Sunday Washington globe., 1902-05-11
Assistant Republicans.

hsslstAnt AhtpWDAlCAus.
There are unmistakabIe indications that
those so-called Democratic Senators and
Representatives who have been lying down
before Roosevelts administration for the
sake of the small SOP of government
patronage he has been throwing them, will
soon have to take a back seat in the coun
ellis of that Democracy which they have
been betraying for an impecunious mess Of
pottage.
The Rough Riders foxy policy is to throw
them a few small places for the more
hungry of their constituents, very much as
he would throw bone to troublesome
dog to quiet him and thus buy them up at
a very cheap price. These few mercenaries,
and let us be thankful that the party is in.
tested with but few of them, have not been
sagaeious enough to notice the signs Of the
rising storm that will quickly envelope
them and sweep them to well deserved
outer darkness and obscurity.
The little opiate of Republican patronage
with which they have been bought has
luiled them to pleasant dreams which will
ere long be converted into an exceedingly
unpleasant nightmare, and it will convince
even these sleepy victims of a penny's
worth of official dope, that they have paid
too much for their whistle.
Several Southern Senators and Repre-
sentstives, called Democrats by courtesy,
have been the worst offenders in this re-
spect. They have submitted to coutemptu-
Gus treatment by the administration, for
the sake of few crumbs Of patronage,
and often when representatives Of the press
Of the country have sought interviews with
them to get their views on current public
questions, they have refused to give out
word for fear of offending a Republican
President and thus having their little
periodical ration Of official sop cut of.
A prominent Southern Senator is the
latest offender in ,his matter and he now
bids fair to be more prominent as a triAing
appurtenance to the tail of Roosevelt's dis
the great Democratic state from which he
halls and to which he will return in dis
grace unless he quickly mends his ways.
He will be conspicuous enough, but it
will be the conspicuousness of a very small
streamer floating on the uplifted tail of re-
publicanism. Recently when this dillitante
Democrat wrote to one of the departments
for certain information needed in legisla-
ton, his letter was treated with contemptu.
Gus silence, not even an acknowledgment
Of tes ~acof,t kas4rr o.srrae
Yet this man who has been honored with
the dignity of a Senatorship by the confd-
ing Democracy of a great state, swallowed
the insult without a whimper by reason of
his procliyities as an assistant Republican.
The administration knew it had bought him
for very cheap mess Of pottage, and that
it was useless to waste even few minutes
time of a fourth-class clerk in answering
his letter What will the great people of
the state he pretends to represent think of
this supreme humiliation which their pea
nut peddling Senator has brought upon
them?
The giant Democracy of the country
which can now be seen from all points,
rising up and girding its loins for a hopeful
struggle, with victory in plain sight, owes
it to itself TO give out the names Of these
recreants and traders who infest its rear.
Let them be sent over the lines to the
enemy where they belong. and let men that
are leal and true come forward to the
ranks.
This is not the time nor the occasion to
temporize with double dealers and small
fry political suffers who seek to be fed and
supported by the Democratic party while
they keep up huckster-like peanut traffic
with the enemy
These parasitic camp followers would do
we'll to skurry of the field, before the i'm.
I pending grand sweep of Democratic cavalry
that will soon astonish their dope -beclOuded
I apology for brains. The first duty Of those
at the helm Of the Democratic ship is to
clear it Of the obstructing barnacles that in.
| fest its keel.