Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-06
THE PEOPLE LIKE HIN
Senator Depew Says Roosevelt
Pleases the People, But El0t
the Politicians.
Ii He Maintains Present Policy
His Election in 1904 Ii;
Certain.
Depew Favors the Panama Route
for the Great Isthmian
Canal.

Chicago, June o. IL Iiesiuei1
| Welt maintains his present policy re-
parding the enforcement of the law
he will be nominated by the next re
publican national convention and cleo
ted president by the most overwheim'
tho majority ever secured by anI heat
| of the nation"
This is what Senator Chauncty De
now said when asked what he though
about President Roosevelts course rel
ative to trusts and combinations. Sen
ator Depew drew his trousers up unu
lowered hose of decidedly Frencf
pattern was disclosed when he paio
the president this compliment.
yves. President Roosevelt's position
is logical, and it is just exactly tht
course 1 should pursue If l We're presi'
| dent. 1t may not be good polltlcs lroli
| . professional politicians standpoint
hut II is mighty popular with the peo'
nile. This same thing was done only II
| lesser degree, by jackson and CleVe-
Hand. more by Cleveland than by Jack
| son, and you know what happened &c
C,Ieveland-- he was demanded the Sec
ond time by the people and elected ps
| the people irrespective largely of party
or political faith.
"The people like president with
backbone and one who has the nerve &c
do what he thinks is right and DEFY ms
marty leaders. The effect of the preSl-
dents course is plainly seen. He Is
growing stronger every day with the
people. but not with the politicians
So say that if he persists in his pres
ent course, and have no doubt he will
do SO, he will be nominated, not be-
cause the party leaders want him, but
because the public will demand him in
q manner that cannot be ignored.
Does it not look to you like carry
ing government by Injunction too far
in some cases." was asked.
81 would not like to say. That is
question for the courts to decide. We
have only to do with the presidents
position. He has argued to himself that
there are certain laws which he has
found upon the statute books, and that
it is not for him to stop and inquire
whether they are good or bad laws.
With that he has no concern, but he
has every concern in seeing that the
laws are carried out. 1t is only by en-
forcing a law that you can tell whether
it is. good or bad
1.-THE question of trusts or combina :
lions does not enter into the matter
nor the effect upon the money markets.
The laws are there, and let them be en-
forced, and If found bad let them be
repealed. In all the history of this ma
ton men in authority, municipal and
national, have assumed s-to say that
there are laws which they will not at
tempt to enforce, while they will enforce
others. Remember this, that 1t is an
exceedingly dangerous thing not to en-
force some laws, and President Roose-
welt is the first president who has rec
ognized this principle to the fullest and
who has had the courage to take the
other course
Asked regarding his position upon
the isthmian canal question, Senator
Depew declared that he was in favor of
the Panama route, with this reserya-
ton:
IF the Panama route should be Sc
Iected | believe that the government is
morally bound to reimburse those who
have honestly invested their means In
the Nicaraguan canal scheme. This is
fair and just because the Nicaraguan
people would have completed their
project had not the United States gov
ernment stepped in, and. by becoming
d competitor. killed it; that lis, the gov
ernment made 1t impossible for them to
raise money for the furtherance Of the
plan.
Sentiment has played most impor-
tant part in the question, and yet the
matter is the most business-like,
straight-away proposition that was
ever presented to a government or a
corporation. 1t is a question of picking
out the best route, as all are agreed
that there should be an isthmian canal.
Public sentiment is in favor of the Mic
araguan route, because it has always
been considered as the American route,
while the other has been viewed as for
eign. We all know that the government
appointed a commission made up of the
hest experts obtainable and spent over
$1,000,000 and nearly three years in ex-
ploration and investigation relative to
routes, and in the end decided unanj-
mously in favor of the Panama route
Senator Depew took another hitch to
his blue trousers, smilingly gazed at
the embroidery on his hose and contin-
ted:
Now 1t is for we gentlemen of con-
gress to say whether, while riding to
and from the capitol along Pennsylva-
MA avenue, we have learned more
about the routes thal, the enpineers opd
experts who spent theI time and ST.
100000 of the governments money in
learning about them. AS to safety.
economy, definiteness as to cost there
IS no question between the TWO routes,
and Panama should be taken. 1 do not
believe, however, that the Hoard bill
will pass this session, as congress is ex-
hausting alfits pressure on Cuban reci-
procity, but in the end the decision OF
the question will be left to the presi-
dent"
POLITICS IN COLORADO,