Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-03-19
Special Correspondence Of Me Beacon.

Special Correspondence Of The Beacon.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1903
No man has received more sincere
and earnest congratulations on his
recent speech on the race problem in
the Senate of the United States than
has the Hon. Benjamin Riley Till
man, of South Carolina.
He did just what he said he was
going to do in that speech, viz he
surprised his friends and disappoint-
ted his enemies, not only by his
moderation, but by the depth and
statesmanlike utterances he deliver
ed on that occasion. 1t was a
speech worthy of any statesman of
the present day, and the democratic
party will do well to make it one
of the first and foremost campaign
documents that it sends out TO the
thoughtful readers Of the country.
Mr.. Tilman has grown wonderfully
in the past two years in the estima
ton of his colleagues of the Senate.
His greatest strength, however, lies
in the knowledge by everybody who
knows him, of his absolute and un-
swerving honesty.
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Just before the 57th Congress
adjourned, it's requeum was sung by
Senator's Elkins and Warren, both
ardent republicans, in a minor key,
which differed vastly in tone and
quality from the public paeans Of
congratulations" thatusuallyacc
panies this interesting function.
No greater Indictment could be
returned against the republican
party than these two Senators pre-
scented to the people Of the United
States against their own party
The above named Senators describ-
ed two great sins the republican,
Congress had committed, first de
ceiving the people by not carrying
out the promises made in the nation
al platforms Of statehood for the
territories; second, gross extrava-
gance with the peoples money
On page 3243 of the Congressional
Record of March 81 is reported the
speech OF Senator Elkius, Of West
Virginia, leader Of the republican
party, who after speaking Of the
important bills that had failed Of
passage, said The republican
party is responsible for this coudi-
ton of affairs which is so unfortun-
ate for it and the country at this
time. Early in the beginning OF
this session a majority Of the rcpub
lican members Of the Senate deter
mined TO defeat the statehood bill,
and to this end adopted a program
which involved, first, a viola
tion of the pledges made in the
platform of their party in three ma
tional conventions, binding the party
to admit the territories ofOk lahoma,
New Mexico and Arizona as states
into the Union. This was great
mistake and a great wrong. One
that will come up TO plague us
hereafter. A political party can no
more afford to violate its promises
and pledge than an individual.
Senator Elkins then describes
the wicked flibuster carried on
for fourteen weeks against the ma.
jority OF the Senate and then further
said; 1T was this filibuster that
has led to the death Of the important
bills ! have mentioned, and the
republicans cannot avoid this res.
possibility. 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 Wyo-
ming, makes the other Indictment,
of wasting the money of the people,
and cites large circumstances
y..Sing the expenditure of over
5000, 600 on the White House, and
further said, of over so, 900 for
that diminutive wigwam that defaces
the western side of the White House
grounds, that little wigwam or tepee
whose front yard is mostly a coal
hole and whose best room is the
back yard. This is especially Sc
we're, considering that President
Roosevelt had been given by Con
gress the exclusive charge of all
these White House improvements,
and is responsible for the bills,
which are said to amount to ten times
what the real cost should have
been.
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