The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-20

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try was not necessary for the WE'LL
being Of line Cuban Republic, aud that
it would not enhance the prosperity
Of the Island Republic one whit. lie
said further. that the reductions in
the tariff were not sufficient to help
the Cutans and were designed solely
in the interest of the great trusts OF
this country; and especially the sugar
trust. This corroborateS what the
democrats charged in their campaign
book last fall, and indorSeS the action
Ct the democrats in the first session Of
the Fifty-seventh Congress in knock
ing off theditferential onretined 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 Il patriotic Cuban will
strengthen the hands of the demo-
Gratis in the Senate at this special SEES
sion in. their determination to fight
the Cuban reciprocity treaty, not
alone on the ground Of its constitu-
tionality, but also on the ground that
it is solely in the interest of the
trusts. 1t is the general consensus of
opinion here that the Cuban reciproc.
ity treaty is doomed.
Everybody here is talking of the
latest great cartoon by Homer Daven-
port, which appeared in last Sundays
New York American. 1t dealt with
The changes and alleged improve
ments in the White House which
were made last summer at the enor-
nous cost of 5000, 900, and which, in
the opinion of many, have forever
spoiltethe appearance of the historic
old building both inside and out.
Mr.. Davenport's cartoon showed the
new state dining room. Arranged
around the walls, instead of the pic
lures of former presidents and their
ladies, are a number of specimens of
the taXidermist's art in the shape Of
bear heads. elk heads, moose, heads.
alligator heads, etc, and the only oc-
cupants of the DON are a number of
the human species who hail originally
from darkest Africa. Down in the
corner OF the page is another picture
showing the portraits of Washington
and Lincoln, and underneath the
words; "a few pieces of rubbish in
the basement" In another corner
is the picture of the presentoccupantof
the White House dressed in his rough
rider suit of khaki and it is about the
only picture of a president of the
United States that greets the Y Of
the visitor to the White House nova
days unless he makes diligent search
in the basement o. the out-of-the-way
places in the building. This cartoon
is true to nature and speaks in thun-
der tones of the colossal egotism of
the man who now is the President of
the United States. The fact that the
President had removed all the por-
traits from the state dining room and
replaced them with the stuffed heads
OF animals that had at some time
fallen victims to his rifle, was not
generally known even here, until this
picture of Mr.. Davenport came out in
Mr.. Hearst's New York paper, and
people are actually so shocked as
to- make@unkind remarks about it.
But even this innovation, which was
Superinduced by a bad case of the /,
negalocephalitis, is as nothing COM
pared to some Of the extraordinary {
lhlngs INDUCED in by this peculiar (
bizarre gentleman. If the good
people OF the West, where he is said
g be So immensely popular, could
Know the real Roosevelt as he is
Known by the newspaper correspond
'nts OF Washington, they would rap
Oily rearrange their opinions concern
ng him.
Just before the 57th Congress adj
turned, it's requium was sung by
enators Elkins and Warm, both
rdent republicans, in a minor keys,
Ehich differed vastly in tone andl
uality from the "public paeans Of /
congratulations that usually accom-
anies this interesting function. Mol Z
reater Indictment could be returned |
gainst the republican party than !,
hese two Senators presented to the /
of the United States against t
heir own party. The above named /
enators described two great sins the t
epublican Congress had committed; i
rst, deceiving the people by not car j
wing out the promises made in the t
ational platforms of statehood for /
he territories; second, gross extaya- /