Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-05-18


candidate for the spcakership, for h
would undoubtly be very popular maj
! with all the new and incoming democrat
e ic members. So far there hasbeen only
I one man suggested for the chairslanshiI
! OF the next democratic congressional
committee so far as l know, and that il
the Hon. James NJ. Griggs, o. Georgia
| who was the chairman Of the committee
in 1902, when he won eighteen seats
, from the redOubtable Bahcosk, chair
man OF the republican committee, and
did it without money, which tie repub-
lcans had i'll profusion. i Grigge
should be the next chairman and the peo-
pie OF the country should conclude that
they can expect nothing from the repub-
licans in the way of railway rate legisla-
tion and lot OF other reforms they are
Tow asking and hoping for, and he should
turn the trick he would be a formidable
candidate for the speaker9hip.
Mr.. Williams leadership in the next
two years may so strengthen HIM, how
ever, that it would be useless for any
man to run against him, or the opposite
| may occur, for things happen quickly in
the life of a politician here in Washing
ton. A man may do something in one
day that either will make or mar him as
the leader of his party on the floor of
the house or in the councils Of his party
outside of it.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Williams can
be elected to the senate when the time
comes, for he is beloved in his home
state, and the question is whether he
would want to be speaker and make a
fight for it when he has cinch on the
scnatorship. The whole question will
hinge on the result of the next congress-
ional election.
The defeat OF the Steavens Committee
gas bill before the New York Legisla-
ture, which precludes the possibility OF
the people of the city of New York get
ting cheaper gas is the opening gun in
the fight in that great municipality for
the public ownership of public utilities,
and it will go a great way toward VIM
ming the battle for public ownership.
The people are getting sick and tired of
the way the gas ard other monopoIies
are daily robbing them, and they are
going to have something to say in the
next municipal election about taking
over these utilities and owning them so
that they can regulate the price they are
to pay. The defeat OF cheap
gas in the New York Legislature was
iue entirely to the work OF the gas
rust and its money, and the papers OF
that city are openly charging bribery,
the American and Journal,
by the Hon. William Ran |
1olph Hearst, and there is no indication |
hat any one of the papers is going to !
'e sued for libel in order that the charge |
nay be aired in court and proved. This |
gives Mr.. Hearst great weapon to use |
n his fight for the municipal ownership |
II all public utilities in the city OF New |
7 forl1, and it puts Tammy in bad light. |
Mayor Mcclellan has come |
,ut in a statement wondering why demo- !
rats in the state legislature voted !
Igainst cheap gas, it is charged |
md known that the leader OF |
Fanny Hall directed some of the votes
hat way and that some of the Tammy |
eaders made as much as one hundred
housand dollars or the stock exchange |
~ purchasing gas stock the day before
he deal was pulled off. simply because
hey had foreknowledge of what was
oming off when the deal was consum-
mated at Albany, the state capital.
If any man thinks William r. Hearst
3 not going to use this weapon IN the
ampaign this fall to the detriment OF
Tammany, then they do not know the
nan. My prediction is that he will win
IS great victory in New York as he
lid in the city Of Chicago. He is ever
in earnest and he is not can
lidate for any Office on the face of the
arth. He is working now in the inter-
st of the people.
The great common people are coming
o understand him and his methods, and
hey are going to follow him. He is the
,est hated man in some sections that
here is in the country, simply because
le is the most thoroughly misunderstood
nan. He nowis defying the cormorants
n New York and they are gnashing
heir teeth in impotent rage because
hey cannot either buy him or scare him.
Party lines are absolutely obliterated in
his municipal ownership fight over
here, and the party that gets in the
way is going to get run over and hurt.
Mark that we'll.
Heroes who refuse to resign under fire
are numerous. Paul Morton, secretary
If the,navy, may be said to lead the
glorious roll. In spite of the unpleasant
'evelations concerning rebates granted /
oy the Sante Fe, when he was a high
officer of that railroad, he gallantly
sticks to his post, ready to do or die in
he cause of honesty in railway opera
ion. Policy holders of the Equitable,
dissatified with the whole
OF the society, are calling
aloud to president James W. Alexander
end vice presidents James Hazen Hyde |
md Gage E. Tarbell to stand not upon |
he order of,their going. But all three
lrmly refuse. The latest recruit to this
noble army is no less a person that JUS
ice Warren B. Hooker OF New York.
Il will not resign," he declared with
emphasis. In spite of the unanimous
'eport OF the assembly judiciary COM
niutee that he is immoral, corrupt, and
unfit for the bench, he will
light to the last for the privilege of re-
mining an ornament to the legar pro-
e5sion. Rats!
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.