Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-04-21
SPEECH THAT
ASTONISHED
THE SENATE
BaiIey'S Address on Rate
BIZ Without Parallel
in History.
SPOKEN OF FOR PRESIDENT
Speaker Cannon Has Bee In
BOnnet.-.Rale BIZ
Made Changes.

Special Correspondence
Washington. d. g.. April lG.-son- |
afor Joseph w. BAILEY OF Texas has
hold Of the center of the stage ln
Washington this week HIg great
speech in the senate Tuesday. and ifa
remarkable climax ln which Senator
Hale of Milne. who divides with Aid
rich the conservative republican lead
erahin. announced hi8 conversion toI
nnllcya contention. has had no parai'
lei M this congress or in amy congress
OF recent years. Ii lg doubtful in-
deed II the senate over before Wit-
messed an episode With IKE dramatic
Interest
AN ihs. naturally las aroused NJ
icfesi In enc man Bailey wen nom.
mate and elect him president De-
clarcd one enthusiastic democrat asa
hour after Balcya speech was done
The enthusiast probably thought bs,-
ter of a by morning.
HE speech OF Tuesday was not r0-
gulrod 10 establish Bailey as one oi
the ahlcgt men in congress and one
OF the proi0undost constitutional lave
yora the nation bias produced. buf e
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of bis friends that Bailey ia yet ripe
for the presidency There are cer-
tain faults in his equipment that first
must bo overcome. Age may overcome
Thorn, and Bailey la young enough Co
wait FOR added years. He recognizes
these faults himself and % frank IN
admitting them.
To express these faults IN cold
/ anguish would be- n dimcult UNDER
taking. probably not possible without
I injustice 30 one Of the few really
great men now Ia public life. Aidoug
those which Senator Bailey himself
admits, however iB intolerance OF
opinions differing from bic own. This
fault So not peculiar io Senator Bailey,
Other great men have pagsesaed o.,
and DC has been Possessed By proal-
dents OF the past But an men will
admit that d ia not o desirable at
tribute in chief executive. and exc
peripnce has demonstrated that 80 is
calculated 20 prove disastrous to tho
administration ~ such n president.
ond harmi0i Co the party which ox-
altcd him.
Theodore Roosevelt was supposed
to possess the same ianh. and hence
the unoag.neaa with which bis olo-
walton t0 the presidency was viewed
hy leaders o. his party. Either The
politicians were mistaken 0r elise Mr.
/ Roosevelt, has very successfully lNpi
his nature under check CorinInlyAho
has given no ovidog 81 OF n disposition
90 Insist upon hiH o. uluns-to an un-
! reasonable extent With the roBpon
sibliilos of the presidency upon his
shoulders, Mr. Bailey mlght yuccced
ln curhlnG this admitted fault. bat
his nature Do much moro lcrVld and
imprisoned than even inst 0f the
lHronuols president
There iB another aldo 20 Senator
naiiey'a character which might NOT be
so possible OF ofiacomont 10 was
manifest When he made q physical at-
tack in The senate chamber ON Sen.
laior Boyerldgo OF indiana. Senator
Bailey bclioyOd, and no doubt ailll be-
liovcs. that he was iuthoa IN tLal
assault but 81 has been q matter 81
koenost rogrUt TO himself and friends
u Viii require many years to live
down the momoy OF a. and should
he ever become q candidate for tht
ipyesidoncy V d. bound 20 bo used
against him Ia the old south. in ths
days before Che war. men settled thoii
, differences according 90 the code. and
public opinion approved There noyel
was n timo when nst lights met The
approval uf American public opinion
and ths fact So thai a man eagaeod So
one would make q rich mnfaol Tor hii
, political foes should d. 20 before ths
, country as q candidate Tor president
That there 81 hope that ugo wii
overcome some Of Senator hailoy'i
faults 81 demonstrated by the past
The FIRST the c0uuIry ever heard o
Bailey WIS, when, as a young con-
. grCgaman from Texas. be declare.
thai never. never would he don even.
ing clothes; meaning. of course. ihs
spike tail and che broad exnauao 0
white shirt front The Texan was moi
long in seeing lte error uf his way
and nov De appears unhlnHhinly in tht
universally recognized evening" snrf
of gentlemen Senator nailoys youth.
ful radiCalsm ls not recalled here %
. ans attempt no di7pafagement 90 is Q.
. his credit that finding himself in fhi
WRONG De- admitted o. Nor waa hi'
boglsh stand greatly t0 ho wondered
at Hc bad come io Washington az
fhn representative in congress ~ thl
. plain people of Texas. lo whom even
lng dress was a symbol of plni0cracy
4 |Icr1a has progressed since then. and
np doubt there are scores OF spike
tailed coats in fh0 district Whlci
Bailey formerly represented in ihl
lower house.