Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-01-27
The Politician.

interests of all sections of the country
now holding its annual session in
Washington, closing with these
words 1--WE congratulate you, Mr..
President, upon the prosperity of the
country and the success of your ad-
ministration." The President replied:
II cannot conceal the pleasure it gives
me and the honor feel in this call on
the part of the National Board of
Trade, representing as it does great
and varied and important interests of
our country. | rejoice with you all
upon our universal prosperity, and
trust that that prosperity may be long
continued to the American people"
Now that Brigham II. Roberts, the
polygamist, is out of the House for
good and all, he probably has great
er respect for the moral sense of the
country which he outraged by becom-
| ing a candidate for election to Con-
gress, and the people OF Utah have
been taught that the men they send to
Congress must be free from the taint
Of polygamy.
Representative Littlefeld, of Maine
who fills the seat so long held with
| distinguished honor by the late Mel
son Dingley, by his speech in the Rob
erts case, which was his maiden eff
fort in Congress, placed himself in the
front rank of the ablest lawyers in the
House, and it was all the more credit
able to him, as a lawyer, that he spoke
in favor of the minority report of the
committee, of which he was a member
Senators Pettigrew and Allen have
seemingly by the tacit consent of the
Democrats assumed the Democratic
leadership of the Senate-perhaps II
is because the Democratic Senators
are ashamed to do such dirty work
and are still Offering new resolutions
which they know to be both useless
and meaningless. and the Senate is
still fcoling them by adopting them
without opposition.
That any man should dare to stand
on the floor of the United States Sen
ate and advocate the doctrine OF
might makes right is astonishing, but
Senator McEnery, of La, did that very
thing in a speech against Senator
Pritchard's resolution declaring the
proposed disfranchislng amendment to
the constitution of North Carolina to
| be a violation OF the United States
constitution. And he added to the as
constituent by acknowledging in reply
to questions that he had declared a
similar amendment to the Louisiana
constitution to be unconstitutional,
and saying that the amendment hav-
ing been adopted he felt it to be a duty
to his constituents to support it and to
defend it in the Senate. If the people
OF Louisiana are not ashamed OF Nc
Emery and his defense, they ought to
be.
Mr. Montague White. formerly dip
lomatic agent for the Transvaal in
London, and who was credited with
being in this country on a diplomatic
mission, called on Secretary Hay this
week, and informed him that he had
no official credentials of any sort from
the Boer government, but was in the
United States fer the purpose of doing
all that he could legitimately do to
work up public sympathy for the
Beers. Secretary Hay courteously lis
tened to Mr.. White as he would to any
other intelligent foreigner who might
call on him as private individual
but he said very little, beyond en-
phasizing the neutrality of this gov
ernment.
The reports for and against the seat
ing of Hon. M. S. Quay were this week
submitted to the Senate, and an early
vote is expected on the case. Mr.
Quay's supporters display more con-
fidenCe in their ability to seat him
than his opponents do in their claim
that they will be able to keep him out
Aguinaldo's latest dodge-the re-
quest, through a New York paper to
send a commission of Filipinos to the
United States to express the desires Of
their people-was thus effectually dis
posed of by Postmaster General Smith,
whose relations with President Nc
Kinley are close enough to enable him
to speak for him: at is all in Aguin-
aldo's hands. He knows perfectly we'll
the terms of peace, which means sur
render, acknowledgement of Ameri-
can sovereignty and the fullest meas
ure Of self-government, which will be
framed after fully ascertaining the de-
sires and capabilities of the Filipinos.
That says all that need be said. This
government stands ready to do the
right thing by the Filiplnos, and will
do it in the end, but it is in the pow
er of Aguinalo to hasten matters by an
unconditional surrender. He has been
told more than once that there would
be no negotiation.
The Democrats Of the House are
many CT them dissatisfied with the
leadership of slippery Jim" as Rep
resentatiye Richardson, of Tennessee,
is sometimes called, and it would not
be surprising to see his authority ov-
erthrown almost any time. In fact,
Bailey, Of Texas, the ex-leader, has
shown an inclination to snatch the
leadership away from Richardson on