The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
The Democrats Stana Pat for The
Omnibus Elil.
Senate and President at LosSsrheads
for Political Effect.

From present ~lndlcatiOnS III seems
as though the master hand of Matthew
Stanley Quay has SO stacked the cards
in the Senate that the omnibus state
hood bill will win and the territories
of Oklahoma, New exicoand Arizona
will come into their own. If he does
win it will be a signal victory won
over the tiercest opposition, not only
of nearly all the republican senators
but the president as we'll. 1t is well
known here that the president is OPP
posed to the bill becoming a law and
it is even rumored that if the bill
should pass lie will veto it. That
shows some more of the republican
hypocrisy. They advocated the adj
mission of these territories into the
Union as states in their platform of
1900 without qualification and then
when the time comes, because there
are liable to be some democratic sem
ators from one or two Of the new
states, they go back deliberately on
all their promises. II the bin does
pass aud the President has not enough
nerve to veto 1t, then the man In
either Of those new states who votes
the republican ticket willdeliberately
stultify himself. If they fail to get
statehood it will be the fault of the
republican party and the present re-
publican administration. II they do
get it they can thank the democratic
party in the senate which is standing
loyalty to the interests Of those people
and trying to give them local self
government. If they then fail to
give the democratic party that sup
port which it's friendship for them
and their dearest interests clearly
entitle it, they will be guilty of the
basest ingratitude.
This statehood fight is a very pretty
battle as it stands now. The leaders
in the fight are Senator Quay for the
passage of the bill, and Senator Bey-
eridge, OF Indiana, against it. 1t
really is amusing to watch the old
political leader from Pennsylvania
who is the hero of many hard fought
parliamentary battle, play with the
p%recOcious youngster from Indiana as
a cat plays with a mouse. He lets
him run a certain distance and then
checks him. 1t is the master hand
in politics playing with the novice
and before the battle is over, Mr..
Beyeridge will, know more than he
did when he entered it.
1t is an open secret here that many
Of the republican senators who are
assisting Mr.. Quay in his fight for the
statehood bill are really not in sym
pathy with it, but that they are using
it to keep back any legislation at this
session on the trust question, also to
delay or defeat the ratification of the
Cuban reciprocity treaty. The beet
sugar people are against the treaty,
but some of them cannot afford to 20
against the administration in case
the treaty should come to a vote and
they are using the statehood bill to
delay the game hoping thai the SEES
sion may end without action on the
treaty. There are others who are
against any action on the trust ques-
ton, but they know that fthe matter
should come to a vote for some sort of
an anti-trust bill in order to make
good their campaign vociferation
against trusts, even though it be only
a stuffed club with which. to hit tile
trusts, and every bill suggested so
far by the republican leaders is of
that nature. There would be very
little opposition to them on the part
OF The trusts because they (the trusts
know they cannot be hurt by anything
the republicans have offered as a
remedy for the evil, but the republi-
cans do not want to do anything at
all in that line if they can help it,
and, therefore, they are using the
statehood bill to soap the track of
antitrust legislation.
WORDS NOT BACKED BY DEEDS.
The good old game of anti-trust
bluff is INDUCED in daily by the re-
publicans at both ends Of Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. It is both harmless
and amusing to those who understand
Go. 2. politics and methods, but it
is played with great vigor and strenu-
oslty by the participants, because
they imagine that a majority Of the
voter are chumps and can be fooled
all the time.
None OF the numerous republicans
VINO have introduced anti-trust bills.
wish any harm to the trusts. Each.
however, is anxious to be seen posing
Us q trust-buster, and each is irving
TO steal anti-trust thunder from the.
others. Hoar, Elkins, Littlefield.
Jenkins, Knox and the President are.
the game. The President. backed
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