The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-28

The cowboy candidate, in At Of the
| sulks, absented himself from the dinnel
given in his honor at the Fifth Avenue Ho.
tel on Friday evening. The trust cam
paign managers are profanely declaring
that they only wish Senator Scott OF West
| Virginia had stayed away also. They looi
upon and denounce him as blazing Bur-
chard.
The feast was at its height and the pop
ping of corks caused the bell boys to rush
to the front windows. They thought the
fireworks had gotten into action. Scott was
radiant as a quart pot Of red fire and his
frame swayed with enthusiastic emotion.
He was replying to the toast, Trust Nc
Kinley Prosperity" and beamed with
frankness and sincerity. because he felt
that he was among friends. He saw pluto
cratic Pharisees about him, but he failed to
note the scribes in the background. Nter
| wandering around the country and paying
tribute to the Carnegie and Morgan pros
perity in Pennsylvania, the Cowen pros
perity in Maryland. that of Rockefeller and
Havemeyer in New York and Gates in I'LL
nois. he finally arrived in his own State OF
West Virginia and said:
Fright here want to say that believe in
trusts. They are good thing. The Standard
Oil Company put in its pipe lines to all small
towns. II it was not for the Standard Oil Com
pany this prosperity we have wouldn't be there
today"
These remarks fell with sickening thuc
upon the company. Political bosses, trust
magnates, lobbyists, and all turned green
with full dinner paleness! There was
newspaper man in full sight stenographing
SCOTS fatal speech. He recognized his
dilemma He jumped on a chair, and shak
ing his fist at the reporter, shrieked In fear
and rage:
'If that newspaper man puts that down, I'll
make trouble for him!'
Blu: that newspaper man put that
down." and it is making trouble, not for
him, but for Scott. Bliss, Greene, Odell,
and most of the assembled guests begged
that the faux pas Of Rockefeller's West
Virginia man might be covered with OBJ
livion. Unfortunately, professional ethics,
and patriotism, too. we trust, made 1t i'm
possible for that newspaper man" to with
hold go important q matter from publica-
ton. and Scott is entitled to derive what
comfort he can from the knowledge that
his name has been rescued from obscurity.
and is creating an unpleasant taste in the
mouths of millions today.
His views will be exceptionally pleasing
to the people of Ohio for example, where
so many people have suffered from the
trusts, and where Republican Attorney
General was kicked out of his party for
daring to compel, or attempt to compel.
the Standard Oil Company to obey the law
They will meet acclaim from thousands of
small merchants, traders. and travelling
men who have been ruined or thrown out
of employment by the criminal competi-
tion of the trusts.
What Scott says of such prosperity
has fallen like golden shower upon him
self Elkins. and men Of that description in
West Virginia. They have no cause to
complain. For them, no doubt. the trusts
"are good thing" So they are for the oil,
coal, sugar, tobacco, steel, and rubber mag
mates, and the magnates of many more
iniquitous trusts; but there the goodness
ceases.
We shall not scold Scott. Leaky vessels
Of his description are too useful and necee-
sary to the cause OF the people II their
owners choose to load them and fire them
on In a way that is more dangerous at
the breech than the muzzle, let the good
work proceed. In exciting this extraordi-
nary bird Of Burchard plumage to after
dinner oratory, We can cheerfully say, in
the words Of Kipling's veteran: "Gawd as
been 'eavenly goodi'