Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-08
THE RErREATlNG GLORY OF CON.
GRESS.


Upon a much disputed passage in
Hebrew, concerning Him whom GER
tain scholars now name "Yah-we," the
late Dr. Palfrey, when dean of the
Cambridge divinity school in Theo-
dore Parkers student days. made this
translation, "My face you shall not
see-but a Retreating Glory shall ye
behold" Even such a retreating
glory has the lodging Republican Con
gress left trailing behind it, as it scat
ters and runs away from its respon
sibilities-trusting that something in
the chapter of accidents will turn up
to help it's sad case before the Novem-
ber elections. The factions are watch.
ing the Republican state conventions
and wrangling over what their hypo
critical resolutions mean. II they mean
anything in the present emergency, it
must be by accident for the party as
whole does not know where it is at,
nor what 1t ought to say about the
silver standard the bank currency,
the tariff, the trusts, the army or even
the Philippines and this, too, IN spite
Of the compromise bill just passed,
lodging two main questions, and the
amnesty proclamation, which will
keep the Washington correspondents
and the Manila cable operators at
cross purposes for months. The puzzle
of the Root dispatch asking for petit
tions or something else capable Of one
meaning IN Boston, another in wash
ington, and third in Manila and Ba-
layan, is sure to be repeated on larg-
er scale henceforth; and the Lodge
! suppressing machine having closed
down for the season. there will be no
official third party to explain the war
department charades as they come up
for popular guessing
Lodge himself and Beveridge, and
, the rest Of the suppressors, viii take
the stump now, Of course, after Brief
, respite, and they will make the OBJ
scure stu more dark by their sophs-
tries But the party in this section,
and apparently in the Northwest where
, the beet sugar revolt has shown itself
/ so strong, is going to rely for n time
, on the speeches Of the checkmated
! President, as he whiska and scoots
/ from one state to another, looking az.
: ter the Congressional campaign, and
perhaps making matters worse by his
harmonizing speeches, as Cleveland
and Fill and CASTOR did in their New
York flasco the other day. The school
boy when asked to define the equator
: portrayed the coming journeys of Mr.
: Roosevelt when he said 1t was "a
menagerle lion running round be.
tween the north and the south" That
is not exactly the administration view
), that was expressed by the Sudbury
schoolboy many years ago, who at the
examination for which he had beer
carefully drilled with prepared ques
=. tions, like the army officers under
Roots monitorial system, received this
question as his share: What do tn,
I works Of creation display?' Ans. IN
a n loud and rapid tone): Wisdom an
), goodness " the equator!' The wisdom
4 and goodness of our equatorial presi
e dent, walking an imaginary tight.rop,
q between the low tariff and the higl
tariff poles, may hold out during thes
swift'speeding Journeys from Ohio I,
: Michigan, from Chicago to Milwaukee
u from indianapolis to Kansas City, etc
10 But the chances are that the wise ant
! good equator may turn Out an incens
u ed menagerie lion-especially II tn
u decendants OF Hercules in the suga
beet states, who have brought th
v lion once TO bay, should adyanc
a against him in their own country, an
i ask him inconvenient questions.
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