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"Public Opinion Throughout the Union
THE WICKED PARTNER.
(The New York World.)
Edward H. Harriman, represents
what is worst in American finance and
in American politics. He typifies both
financial corruption and political cor
ruption. He is a public menace, a
public enemy. His power must be de
stroyed !
ONLY AN ACADEMIC QUESTION.
(The Cleveland Leader.)
There are Southern editors who find
it interesting to ask one another
whether Northern Democrats would
bolt a Southern man if he were nom
inated for president. It will be only
an academic question for some time to
come.
DEMOCRATIC CHANCES.
(The New York Globe.)
“I am a Democrat, although tempo
rarily out of reasons therefor,” said
Private John Allen at one of the re
current periods of Democratic gloom.
In somewhat the same spirit Col.
Watterson, home again, says he sees
a chance of Democratic success next
year, provided there is cholera in the
Philippines, yellow fever in Cuba,
wheat should sell for 40 cents and
corn for 30 cents, and the Republican
party should split wide open.
PUBLICITY THE REMEDY.
(The New York Times.)
Obviously Mr. Roosevelt would not
have considered the obtaining of the
Harriman contribution nor would it
willingly have been made had it been
certain that the names of all subscrib
ers, with the amount of their sub
scriptions, would be made public and
that vouchers would have to be sub
mitted for every expenditure from
these funds.
MR. BRYAN STRENUOUS, TOO.
(The Springfield Republican.)
It should not be overlooked that Mr.
Bryan was as strenuous in his pro
gram of Tuesday night as the wield
er of the big stick could have been.
To attend a banquet, partake of its
earlier courses, hurry away, and de
liver a lecture, hurry back again and
make the speech of the evening—this
would appeal even to the strenuous
President as “going some.”
THAT $5,000,000 “CONSPIRACY.”
(The New York Evening Post.)
Now this, we venture to say, is a
sort of political paranoia. When a
private person imagines that the world
has conspired against him, that men
are dogging his footsteps, lurking in
corners, and scheming to undo him,
the alienists have no trouble in diag
nosing his case. When an official suf
fers from what we may call delusions
of persecution, he becomes politically
unbalanced, unable to pass judgment
on the motives and aspirations of men
in the mass, to trace causes and ef
fects through the vast complex of our
organism, to distinguish new forces
from old.
A THOUGHT FROM KENTUCKY.
(The Louisville Oourier-Journal.)
Says the Baltimore Sun:
Nihil melius nihil homine libero dig
nius quam agricultura.
Without venturing to contradict the
statement, It may be said that a ma
jority of those who are able to express
themselves so beautifully would go to
jail rather than pluck the worms
from the acre of tobacco.
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LATEST PICTURE OF SENATOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER, WHO
DEFIES THE PRESIDENT.
VARIETIES OF THE LIAR.
(The Providence Journal.)
According to a list prepared by the
Albany Argus some months ago, the
President has called Mr. Herbert W.
Bowen a “disingeneous” liar, Mr.
William E. Chandler, a “deliberate
and unqualified” liar, Mr. Alton B.
Parker an “atrocious” liar, Mr. G. O.
Shields an “inventive” liar, Mr. Bella
my Storer a “peculiarly perfidious”
liar, Mr. John F. Wallace an “utter”
liar and Mr. Henry M. Whitney a “de
liberate” liar. If this catalogue be
correct, if the President really did
apply such epithets to the persons
in question, Mr. Harriman may not feel
any excessive dissatisfaction at be
ing charged with “deliberate and wil
ful” untruth. The President and he
simply disagree as to the facts in the
case. One retains one impression of
the reputed episode, the other a con
trary impression.
SMALL ONES SINK AS EASILY.
(The Indianapolis Sun.)
Russia proposes to follow Japan’s
precedent and build some battle ships
of the Dreadnaught type. But wasn’t
it clearly demonstrated that even a
smaller one would sink quite as well?
AN OVERSIGHT.
(The Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
Col. Bryan was in Washington a
day or two ago, but failed to call at
the White House to run over his nom
inating speech with the President.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
WHAT A DEMOCRAT IS.
(The New York Mail.)
Also, to answer the World’s “What
Is a Democrat?” question, a Demo
crat is a man who has to pay elec
tion bets.
ONE POINT IN COMMON.
(The New York Evening Post.)
The subsidy bill which failed at the
late session of Congress had, accord
ing to the President, “nothing what
ever in common with certain previous
measures of the same name.” Noth
ing, that is, except the fact that it
would have applied public money to
the support of a private business.
LIMIT NOW OFF.
(The Chattanooga Times.)
About the brightest thing yet said
of Democracy was by a Tammany
man who called on Roosevelt last
week and went away declaring: “He’s
all right. He’s about as good a Dem
ocrat as there is!” Since which the
limit is off, and the disorganization
whose symbol and sign is the sad and
solemn ass can stand any and ev
erything.
SILENCE ON THE TARIFF.
(The Louisville Courier-Journal.)
The President is silent as to his rail
road policy, according to a Washing
ton dispatch. The President has de
veloped magnificent ability for re
maining silent upon a given subject
by exercising upon the tariff ques
tion for the last year or two.
SOCIALISM AND THE SOUTH.
(The Savannah News.)
It is a fact worthy of note that the
propaganda of socialism finds little
encouragement in the Southern States
and most encouragement in New Eng
land and the Northwest, where Repub
licanism is strongest. In the list es
States “abandoned” for the present
by the leaders of the socialist move
ment were the names of practically all
of the Southern States, the exceptions
being Kentucky and Texas.
A FINE POINT OF LAW.
(The Florida Times-Union)
Secretary Bonaparte admits that a
State may pay the passage of immi
grants with its own funds, “but not
with the funds contributed.” Now if
the contributors give the money to the
State for this purpose, does not that
money become the property of the
State as much as if it had been ap
propriated by the legislature from the
treasury? A different view must hold
that the money contributed to the cam
paign fund remained the property of
the insurance associations.
A SEND-OFF FOR BILL.
(The Griffin News.)
That’s a mighty good send-off that
Jim Creelman gives Bill Taft in Pear
son’s Magazine for May. Bill cer
tainly is a good example of broad
statesmanship, judging from both the
text and the pictures—especially the
latter.
ARE HIS “DUDS” SAFE?
(The Washington Herald.)
Mr. Bryan will be a sadly disap
pointed man if no effort is made to
purloin his latest political garment
before he again turns his face toward
that dear old Lincoln, Neb.
TEDDY AHEAD ONE TIME!
(The Washington Herald.)
The only surprising thing about Mr.
Roosevelt’s suggestion that the gov
ernment ought to pay election ex :
penses is that Mr. Bryan didn’t think
of it first.
THE TROUBLE WITH BRYAN.
(The Bristol, Va., Courier.)
It seems that about the only differ
ence between Col. Bryan and Col.
Roosevelt on the question of govern
ment ownership of railroads is that
the Nebraskan beat the President to
it —so far as they have gone. That
is the chief trouble with Bryan—he
keeps too far ahead of the plodding
procession.
ORIENT BOUND COTTON.
(The Florida Times-Union.)
It is charged that freight rates on
cotton to the Pacific coast and to
Asiatic ports were unfair, and that
the cotton was burdened with all it
could bear. If there was discrimina
tion against a southern product it is
well to test the law and we are glad
to see the question raised at all events.
The southern states combined should
have tested the constitutionality of
the attorney general’s ruling against
state Immigration by an appeal to the
supreme court—no right should be
held "at the pleasure of the president.”
SENATOR RAYNER’S IDEA.
• (The Baltimore Sun.)
Senator Rayner has an idea that
this is a government founded on a
Constitution to be run according to
law.