Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03
GUERILLA WARFARE ON THE
PRESIDENT.

from some OF the most influential ana |
best edited newspapers of the coun-
try:
ut is plain" says the New Orleans
Picayune (Dem), that something is
going to happen in our national poll
tics, but just what it is and when we
are not yet clear" Nobody seems to
be quite clear what the upshot will
be of the instruction" against the
president in the Republican ranks OF
the House and the bellicose attitude
of the Senate. The press of the coun
try comment variously but the ma
jority of papers seem to feel certain
that the presidents popularity is too
great for the guerillas to overcome,
and that in the end their missiles will
prove boomerangs. The New York
Evening Mail (Rep.) represents a
goodly body of opinion in its rather
bitter observation:
"The real seat of the difficulty lies
in the fact that the Congress of the
United States persists in regarding it.
self as a spoils body-as an Office
broking agency; that it thinks, first of
all, of the official patronage, and only
second of the legislative function for
which 1t was really created. Con-
gress Is not intent upon broad ques
lions of national policy in this struggle
which is now going on in Washington
The real points of difference are not
discussed in the debates over the
measures which are the nominal bone
of contention. Senators and repre-
sentatives cannot bring these matters
out Can Mr.. Foraker stand up in the
nd Ioi, 10
president has not appointed his man
as consul at Glasgow? Can Senator
Alger complain because a favorite of
his has been passed over in the ap-
pointment of postmaster for Detroit?
Can Representative Overstreet, of In
diana, confess that he joints the in
surgents' because his local slate has
been broken?"
The Mail goes on to predict that
the people will not tolerate condi-
ton little short of anarchy" The
New York Sun Qnd.) believes the re-
cent reform movement in politics has
something to do with the broken party
discipline, but cannot help feeling
that so far as concerns the president,
'he is too energetic, powerful, above
all too popular, to cease to be the head
of the table," In another editorial the
Sun holds that the insurgents "have
a perfect right to insurge." The Kan
sas City Times (Dem.), on the other
hand, ominously remarks that "the
House, which has kept its skirts pref
ty clean for a considerable time, Is
getting into the mud" and in the opin-
ion of the Kansas City Star Oem.)
those insurgents ''are in a mighty bad
light as they stand at present"
The New York Times Dem.) is dis
posed to blame the president for all
the trouble. 1t says:
"Mr Babcock is looked upon as the
leader of the insurrectionists. Germs
of opposition to the presidents mea-
sures have developed in other quar-
tiers, too, and the president seems to
take a fierce delight in watering them,
in tending them, and in promoting
their growth.
For instance, when the Missouri
delegation at his request waited upon
him on Friday in order that he might
labor to overcome their hostility to
the Statehood and Philippine tariff
bills, he is said to have made the
charge that the railroad and mining
interests were using money to de.
feat this BILL adding, and some Of
the insurgents are getting it, You
can tell Babcock l said So
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