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tary Of State Olney is also growing III
favor Recent events helped him, hut
not SO much as they helped Senator
German. After March the Mary
lander will be constantly in the public
eye as leader of the Democrats in the
senate.
There is new Richmond in the
presidential field who is likely to prove
a potent figure in the great tourna-
ment-William Randolph Hearst, edi-
tor and proprietor Of the New York
American ard Journal, of the Chicago
American and of the San Francisco
Examiner. Recently Mr.. Hearst was
elected to congress and Will unques-
tionably be one of the Democratic lead
ers in that body. Mr.. Hearst is young,
but since William Pitt pere gave Sir
Robert Walpole famous skinning it
has not been considered either sin or
a disgrace to be young man. This
particular young man from New York
Is strenuous character and has a
habit of capturing whatever he goes
after Far stranger things have hap
pened than that he will create a great
rafting among the dry bones and walk
away with the capital prize in the po-
litical lottery. He has ideas In his
head-brilliant ideas, practical ideas,
original ideas, beneficent ideas-and is
not afraid to express them. If he
proves to be as successful in politics
as he has been In journalism. he will
be wonder. One good thing about
Mr.. Hearst is that he is Missourian
by lineage and Democrat by inher-
itance. His mother and his father.
Senator George Hearst. are natives of
the district which have the honor to
represent in congress. There are no
better Democrats on earth than the
Missourians Perhaps William Ran.
dolph Hearst will prove to be the Dem.
ocratic Moses.
Republican Hypocrisy.
At the long session the Republican
majority by brute force unseated James
J. Butler of st. Louis. but did not seat
his Republican opponent. They simply
declared the seat vacant They did
this notwithstanding the fact that after
throwing out every ballot about whose
legality there was the slightest doubt
Butler still lad clear majority Of
about 1900 Butler went home, APP.
pealed to his people and was elected to
both the short and long terms by over
5000 majority. Monday, Dec. 1, lie
was duly sworn i'll. That night he
was served with a notice of contest on
the ground that he was fraEdulent]y
elected. Butler may not be a saint
he does not claim to Debut he is bet.
ter than some Republicans who voted
to Dust him and who most probably
will vote to gust hina- again. This much
is true e every district in the republic
has an indubitable right to elect any
man it desires to represent it in con.
gress provided he is possessed of the
constitutional qualifications. That But.
Ter possesses those qualifications has
never been doubted or denied. He pos
sesses more ability than the average
congressman. But what spectacle
for men and angels the Republicans
present, bowling about corruption and
fraud in elections anywhere or by any
person wllomsoeyer so long as Philadel-
phia remains OIL the mhp-Philadelphia
whose chronic corruption is notorious
and where ii is freely charged that at
the late election the registration lists
We're padded to the extent of 10000!
They are beautiful set to be prating
about the purity of the ballot box!
They ought to extract the beam from
their own eye before talking about the
mote III the eyes of other people. They
robbed Tildcn of the presidency in
1877. They stole two United States
,senatorshrs from. Montana when that
state wds admitted into the Union. 1t
it Widely pe'lesda' that they stole the
governorsliip Of New York 'fro.u Golfer
last month. So far as known, they
have never failcd.to get any office by
fair means or foul that was within
their reach. In kentucky they resort
ed to bold assassination, and their pre-
.eious Governor" Taylor is now fugi-
tive from Justice, yet they prate inces-
sanity OF purity in politics and the
hauEtllp VI tHe UullDt DON,
OF course politics ought to he pure
and the ballot ought to he sacred, II
Butler sinned in these regards. Butler
ought TO suffer the consequences, but
1t is the height OF the preposterous for
Republicans to prate about sweetness
and light until they cease from their
EVIL practices ana make restitution Of
the goods which they have stolen.
Coed Suggestion. |
In certain quarters II Ia suggested
that Hon. Charles Emory Smith OF |
Philadelphia, late postmaster general
of the United States should be elected
senator Of the United States. It Is
inevitable that Republican will be
siected. That being the case. no better
selection could be made in Pennsylva-
MA than Mr.. Smith. He is one Of the
most amiable men who have been 10
high public station in Washington In
he last ten years. He is most bril-.
liant writer aud speakep. He would
i'd renown TO the state which IN the
ong ago sent such men as Albert Gal.
ati1, Jere Black, George M. Dallas
md Governor cprtin to the nations
apital. - ''...H
fbe Message.
President Roosevelt deserves credit
Or one thing at any rate and that Is
hat his annual message is compare.
vely brief. How presidents ever got
into their heads that it was their
ufY to crowd q discnscio,, n4 4I,o ,,ui