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PAGE TWO Public Opinion Throughout the Union —I £ 14 ■w / Mgr Q r *" " ' Z imwW .~40 l ilf B B' M ”*°k N r ’ <T - Jni l I. if "' Jp B' W ill | Blf r; '""" *w ' ; ■ K ' -. X zZ "*'' WHITE HOUSE CALLERS. Washington Evening Star. SAVING THE COUNTRY. About the middle of the eighteenth century the William Pitt, who was afterward Earl of Chatham, en gaging a peer of the realm in private converse, exclaimed: “My lord, I can save this country, and I am the only man who can.” It was not egotism; it was fact. The event proved it; for as soon as his hand got the reins victory perched on British arms, on land and on sea, in every quarter of the globe. But the Honorable John Temple Graves tells us that it will take three men to save this country—Bryan, Hearst, and Tom Watson. Perhaps so. This country is more than three times as big as the British empire was in 1750, computing not by physi cal area, but by wealth, population, and —possibly —by civilization. Mr. Graves advises that Bryan, Hearst, and Watson commune, devise ways, and save to the American peo ple the pleasant waters that live in the wells dug by our fathers, or words of like import. To “com-* mune” these gentlemen must come together. Where is Mr. Graves going to find a house big enough to hold Mr. Bryan and Mr. Watson at the same time? When Mr. Watson was candidate for Vice-President on a ticket th.it Mr. Bryan headed, the boundless canopy of heaven was too circumscribed to rocer them in seance. Mr. Watson feels that he is a greater man than Mr. Bryan, and in this mighty stunt of saving the country Mr. Watson has no notion of playing second fiddle to Mr. Bryan or to anybody else. But we hope Mr. Graves will get Bryan and Watson together. A heart to-heart talk between them would be worth reporting. And yet we beg to hope that there shall not be too much of the country-saving stuff. As be ween Bryan and Watson, who is to say whom of them is Quintus Curtins? —The Washington Post. BAILEY SPOILED. There is something quite humiliat ing and pitable, too, in the quiet de mand of the Democratic Senators that Bailey, of Texas, step down and out from th? leadership of his party in the upper chamber. Since the death of the cool, astute Gorman he has headed the minority. The posi tion is one of great honor and import ance. It indicates on the part of as sociates respect for character and con fidence in tact, judgment and pro found ability. Its opportunities for usefulness are many. The leader of a minority watches lynx-eyed every movement of the enemy, takes advan- • tage of every mistake, and finds the fitting opening for the decisive thirst. He counters every blow, exposes all fallacies, prevents hasty and im mature action, and holds, for a time at least, all obnoxious measures up to the gaze of the country, so that popular opinion may and work for their outright defeat of material alteration. He takes a prominent part in the consultations of his colleagues, maps the plan of campaign, and is influential in the selection of the combatants of spe cific schemes of legislation. He is a dictator, so far as that character is compatible with the co-operation of associates of the forceful natures, distinguished characters and acknowl edged abilities of those by whom he is surrounded. His position is an outgrowth of party organization and THE TEFFERSONTAK. an indispensable necessity of party solidarity and aggressiveness. In the House of Commons the leader of His Majesty’s Opposition is only less hon ored and intluential than the Prime Minister himself. Indeed, when pos sible, he is former Prime Minister, and upon a change of administration, generally heads the incoming me nt. From this exalted station Senator Bailey has been reduced to the ranks. Without any intention, we are sure, of needlessly lacerating his already raw feelings, the Democratic Sena tors, in selecting Culberson, of Texas, to succeed his colleague, could have hit upon no more effective way of accentuating in the public mind the deposition of the discrowned leader. The controlling reasons for the charge are not far to seek, and they carry a painful but wholesome lesson. Bailey’s intellectual powers are in the full fruition of a splendid maturity. His knowledge of men and affairs is quite perfect. His ac quaintance with the rules governing parliamentary bodies is profound, and his ability to use them both for the discomfiture of his opponents and the adoption of the policies of his party is unrivalled. His physical man hood—no small consideration in the esteem of experienced legislators—is superb. He is in every essential particular more suited for the leader ship of the minority of the Senate than ever before, nor could any limit, be reasonably suggested to the heights to which he might have aspired. His fall —for fall it is—is the sad story of the “stuck eagle” prostrate on the plain, the dart self-fabricated The greed of gold, the haste to be rich, the method of amassing repel lent to enlightened public conscience, all that and the house beautiful of an enviable reputation, by long years of strenuous exertions erected, comes tumbling about his ears. The punish ment of Bailey is fiercely retributive, and a stern warning to all public ser vants.—Richmond Journal. ‘‘JIM CROW” LEGISLATION. Oklahoma, fearing a presidental ft m «>-i ,4 TW Bi Si fifi b ®»B fl B fl i M fl 0 WW4'. ; ' —fr_— -"■ ~ ", I i.*- *'’ ? ’ V ’ - ~~' -^* >| *«t« > a'unvnwuiaUltluX »< / 'jwSwWW'E'W' —*- - -, ■--^ i THOS. E. WATSON DINES WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Atlanta Georgian t .\ hold-up, did not include in her consti tution discriminations against the ne gro which otherwise would have been inserted. No time has been lost by the Legislature in putting a staute in force which relegates the negro to “Jim Crow” cars and to separate waiting rooms in the stations. Proxi mity to the South and a large south ern element in the population has dictated this action. The Caucasian is discreet in his pride. The red Indian is deemed inferior also, but he often is very wealthy. Many of his sons and daughters are educated. Indian blood flows in the veins of one of the state’s first representatives in Congress. Moreover, the Indian still has federal guardians.—Boston Her ald. WATSON AND BRYAN. The Hon. Thomas Watson of Geor gia, who called at the White House yesterday, ii said to have remarked to President Roosevelt in the course of their conversation that the Hon. William Jennings Bryan is “one big laugh. ’ ’ The dispatches do not re port what followed, but probably the two distinguished gentlemen proceed ed to emphasize this opinion in suit ing the action to the word. There does not appear to be any good reason why Tom Watson should discredit his former running mate on the Populist presidential ticket. That is., no reason so far as any difference in principles goes. It would take a hair-splitting distinction to point out such a difference. Nearly all the ex treme radicals in the country who are not for Roosevelt are for Bryan, and Mr. Watson would seem to fall more naturally on the Bryan side, but he has a private grievance. In 1904 the Populists who had sup ported Mr. Bryan in the two former presidential campaigns, dissolved the compact with the Democrats and nominated Mr. Watson for President. Mr. Watson, not without reason, thought it was “up to Bryan” to support him in preference to Parker but Air. Bryan was too good a politi cian to adopt that plan. The Bryan-Hearst friendship was (Continued on Page Fourteen.)