The Grenada sentinel., 1903-10-03
DISORGANIZED REPUBLICANS
RATS Leaving the Sinking Ship and
No Prophet Can Foretell the
Outcome.


able to agree on what legislation is pec-
essary by the coming congress. Presi-
dent Roosevelt demands that Cuban re-
ciproctty shall be first attended to, and
has declared that he will call an extra
ordinary session of congress for that
purpose.
The republican leaders in the senate
are opposed to reciprocity legislation,
and Senators Aldrich, Platt, Depew,
Hanna, Quay and Spooner have all ad-
v1sed the president not to call an extra
session of congress this fall. and they
are known to be opposed to the presi-
dents policy. The president has de-
clared that such legislation shall pass,
AS sure as fate, and will doubtless send
message to congress recommending
1t. On the necessity for financial legis-
lat1on there is like division of senti-
ment, and even those who desire a
cnange In the law are hopelessly divided
on the scope of the alterations that
should be made. On the trust issue, the
president has declared for publicity.
out Is very slow at putting it in practice,
and majority of the republican leaders
are for letting it alone, so antitrust
legislation will be at a standstill. On
tarln revision the party is more nearly
united, but a minority Of congress that
are being pressed by their constituents.
Will demand that some of the tarifr
scnedules be revised and II no recogni-
uon Is vouchsafed them, declare they
Will carry the fight into the republican
natlonal convention. That this tariff
revision and antitrust element will not
meet with any success, unless they Join
with the democrats. Is perceptible to
the verfest tyro in the political arena.
and most of them are merely playing
that way to fool voters.
Inc Panama canal Is another matter
upon which the republican politicians
are at odds, their leaders in the SEN
ate who are controlled by the transcon-
unental railroad are secretly opposed to
any canal, others favor the NICARAGUA
route, and. in consequence, nothing has
been accomplished.
Ihere Is, however, legislation that the
republicans unite upon with the utmost
celer1ty. They all favor ''the old flag
and an appropriation" and official graft
and loot for themselves and their no.
11t1cal strikers, and they unanimously
agree that the crops would not grow
and hard times would result from DEM
ocratic victory
The republican leaders also pretend
to be unanimous for the nomination of
President Roosevelt. yet more than
half OF them are really opposed to him.
The cohesive power of public plunder
holds them together, but the long-head-
ed ones like Root and Quay know that
the end Is near and are leaving the rat
infested ship. There is a universal
unrest, and even the chief of the
prophets, If in the flesh, could not pre-
dict what the present republican presi-
dent or the coming republican congress
will do. Talk of democratic disorgani-
cation and reorganization, why it is in
f1nitesimal compared to the republican
factional disagreements. Every demo-
crat is united upon opposition to trusts.
upon tariff reform, upon equal taxation
and upon equal rights to all and special
privileges to none, and that Is the win
ming platform.
The Presidents Omissions.
President Roosevelt is not q man to
inspire venomous hatred. He Is too
much of poseur and an opportunist. We
doubt il even Mathew Quay and Thomas
Platt dislike him heartily. In sport he
goes in for big game, bears and mountain
lions and other: large beasts of size and
reputation, but in politics he blazes away
at distractions or confines his fire to pet
ty individuals who can be made a safe
sacrifice on the altar OF public justice.
He resembles the preachers who inveigh
against Pharaoh and the ancient Jews
and never, hguratively or otherwise,
point a bony forehnger' at some men,
ber. of the congregation and say coldly: