The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-14
CHAMP C[ARE'S LETTER
Depew Charged With
Too Much Loquacity.
LOSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
General Dicks Abuse of The
Congressional Record.
LOSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN METHODS.

Speeches Printed and Scattered
1t Public E~xpense-The
Tariff the Mother of Trusts-HOw
Hide Of General Conference.-The
Only Republican Opposed to Trusts.
Monaett Turned Down by Ills Par
y-Joh j. LeEtz.
Especial Washington letter.
Alas and alack. My heart is heavy.
and my lachrymal ducts are in full
flow. Wherefore? C9caCsc my benny
friend, the suave and gifted ChauncCy
Mitchell Depew. Junior senator from
New York and orator laureate Of the
Republican party, is accused by divers
and sundry newspapers not having the
fear Of God before their faces, but be-
ing instigated by the devil, Of having
talked too much at the Philadelphia
convention a Ia the famous Parrot.
These %irrevercnt ScribeS not only make
the general charge Of too much loquac-
ity against my distinguished friend,
but they cruelty specify and declare
that when he undertook to boost Gov
ernor Roosevelt's military record by
referring slightingly to the Seventy
first New York regiment he put his
foot in it and lost some thousands Of
votes to the Mckinley ticket in New
York, for, as the officers and men Of
the gallant Seventy-frst can't get at
the brilliant Chauncey at this election,
as he is not a candidate, they will even
up things by clawing the hid off his
principal, Colonel Roosevelt, and while
they are at it of Major Mckinley also.
"SWeet is revenge"
At the Public Expense.
How persistently and successfully
Republican statesmen stuff ballot
boxes is a matter Of common knoWl-
edge; but it is not SO we'll known how
extensively they stuff The Congression-
al Record, the daily paper Of con
gresS. published and circulated through
the mails at the public expense.
In this bad business the name OF
Hon. Charles Dick, alias "GeneraI'
Dick, representative in congress, secre-
tarytothc national executive committee
and successor to Hon. George B. Cox
the hoodlum chief. as Ohio's national
committeeman. like that Of AbOu Ben
eAdhem. ''leads all the rest l take
off my chapeau to General Dick, con
ident in the belief that in padding
The Congressional Record he has set
the pace for all coming %padders-a
pace which no other may attain.
General Dick is a man Of parts
many p~arts-and plays many parts
He is fast coming to be the Pooh Bal
among the M~cIIannaites; but o%ratory
is not among his multitudinous accom-
pliShmentS. He wins his victories b.
manipulation and by being the chic
gunner Of Mark Hanna's fast firing
long range disappearing ~checkbook
General Dick has not hitherto aspire(
"to speak in public Oh the stage" bu
nobody can ever guess what ambition
preposterous or otherwise, is germinat
ing in the brain and heart of an Ohi'
Republican. From Fire Alarm" For
aker down TO some infant puking ant
pulling in it's mothers arms Ohio Re
publicans all expect to be president o
to bag something equally as good"
SO, while people We're praising Gen
eral Dick as the silent statesman, al
who read The Congressional Recor,
of June Q, published two days ate
congress adjourned, We're amazed t
find that it contained what purporte'
to be a speech by the general, film!
almost - columns Of The Record
Representatives were astounded be
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any Uch speech in the house. /
he spoke at all, it was briefly, unde
the five minutes rule, but the chance
are that he never spoke at all. II
wrote, or he made his secretary write
11a broad columns in The Record
Wherefore? Not for his health; not a
a literary exercise; not for fame. Non
of these. The general was doing bus
ness. He was loading up The Cor
gressional Record, published at tn
public expense, with enough campaig
rot to make q book as big as McGu1
fey's old Sixth Reader, to be printe
at the public expense and circulate
through the mails free by the million
to induce people to vote directl
against their own interests by votin
for William Mckinley. There are NOR
words iE THIS SO called speech by Ger
eral Dick than can be found in all til
speeches Of Demosthenes or Patric
Henry. Such gross abuses of the leav
to print" in The Record are the thing
which make many men-including my
sclf-in favor of aboiishing The Recor
altogether. AS General Dick stuffs i
it is a fraud and robbery upon tn
people.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Henry O. Havemeyer, who ought t
know, says the protective tariff is I'll
mother of trusts. There can be u
question that the Republican party
the mother Of the high protective tart
Therefore, according to all the rules {
logic, the Republican party is til
grandmother Of the trusts. OF cours
the old political harlot resolute
against them in q feeble way at Phi