The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-27
WASHINGTON VIEWS
VARIOUS PRESIDENTIAL GAN.
DlDATE BOGMS
WILLlAn RANDOLPH HEARST
CO1r1ENDED

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
COnr1ENDED
Since the ways that, arc dark and
the tricks that are vain as praciiced
by the trusts of the county have been
exposed by William Randolph Hearst,
by the publication of the telegram
seut by Rockefeller.'S man, Arcl,bold,
to Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, of
Pennsylvania, the word outrage has
come into common use in the capital
of the nation. The word means the
same thing when used by all, but it is
used from many different stapdpoints.
The President thinks it an outrage
that anybody should send Senators of
the United States d telegram to in
fluence legislation that is aimed al
them.
The Senators think it an outrage
that anybody should have discovered
that a telegram had been sent to an
honorable senator, also an outrage
that any paper should have printed it
thereby bringing that honorable body
into disrepute with the vulgar rabble
and the hoi polloi ofthe country. The
real outrage, however, is that u NUM-
Der of so-called honorable senators of
the United States should have re-
ceived kilograms debating to them
how they should vote on any subject
of legislation, and that, so far, not
n mar has arisen in his place on the
floor of the Senate and mentioned
that fact and demanded an ~investiga-
tion. To this complexion has it come
at last, that a trust magnate can,
with impunity, insult the greatest
deliberatiye body in the world with
out a murmur of protest from that
body or any member thereof. When
will it end. and where will it end?
1t is up to the people. If they like
this sort of thing they car continue
the Republican party in power and
they will get a surfeit of it.
~
Although the House has agreed to
consider the Fowler currency bill at
this session of Congress, it never will
become a law. The edict hath gone
forth from the powers that be, that
the only currency bin that shall be-
come a law at this session is the Aid
rich bill, which is in the nature of a
substitute for the Fowler bill. aud
gives the gold trust and the banks of
the country a tighter cinch on the
people than even the Fowler bill.
They say they intend to push it
through, and | guess they will. They
can do most anv old thing they want
to and the people pay the freight.
This and the Philippine currency bill
will be about all the currency legis-
.lation at this session of Congress.
The democrats, aided by a few repub-
licans whose consciences were not as
good as NV, because they had been
used some, compelled the Republi-
cans in the House to pass a bill giving
to the Philippine Islands the same
curren: ~ as we have in this country.
thus treating them as a part of this
country and not as a colony to ue ex-
plotted and looted; but when the bill
reached the republican Senate they
smashed it aud sent it back to the
House with the same money SYSTEM
as vas originally intended they should
have by the Republican House com.
mittee. In other words, it is a sys-
TEN that will give the exploiters and
hooters the best of it and rob the poor
Filipinos. This is a roit Of rapacity
and the republican slogan is: "What
tell, Bill. what t'ell.n
**
The great Grosvenor, of Ohio, the
mouthpiece of the Mckinley admin
istrations, the member of the com
mittee on rules in the House. through
whose hands go all the legislation,
passed by that body, and who has
been the republican oracle, the Stats.
tician and political prophet and see1
and as Champ Clark calls him the
s'stud bug of arithmetic" has come
to grief. The republican idol is shat.
Tered, and its earth star fed. The
immaculate and w%hite-souled Grosye.
nor has fallen from his altitudinous
perch and he popped like a painted
bladder. He has been caught pulling
trust magnates' legs in the most an
proved and latest fashion. Grosvenor
compiled a book called 1.-THE book Of
the Presidents and he entered into
an arrangement with a book agent to
sell them and in doing SO Grosvenor
wrote letters of introduction for his
man Friday to all the big trust folk
im%portuning them to buy his book
and telling them to make out checks
payable only to his order. OF course
he got returns. He has been for years