The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-06-01
WASP" AND TILLMAN
How Chandler and South CarOIinan
Became Friends

1.-The Wasp Of the Senate is
what they used to call William +.
Chandler in the days when he
was one Of the most influential
figures in that body. He is not
in the Senate now, but the de
velopments of the past week
have shown that the wasp has
not lost his sting.
No one who has followed his
career in the five years that have
elapsed since the railroads drove
him out of the Senate doubted
that the wasp preserved his
singing power unimpaired. No
Senator has been more con
tinuously active. more vigorously
intermeddling in public affairs.
Though the fact that he had no
official position tended to keep
him down to Il small space al
lOwance in the daily papers,
Chandler has been fighting just
as necessarily out of Office as he
did when he was in. He has been
in the forefront of all fights to
control or regulate corporations,
especially railroads. His nim-
BILE pen and fertile brain have
been as busy as they ever were.
1t was this which impelIed
President Roosevelt to call him
in as an aid in this railroad rate
fight. He knew he could have
no more sincerely devoted ally
in any fight against railroads.
Chandler had been writing es
says, articles, open letters and
interviews by the ream ever
since he got out of the Senate.
Last year he got into a sharp
controversy with Foraker about
it, which ragged in the newspa-
pers for some time and finished
in the silencing of Foraker.
If this taken to imply that
Chambers fight against the rail
roads was caused by the fact that
the railroads drove him out of
the Senate, then whose implies
this has got the cart before the
horse. The railroads drove him
out of the Senate because he had
been lighting them in the Senate.
Tillman says the origin of his
friendship with Chandler arose
in the fact that in the Senate
they stood shoulder to shoulder
in every fight to control the rail
roads. Chandler fought and beat
the Pooling bill time and time
again. And Tillman and Chand-
Ter together fought the Armor
Trust before the Naval Commit
tee, as they did the railroads be-
fore the Interstate Commerce
Committee.
But what first attracted Till
man to Chandler was an incident
characteristic of both mon. The
Wasp delighted in singing all
Senators who were stingable. 1t
was his keenest joy by some
bland sarcasm to lash II Senator
into fury. Tillman, in his early
Senatorial days, was pie for
Chandler, The Wasp would lie
and wait for hours for a chance
to start Tillman going.
On one such occasion Chandler
had the floor and was ninginr
artfu] darts into Tillman's hide, |
goadlng him continually into
greater fury. Finally the big
Southerner leaped to his feet and
started for Chandler with a face
purple with fury.
Il wish the Senator wouldn't
do that, said Chandler, pettish
ly; he frightens me. :"
Tillman stopped short in his
tracks, transiixed with amaze
nent. The galleries roared
tempestuous!y. Chandler gazed
1t him with mild inquiry. The
South Carolinian returned to his
seat without a word.
When he thought it over it an II
oealed to Tillman S sense of
lumor. After that Chandler |
lever could provoke him and he !
the Wasp's proceedings I
Tlth awe-struck admiration, /
soon they became friends, New <
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