INNOCUOUS INSIGNIFICANCE
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"Innocuous Insignificance" By HERBERT QUICK Speaking against direct election of United States Senators, Senator Root argued that bad men sometimes come to the Senate, but that they soon find their...
...The naughty man may sometimes reach the Senate...
...Innocuous Insignificance" By HERBERT QUICK Speaking against direct election of United States Senators, Senator Root argued that bad men sometimes come to the Senate, but that they soon find their level of "innocuous insignificance...
...A shining, bald pate nodded...
...Or slain by Lodge's lethal gaze and snort...
...Where is the man of life the least immoral Who ever in the Senate took his stance— (Or owed to gold one vote within his corral)— But found "Innocuous Insignificance...
...That if the Senator—ah...
...Certainly I take her...
...begins the minister, when the bridegroom, Mr...
...News Item...
...Stupendous phrase...
...They tell what every keen observer marks, That patriots only get preferment there...
...That Burtons, Platts, Quays, Hannas, Burrs and Clarks Waste all their fragance on the Senate air...
...Lights up—the curious mind of Mr...
...Winds out in sinuous iambs, foot by foot...
...ABSENT MINDED "Do you take this woman to he your lawfully wedded wife...
...Gallinger Looked turgid Penrose fairly in the eye— Stout champions, both, of Richard Ballinger— They knew the great Elihu did not lie ! Depew pressed Simon Guggenheim's soft fingers In mutual sympathy too deep for words...
...But, cheered by his own virtue, turned he gaily And spoke high things to William Joel Stone...
...For the moment I was thinking about my trial last week...
...Then, seeing the looks of amazement on the faces of all, he realizes where he is, and exclaims: "I beg your pardon...
...But there his fell career at once stops short: He's cut by Murray Crane ere he can ken it...
...It fills the mouth like Homer...
...Breaks roaring on as rolls the hollow comber...
...more's the pity!— Be e'en a little bad, the Senate's wont Is to accord him place on no committee Save on "Condition of the River Front...
...Cheetin Stox, the eminent financier, interrupts with: "I don't remember...
...Aldrich assented, saying nothing oral, Returning innocent glance to Carter's glance— The words were musical, poetic, choral— Great words...
...One tear was dropped by Joseph Weldon Bailey At thought of tainted Solons, lost and lone...
...Penrose remarked, "Root certainly has stingers For nine-spot senatorial dickey-birds...
...This doom Falls on the naughty senator, quoth Root— Then looked with solemn pride about the room— And met, mid-glance, the gaze of Prophet Smoot...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 7
