The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
THE KIND or MEN NEEDED.

The value to the entire country, as well 9
to the party. of having in both branches
of congress representatives of the
minority who are capable of rising to the
great occasion which is presented to
them through the contamination of the
schemes of the imperialists could not
have been better illustrated than it was
during the past week in the senate,
through the newly elected senator from
Texas, Joseph Weldon Bailey
No man on the IGOR, no matter what
his experience in legislative life, what
his age or his recognized abilities as a
lawyer, statesman or orator, could be
accounted the superior of the junior SEN
ator from Texas. Not yet forty years
of age he showed himself the peer OF the
strongest man on the other side of the
chamber His maiden speech revealed
him as a debater of the first rank, and
resulted III the utter discontinue of more
than one of the veterans of that body
who, like Foraker, of Ohio, thought
proper to challenge him in the course Of
the debate.
Senator Bailey it was who, single
handed and alone, accomplished the task
of compelling the majority to recede
from its position that the senate pos
sessed the power to suspend the Sou, a
Carolina senators from the exercise of
their functions, thus depriving the state
of South Carolina of it's constitutional
right to be represented in the proceed
ings Of that body. Not until Bailey had
thoroughly exposed the falsity Of the
position assumed by the president Of the
senate in his ruling was the arbitrary
action of Senator Frye reconsidered, and
Tillman and McLaurin restored to the
exercise of their rights as senators.
The New York hvening Post gave the
entire credit of the reversal of the sus-
pension ruling to Senator Bailey, Of
whom it said editorialIy:
Mr.. Bailey, of Texas on Monday, made
an argument against the claim that the
senate may suspend its members, which
not only demonstrated his ability as a
reasOner, but also impressed the major
lty so strongly that Mr.. Frye the next
cay ordered the names of Tillman and
McLaurin restored to the roll Ha
takes his stand upon the provision Of the
constitution that mo state, without its
consent, shall be deprived of its equal
suffrage in the senate"
The bravest, as well as the ablest. men
the Democracy has ever produced have
come from the South. The spirit of com
mercialism has made fewer inroads in
the South than elsewhere throughout the
country, and it is not only possible but it
is common still to find men of the first
rank in scholarship and intellectual abil-
ity ready in that section to give to the
state the best fruits of their powers
Senator Bailey is one of these. And it
is to such as he that the Democratic
party must look if the country is to be
aroused in the immediate future to the
enormities of the course being pursued
today by the majority in congress- back
ed by a partisan executive.
Under the inspiration of Senator Bailey
there is no doubt but that the senate
minority will give good account of itself
during the present session. 1t behooves
younger men like Representative De
Almond, of Missouri, and others of
recognized ability to put an end to the
innocuous courses pursued in that BODY
thus far by the minority and to profit
by the example set by Senator Bailey.