Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-09-11
CRAUNCEY N. DEPEW
AS COMPARED With SENATOR
Mitchell, OF OREGON.
Why MOI Dea! With all Alike! Does
Wealth Control Where Justice
Should, or are the American peO-
pie Given Over TO Wrong Ideas!
So Asks Senator Patterson.

1t is now in order for Chauncey NJ.
Depew to call Senator Thomas NJ. Patter
son to account for breach of senatorial
courtesy, an attack upon the defenders
of national honor" and conduct gener
ally unbecoming one who, pretending to
be patriotic, dares to criticise the meth
DDS and question the motives OF tn Sc
holding high position in the exclusively
patriotic class.
The Denver News, edited by Senator
Patterson, print an interesting editorial
entitled (Which Of These Two?' Sena-
tor Patterson compares the offenses
charged against Mitchell with the oienses
charged against Depew. While not in
the least eXcusing Mitchell, Senator Pat
terson says that he has been "an ex.
ponent of his own views, sycophant to no
power, rugged in the adv ocacy OF right
as he has been given to see the right"
although "at the age of three score and
ten he feels the heavy hand OF the law
for violating a statute prohibiting his
action as an attorney i'll the depart
ments" Senator Patterson says that
Senator Mitchell has been "proof against
all temptations to betray or desert his
convictions (and they were many, with
constituency largely hostile to hi own
opinions, he abated neither jot nor tlttle
OF his views nor of their full and constant
expression. but true to himself, stood Dv
his col0rs and risked retirement for what
he believed to be the interests and well
fare of the nation. Surrounded by OPP
ponents OF his own political faith in
Washington and at home, he always
fought the good fight, and, though he
failed in his purposes, he maintained the
his constituency. In the recent crusade
against some of the despoilers of the
public domain the senator was accused
OF receiving fee of s. 1000 in consdera-
ton OF services to be rendered by him in
the departments for securing and ex-
pediting the acquisition OF title 10 certain
timber lands. GA this charge, and i'll
the face OF long and honorable public
record, he has recently been convicted
whether Justly or unjustly remains to be
determined upon appeal"
Then Senator Patterson compares
NIitcneli'4 record with that OF Depew, OF
whom he says:
"Duling his long career he never had
thought beN Nond or above the interest
OF his adopted family. He never eN
pressed sentiment, however lofty, un-
less it would serve the house oil his
allegiance. a congressional investiga-
ton held years ago exposed some OF his
methods, and but for the immense iuilu.
ence of the Nanderblts would have
beached and stranded him. In the
strenuous times between 1898 and 1900
he deciaimeI eloluently against the
socialism OF the income tax, the Immoral
tendency OF bimetalsm, denCuncing free
coinage as crime against honor and
patriotism and its advocates as degener-
ate Americans. His classic disapproval
Of western heiesies and communstlc
tendenc es has long gladdened the hearts
OF the elect and given reinsurance to the
magnate5 OF eastern finance and monopo-
ly now so seemingly secure IN the pos
session and control OF every department
OF public affairs in state and nation.
Even his opponents have at times been
deluded by his osientatious phafIseeiSm
into the notion nat as senator he had
severed the \anderoI't cable and IN ms
old age was su'dio- uI9 clait on ms own
account away from the tldeS an" sho"'s