The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-27
6bs Nebraska Independent


kins in his late campaign were John w. Gates,
John Lambert, and Isaac Elwood. They are the
barbed wire magnates, and Hopkins has been
closely identified with some of them, or with
members of the family of of them, as
attorney. He is, or has been, close to the beef
trust in all it's operations, and Mr.. Lormer whose
candidate he was, was the appointed champion of
the oleomargarine interests the floor of the
house. Yet Mr.. Hopkins as a member of the
house represented the greatest dairy district in
the United States or the world. How was it in
New York when Mr.. Chauncey Depew re-
elected to the senate? Mr. Hartman, the
biggest railroad man in the world, was with Gov
ernor Ode on every other proposition, but on this
one he was with Mr. Depew. He believed that
Mr. Depew would be more faithful representa-
tive of railroad interests on the floor OF the United
States senate than any other man who possibly
could be chosen. Mr.. John Kean of New Jersey
was reelected senator by reclamation, and 1T is
notorious that New Jersey is owned by the rail-
roads. He celebrated his reelection by introduce
ing railroad bill so avowedy framed in the
interests of the roads that the most un-
blushing advocates of their cause are unwilling
to support it. Senator Elkins of West Virginia
is railroad man himself up to his eyes in rail
roads, and he put through the Elkins bill, which
removed from the interstate commerce law, the
violation of it's provisions. You might 60 through
the whole list and scarcely miss a majority OF
senators whose affiliations with great corpora
lions are particularly close although not neces-
sarily reprehensibe."
To this general indictment the New York
World adds specific count:
.The World tells of the charges made at New
Haven that $150,000 expended in the late
senatorial contest between Mr.. Buckley and Mr.
Fessenden. It asks Where did this huge
ruption fun come FROM? and then adds: 'Bulke-
ley was everywhere known as a railroad lobbyist
and corporation agent Fessenden was reputed
his inferior only in point of success, not in po-
litical methods. Yet when it came to the republi-
can caucus an honest and capable candidate like
Representative Hill received only nine votes
against Bulkeley's 1853 and Fessenden's 70. Con-
neticut had auctioned off Senator Hawley's seat
and the railroad and life insurance interests had
bid it in for Buckley"
The Kansas City Star asserts that "The
United States senate, which is largely owned by
the trusts, stands in the way of effective new
legislation for the regulation Of monopolies and
for the punishment of those who conspire to rob
the people,"
1t is a very remarkable and significant fact
that the senate is Catching it, from all quarters
and from men of all sorts and conditions.
conservative college president in conservative
Massachusetts is one of the last to speak out In
a recent address President Pritchitt of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology said:
THE two things ore so closely interwined
that they not be separated and they operate
today powerfully to limit the number of men
who can enter or who remain in political life.
The senate of the United States is today the most
powerful body in the government of country.
How long would man remain member of that
body who advocated strongly and persistently a
general measure which seemed to conflict with
vested interests?"
The Kansas City Star sums up attempts to
cure the senate evil
''There has long been prevalent sentiment
in favor of popular election of United States SEN
ators. But for years it found merely formal
preston in the constitutional amendment to that
effect which regularly proposed by the house
and defeated by the senate Of late, however this