Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-29
LAUGHED AT.
Bryan the Butt Of Ridi-
cuIe for Recent Efforts.
raik Of Fight estwssn Roose-
.vsit and the Senate
Only 4. Plan to Split the Republican
''scs.l. - 80 Party.

washington, March 28.-Recent eff
forts made in certain Democratic quar-
tiers to participate a fight to the mn
ish between the President and the SEN
ate have excited much amusement
among the friends Of the administra-
ton. The purpose of these efforts IS
fully comprehended by the President
and his friends, who see behind them
lIope on the part Of Bryan and MS
kind to reap advantage for themselves
by splitting the Republican party.
"Brvan's object" said friend OF the
President. lis perfectly obvious. He
thinks that by pushing the President
into a night 10 the finish with the SEN
ate HE can claim, in case the senate
holds up all rate legislation ana otner
measures in the same field, that the
President is the only man IN the ne
publican party who represents opposi-
ton to the money power and that since
the President will not be a candidate
again. the only way by which the peo-
pie can accomplish the ENDS Tor Whicn
Roosevelt is striving will be to elect
Bryan. because Bryan is in complete
sympathy with Roosevelt.
"A part OF the scheme" continued
this same gentleman, lis to advocate
Roosevelt's nomination in 1908. in spite
OF his announcement on the night or
election that he would not again be
a candidate. Some recent editorial ut
terances in this direction, in which 1t
Is claimed by Bryans friends that
Roosevelt ought to stand again as a
candidate Of the whole people. have
been received with the ridicule they
deserve by the Presidents friends. who
know that he will not consent to stand
again, and that he carefully framed
his announcement on the night of cleo
ton i'm such a way as to make it de-
clare that he would not only not be a
candidate, but that under no circum-
stances would he accept another NOM
ination. To all persons who have spok-
en- to him since on the subject he has
called attention to the phraseOlogy Of
the announcement and has said that
under no circumstances will he depart
from It,"
On the subject of the trouble with
the Senate, this friend of the President
went on to say. Il think the trouble
between the President and the Senate
has been exaggerated, and l am sure
the Presidents object is to minimize
rather than to emphasize 1t. The
trouble with the Senate is that it is a
helpless body when any work for good
is to be done. Two or three deter
mined senators seem to be able to hold
UP legislation, or at least good legis-
lation, In an astonishing way. The
worst thing the Senate did this year
was the failure to confirm the San Do
mingo treaty. This was due to the
fact that the Democratic party. as
such. went sOlidly against the admin
istration. This, coupled with the alb
sence of certain Republican senators.
made 1t impossible to put through the
treaty.
1.-THE result is that the President is
in a very awkward and unpleasant sit
uetion In his endeavor to keep foreign
powers Off San Domingo. and also in
trying to settle Venezuelan affairs. At
ter most painstaking thought and la
Dor with Root. Taft and Hay as his
chief advisers, the President negotiat-
ed a treaty which would have secured
a really satisfactory settlement from
every standpoint Of the San Domingo
matter. Certain Republican senators
put in amendments which seemed to
justify Democratic criticism and to
make it look as IL they themselves were
adopting an apologize attitude on the
part of the administration. The result
WAS that by narrow margin the Re-
publicans found themselves without
the necessary two-thirds vote in the
Senate to confirm the treaty. Then the
Senate adjourned. leaving the Presi-
dent alone to shoulder all the respon-
sjbility due to their failure.
1.-THE Democratic senator's go away
hoping that disaster will come to the
country because the Republican aa-
ministration has been discredited. The
Republican senators who are respon-
sible for the defeat, not feeling any
sense of the responsibility, and not
thinking about the matter seriously at
all, although they have been declaring
that the Senate is part of the treaty.
making power, go away entirely well
satisfied.
"The President meanwhile has to
take all steps and spend an industrious
summer in the difficult task Of making
diplomatic bricks without straw. che
Senate of the present day ought to feel
that its action on the treaty-makinS
power should be like that of the Pres
ident's veto ovec legislation. In other
words it should be rarely used. and
the presumption should always be
against amendment. Failure to do this
leads to precisely this unfortunate
condition Of affairs which confrOnts
the President In regard to San Domln-
GO"