Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-04-13
Washington Letter.
EBY OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ]


The principal topic of political CONVEX
sation in the national capital at the pres
ent time is the way that President
Roosevelt does things when his desires
are thwarted by the senate. He was stuck
on having that Santo Domingo treaty
fixed up before the senate adjourned it's
extra session, but the senate refused to
do 50, because the democrats stood to-
gether for once in the great flood of years
and baked the scheme to make Uncle
Sam the collecting agent for the debts Of
all the countries and grafters on the face
of the globe. But, as the two polecats
said to one another as the automobile
passed them and they got a whiff OF that
breeze that follows the benZine buggy,
"What's the use?" Nowadays when the
congress of the nation does not do all the
president wants he just goes ahead and
does things to suit himself. They would
not give him the Panama Canal route, so
he went to work and got up revolution
down there, stole a piece of the territory
of the republic of Colombia and fixed up
a government with which he could enter
into treaty.
Now, when the senate refuses to give
him a treaty with Santo Domingo so he
can collect the debts of lot of his polit-
ical friends, he waits until the senate ad-
journs and then fixes the thing his own
way and will send down his own collectors
If the people do not like it wnat are they
going to do about it? AS the late lament
ed Tim Campbell, of New York, once
said to member of congress who refus-
ed to vote for measure because it was
unconstitutional. "What's the consti-
tuition between friends?"
Such things as constitutions are obso-
lete so far as our strenuous president is
| concerned. He simply kicks it out of the
way and goes ahead. Such things in this
country are growing more frequent and
| will continue to do SO, because of the
utter Indifference of the people. Some
| day the republican oligarchy will pull the
whole dadgumn3ed fabric of their ibeT-
| ties from under their feet, and then may
|
notice when it is too late.
There will be very few elections this
year that will attract much attention in
the country as a whole, but two of them
will have something about them that will
attract attention everywhere, at least
they will deserve to do SO, and they are
| the municipal elections in the cities of
Chicago and New York. The Chicago
campaign is on now and the election will
| be held this spring, the New York cleo
tion coming in the fall. Out IN Chicago
now the republicans are fighting the
democratic candidate particularly; they
are fighting progressive democracy as
illustrated IN municipal ownership. 1t is
anything to beat the democratic candi-
date, but municipal ownership is so
popular with the people that there is
! every chance for the democrat TO win. in
| spite of the fact that the republicans
carried the cSty lastfall by about 100, ,OOO
majority. Mr.. Hearst is the man who h as
made the issue in the 5nterest ofthe peo-
pie and in an endeavCr to wrest control
of the franchises in public utilities from
the hands of the looteIs and grafters and
place them in the HANDS of the people.
That is why that gang is SO afraid of
Hearst and why they hate him so cordi-
ally.
The same sort Of figkt is going to come
off in the city OF New York next fall.
where MI. Hears has been fighting the
gas trus. that has 5oen robbing the peo-
pie, ard -aherc he nov lses them on the
Hpn. and,it tbe preset ,i1Ienecratic city