Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-11
Concerning Boies Penrose.

'fPenrose has been Barnes champion, and
has displayed heat entirely inexpltcapie
by any personal interest of his In Barnes.
II Penrose should grow lukewarm Barnes
would not be confirmed He Is the only
senator who has displayed any great oe-
gree of enthusiasm In the assistant secre-
tarys cause and he has certainly done
yeoman work for Barnes 1t is he who mas
distributed among senators the evidence
against Mrs. Morris which was coliected
by the police of Washington In Asheviiie
and elsewhere. some OF which has been
branded as false by evidence obtained by
The Washington Evening Star. 1t Is he
who has prevented the summoning OF wilt
nesses favorable to Mrs. Morris. whose
names were submitted by Mr. Tillman The
South Carolinian demanded that they be
summoned. and they would have been but
for Penrose.
'Tf the President should disavow any con-
nection with the boss-made ticket at Har-
risburg Barnes path would become very
rocky. His position is therefore one of deli
cacy Washington Correspondence New
York Times.
In the notifying exhibit OF decadence In
the representation of the great states of the
Union In the United States Senate there is
nothing pitiful the descent in Penn
sylvania from men of the ability and high
character OF James Buchanan and George
NJ Dallas to Boies Penrose. the Shiny boss
of the most corrupt and utterly loathsome
pUHLiCdl EudCHlnc Organization tudt HAS cNoi
existed.
Penrose-coarse and brutal by nature-has
had his thick hide further tanned and
toughened by continuous wallowing up to
his chin in the foul cesspool OF machine
politics in Pennsylvania. 1t is not sur
prising, therefore. that he should gleefully
respond to the crack of the White House
plantation whip. commanding the Senate
to promptly confirm the nomination of
Bouncer Benjamin F. Barnes to be post
master of Washington. The business of
further crushing, humiliating and defam-
ing q greatly wronged woman was most
congenial work for him.
He at once assumed the leadership in the
nasty job. He bullied his squeamish COL
leagues into swallowing the nauseous dose.
grossly insulted the venerable and yenerat-
ed Senator Pettus of Alabama, and show
. cred volume OF vituperative epithets upon
the sympathizers with Mrs. Morris that put
even the rich White House vocabulary COM
pietely out of business.
Now he is laughing in his dirty sleeves
ut the easy manner IN which he has gulled
the President into the delusion that the
rainbow-tinted Harrisburg platform has
any chance of enforcement in the hands
of the Penrose machine. a Penrose state
government, Penrose legislature and Pen
rose himself entrenched In the United
States senatorship for nine years hence.
Platforms. like eggs. are made to be
broken and there never was a more fragile
product than this iridescent Penrose fab
RE -.r -
The Philadelphia Record well says:
The gang have not lost the trick of writ
Ing platforms The last Harrisburg per-
Torrance equals the lamented Quays most
finished Efforts There Is not a thing the
gang ever did that is not stigmatfzed nor
thing II hates to do that Is not prom
ised."
Penrose now has the brazen impudenee to
claim that he has an alliance with the
President by which in payment for his serv-
Ices In OBTAINING Mrs. Morris and securing
the confirmation of Bruiser Barnes he is to
receive the active support of the admins
tration In holding Penroses machine In
power. enabling II to crush out the reform
movement in the republican party and com
pei the return of redeemed Philadelphia
and Pittsburg TO the clutches of the Pen
rose gangl
President Roosevelt. the man of high
Ideals viii. without doubt promptly and
Indignantly repudiate the Penrose fabrica-
ton.