The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-03-09
WINFIELD, La, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1906.
OUR WEEKLY
WASHINGTON LETTER
Senator Tillman Selected to
Report the Railway Rate
Bill to the President.
Washington. D. g.,
March {, 1906. {

March Z, 1906.
Last week | warned you of the
dangers which threaten the Dem-
ocratic party through Ryan-Bel-
mont control. And now my
statements have been confirmed
by voice from the inside. AIr.
De Lancy NieoIl, who acted as
chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic National
Committee all through the last
campaign, and who knows every
move that was made, appeared
. for Ryan-Belmont in the Su-
preme Court of New York de-
. Tending the Ryan-Belmont right
. to steal one hundred million or
SO through the street railroad
. merger, and brazenly stated in
open court that the hostility of
the Hearst papers to the merger
was caused solely for the reason
that Ryan-Belmont had given the
nomination to Parker. When
De Lancy Nicoll makes such dis
reputable statements openly you
can bet it is the truth. Are you
going to let them give it TO one of
J. their tools next time, or will you
wake up and see that the genuine
Democrats have u voice in the Sc
lection of a representative man to
head their ticket?
This Ryan-Belmont reptile is
one of the queerest and most
dangerous freaks of natural his
tory. It's head, Thos. +. Ryan,
is the most dangerous individual
in the United States today, men
tally, morally, politically, and
otherwise. Its tail. August Bel
mont, is the least harmful In
each of the same respects. And
although its tail Is most often in
public view its head does all the
thinking for the combination.
This bunch of PIRATES of pros
perlty don't care u rap for pol
itlcs, anyway. Their sole idea Is
to get control of both parties,
nominate one of their deputy
PIRATES on each ticket, aud sit
quietly back and hatch up new
schemes to absorb the money of
the country as fast us you people
can earn it.
THE PURE FOOD BILL.
When the pure food bill passed
the Senate its most -pernicious
features had been so removed by
various amendments that al
though it stlll retained bis name,
Senator Hepburn required an in
PRODUCTION to it, Us he could not
recognize it as his own. By the
time the House gets through with |
1T we will probably have good
pure food bill, as it only needs u
few additional amendments to
make it the same as the amend
ment offered by Senator Money,
which is conceded to be the best
food bill offered at this session.
Senator Bailey's speech on this
bill was one of the ablest made
this session In the Senate, and he
tangled up Senator McCumber SO
skillfully that he looked like a
bunch of bow knots on bed
spring.
THE PRESIDENT AND SENATOR
TILLMAN.
Senator Tillman has heen Sc
lected by the Senate Committee
to report the railway rate bill.
This necessitates numerous con-
|fereuces with the President, and
as the weilder of pitchforks and
lightning and the man with the
strenuous teeth have the same
regard for one another that an
aggressive tomcat has for a sue
culent mouse, interesting times
are to be expected. So if you
are awakened by a strange noise,
accompanied by violent tremb-
|lings of the United States, don't /