The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-11-23
give A ROAST OAASS
Some Scathing Comments in the
Recent Elections.
ANENT CORTLEYOU.
The New York Press Contrasts Hi
Treatment by President Roosevelt
With the Defeat Of Congress-.
man Babcock BY tho PEG.
pie of His District.

pie Of His District.
1t ought not, says the New York
Press, to be necessary to use q steam
drill TO drive into tho heads of Rs
publiosns the lesson taught by the
defeat Of Representative Babcook In
Wisconsin. The Press there goes on
to say:
In q district which la normally Re-
publican by several thousands of
votes, and which gives q handsome
plurality to tho victorious, Ropubli-
can candidate for Governor Bahcock
has been beaten for re. election. And
this despite the fact that he was
chairman of the Congress campaign
committee, q powerful member of the
system In the House, and could COM.
mand resources not available to the
ordinary Congress candidate.
Babc0ok was beaten because he was
in partnership with the life insurance
Orators. He took 90, 500 from the
d%espoilers oi the widows and orphans
fund and spent Ii TO maintain that
part Of the Congress machine over
which he was in command in 1904.
The fact was widely published In tho
Armstrong committee testimony. 1t
was familiar to the voters in Bah
cooks district, and 1t overshadoWed
questions Of tariff and trusts and the
like. Nothing counted much in tho
campaign but the incident Of Babcock
taking $500 from McOurdy to
finance the political machine OF which
he was the engineer. The voters Of
the Sd Wisconsin district decided that
o man who would take money which
he knew he had no right to take WAS
not ft to look after their interests or
those of the country, aud thoy have
returned Baboock to private life.
Now, does not the fata of Repro.
sentative Babcock suggest larger
possibilities Of danger to National
RepublioanismP Consider the case
Of Oortelyou. 1t ts like Baboook'a
only worse.
All the yellow dog funds oontri-
buted large sums to Cortelyou, and
he fattened the funds Of the National
Republican committee with them.
BabcCck took cents whore O~ortolyou
Buoh uOllCIDs ouo WIG SOUlOnS vi UuO
two men were Identical in that each
accepted moneys which did not be-
long TO the givers, In that each knew
the contributions did not belong to
those who made them, In that each
concealed the gifts 90 carefully as
the evidence of any felony, and In
that both Cortelyou and Babcock
spent the money in the further de-
bauohery Of American politics.
The similarity in the offences of
the chairman Of the National Repub,
ican committee and the chairman OF
the Republican Congress campaign
committee stops there. 1t Is when
we come to the treatment of the two
men that the big difference occurs.
Representative Baboook, not being
y member Of the Cabinet, but being
In charge OF the Congress campaign
committee, and not daring to face @
canvass Of the country in behalf of a
Republican House with the 80, 500
steal staring the voters In the face,
he Ia retired from the craftsmanship.
Then when he goes back to his dis.
trict for a "~vindication'' the hobnails
Of public opinion are applied vigor.
ously where they will do the most
good. No very high standard of
morals Is required ordinarily for
membership In the House, as is prov
ed by the fact that Baboock could
60 there after he had been caught
8tuffing the mails with ranked postal
matter during railroad weighing
time, and as demonstrated by the
presence in Congress FOR o long time
Of some men who belonged in jail ana
have since either been atarted In that
direction or are already In prison
But the Sd Wisconsin district drew
the line at being represented by q
man who helped MoOurdy to skin the
policy. holders Of the Mutual.
How C~ortelyou was treated for do.
ing on q larger scale what Babcock
did was advertised to the country,
and particularly to tho State Of New
York, o few days before the halloting,
which elected to the Governorahip
the man most instrumental In ex.
posing the partnership of C~ortelyou
and Baboock with the dispensers Of
Yellow Dog funds. For his share
In the dirty business Babcock Is wip.
ed off the map of the system at
Washington. For his part in the
plumber C~ortelyou ia not retired from
his position as Postmaster General,
but Ia raised Of all things to the chair
OF Alexander HamilGon The man
who would spend In o cladestine man
nor trust funds belonging to mona
b0rs Of n POLITICAL party to promote
the fortunes OF another political party
10 not punished but rewarded. And
to aggr8Vate the outrage the reward
to him for his failure to observe com.
mon honesty In tho handling OF other
peoples money is his promotion to
the post whore he is In charge OF the
funds OF the whole uationl
Such 10 the difference between the
treatment Of Babcock by the voters
Of his home district and the treat
ment Of Oortelyou by President
Roosevelt, although the offence com
mitteed by the two mon differed only
In degree, and to that extent the
wrong done by the Cabinet officer Is
creator than the blooding Of the Re.
preventative.
The American people have longed
looked upon the ''yindication" OF
Paul Morton from the self. confessed
charge Of criminal rebating as the
topmost point OF absurdity reached In
American administrative Govern
ment. This height OF folly is scaled
by the promotion OF Secretary Oortel
you to the Treasury, and the fact Ia
all the more 1unhaeiZpd NV fha bant