Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-25
FOES OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Jealous Efforts of Knockers to stam-
pede the People.
New York Tribune.

New AOGk lTlpune.
The gentlemen in and out of congress
who rank themselves among the presidents
enemies certainly cannot complain OF
newspaper conspiracy to suppress them.
A 'venal and licentious press is generally
to blame for all lost causes. Mr.. Bryan
used to feel that that was the trouble
with him, and almost every reformer who
fails 20 attract attention Is convinced that
a newspaper conspiracy is acting as
bushel to hide his light. Not so with the
anti-administration insurgents" They
have been heralded far ami wide and their
number and Importance proclaimed so
loudly that foreign reader might have
thought that the president was about to
be driven from the White House, or at
best left TO sit there in lonely impotence
for the next three years. Even some
usually rather unimpressionable Americans
may have been disturbed by the direful
predictions which our contemporaries have
spread before them. The little boy who
saw 100 cats In the barn which on in
vestigation proved TO be old Tabby and
her one kitten was quite outdone by GER
tain jealous Washington correspondents
and by their moralizing editors
Headlines told us how the Philippine bill
was doomed The insurgents had Speaker
Cannon whipped to custard. and II was
not Mr.. Cannon they were really after.
hut the president. and they were going to
defeat the bill outright or transform it by
amendment just because It was an admin
istration measure. Well! They voted on
the question Tuesday and now the head
lines talk about the revolts collapse
Washington dispatches a few days ago
announced that the senate was going to
rebuke the president for making unfit
nominations. Judge Atkinson of West Vir-
ginia was I'm particular marked for slaugh-
Ter. Ii was plain as the nose on your
face that the senate wouldn't stand for
anything like that II not to be
thought OF. The president had gone quite
too far. The confirming power would teach
him his place. And IL did. The papers
! reported that the senate in executive ses-
sion, on the report OF the appropriate
committee, had confirmed Judge Atkinson
/ as a member of the court OF claims. An
! evening paper in this city announced that
the president had hardly friend or de-
: fender in either branch of congress, and
/ in an adjoining column reported Senator
| Ha!es spirited rebuke Of Senator Tillmsn
! for his unmannererly abuse of the presi-
dent. Certainly -Rooseveltism does not
lack for publicity or prophecy.
The statehood bill, the Philippine tariff
| in the senate. rate legislation. the Santo
Domingo treaty and pending nominations
! are still heralded as rocks on which the
administration Is sure TO be wrecked. Per-
| haps they are, but the cry of the wolf
leaves us unmoved. such is the power OF
habit. When we think how Mr.. Cleveland
was lauded for being az odds with con-
gress and how' the same critics sneered
! daily at Mr.. Mckinley for being friendly
with congress we cannot take seriously
the solemn lectures which they now ad-
dress TO Mr.. Roosevelt for not following
the example OF Mr.. Mckinley and their
predictions that the republican party is
going to the everlasting bow-wows as the
result OF a tremendous congressional re-
volt which every test vote postpones to
| future occasion.