The evening times., 1900-10-10
Roosevelt and the Trusts.

The Hon. Joseph D. Sayers was
member Of Congress for nearly twen-
ty years and occupied a prominent
place on the great Committee on Ap-
proprlations, being at one time chairman
of that committee. In those days Major
Sayers was accounted by all sorts and
conditions of men in these parts as a very
sensible man, a very capable public official,
and a patriotic citizen withal It is fair
to assume that his character has not been
wholly revoluionized backward by his en-
vironmant for Two years as Governor of
Texas or by the circumstance that he has
been nominated for reelection to that Of
fee. It has become such q fad OF late.
however, to rail at all Democrats who
attempt to curb the power of the trusts
as fools and knayes that it is considered
entirely probable these epithets will be
showered upon Governor Sayers because
OF the fact that yesterday he put to the
severest test the wild Rough Riders
boasts OF desire to do his part toward
keeping the trusts from acquiring the
earth and the fdllness thereof
The Rough Rider escaped without
scratch from couple of newsboys
who assaulted him in Chicago
ON Sunday and made his way
to st. Louis. Soon after he arriy-
ed there yesterday he was served in
due form with papers of requisition from
the Governor of Texas asking for the sur
render Of some distinguished citizens OF
New York who are wanted in the Lone
star State for violating the antitrust law
iown there. Among the great New York
ers who are thus accused by the simple
minded Texans are John D. Rockefeller
l. NJ Flagler, and other Standard Oil
nagnates. 1t is an interesting coincidence
hat on the very day the Governor of Tex
Is asked the Governor of New York for the
surrender OF these citizens Mr.. Flagler
made formal announcement of the transfer
If his citizenship from New York to Flor
ida, nearly all of the east coast of which
State he owns, The conquerer of Spain
met the requistion of the Governor of
Texas with the startling assertion that he
was not now the Governor Of New
York, as he was away from the States
and that, therefore, he could not act upon
the papers served upon him. The Lieu
leHaEt SEONSIuof, the ION lIIHoIhy La,
Woodruff, is not permitted to act as Gov
ernor OF New York IN the absence of
Roosevelt. Why this is SO nobody seems
TO understand, but that it is so everybody
knows. Still, Governor SayeTs may raise
a fine legal point by ordering his agents
to rush over to New York before the
Rough Rider returns there and
serve fbe reoui,.fticp raDars on +ba
official designated by the law to act as
Governor in the absence from the State
of that functionary. It would then be
up To" the Rough Rider again, because
ii is almost certain that Woodruff would
squirm out of the hole by claiming thai
lie was not the Governor de iure.
The authorities of Texas have been en-
deayoring for several years to arrest the
Standard oil magnates for violating
law OF the Lone Star State which has
stood the severest tests of the Fedora
courts. and in each effort they have beer
baked by the Republican authorities o.
New York. The Texans don't want tt
lynch the men they are after; they simply
want to get them into the State so they
can be tried by the courts on indictments
preferred by the grand jury. The New
York authorities are protecting these mer