municipal govern
ment. Once again "Jim" admitted that
his opponents spoke the truth. Still,
he couldn't see where 'this little matter
of grammar came in, durned if he
could. "If a bill comes to me to sign
that I don't like." he said, "I'm going
to write across that bill, 'Nothing do
ing. Jim Dahlman.' I guess that's
grammatical enough for anybody to un
derstand." Omaha evidently agreed
with Dahlman, for It elected him Mayor
by a majority of 3000.
Sullivan's noteworthy political vic
tory at the polls climaxed his initial
race for office. Though nearly all the
rest of the Republican ticket was vic
torious, Sullivan was elected Clerk of
the Probate Court of Cook County by
70,000 majority. From that year he
has been a growing power in Illinois
politics. Slight of stature and wiry is
Dahlman, In physique and movements
a typical man of the plains. Sullivan,
on the other hand, weighs something
like 200 pounds, and towers a head or
more above the Omahan. When it
comes to wealth Sullivan could buy out
the cowboy numerous times over. Sul
livan has run gas and other manufac
turing establishments so successfully
that he now runs several yachts for
pleasure.
Colonel Guffey is as rich in dollars as
he is in plcturesqueness. His fortune,
estimated In seven figures, has come
to him through lucky strikes in gas,
oil and mining. Guffey began humbly
enough as a railroad and express clerk
down South. The years he spent there
gave him his distinctive raiment that
he brought back to his native state,
Pennsylvania, when he went into the
oil fields in 1872 to seek his fortune. He
found what he was looking for about
the dawn of the '80s.
Finally, however, he carried his
pitcher to the well once too often. This
occurred just when Western Pennsyl
vania was awakening to the fact that
it had been mighty foolish to waste for
so many years the natural gas which
frequently had been struck when bor
ing for oil. Guffey, nothing cast down
by the flight of his dollars, immediate
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ly turned his attention to natural gas.
He became a pioneer in piping it long
distances to industrial centers, and as
a result another fortune was speedily
his. The part he has played in the de
velopment of the Texas oil fields Is
recent industrial history. Together
with his pre-eminence about that time
in Pennsylvania politics. It served to
call the attention of the Nation to him;
and since then he has been a National
figure.
Self-Made Committeemen.
Dahlman. Sullivan. Guffey ach man
has made himself. But they are not the
only self-made men on the two commit
tees. It is a fact that the large majority
of the members have "got there" through
their respective individual efforts.
Chariman Taggart first made the ac
quaintance of Indianapolis folk as a clerk
in that city's Union railroad station's res
taurant. Senator Tillman has pictur
esquely described himself as a eomfed
lawyer. Clark Howell had to gather -a
large store of experience as a reporter
on the paper of which he is now pro
prietor and editor. Frank Lowden was
the son of a blacksmith and worked as
a farmhand until he was 16; in 1896 he
married a daughter of the late George M.
Pullman. Former Governor Myron T.
Herrick, of Ohio, was born in a log cabin,
the son of a farmer who devoted most of
his acres to the raising of market prod
uce. When he was 16 years old Senator
Scott, of West Virginia, was driving an
ox team over the ground where Denver
now stands. His colleague. Ankeny of
Washington, became an emigrant when
he was his father taking the family
over the Oregon trail and settling in that
state on a donation land claim. Refused
assistance by his uncle, Representative
Brownlow of Tennessee peddled sewing
machines and tombstones, fired a locomo
tive, still later, drove one. and after he
had thus proven his grit was given a re
portorlal job on the uncle's newspaper.
When Franklin Murphy returned from
the Civil War with the New Jersey Regi
ment in which he had enlisted he entered
a varnish works in a humble position.
Today he heads it. one of i-e country's
largest concerns of the kind. Frank B.
Kellogg. Republiean committeeman from
Minnesota and lately famous as the Gov
ernment's chief Jnquisitor of Standard
Oil and its methods, had to study law by
himself. Before he moved to St. Paul. In
the '80s., and became a partner of the
late Senator Cushman K. Davis, he was
simply a country lawyer, even though
he had been a city and then a county at
torney. The fact that M. F. Tarpey
of California was brought over from Ire
land when he was 7 years old reveals tho
secret of how he got up.
Before he became City Civil Engineer
of Leavenworth, Kan., in 1859, Powell
Clayton, the only former Ambassador on
either of the committees, spent four hard
years as a civil engineer in the West,
whither he had gone from his Eastern
home. Though he comes from a rock
ribbed Democratic state, which probably
wouldn't go Republican even though a
certain warm place were to freeze over,
Powell Clayton has been an influential
member of the Republican National Com
mittee for a good many years. Incident
ally he has been a member of every
National Convention of his party held
since 1872.
He Is the only committeeman who rose
to be a full-fledged brigadier-general In
the Civil War. Brayton, of Rhode Isl
and, was brevetted a brigadier. Before
hostilities, began Clayton got the idea
that he was pro-slavery and he used to
make little speeches to his friends on the
subject. But when Lincoln's call for vol-
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FOR PRESIDENT
unteers came he did not hesitate long
before going to the defense of the Union,
as is shown by the fact that he raised
a company of the First Kansas Volunteer
infantry regiment. Three years later, be
cause of gallant services in the field, he
was given his star. He always was in
the thick of the fight and is the sole one
armed member of the committee. Set
tling in Arkansas after the war and be
coming a Reconstruction Governor and
United States Senator and a capitalist,
Clayton played an important part In de
veloping the state industrially. For sev
eral years after he became an Arkansan
traveling about the state was done al
most wholly by horseback, flutboat,
steamboat or stage. Gradually, through
his efforts, the railroads pierced the
state, thus opening up practically a whole
state to commerce.
Quite a few National committeemen
have played no insignificant parts in the
development of the resources of various
states. As head of a. string of banks and
as a transporter to and from the mines.
Senator Ankeny has done a man's share
In developing Oregon and Washington.
John E. O.sborne has been one of the big
men of Wyoming since the eighties, when
he went Into the raising of livestock on
the open range, eventually becoming the
largest Individual sheep owner in the
tUate. Colonel Guffey, as an oil and nat
ural gas producer, has cut no small fig
ure as an Industrial upbuilder in Western
Pennsylvania and down in Texas. In
West Virginia both - Senator Scott and
his rival committeeman, John T. Mc
Graw, have been leaders in the wonderful
development of that state within recent
years.
Of the two men. Senator Scott has had
the more picturesque career to great
wealth. Brought up in the Quaker com
munity of Quaker City. Ohio, he decided
to cut out for himself when he was 16.
His eyes, were turned Westward the
gold craze was then on and in the course
of time he was driving an ox team over
the present site of Denver, his employer
being an Iowa man. He led the life of
the raw country for a year. Then he re
turned home, richer in experience but
not In pocketbook.
Pretty soon thereafter the Civil War
broke out. "Young Scott enlisted. His
father, being a peace-loving man,
promptly took him back home; the boy
was under age. For the next few weeks
the boy made his father's life miserable
with his importunities to be allowed to
Join the army. At last he gained the
coveted consent and from then on until
the close of the war Nathan Scott fol
lowed the flag of his country as a pri
vate. After the war he returned home,
found employment in a glass works near
by, learned the trade thoroughly, went
to Wheeling, W. Va.. secured a place in a
glass factory, soon became foreman and,
finally, president. This factory is one of
Senator Scott's numerous present-day
properties and he takes more pride in it
than in all his other enterprises com
bined. As would be expected of a man who
Is proud of the fact that he has worked
his way up among the rich men of
the country. Senator Scott is demo
cratic, sympathetic and affability it
self. His friends say that he has ex
tended the helping hand and word to
so many struggling and deserving
young men that the word legion is
necessary to describe their number.
McGraw also has a reputation for
beinsr democratic and helpful even
COMMITTEE
among his political opponents, who
hate him with a hate that is well-nigh
unspeakable. McGraw's friends look
upon this hate as a tribute to his po
litical sagacity. McGraw himself la
not in the least disturbed by the fact
that every Republican in West Vir
ginia is a personal enemy to all intents
and purposes. He is, in fact, one of
the most imperturbable men in politics
todaj
The dramatic moment in McGraw's
political life occurred the day lie was
unexpectedly defeated by Senator Scott
for a seat in the United States Senate.
A count of the Legislature had re
vealed 47 votes for McGraw, a like
number for Scott and seven votes for
Nathan Gofr. The Democrats were ju
bilant; they were already going about
declaring that Scott, the man they most
feared, was beaten. Then, in the pro
verbial twinkling of an eye, one man
changed sides when the roll was called
and Just before the result was an
nounced and Scott was declared elect
ed. The United States Senate refused
to see McGraw's point of view, in the
contest that ensued, and Scott was de
clared legally entitled to the seat.
As a member of the Republican Com
mittee, Sen&tor Scott was one of its
hardest workers in the last campaign.
He was at his desk early and late, as
he was in previous campaigns. It is his
belief that hard work never hurt any
body and he lives up to it religiously.
He Is, also, a frank talker, as Presi
dents, even, have learned at first hand.
Official Washington is frequently pass
ing around and smiling at some pic
turesque utterance of the Senator's
which never sees wider circulation, be
cause the Senator is a very approach
able man 'and the newspaper corre
spondents are aware of the fact.
Like Senator Scott, former Governor
Murphy; also a. member of the Repub
lican Executive Committee. Is a Civil
War veteran. He left school to enlist
as a private in a New Jersey regi
ment; at the end of tne War he was
mustered out a Lieutenant. When he
became chairman of his, party's state
committee, in 1891, things looked pret
ty black for the Jersey Republicans.
The party has been paramount in the
state for 12 years now, and among his
rivals, as well as by his coworkers, lie
Is given a large share of the credit
for this paramountcy. His wealth is
reckoned in seven figures, as in the
case of not a few members of both
committees Blanchard, Tom Johnson
McGraw, Campau, Tarpey, Gaston, Sul
livan, Guffey and Osborne, among the
Democrats, and Cornelius N. Bliss, com
mittee treasurer: Charles F. BrooXer,
of Connecticut: Frank O. Lowden, Sen
ators Crane. Scott and Ankeny. former
Governor Herrick, former congressman
Babcock. Powell Clayton. Frank S.
Streeter, of New Hampshire, among the
Republicans. Practically every other
member of the two committees is ex
ceedingly well supplied with this
world's goods some are millionaires,
undoubtedly and there is not a poor
man, in the ordinary use of the phrase,
to be found among tne entire 111.
Among the committeemen who may
not be In the millionaire class, but who
are "well heeled" nevertheless, are
Congressman Brownlow. George A.
Knight, Republican member from Cali
fornia, who Is one of the Coast's best
known lawyers, and has charge of the
Charles L. Fair estate of $18,000,000;
Chairmen New and Taggart and Clark
Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution.
Newspapermen as Committeemen.
Howell could build up .a mighty fine
(and troublesome.) newspaper staff from
among the present and former newspa
per men on the committees. Chairmen
New and Taggart were publishers and
editors of now defunct Indianapolis
dailies. Congressman Brownlow luns one
of the noted newspapers of Eastern Ten
nessee, the Jone.sboro Herald and Tri
bune. Former -Governor Herrick, when
he found himself In St. Louis with only
110 whitlfer lie had gone with a lot of
cider to "make a boy's fortune, but found
the market against him turned newspa
per reporter for some months. Josephus
Daniels is famed in the South as an ed
itor and owner of the Raleigh, N. C,
News and Observer. Norman E. Mack.
I lemocratlc. committeeman from New
York, is one of Buffalo's well-known pub
lishers. DHniel J. Campau is controlling
owner of tile Horseman and Spirit of the
Times, devoted to breeding and turf
news. Urry Woodson. Democratic com
mitteeman from Kentucky and secretary
of his committee, runs a newspaper in
Paducah and another in Owensboro;
while 151 mer Dover, secretary of the Re
publican body, quit editing an Ohio paper
in X!i7 when he became secretary to the
late Senator Hann Secretary Woodson
has been the Kentucky member of his
committee since 196 and its secretary
since 1A04. He is a native of tho Blue
Grass State and all his activities have
been in that state. From 1N91 to 18U5 he
was Railroad Commissioner for Keu
tucky. When he became a newspaper
owner and editor he was 22. Since then
publishing and politics have been his
fields.
Both Woodson and Dover. 33 years his
junior, are extremely affable and tactful,
as a National committee secretary must
needs be to be successful. Dover is a na
tive of Ohio and he had spent eight years
reporting and editing before he was dis
covered by the late Senator Hanna and
made his private secretary. Durinjt the
years that Hanna headed the Republican
National Committee Dover was of great
help to him, according to the Senator,
whose affection for his secretary was a
good deal like that of father for son.
Dover's selection as secretary of the com
mittee occurred in 1904, following Hanna's
death, the committee realizing that the
training he had received under his old
employer would be invaluable to it In
the campaign. Dover is one of the young
est men ever to hold the responsible po
sition of secretary to either committee.
Just now he and Woodson are up to their
ears in the preparatory work of the con
ventions. In the final analysis the man
ner In which the convention machinery
runs Is up to them probably more than
to the committee chairman. And in this
connection let it be noted 'that chairmen
and secretaries hail from the three bor
dering states of Indiana. Ohio and Ken
tucky. A REPORTER'S
REVENGE
(y
N'E of the most extraordinary
strikes of modern times was that
of the reporters of the parliamentary
debates in the German Reichstag.
While one of the Deputies, Herr Gro
ber, was speaking he made a declara
tion which caused the members of the
press gallery to exclaim: "Oh! Oh!"
This led the Deputy to call them a
"herd of swine."
The reporters demanded an apology,
which the Deputy refused to give, so
they left the press gallery In a body.
They also stated that they would not
report another word until they received
an adequate apology. This apology has
now been given and accepted.
While the action of the reporters
could not prevent the Reichstag from
meeting, it had a most serious effejt,
inasmuch as it prevented the members
obtaining their usual "world audience."
More than this, it had the effect of
preventing the Imperial Chancellor
from delivering an important speech
reviewing Germany's foreign relations.
As a ma-tter of fact, the strike had the
effect of disorganizing the parliamen
tary machine of the great German Em
pire. This Is not the first strike of its
kind. Thus the press men of Sydney
caused considerable trouble and annoy
ance to the members of the New
South Wales Parliament. The report
ers were -ery severely criticised, ow
ing to the manner in "which they re
ported the speeches of -a number of the
members.
The relations between the reporters
and the members became so strained
that the press men waged a remarkable
little war. The war took the form of
reporting the members' speeches ex
actly as they were delivered not the
slightest embellishment being- given
and no alterations1 being made. Ac
cordingly the speech of one of the
members read as follows:
"Press gallery men the reporters
ought not to the reporters ought not
to be the ones to judge of what Is ni
portant not to saj- what should be
left out but the member can only
ludge of what Is important. As I as
my speeches as the reports as what
say is reported sometimes, no one
nobody can understand from the re
ports what It Is what I mean. So
it strikes me it has struck me certain
matters things that appear of impor
tance are ometimes left out omit
ted. The reporters the papers
points are reported I mean to make
a brief statement what the paper
thinks of interest is reported."
As may be imagined, the trouble was
very soon settled. the journalists
paining a magnificent victory, and the
members being glad to revert to the
nid state of affairs Tit-Bits.