Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-01-12
SENATE THOROUGHLY ROASTED.

From wholesome, breezy Kansas, says
the Washington Post, comes the most
comprehensive a%rraignment we have yet
observed OF the United States senate.
Kansas is not cursed with graft, as is the
cautious East. II is not sicklied Der
with the pale cast Of thought, nor does
it hoard up its words. !. protest that
! would take the fern of u hint or n muir
mur i'll the East, swells and bourgeons
into volcanic outburst i'll Kansas. Ian.
guagc is wider, taller, and OF higher
temperature tb an here. The esteemed
Eldorado Republican, OF Kansas, begins
an editorial on public affairs with this
general statement, which fairly illus
trates Inc hearty manner with which
Kansas grapples with great things.
Every time President Roosevelt
whacks his big stick DOM in n rotten
place III the public service ont pops IA
United States senator"
This brief, condensed sentence has
strength as we'll rs breadth. There is
something in the words "out pops" winch
conveys to the mind a guilty thing-a
weasel, say, detected in the act OF suck.
ing eggs. Any senator ought to feel the
~opprobrium that is an inevitable conse.
quence Of popping out Mt the sound Of
the big stick. The Kansas critic, having
stated his broad general proposition,
goes into particulars:
~When the buZzards begin TO circle
round Il yellow spot in the financial
worlb, and an investigation is started to
find ont what's dead, out pops United
States senator. Every time n stockhold-
er Of a mnneyed concern who believes he
is bci.'g robbed by his fellow graftcrs
kicks the top of the graft, out pops n
United States senator. The first shot
out OF tho box in the Equitable Life ex-
posture was a United States senator.
The first whack OF the big utick on the
land g~rafters in Oregon exposed a
United States senator. The explosion
% Il small bomb under Il ST. Louis get
rich.quick graft nailed IA United States
senator"
III ~ u lllblt hlIhle DllltIl. Inc
editor does not mince words, exactly.
although the result is mincemeat. Tho
crushing character of the infor nation
conveyed IL undcniublc. And the i'm
preston becomes strong that every
United States senator Is Il rascal, Who
"pops' only when discovery ia unavoid.
able, Tho senate is exposed at last in
its toialIty. IL is merely tho gathering
place 81 g:a:."rs. .ho'r "hang ont as it
wero. Senators nave worked theI. game
well, but liz EldUrado Republican has
finally found Their trail, and they are
popping out i'll punches. lilo liz sure OF
more, too, and bands cut n piece OF news
that is extremely interesting:
~Ono random shot ut the Panama
scandal threatened to expose two United
States senators. Tho Tobacco frauds
now being investigated will catch a
United States senator There are but
ninety Of him in al, hnt lie seems
ubiquitous"
That is a good job, thoroughly done.
Tho Post has been accused Of defending
tic senate against reckless, iudiscriui.
late charges, and it is true that this pa.
per has criticised some contemporaries
for their hnplnzard statements. But
tho Eldorado Republican cannot be ac-
cused OF making an indiscriminate at.
tack. 1t has "wharkcd- the scnate with
absolute impnrtillity, and, being IL rc.
publican journal, its criticism is ION.
partisan. Its article leaves nothing 10
be said.