National Affairs: Good-Natured End

Unlike "that body at the other end of the Capitol,"* the House brought its 69th session to a good-natured end. Everybody was happy. Senator Nicholas Longworth was made to blush. On the day before adjournment, a Democrat, Representative Edward W Pou of North Carolina, sounded the name of Nicholas Longworth, said: A great many of us feel that our old enemy, the Republican Party, might do itself proud if in time it shall put him [Mr Longworth] forth as a candidate for the greatest office in the gift the American people and the...

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