The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-08-28
SNAKE BIT IT
AND NAN TRIED WHISKEY
ON HIS DOG HSUC-
CESSFUL RESULTS.

ON HIS DOG WITH SUC-
/ CESSFUL RESULTS.
Literature Sent Out by Democratic
Congressional Committee Charg
es That Roosevelt is Play
ing Double With Peo-
pie and Trusts.
\ New Haven. Aug. 1e.-When
,one of George N. Rich's coon dogs
lat East Hampton, encountered yes
Iterday red-eyed adder, one of the
most poisonous snakes found here
about. and the snake fastened his
fangs in the dogs leg, Rich mourn
ed and thought his dog was done
for. But having himself tried sue
ceesfully the whiskey antidote for
snakebites, Rich thought it might
work with equal success On the dog.
He rushed the wounded animal
home and poured whiskey down
him until the dog exhibited lord.
ly jag. The swelled to huge
proportions, but Rich announced to
day that the swelling had subsided
and the favorite dog was on the
road to recovery both from the jag
and the snakebite.
Washington, Aug. 22.-Tne dem
ocratic Congressional campaign
inaugurated tonight a vitriolic
personal attack On the president of
the United States that makes the
philippics of Tillman in his widest
moments as tame as one Of the
Rollo stories by comparison. This
attack investing the present contest
for control of the Goth congress with
a previously unthought.of bitterness
was promulgated through what is
probably one of the most remarkable
. pieces of literature ever emanating
from national political com mittee.
"a faker," "four fusher,' ''the
deepest scheming politician in the
country" ''in collusion with the
truste." These are some of The
quail les attributed to Presid ent
Roosevelt by Charles A Edwards,
secretary of the democratic con-
gres s'onal committee during the
last few campaigns and at present
serving in the came capacity, in a
statement issued this evening from
the committee headquarters in this
city. Mr.. Edwards formerly was
Washington correspondent for a
Texas newspaper.
President Roosevelt's . oj=ction
of himeelf into the congressional
campaign by means of his letter to
Representative James Watson, ol
Indiana, the republican whip Of the
House, has brought out the demo.
cratic attack upon him. The state
ment prepared and issued by Mr.
Edwards follow in part:
"Presidebt Roosevelt is attempt
ing to dominate this congressiona
fight. His letttr to Congressman
James E. Watson of Indiana hal
proved the assertion. He tells tn.
country through this letter to Mr.
Watson that the republicans mus,
do 10 this campaign to win th'
House.
1.-THE chief thing in the letter Il
Mr.. Watson from ths President o
the United States is not that Mr.
Watson amounts to a thing in th
world. but his declaration that tn
tariff question must be relegated t,
the rear and await republican re
vision in their own time and op
! p 'tunity, thus continuing to sub
5, rse the interests of the tarif-fet
monopolies that grow fat on tn
| peoples pocketbooks.
! "The thing for which Mr.. Presi
dent Roosevelt Is pluming himsel
| most in this letter-for which b
| takes greatest credit-consists of oc
| topus-chasing and trust-busting
| There are two brands of trust bust
| ing, the chasing of octopuse
| and the busting of trusts tha
| are odius and the chasing of octo
pnses and the busting of trusts tha
\ are popular. As yet Mr.. Presiden
! Roosevelt has only undertaken th
| first of those; he has not yet assail
! ed popular monopoly.
| "Now there is an octopus in thi
lsnd of ours-the head devil of th
whole layout, namely the tariff oc
topus. This is very popular oc
topus. It can muster an immens
majority in either wing of the 5otl
congress It is the octopus Colone
Bryan is anxious to smite, hip an,
thigh, and 1t was narrated aroun,
that Colonel Roosevelt had rod il
pickle for it that was to be burs