The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-15
Depew Charged With
+, Too Much Loquacity.
LOSING VOTES IN NEW YORK
y9eoeral Dicks Abuse cf The
i Congressional Record.
RERUBLI0AN CAMPAIGN METHODS.

oUD~chcs Priated and Scattered
DrsaAeast at Pebble Expense-Ths
I Tari9 che Mother OF Trusts-How
csasressaan Leafs Tanned the
mae oe 0enersl Grosvenor-The
Dany Repsbiicaa Opposed to Trusts
nsaaett Turned Down BY His Tar.
~IsAn ,. Leat..
Especial Washington I.etter.I
Alas and alack! My heart is heavy,
- my lachrymal ducts are In full
ASw. Wherefore? Because my bonny
31cnd. the susve and gifted Chauncey
Uifcheh Depcw. junior senator from
lusw Iork and orator laureate of the
0epublican party. Is accused by divers
md sundry newspapers not having the
lfear Of God before their faces. but be-
~ instigated by the devil. of having
n1ked too much Mt the Philadelphia
cenvention q In the famous Parrot.
These irrevcrent scribes not only make
- general charge Of too much loquac-
NJ against my distinguished friend,
!but they cruelty specify and declare
that when he undertook to boost Gov
lernor Rooseyelt's military record by
neferring sligltingly to the Seventy
nrst New York regiment he put his
foot In Ii and lost some thousands Of
votes to the Mckinley ticket In New
York. for. as the officers and men Of
the gallant Sevcnty-frst can't get at
,the brilliant Chaunccy 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 ut 1t of Major Mckinley also.
Sweet Is revenge"
At the Public Expense.
How pcrslstently and successfully
Republican statesmen stuff ballot
boxes Is q matter OF common knowl-
edge; but II Is not so well known how
exter slvcly they stuff The Congression-
d Record. the daily paper of con-
gress. published and circulated through
the malls 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 II. Cox.
the hoodi1m chief. rs Ohio's national
committeeman. like that OF Abou Ben
Adhem. leads all the rest" take
on my chapeau To General Dick. con-
hdent In the belief that I'm pad ling
The Congressional Record he has set
the pace for all coming padders--a
pace which no other may attain.
General Dick Is n man OF parts
many parts-and plays many parts.
He Is fast coming to bc the Pooh Bah
among the MclIannaltcs: but oratory
In not among his multitudinous accom-
plishments. lie wins his victories by
manipulation and 10y being the chief
gunner OF Mark IIanna's fast firing,
long range. disappearing checkbook.
General Dick has not hitherto aspired
ito speak In public ON the stage" but
aObody can ever guess what ambition,
pr,posterous or otherwise. Is germinat-
iog In the brain und heart OF an Ohio
Republican. From "Firc Alarm" For.
aker down TO some infant puking and
pulling io its mothers arms Ohio Re-
publicans all expect to be pres ldent OF
to bag something equally as good"
30. while people were praising Gen.
.eral Dick as the silent statesman. ali
who read The Congressional Record
of June o. published two days after
congress adjourned. were amazed tc
hnd that II contained what purporteC
to be q speech by the general. filline
almost u columns OF The Record
Representatives were astounded be-
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any such speech In the house. II
he spoke at all. II was briefly, unde,
the Ave minutes rule. but the chances
are that he never spoke ut all. Ht
wrote. or he made his secretary write
71M broad columns I'm The Record
Wherefore? Not for his health: not a.
q literary exercise: not for fame. Non,
of these. The general was doing bust
ness. He was loading up The Con
gressIonai Record. published .. tn,
public expense. with enough campaign
rot TO make book as big as McGuf
fty's old Sixth Reader. to be printet
at the public expense and circulated
through the malls free by the millions
to induce people To vote directl!
against their own interests by votin,
Tor William Mckinley. There are NOR,
words In this so called speech by Gen
erai Dick than can be found I'm all tn,
speeches Of Demosthenes or Patricl
Henry. Such gross abuses OF ''the leav,
TO print" In The Record are the thing
which make many notwithstanding my
self-In favor OF abolishing The Rccor,
altogether. As General Dick stuffs q,
10 Is a fraud and robbery upon tn
people.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Henry o. uavemeyer. who ought 4
know. says the protective tariff Is tn