The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-20
WfsHlnnTnH NEWS
SEVERE ARRAIdMnENT OF RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY BY RE-
PUBLICAN SENATOR'S:

No man has received more SINGER
and earnest congratulations OH Iii
recent speech on the race problem
in the Senate of the United State
than has the Hon. Benjamin BE.
Gilman, Of South garplilta,
He did Just what he said he wa!
going to 40 in that speech, viz: h'
surprised his friends and d%isappointet
his enemies; not ouly by his modcr
alton, but 10y the depth and states
manlike utterances he delivered OF
that occasion. 1t vas a speech worthy
Of any statesman OF the present day
and The democratic party will do wei
to make it one of the first and fore
most campaign documents that il
sends out to the thoughtful readers
of the country. Mr.. Tillman has
grown wonderfully in the past two
year in the estimation of his col.
leagues of the Senate. His greatest
strength, however, lies in the know
ledge by everybody who knows him,
of his absolute and answering hon-
esty.
The extra session of the Senate
called by the President for the pur-
pose of ratifying the Cuban and Pan
anna canal treaties has just got down
to work. 1t promises to be a much
longer session than the republicans
intended that it should be, Or rather
wanted it to be. They hoped and be-
lieyed that the democrats would
tamely submit to everything they
proposed and that the session would
not be over two weeks duration.
President 'Teddy'' wanted it that
way for he wants to go bear-hunting
again. this time in the wilds of the
West, and has set Friday, the 9th Of
March, as the day he wants to start.
The chances are they have all reck-
oned without their host, for it is now
believed to be the policy of the demo-
Gratis to fight the Cuban treaty to a
%standstill. 1t is said, by those who
ought to know, that not less than
thirty democratic Senators will make
extended speeches on the Cuban reci-
procity treaty. If they do, it is a
safe bet tnat they will not get away
from here for more than a month,
and perhaps two months. and that
they will have to amend bothtreaties
according to democratic dictation or
they will get neither of them through.
The democrats have their fighting
clothes on now, and you are going to
see some republican fur fly.
~
Some people pretend to attach con-
siderable significance to the fact that
on the reorganization Of the Senate
which occurred on the assembling Of
of this extra session, that the demo-
Gratis elected Senator German, of
Maryland, to the position just vacated
by Senator Jones, of Arkansas, the
craftsmanship of the democratic eau
Gus, which position carries with it
the leadership Of the minority on the
floor of the Senate. Some say that it
is a surrender of the new element Of
the democratic party to the reorgan-
izer element or old line gold wing of
the party. Some say that it is a dis
tinct boom for the democratic nomin-
alton for the presidency. Tt isneither.
The young element of the party Still
controls the steering committee of
the Senate, which maps out the pro-
gram of democratic procedure and )
policy to be pursued, This element :
will work in harmony with Mr.. Gor-
and his friends, but will not be
dictated to by him Or his gold bug
His election was a courtesy j
extended to him as the man who had :
previously held the position with a
signal ability and a compliment to y
and recognition of that ability. He g
is essentially an organizer and an G
adroittactition. He is supposed to be I
the only man on the democratic side e
who a hold down the oleaginous a
and smooth gentleman from Rhode t
Island, Senator Aldrich, the republic [
can leader on the Senate floor. t
:
Everybody is having fun with the :
new Secretary of Commerce and La ),
Dor, the Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou,
than whom there is no ADLER man in !
the present Cabinet. Everybody in !
Congress congratulated the President :,
On the appointment of Mr.. Cortelyou !
because Of his peculiar fitness for the :
position and his wonderful ability dis :,
as Secretary to the President
and then refused to vote him enough.
money to grease the wheels of hisnew :.
Perhaps they Thought !