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REPUBLICANS RAMPANT.
Party Leaders III A Turmoil Over The
Trust Question N0thing.-but Bad
Feeling on all Sides.
News aud Courier. }

Washington, Feb. 14.--The lead
ora 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 trnst 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. Littlelield, of Maine, is mad,
because, after being allowed to pose
as the Administration leader on this
trust question, he finds himself de-
serted by the President, who has de.
clined to bring the influence of the
Administration to bear upon the
Senate IN behalf of the LittleGeld
bill.
The Senate Republicans are mad
almost to man, because Of the
Presidents action in showing that
they, or some of them, are in conf
dontial correspondence with the mag
nates Of the 81 gigantic Standard Oil
monopoly just at Il time when they
were pretending to enact legislation
to restrict monopolies.
Nopody in the Administration
household is happy. Tho Senate
leaders, who consider it their first
duty to look after the interests of the
big corporations, hold President
Roosevelt responsible for what they
regard uncalIod for agitation inside
the Republican party over the trust
question. They do not hesitate to
express in private their opinion that
the recognized loader Of their party
the man i'll tho White House-is
"yellow." When asked to particu
larize, they say it is not necessary
these days to look further than the
Rooseveltian expose Of tho Standard
Oil kilograms. They do not possess
the flow of language necessary to tell
all they think about that action.
THE WORST FLUKE IN YEARS.
A good many people on tho ont
sldo incline to the opinion that these
eminent Republicans arc not much
out of tho way when they call this
last net of tho President the worst
flake that American politics haa
known III 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 Rockefeller kilograms were given
ont at the White House for tho our
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 objection. That ex
cuse will not hold water for the very
good reason that the provisions of
that Nelson amendment, M it is
called, had been agreed on between
the 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
tho Senate and the House. Thia
Standard Oil "disclosure" was not nj
oil necessary from Legislative
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 tho
connection between Republican Soma
tors and the Standard Oil magnates
ls 30 notorious that the Republican
President has felt impell, to call
attention to it.
If President Roosevelt had an iden
that by stirring up public sentiment
through these disclosures he would
be able to force through that body
some drastic anti trust Legislation.
such ae he was exploiting when he
developed that convenient boil on his
leg, he had counted without his host
The Republicans of the Senate have
made up their minds concerning tbe
trust Legislation thoy will permit this
Congress to enact, and President
Roosevelt has been compelled to ac.
qn'esce in their programme.