The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
A PARTY TRICK EXPOSED.
Republicans Boast of Their Anti
Trust Attitude.

Wide publicity is being given by Repub-
licans to a campaign circular charging that
the Democrats defeated the passage by the
House of an 'anti-trust" amendment tc
the Constitution.
The circular states that 14S Republicans
voted for the amendment. but negIects TO
add that six Deyaocrats-Aessrs- Camp
bell. Naphen. Newlands, Seudder. Sibley,
and Thayer-also voted for it. Il is point
ed out that 130 Democrats voted against
the resolution, but nothing is said of the
votes of Messrs Loud and Mccall. which
were also cast in the negative. In fact,
their names are emitted from the list OF
these yotirg in the negative, as given in
tie circular Nor does the circular say that
Representative Daily Of New Jersey.
Democrat, was paired in the affirmative.
and Representative Mann OF Illinois. Re-
publican, was paired in the negative Fin
ally. nothing is said OF the fact that Rep
resentatives Boutell. Landis. Eriseon. and
White. all Republicans. were absent when
the vote was taken. and all were impaired
4 prominent Democrat has said:
Truly. the Democrats did defeat this
resolution, the yiciousness OF which was
exceeded only by its absurdity. They vot-
ed against it on two grounds-that it was
VI necessary: that it would fail Of eonhrma-
ton by the States. The Republicans deny
the first assertion; they have never denied
the second. It was defeated by Democrat
ic votes, and the party is proud Of ii, for
more contemplate campaign trick was
never attempted by the Republican party.
In fact, so ridiculous was their attitude
that If any avenue OF retreat had been left
open to them il would have been eagerly
sought but alas, they were caught in
their own trap and their campaign thUn-
der was siIenced by the jeeTs OF the press.
THE so-caIled antitrust amendment ID
the Constitution was conceived, born, ana
reared for the purpose of placing the
Democratic party in q hole Never "a
the Republicans who fatheTed and VINO
exploited this measure conceive Ter ore
instance that by some chance ths amend
ment would ever become effective. They
knew that even if the Democrats in the
House should unite and vote for this
bogus arti-trust amendment there would
| be substantially no chance of its passage
by the Senate, and should 1t get through
/ both houses the States would never give
| il the necessary thre5-fourths vote. FROM
/ beginning to end the whole proceeoins :
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| dignity OF a great political party. 1t was
! n cheap piece of political ohieaRery, and
| met with the fate it SO worthily deserved
scarcely ever. even in the heat q slc1
| q tl.multous campaign as the prs I. ene
/ has a Republican orator had the enron
! ter1 to refer TO the fate of this amend
/ ,7,ent for the people were not Sc gul- -lble
t as the guiIeful Republicans who framed
/ the amendment thought. and never for
/ one instant have the people taken the =
I TEMPT Of the Republicans to PASS the
! amendment as beng of serious claraei er
/ when the. Republicans had framed this
| amendment and determined upon forcing
/ a vote on ii they freely admitted IN pri-
yate conversation that it was done for po-
! litic.. eject and to put the Democrats n
! a hoie' The Democrats were put in a
/ bole--for a time. Many Of them feared the
/ country would not see the worthIessness o.
/ the amendment, and if they voted against
i il they would be at a. 10 explain their
actions to their const It's. It was Sc
| riously proposed that the Democrats should
| vote in a body for the amendment, thus
| preventing any charge of obstruction being
| made against them. a caucus was held,
| and for hours the matter was discussed,
! and it is due to Representative Ball of
Texas to say that he held the Democrats
! ", line and secured the adoption of resolu-
| tions pledgiDg the party vote against the
amendment. Many Democrats announced
/ their intention of supporting the amend
ment. but only six voted for 1t and one was
paired in its favor.
! Before the matter came to a vote the
press had thoroughly ventilated it, and
| from one end of the country to the other
the Republican party was Tidiculed and
scoffed at for its paltry attempt to fool the
people
| To compel the Democrats to vote square
| ly for or against this amendment the ma
! jority in the House adopted a special rule
providing that the vote the resolution
and amendments as reported from the
! committee should be taken at o'clock on
| June l. While some time was thus given
| for debate, all motions to amend the reso-
J tuition were strictly prohibited by the order.
] The Republicans feared that if an oppor-
| tunity was given to amend the resolution
| such ar amendment might sa constructed
as wo,lld command the support of the
/ Democrats and would really be effective
| against trusts. This they desired to pre-
vent, and the gag rule was applied.
Presissent HcExinIey's Return.
| 1t was learned at the White House to-
! Gay that President Mckinley will leave