The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-17
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REPUBLICANS RAMPANT.
Party Leaders In A Turmoil Over The
Trust Question NOthing.-but Bad
Feeling Oh all Sides.
(News aud Courier.

W aShlnRtOn, EeD. l4--Iho lead
ers Of the Republican party are in a
turmoil over the trust question.
There is nothing but bad feeling on
all sides. President Roosevelt is
mad, because his boast that Congress
would enact real anti trust legisla.
ton has been foilled by the Senate
leaders, who have forced him to ac-
cept their mush and milk program
in lieu of the more severe legislation
for which he has been contending in
all his talk.
Mr.. Littlefield, of Maine, is mad,
because, after being allowed to pose
rs the Administration leader on this
trust question, he finds himself de-
serted by the President, who has do
clined to bring the influence of the
Administration to bear upon the
Senate IN behalf of the Littlelield
bill.
The Senate Republicans are mad
almost to q man, because of the
Presidents action in showing that
they, or some of them, are in conf
dental correspondence with the mag
mates Of tho & igantic Standard Oil
monopoly just at time when they
were pretending to enact Legislation
to restrict inonopoles.
Nonody in the Administration
household is happy. Tho Senate
leaders, who consider it. their frat
duty to lock after tho interests Of the
big corporations, hold President
Roosevelt responsible for what they
regard unc"ll"d for agitation inside
tn" Republican party over tho trust
question. They do not hesitate to
express in private their opinion that
the recognized loader of their party
tho man III the White House-is
"yellow.' When asked to particu
larzc, they say it is not necessary
these days to look further than the
Rooseveltian expose of the Standard
Oil kilograms. They do not possess
the flow of language necessary to tell
all they think about that action.
THE WORST rI.uKE IN YEARS.
A good many people on tho ont
sldo incline to the opinion that these
eminent Republicans arc not much
ont of the way when they call this
last act of tho President The worst
iinke that American politics has
known i'll years Nobody has yet
been able to fathom the purpose or
reason which inspired this action on
his part. There is some effort to
make 1t appear that the facts about
the Rockfoller kilograms were given
ont at the White House for the pur
pose Of forestalling changes in the
publicity amendment to the depart.
ment OF commerce. bill, to which the
Standard Oil people are reported to
have taken somo objeclion. That OK
cnse will not hold water for the very
good reason that the provisions of
that Nelson amendment. M if 10
called, had been agreed on between
tho confereeS OF the Senate and the
House before all this came ont, and
there was no possible doubt of these
provisions being accepted by both
the Senate and the House. This
Standard Oil "disclosure" was not Mt
al necessary from Il leeislative
standpoint, nor was it valuable from
any standpoint save that of the
Democrats, who will be able to mako
good capital out Of the fact that tbe
connection between Republican Soma.
tors and tn" Standard Oil magnate es
Is 10 notorious that the Republican
President has felt impelled to call
attention to it.
IL President Roosevelt had an idea
tn"t by stirring up public sentiment
through these disclosures he would
be able to force through that body
some drastic anti trust Legislation
such AZ he was exploiting when he
developed that convenient boil ON bis
leg, he had countod without his host
The Republicans of the Senate bave
made up their minds concerning the
trust Legislation they will permit this
Congress to enact, and President
Roosevelt has been compelled to ac.
qn'"sce in their programme.
WARNED by HANNA AND AI.DRICu.