El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-02


ing is to do 1t la ground hog, get into
q hole, dig his toe nails IN and bang on
till it thunders. Then he hunts anoth'
err hole. OF initiative he hasn't q
trace. Picking up 5000 men al
random In the streets of Ell Paso OF
Yellvllle, Arkansas, or Boston, Mas
sschusetts, or any where else in this
co untry. and setting them down out
side an open town with 5000 other mer
inside, it's a pretty safe conclusion
that that town would be taken in the
course OF a week or 80, or somebody
get hurt. Yet the Beers hung around
outside Matching seven months. And
the Brisish officers are as bad as the
Boer privases. Their idea of war is to
take pianos and things out on the firing
line. No doubt it Is q magnificent
thing TO be able to play q chunk OF
Chopin under fire, but it isn't war.
Spooper of Wisconsin has been de-
livering q three day speech on the
Philippines from an administration
point of view. Incidentally he has had
q lively time of it, but the other fell
lows have had Evelier.
Spooner is q man who has we'll defined
convictions on most things and fire.
quently has ideas. Not always. but
frequently. Also when it is necessary
he can turn on the vitriol stop in a way
not excelled by any body in public life.
He has the reputation of being the only
man In the senate who has ever down.
from DemsRogville-the central part of
town At that-and he has q violence
that overruns opposition. he had the
senate terrorized till Spooner stepped
into the breach, and went for him.
The Wisconsin man turned demag
himself for the moment, outherodinE
Herod. and, being brighter man
than Tillnan, the latter got so much
the worst of it that he took his seat
discounted. Since then comparative
peace has reigned. Only on the third
day OF Spooner's speech did Tillman
interrupt and then the spe aker turned
to him kindly and said that, 40 he
wasn't mentioning either the darkey
or South Carolina the senator from
South Carolina was hardly inter
ested in the matter. And Tillman re-
tired. Then fifteen hour Allen took
up the fray ana asked Spooner If he
had read the Pop platform. And
Spooner snapped back:
Eyes, and can sum 1t oil up In one
sentence. You are opposed to every
thing that is; and you are in favor of
everything that Is not, never was and
never will be-"
Then Allen retired. Pettigrew got
his medicine q little earlier in the
course OF events when he made CHI argos
Of all sorts OF things against all sorts
OF people, and Spooner told him that
"the senator from South Dakota held
everybody was liar who produced
proof against assertions which he
made" And Pettigrew went off and
% editsted. Hale of Maine was one of
the sufferers also. Hale will be re-
N m bered as the consistent opponent
Of every thing which was done Ia the
course of the Spanish war from the in
of the Maine infamy down.
He broke In on Spooner to eloat over
the Cuban postal frauds which he re-
garded as proving that the American
people were going to the demnition
bow vows faster than horse could
srot. Hale has been pessimistic about
The future Of his country since Dupuy
1e LONE moved away from Washing
ION in such q hurry. He thinks that
We would have been 30 much better
'ff If we hadn't taught Cuba the 'les-
ION Of incorporation of money, OF
.heatin e, of stealing, of the carnival
II fr aud and corruption in every direc-
ien." In fact the worst thing that
'ver happened to the United States
vas its occupation of Cuba" Where
lpon Mr.. Spooner went for him, after
that 1t was "a little tire
ONE to be called upon to respond to q
lemocratic speech coming from this
Erection" And after he got through
ssecting Mr.. Hale. who angrily as
erted his irreproachable republican,
sm, the gentleman from Maine went
way to think. He IL still thinking.
T. X
After the conclusion of Spooner's
peeoh Morgan OF Alabama answered
t, in speech that started out on the
Phil ppines and came in over the
,ome plate via the Nicaragua canal.
Sc nator Morgan is q pretty adequate
sort of citizen himself. Probably he
3 the leading man in the senate. He
vas a rebel briRadier general but isn't
n orktng at 1t now. He is one of the