The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-17
SIGNIFICANCE OF The
ELEVATION OF
G0RMAN
Not True That it Means Sur
render of New Element of
Democratic Party to Re-
organizers or Boom for
German for Presidential
Nomination.

| Some people pretend to attach consid-
| cradle significance to the fact that on
| the reorganization of the senate, which
| occurred on the assembling Of this ex-
| ira session, the Democrats elected Sen
| ator German, of Maryland, to the posi-
| ton just vacated by Senator Jones, of
| Arkansas, the Craftsmanship Of the
! Democratic caucus, which position
| carries with it the leadership of the mi
nority on the floor of the senate Some
| say that 1t is surrender of the new
| element of the Democratic party to the
| reorganizer element or old line gold
| wing of the party. Some say that it is
| a distinct boom for German for the
| Democratic nomination for the presi
| dency.
1t is neither. The young element of
| the party still controls the steering
| committee of the senate, which maps
| out the programme of Democratic pro-
| cedure and policy to be pursued. This
| element will work in harmony with
| Mr.. German and his friends, but will
| not be dictated to by him or his gold
! bug friends. His election was a cour-
| tesy extended to him as the man who
! had previously held the position with
| signal ability and a compliment to and
recognition of that ability. He is es-
sentially an organizer and an adroit
tactition. He is supposed to be the
only man on the Democratic side who
| can hold down that oleaginous and
| smooth gentleman from Rhode Island,
Senator Aldrich, the Republican leader
on the senate floor.
Investigation Not Wanted.
Everybody is having fun with the
new secretary of commerce and labor
George Bruce Cortelyou, than whom
there is no ADLER man in the present
| cabinet. Everybody in congress con-
graduated the president on the ap
pointment of Mr.. Cortelyou, because
OF his peculiar fitness for the position
and his wonderful ability displayed as
secretary to the president, and then re-
| fused to vote him enough money to
grease the wheels of his new depart
| ment. Perhaps they thought he could
haul his department around in cab
or else put up tent for the summer.
The real reason for this parsimony
was that the new department was de-
signed to have something to do with
the investigation of trusts and the Re-
publicans want as little of that done as
possible. Stick a pin there. -7h
Cuban Cat Out of the Bag.
Senator Sanguilly, of the Cuban SEN
given the whole Cuban reciprocity
snap dead away. In a speech in the
Cuban senate the other day he said
that reciprocity with this country was
not necessary for the we'll being of the
Cuban republic, and that it would not
enhance the prosperity of the island
republic one whit He said further
that the reductions in the tariff were
not sufficient to help the Cubans and
were designed solely in the interest of
the great trusts of this country, and
especially the sugar trust. This cor
roborates what the Democrats charged
In their campaign book last fall, and
1ndorses the action of the Democrats
in the first session of the Fffty-seventh
congress in knocking off the differen-
tlal on refined sugar in the interest of
the consumers of this country, which
the same was promptly restored by a
! Republican senate.
This announcement on the part of a
| patriotic Cuban will strengthen the
hands of the Democrats in the senate
| at this special session in their deter
mination to fight the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, not alone on the ground of it's
constitutionality, but also on the
| ground that it is solely in the interest
of the trusts. 1t is the general con-
| sensus of opinion here that the Cuban
reciprocity treaty is doomed.
Requiem of Congress.
Just before the Fifty-seventh con-
| gress adjourned it's requiem was sung
by Senators Ellkins and Warren, both
kew,
which differed vastly in tone and quail
| ity from the public paeans of con-
! gratulationS" that usually accom-.
panies this interesting function. No
| greater indictment could be returned
! against the Republican party than
! these two senators presented to the
people of the United States against
their own party. The above named
senator's described two great sins the
republican congress had committed,
first deceiying the people by not
| carrying out the promises made in the
national platforms of statehood for
the territories; second, gross extrav-
agance with the peoples money On
! page 3243 of the Congressional Record
of March 8 is reported the speech of
senator EIlkins, of West Virginia, a
| leader of the Republican party. who.
| after speaking of the important bills
that had failed of passage, said:
The Republican party is respon-
sible for this condition of affairs which
! is so unfortunate for it and the coun-
| try at this time. Early in the beginning
| OF this session majority of the Re-
! publican members of the senate de-
! termined to defeat the statehood bill.
and to this end adopted a programme
which involved, first, a violation of the
! pledges made in the platform of their
! party in three national conventions
r1tories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona as states into the Union. This
was a great mistake and a great
wrong. One that will come up to
| plague us hereafter A political party
can no more afford to violate It's prom
ises and pledges than an Individual"
"The Wickedest FiIibuster.v
Senator Ellkins then describes "the
wicked filibuster carried on for four
teen weeks against the majority of the
senate" and then said: ut was this
! filibuster that has led to the death of
| the important bills I have mentioned.
and the Republicans cannot avoid this
responsibility. 1t rests upon them and
| no one else"
On the same day and reported in
the same Congressional Record, on
page 1851, Senator Warren, of Wyom-
| ing, makes the other indictment, of
wasting the money of the people. and
cites large number of instances of
| eXtraVagant appropriations, including
the expenditure Of over $500 600 on the
| White house, and further said. "of
| over $4,000 for that diminutive wig
wan that defaces the western side
| OF the White house grounds, that lit
| tie W1gwam or tepee, whose front ward
| Is mostly coal hole and whose best
| room is the back yard" This is espe-
! cially severe, considering that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had been given by con-
| gresS the exclusive charge of all these
White house improvements, and is re-
| sponsible for the bills, which are said
TO amount to ten times what the real
! cost should have been
Verify, out of thine own mouth shalt
thou be judged.
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