The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-15
Depew Charged With
Too Much Loquacity.
IDSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
General Dicks Abuse of The
Congressional Record.
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN METHODS.

HDeeehes Printed and Scattered
BFoadcnst at Public Expensc-The
T Tariff the Mother OF Trusts-FIoyv
F Congressman Lentz Tanned the
Hide of General G-osvenor-The
( Only Republican Opposed to Trusts.
Nonnett Turned Down by His Par
i fy1ohn J. Lentz.
{Specia, Washington Letter!
t Alas and alack! Ny heart is heavy,
and my lachrymal ducts are in full
flow. Wherefore? Because my bonny
friend, the suaye and gifted Chauncey
Mitchell Depew. junior senator from
sEev York and orator laureate Of the
Republican party. is accused by divers
lind sundry newspapers not having the
kear Of God before their faces, but be-
ing instigated By the devil, Of having
:halked toe much at the Philadelphia
convention q la the famous Parrot.
These irreyerent 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
jernor Rooseyelt's military record BY
referring sliglSingly 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 clawins the hide Off his
principal. Colonci Roosevelt. and While
they are at it Of Major Mckinley also.
Sweet is revenge"
y. the Public Expense.
How persistentiy and successfully
Republican statesmen stuff ballot
boxes is q matter of common =know!-
edge; but i. is not SO we'll known how
extensively they stuff whe Congression-
al Record. the daily paper OF con-
ress, Published and circulated through
the mails at the public expense.
In this bad business t.c name OF
Hon. Charles Dick, alias General
Dick, representative in congress, secre-
tary tc the national executive committee
and successor to Hon. George 3. Cox.
the hoodlum chief. rs Chios national
committeeman like that OF Aoou Ben
Adhem, :'lcads all the rest. I take
off my cnapeau to General Dick. con-
ident in the belief that in padding
The Congressional Record lie has set
the pace for al coming palders-a
pace which 10 other may attain.
General Dick IS = man Of parts
many parts-&ai plays many parts.
He is fast coming 10 be the Pooh Bah
among tie Mc!iannaitcs; but oratory
is not among his mult;tudinous accom-
plishmeatS lie wins his victories by
manipulation anG by' being the Chief
gunner OF Mark Hanna's fast firing.
long range. disappearing checkbooA-
General Dick has not hitherto aSpired
Nto speak IL public on the stage" but
nobody can ever guess what ambition.
.preposterous or otherwise. is gerlninat-
ing in the brain and heart Of an Ohio
Republican. From s'F'ire Alarm For
aker down 70 some infant puSing and
pulling in its mothers arms Ohio Re
publ!cans all expect To be president or
to bag something equally as good.
So. while people were pcaisins Gen
.eral Dick as the silent statesman. all
who read The Congressional Record
of June $. published two days after
congress adjourned. We're amazed to
find that it contained what purported
to be a speech by the general. filling
almost {: columns Of The Record.
Representatives We're aStoinded be-
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any such speech in the house. II
he spoke at all. it was briefly. under
the five Minutes rule. but the chances
are that he never spoke 1T all. he
wrote. or be made his secretary write.
71E broad columns in The Record.
Wherefore? Not for his health: not as
q literary exercise: not for fame. None
Of these. The general was doing busi-
ness. he was loading up The Con-
gressional Record. published 9. the
public expense. with enough campaign
rot to make a 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 b. Gen
eral Dick than can be found IL 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-includinS my
self-In favor Of aboiishins The Record
altogether. AS General Dick stuffs 1t,
it is fraud and robbery upon the
people.
The Tariff snd Trusts.
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