The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14
jHANP CLARK LETTER
0epew 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.

SpcecIles Printed and Scattered
Broadcast TT Public Expcnse-The
| Tariff the Mother OF Trusts-HOw
| Congressmnn Lcntz Tanned the
Utde of General Grosvcnor---The
Only Republican Opposed to Trusts.
Monnctt Turned Down by Kis Par
ty--John j. Lentz.
Especial Washington letter.
Alas and a,ack. My heart is heavy,
ard my lachrymal ducts are in full
flow. Wherefore? Because my bonny
friend. the suaye and gifted Chauncey
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 la the famous Parrot.
These irreverent 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 Roosevelts 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 candidate, they will even
up things by clawing the hide off his
principal, Colonel Roosevelt, and while
they are at it of Major Mckinley also.
Sweet is revengew
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 well 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 General
Dick, representative in congress, secre-
tary tothe national executive committee
and successor to Hon. George B. Cox,
the hoodlum chief. as Ohio's national
committeeman. like that of Abou Ben
A II, a. oil a, I fol
off my chapeau to General Dick. con-
fident 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. parts-and plays many parts.
He is fast coming to be the Pooh Bah
among the McTIannaites; but oratory
is not among his multitudinous accom-
plishments. He wins his victories by
manipulation and by being the chief
gunner of Mark Hanna's fast firing,
long range. disappearing checkbook
General Dick has not hitherto aspired
'to speak in public on the stage" but
nobody can ever guess what ambition,
preposterous or otherwise, is germinat-
ing in the brain and heart of an Ohio
Republican. From "Fire Alarm" For
aker down to some infant puking and
pulling in its mothers arms Ohio Re
publicans all expect to be president or
to bag something equally as good"
So, while people were praising Gen
eral Dick as the silent statesman, all
who read The Congressional Record
of June 8, published two days after
congress adjourned, were amazed to
find that it contained what purported
to be speech by the general, filling
almost - columns of The Record.
Representatives were astcunded be-
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any such speech in the house. If
he spoke at all, it was briefly, under
the five minutes rule, but the chances
are that he never spoke at all. He
wrote, or he made his secretary write,
T11a broad columns in The Record.
Wherefore? Not for his health; not as
literary exercise; not for fame. None
of these. The general was doing bust
ness. He was loading up The Con-
gressional Record, published at the
public expense, with enough campaign
rot to make book as big as McGuf
fey's old Sixth Reader, to be printed
at the public expense and circulated
through the mails free by the millions
to induce people to vote directly
against their own interests by voting
for William Mckinley. There are more
words in this so called speech by Gen
eral Dick than can be found in all the
speeches of Demosthenes or Patrick
Henry. Such gross abuses of 'the leave
to print" in The Record are the things
which make many men-including my
self-in favor of aboiishing The Record
altogether. AS General Dick stuffs 1t.
it is fraud and robbery upon the
people.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Henry o. Havemeyer, who ought to
know, says the protective tariff is the
mother of trusts. There can be no
question that the Republican party is
the mother Of the high protective tariff.
Therefore. according to all the rules of