Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-08

States Senator Penrose the new republican
boss of Pennsylvania, to permit MT. hhoA
to be senator, for Governor Pehnypacker,
who nominally made the appointment. does
not appear to have been considered at al
in the premises. The amazement OF the
people will grow like JOnah's gourd vine
when they learn that Mr.. Prick IS .ne
heaviest stakeholder in the steel trust; that
Mr.. Cassatt is president of the Penhsyl.
vania Railroad Company. which Is one Oh
the defendants in the coal trust suits now
pending. and that Mr. Cameron representa-
the Standard Oil trust and Wall street IN
terests In persuading Boss Penrose 10 let
Mr.. Knox go to the Senate.
Here we have the strange spectacle
the mystifying anomaly-of three OF tne
chief trust magnates In the land securing
the appointment to the Senate of Attorney
General Philander c. Knox. who mas been
exploited far and wide. as the greatest
trust buster on terra firma.
Folks who still dare to thlnk Will DC
forced to one Of two conclusions:
First. either that Mr.. Knox is the only
lawyer in America capable OF conducting
preposterous, for there are hundreds OF
lawyers as able as he ts-and That the
trusts were anxious to get him out OF the
Attorney Generals Office because they rear
him more than they do any other human .,,n.
crusade has been a bunco game from the
beginning. and that Messrs. Frick. Cassat.
and Cameron. together with those whom
they represent procured Tor MIN 'he sena
torship as reward for favors aireaoy
rendered the trusts secretly while In the
cabinet and to be hereafter rendered III
the Senate.
According to the press reports. president
Roosevelt stood by conserving to the trans
fer of Knox from the cabinet to the Senate,
lust as Paul stood by consentfng to the
stoning of Stephen. One paper says: Ihe
President is greatly pleased that Mr. Knox
will accept the position. winch LOOKS hAe
he is glad to be rid of him.
Wall Street and the President.
'sHere is another straw: 1t has been told
in Cath and proclaimed in the streets OF
Askalon by the Roosevelt shouters for 10
these many months that the trust mag
nates-especially those whose habitat lair
is Wall street-are bitterly opposed to the
President.
"A change appears to have come Ger the
spirit of their dream, if Hon. Francis b..
Loomis. assistant secretary of state. can be
believed That iiiustrious public .functionary
recently swung around the circle in New
York and elsewhere to survey the situa-
ton Upon his return to Washington he
delivered himself of an interview, In which,
inter ALA, he says:
on Wall street chatting with many repre-
sentatives of the financial interests. and L
find that there is no longer any disposition
to make fight And in accepting the stu
alton the 1eeunS lOWdTu NIL iNooocN Cit
seems to have undergone change. and L
heard many friendly comments. | confess
I was surprised at the extent of this
change.
YES. indeed the feeling toward Mr..
Roosevelt seems to have undergone
change-among the Wall street trust mag
Mates and Brother LOOMS heard many
friendly comments by the aforesaid trust
m nag; o,s ala NIT ,o,o,sa,. 70 On
eager and inquisitive world the reasons why
Wall street feeling has undergone such a
change as to cause Wall street magnateS
who were erstwhile abusing the President
menace to the republic to make
friendly comments upon him now.
Has the President changed his views, or
have the trust magnates changed theirs?
plain people cannot be blamed for being
bewildered by all this Kaleidoscope per-
fOrmance They cannot be censured be-
cause by an old process they figure 1t out
that two and two make four. and that the
transfer of Mr. Knox from cabinet to
Senate al the behest of MeSsrs. Prick Cas-
Satt and Cameron taken in connection with
the change of feeling in Wall street in
favor of the President has a sinister mean
ing
The trust magnates who secured the
senatorial toga for Mr.. Knox since they
have established the entente cordial with
that famous trust buster ought to compel
the young, rufffanly scions Of great trust
houses who some time ago insuited and as
saulted Mr.. Knox in public restaurant to
go down on their knees and make to him
the amende honorable. Then all will be
ioveiy-away the trust and trust buster"