The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-02-26
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our DUN Correspondent.
WAsHINGroN, d. C.. Feb. "a. 1aoa.

more democratic votes when he at
tached his name to the decision up
holding the majority report of the
Schiey Court of Inquiry. This is the
opinion Of many Republicans as well
as Democrats. 6ir. Kooseyelt's clever
dodge in placing responsibility on
dead man-President McKinley-was
far from creditable to him and the de-
served jolly he gave the surviving
Captains who participated in the battle
OF San Juan will blind nobody to the
main fact-that he has denied Schley
the justice for which he asked and to
which he is entitled, and Mr.. Roose-
velt will find that the people will hold
him and his party responsible.
Director Merriam, of the Census Bu-
reau, has a double set of irons in the
fire.. He is after reappointment as the
head of the permanent Census Bureau,
and he is also after the Cabinet port
folio of the new Department of Com
merce and Labor. The salary of the
Director of the Census is S7,5O0 year,
only $500 less than member of the
Cabinet.
Representative Hamilton, of Mich,
was the first Republican who has dared
to come out in the open and make
speech in the House in defense of
trusts. His Republican colleagues
showed him by their hearty congratu-
latiOns that he voiced their sentiments.
Representative Burleson, of Texas,
made speech this week, on Mr.. Roose-
velt's sudden change of attitude toward
the trusts, that was q cOrker, because
1t bristled with truths that no Republi-
can can answer. He started by quot
ing Mr.. Roosevelt's attack on trusts in
his Minneapolis speech, made when he
was Vice President, in which he said:
eve ehall find it necessary in the fu-
ture to shackle cunning, as in the past
we have shackled force" Of the i'm
preston created by that speech Mr..
Burleson said: ooh, if the strenuous
one could only be given an opportuni-
ty. With his great ability, his keen
insight into actual conditions, with his
honest desire to correct these admitted
evils, with the apparent courage to
utilize his ability for the accomplish
ment OF his desire-the very thought
of it brought cheer to the honest farm
ers of this country; the one class who
never ask special favors at the hands
of this government, but who araatS
present victlmized by the trusts to the
extent of being compelled to pay from
40 to 300 per cent more for their agri-
cultural implements that the same
articles manufactured by the same
concerns can be bought for in the for
eign territory adjoining us on the north
or southwest. The suggestion that
this cunning could be shackled was a
solace and comfort to the mercantile
classes throughout the Middle West
and Southwest, who were struggling un-
der the exactions of powerful and
voracious railroad combine." Mr.. Bur-
leson then quoted the Language Of Mr..
Roosevelts message to Congress in
which he referred to the trust mag
mates as Captains of industry" and
commented upon the sudden and radi-
cal change, and added: ''But this was
not enough, for by wny of making
known his complete surrender, or
rather, to be charitable, Twill say by
way OF evidencing an abandonment of
all hostility on his part, toward trusts,
he has recently named the son of the
captain Of the captains of industry to
speak the humiliation of Republican
America at the coronation of iih En-
peror and King. The trouble in this
case is that the strenuous one, President
Roosevelt, is q Republican, he is. envi-
roned by the Republican party, which
IS directed and controlled by trusts.
This party has looked to trusts and
monopolies 30 long, for support and
assistance, turning it's back upon the
people, that now notwithstanding the
strenuous one, honestly desired ito
shackle cunning when the opportunity
came, these old influences were imme-
diately thrown around him and ao
found himself overcome. He now
knows the power. of trusts, he now
knows their Influence, he has been
taught it by those who surround hin.
He is Republican, his environments
control him. He still wOrships the
green snake. AS have SAID have no
harsh words for him, only pity because
OF the resultant consequences of his
most deplorable surroundings. AS far
as trusts are concerned, henceforth he
Is blind, he cannot see; he is deaf, he
cannot hear"
Representative Cochran. of Mo-, has
received a letter of thanks from COM
mittee of Boer sympathizers, in Brus-
sois, for having offered resolution in
the House to invite President Paul
Kruger to visit this country as the
guest of the government.
Representative Wheeler, of Ky.,