Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-05-12


The Democrats poured the hot shot |
into them, grape and canister, SO
hard and so fast that they became
They were ready and
glad to quit and they have left here
with a scare thrown into them as
big as an Iowa barn. They have |
flown to their respective homes with
the conviction firmly fixed in their
minds that they are gone coons in
the fight that is coming of this year
and they are plumb right. III we
can nomi nate the right kind OF q ma
tional ticket they are gone both from
the standpoint of the Executive and
the National House Of Representa-
tives. They are picking out a soft
place TO fall right now. The last
two days Of the life OF this session
Esade the Republicans look like
thirty cents in Chinese money or
Eve cents worth ofdog met. They
were no match for the Democrats
who tackled them. Little Dalzell, Of
Pennsylvania, who reminds you OF
one of these little teter- backed snipe
which runs up and down a sandy
shore, was wiped of the roundearth
once more by one w. Bourke Cock
ran. When Cochran got through
with him the second time be resem-
bled q piece OF rained on edam or ca
membert cheese. He was fiatter than
a pumpkin pie that had fallen from
the top Of the Washington monu-
ment.
The very next day the Hon. John
Sharp Williams, the brilliant floor
leader OF the Democracy, the only
leader we have had since the days Of
Sam Randall and Charlie Crisp, who
is today the Murat OF debate in the
House Of Representatives of the ma
ton, took fall out of Littlefield of
Maine, the verbal cataract of the
Republican side of the House, that
sounded like bad mule takinga fall
ont of a stable door with both hind
feet. He also paid his respects TO
the Hon. John Dalzell. who had, in
his speech, animadverted upon the
foreigner in this country and who
had said that the only hoodlums in
this country were those who had
left the country Of their birth for
heircountry 'sgood. In other words,
there were no hoodlums in this
country except foreign hoOdlums.
Mr.. Williams rung the changes on
this charge and detied the gentleman
from Pennsylvania TO prove that all
the foreign born citizens in this
country were hoodlums, and he re-
minded him Of the fact that the so
called hoodlums OF whom he spoke
had saved the state Of Pennsylvania
from the invasion of the Confederate
armies on the field of Gettysburg
by the charge in that battle of the
69th Pennsylvania Regiment called
Owen s Own" an Irish regiment
that saved the day for the Northern
arms. Mr.. Williams blistered him
for his knownothingism and intole-
rance Of the foreigner who had come
to this country OF his own free will
and who had fought for the princi-
pies Of Democracy ever since. How
do the Germans and the Irish OF the
country who have been voting the
Republican ticket ever since they
got here like to be pilloried by the
leading Republican of the House of
Representatives as hoOdlums and no
goods. as the scum of the earth who
came here for their country's good?
Do they relish it? II so let them
smoke the speech of Dalzell in their
pipes and see how tastes.
$50
Another symptom of alarm on the
part of the Republicans is the ire
pidatiOn with which the hitherto in
vincible Babcock, the chairman OF
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, enters this campaign for the
new House Of the Fifty-ninth Con- /
gress. He practically has admitted
to the leading members of the Re-
publicn side Of the House that they
have no more chance I'd win the next
House than has a one-legged man at
a kicking match. He said he had
warned them that there was ademand
for tariff revision in many of the
sections of this country and that they
had allowed the suggestion to goun-
heeded. He informed them that ii
had cost him thousands of dollars to
be renominated in his district on ac-
count Of the disaffection of the La
Toilette Republicans OF the state of
Wisconsin, and that he doubted
very much If he could be re elected.
Now, the truth is that Babcock is no |
more OF tariff reformer than the |
veriest trust beneficiary of the tar
in schedules in this country, but he |
saw the gathering storm for tariff |
reform and was quick TO get to cover
and warn his colaborers in the tar
in vineyard that something was do |
ing in the country in the way of tar
III revision. He did not do this be
cause he is genuine reformer and
believes in it, but because he saw
that unless he did something of the
kind he would be left at home In his
own district. He is simply a type
Of the Republican opportunist who
veers with every wind and bends to
10 every passing breeze. He notes
that the passing breeze has become
D cyclone and he doubts his ability
10 stem the hurricane OF ballots that
will fall his way in this next cleo
lion.
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The ceremonies attendant upon
he opening of the great Worlds
Fair at st. Louis from this end of
he line were conducted in the White
House without a break. Promptly
4 one o'clock or the afternoon of
April Both, the President of the
United States pressed the key of a |
Morse telegraph instrument in the