FEBRUARY 19. 1909
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The Commoner.
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both Bryan worshiping and Bryan hating should
bo abated. Bryan -worshipers know, or think
they know, why they worship; but Bryan haters
among the masses of the people (including doc
tors, of course) don't know why they hate, and
I will tell them rhy. Bryan Is an enemy of
privilege and capitalistic interests. These in
terests are very alert. They know their friends,
and they know their enemies. They can be
relied on to reward their friends, and they use
every possible means, both fair and unfair, to
destroy their enemies. Bryan is their most
powerful and most skillful enemy who has yet
appeared. His character is unassailable and
this they have deeply mdurned, for he is thus
all the harder to destroy. His ability is undoubt
ed and thus he is all the more dangerous to
them. He is beyond all odds the toughest prop
osition they have ever had on their hands. Be
cause of his stainless character and great ability,
they would be glad to have him on their side.
When he returned from abroad they would have
gladly received him with open arms; and they
prepared the way, to do this by saying frequent
ly through their papers that foreign travel had
broadened him; that he knew more, and was
therefore less radical, etc. His old friends
watched with a jealous eye. And when Bryan
proclaimed himself to be still true to the inter
ests of the masses of the people, and against
privilege and capitalistic interests, as of yore,
then the powerful batteries of concentrated cap
ital, the great metropolitan newspapers, re
opened against him, their object being to de
stroy his political prospects and power by
poisoning the minds of the people against
him. This they have been successful in
doing sufficiently to keep him out of the
White House, but he is not dead yet, and no one
knows how long the battle will continue. They
say he is changeable, but he is not. If he were
changeable, and would come over to the side
of privilege, they would forget the untruths they
have so frequently said about him, and they
would praise him to the skies. Capitalistic in
terests can recognize their enemy, but the peo
ple can not recognize their friend."
BISHOP William Doane iof. Albany, Ni Y.,
has written for the Congregationalist the
following poem:
I am quite' sure he thinks -that I am God
Since it is God on whom each one depends
For life, and all things that His bounty sends
My dear old dog, most constant of all friends,
Not quick to mind, but quicker far than I
To him whom God I know and own; his eye,
Deep brown and liquid, watches for my nod;
He is more patient underneath the rod
Than I when God His wise corrections Bends.
He looks love at me, deep as words e'er spake;
And from irie never crumb nor sup will tako
But he wags thanks with his most vocal tall;
And when some crashing noise -wakes all his fear,
He is content and quiet if I am near,
Secure that my protection will prevail;
So, faithful, mindful, thankful, trustful, he
Tells me what I unto my God should be.
MEMBERS OF the United States senate were
highly indignant because of a telegram
which President Roosevelt sent to Governor
Gillett of California as follows: "I saw Flint
as soon as your message came. He has been
helping me in every possible way, and after con
sulting I wired Speaker Stanton, which he can
make public if he thinks advisable. Please see
him. I am astounded at Perkins' conduct. He
has for the last seven years done whatever he
could to hamper us in the upbuilding of the navy
and has acted against the real advocates of the
navy. Yet now he advises a policy of wanton in
sult. I have nothing to advise at the present mo
ment, but I can not speak too highly in praise of
tho course you have followed. I suppose my tele
gram to the speaker is the best way I can ren
der assistance.' Please wire me if there is any
thing I can do.'? '
SENATOR PERKINS claims that the criti
cisms of his attitude on the. naval prbgram
are unwarranted. J'In 1893," he explains, "I
became a member of the senate naval affairs
committee. At that time we' did not have a
single battleship in commission and few first
class cruisers. Today we have twenty-seven
battleships 'in commission and five in course
of construction, in addition to the fleet of first
class cruisers, torpedo boats and other modern
vessels of war, The appropriation lor 1893 was
only $23,000,000 for the support and building
of the navy and everything else. The naval bill
now pending in the senate carries more than
$135,000,000. In 1893 wo had but 15,000 sail?
ors and marines. Today we have 45,000 sailors
and marines. I have voted" for every Increase
in the naval appropriation that has come before
tho committee,, with the exception of the last
proposal to build four battleships in one year,
which I did not think expedient, believing It the
part of wisdom and wise business policy to profit
by our own experience and tho mistakes In naval
construction of other countries. As a verifica
tion of what I say I would refer to the Congres
sional Record, which records every vote for and
against any pending measure." Tho Washing
ton correspondent for the Louisville Courier
Journal says: "The fact that in the prospective
reorganization of the senate committee Senator
Perkins will succeed Senator Hale of Maine, as
chairman of the committee on naval affairs, has
had the effect of adding to the interest hold In
the president's reference to the California sen
ator as one who has hampered the growth of
the navy."
REPRESENTATIVE Lovering and several
other republican members took up the
cudgel in the house in defense of William Nel
son Cromwell and in denial of the charges con
corning Panama canal affairs by Mr. Rainey of
.Illinois. At the time of Mr. Lovering's Bpeech
Mr. Rainey was absent from the house, and
friends sent for him. Mr. Lovering declared
that "the perpetrators of these falso statements
are known and the story of their doings reveals
a chapter in the history of blackmailing that is
rare in the annals of crime. These gentle
men are known. Their names are known;
their aliases are known; their haunts are known
and their plans are known." Further referring
to Mr. Rainey, Mr. Lovering said: "This gen
tleman has been made a victim or he is too wil
ling to asperse such fair names as those of
Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson, William Nel
son Cromwell, Roger Farnham and several other
names." It was, he said, "a shameless prostitu
tion" of the privilege of free speech which mem
bers enjoyed on the floor of the house. For, this
utterance, Mr. Lovering was promptly called to
order by Mr. Lawrence of Massachusetts, his
colleague, who was In the chair, and who ad
monished that ho should 6bservo the rules In
regard to the nse of language. Mr. Lovering
protested that he had mentioned no names ex
cept that of Mr. Rainey and those which had
been spoken of In the house and in the public
press. Upon the suggestion of Mr. Gaines, of
Tennessee, that Mr. Rainey had been sent for
and that the speech should, proceed no further
until he arrived, Mr. Lovering yielded the floor
temporarily. Entering the house Mr. Rainey
explained that ho had an engagement out of
the city which could not be broken so he could
not remain to hear Mr. Lovering through. He
announced, however, that he would, at an early
day, make complete reply. Mr. Olcott of New
York and Mr. Bannon of Ohio also attacked
Rainey 'for his criticisms of Cromwell.
NOW MR. ROOSEVELT has grievously offend
ed the Taft men. The Washington corre
spondent for the New York Herald tells the
story in this way: "Taft leaders were com
pletely nonplussed today when President Roose
velt, acting on the Tequest of Dr. Albert -Shaw, a
Foraker leader, appointed to a postmastership
in Ohio a man opposed by every follower of the
president-elect and who is favored by the For-aker-Dick
machine. There has not been such
an upset In the minds of the Ohio politicians
since the C. P. Taft faction tried to get Mr. Bur
ton out of the race for senator by putting him
up as a candidate for speaker. It all came
about through the promise made by the presi
dent to Dr. Shaw to appoint Gustavus Gessner
postmaster at Fremont. Now Mr. Gessner was
one of tho most outspoken opponents to the nom
ination of William H. Taft, and favored Mr.
Foraker. He is still a Foraker man. The Taft
managers in Ohio "had picked Mr. Maxwell, a
member of the state committee, who had been
a Foraker man, but who deserte! the standard
of Foraker and came out for Taft. Representa
tive Mouser accompanied Mr. Maxwell to the
White House several days ago and presented him
to the president. Mr. Roosevelt told them that
he had promised Dr. Shaw that he would ap
point Mr. Gessner. When the president was in
formed that Gessner was a Foraker man he said
he would investigate. The Taft men .ook
alarm. Some of them wanted Mr. Taft (o cablo
the president askfng him not to make tho ap
pointment. Representative Longworth tried to
stop tho appointment of Gessner. Senator-elect
Burton also had something to say, with tho
same end In view. But tho president sent In
tho name of Mr. Gessner today, and Senators
Foraker and Dick, smiling broadly, moved im
mediate confirmation, which took place. It
would be difficult to exaggerate tho indignation
of the Taft men tonLght. Thoy are almost
speechless. Some of them are beginning to sus
pect that tho president did It because his own
friends In office have been given little encourage
ment regarding their tenure of office by either
Senator Knox or Frank Hitchcock."
TV1E ONE hundredth anniversary of Abraham
JL Lincoln's birth was celebrated at Spring
field, 111. A Springfield dispatch carried by
the Associated Press says: "A vJslt paid by
Robert T. Lincoln to the old Lincoln home which
ho had not visited since boyhood marked tho
informal but real beginning of the memorial
celebration of tho one hundredth anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth held In Springfield to
day Every business house and nearly every
residence In tho city is decorated with flags and
bunting and with pictures of the great emanic
pator. Ambassador Jusserand of France and the
English ambassador, James Bryce, were enter
tained at the governor's mansion and wont from
there at noon to the Country club, accompanied
by William J. Bryan and Senator Jonathan P.
Dolllver, where they were guests at a luncheon.
A reception was tendered Ambassador Bryce by
tho British-American association. A conspicu
ous part In tho celebration was taken by the
Daughters of tho American Revolution, whoso
national president, Mrs. Donald McLean, par
ticipated. Tho city entertained as its guests
French Ambassador Jussorand, British Ambas
sador Bryce, Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
Robert T. Lincoln, Senator Dolliver of Iowa,
Federal Judges Grosscup and Landia of Chicago,
Seaman of Milwaukee and Anderson of Indianap
olis, Hon. James Harlan, interstate commerce
commissioner; General John W. Noble, Judges
Clarke and Klein, Colonel W. H. Blodgett and
Hon. David R. Francis of St. Louis and many
others prominent in public and business life in
Illinois and neighboring states."
THE PHILADELPHIA North American says:
"Colonel Henry Clay Cochrane, of Chester,
a retired officer of tho United States marine
corps, made the assertion yesterday In an ad
dress on 'Abraham Lincoln,' before the Metho
dist Episcopal Preachers' Association, 1018 Arch
street, that the report of Lincoln's famous Get
tysburg speech, as it appears today, id not as
the martyred President delivered it. 'The speech
as quoted today,' declared Colonel Cochrane,
'contains revisions in thirteen different places.
President Lincoln himself revised the address,
adding a word or two here and there and taking
out one or two. It was several weeks after the
address that its significance as one of the great
est pieces of modern English literature became
apparent. There were only about 250 words
and it took Lincoln just two minutes, , actual
time, to deliver It. When Its worth became ap
parent, there came to Lincoln requests from
every section for an accurate copy of the origi
nal. In making the copies Lincoln changed tho
wording here and there, but retained its gen
eral thought. I have compared a copy of the
original speech with that now generally quoted,
and I have found thirteen changes In It.'
Colonel Cochrane Is the only survivor of tho
eleven public officers and army men who formed
Lincoln's personal escort from Washington to
Gettysburg. He is also the only survivor among
the men who sat on the platform with tho
emancipator."
HERE IS A pretty story of a dog's devotion
as told by the New York World: "Fifteen-year-old
Arthur Morris, of Westfield avenue,
Elizabeth, N. J is mourning an Irish setter that
lost its life as a result of Its devotion to the lad.
Young Morris went skating and returned home
at nightfall, leaving his muffler and mittens on
the ice. The dog found and lay down on the
mittens and was still guarding them when young
Morris' father visited the pond to search for
tho setter four hours later. It had to be car
ried home, and It died of the cold contracted iD
its long., vigil." ...
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