Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-03-12
HILL AND QUAY QUITE cHuMMY

Such is the headline preceding a
Washington dispatch, which reads in
part as follows:
senator Hin. like other senator's, has select
ed his senatorial chum from the opposition OF
the chamber During the contest over the In
come tax Senators Hin and Quay stood alone in
| opposing that provision. In the course OF their
negotiations they formed warm personal
| fricndship,whe has grown until now These two
senators are generally paired together" etc.
Senator Hill is the Democratic "boss"
of New York State. Senator Quay
holds the same position as regards the
Republican party in Pennsylvania.
Notwithstanding this apparent politi-
cal antagonism, the newspapers report
them to be quite chummy." Why
should they not be?
Both climbed into power in the ser
vice of corrupt interests. Both are
themselves personally tainted with
corruption. The Elmira vote-buyer,
who earned the title of ''Whisky's Gov
ernor" in the service of New York rum
sellers, is the fitting friend of the
Pennsylvania treasury thief, who saved
his State to the rumsellers when a
Prohibition amendment threatened.
1t is equally fitting that they should
be leagued in the Senate in opposition
to the interests of the people.
The real parties in Congress, as in
Dictated in the newspaper dispatch
above quoted, and in hundred SINH
lar facts, are not the so-called Repub-
lican and Democratic parties. The
one united, compact and aggressive
party in the Congress of the United
States is made up of the senators and
representatives who stand for corpo-
rate greed and monopoly, the million
aire trusts, and the liquor rings. Its
opponent, if it may be so dignified, is
the disorganized and divided opposi-
ton. In Congressional battles where
these interests are involved the lines,
Republican and Democrat, are obliter-
ated. 1t is needless to say in which
party the Democratic "bosS" of New
York and Republican "boss" of Penn
sylvania are united.
To show that the pretended distinc-
tions of Republican and Democrat
count for nothing in the real battles
of Congress, we have but to glance at
recent contests involving the claims of
monopoly. Millionaire Democratic
Senators Brice and Murphy are hand
in glove with millionaire Republican
Senators Wolcott and Mcmillan in
urging the passage of the Reilly bill,
which proposes to cheat the people out
of their interests in the Pacific Rail
roads and reward the thieves and
wreckers of those roads. In the same
unholy combination, millionaire Re-
publican Senators Higgins and Carey
and Democratic Senators German and
James Smith, Jr., unite in reporting
favorably the railway pooling bill. In
the House 81 alleged Republicans join
with 81 alleged Democrats to oppose
recommitting the Reilly bill. On the
question of destroying the greenbacks
and substituting bank notes and Gov
ernnenL DOnOS, the pfeGenuou hepuD-
lican and Democratic lines are again
obliterated and the real division of
monopoly versus the people is seen
when 80 Democrats and Al Republi-
cans vote to increase the burdens of
the producers, opposed by IS Demo
Gratis and 46 Republicans. Thus re-
vealing the divisions in Congress, it is
easy to understand the chummy rela-
tions of such political opponents" as
Senators Hill and Quay.
A crisis is upon the nation which
will not long allow the common PEG
pie to remain oblivious to its real di-
visions. The demands of corporations
and the exactions of monopoly are
daily becoming more oppressive. Their
league with the saloons in the election
of purchasable representatives is
everywhere getting holder and strong
er. A breaking point in public indif-
ference and forbearance must be
reached. and we believe speedily. Then
look out for party alinements upon
real issues.-The Voice.