The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-11
ROOSEVELT MAY FORM A NEW
ALIGNMENT In The SENATE
President Has Announced that He Will Next Sat
urday Make Speech Rapp'ng
Magazines
TILLMAN REMEMBERS INSULT

Washington. April l0.-The pref
dent has announced tnat he Will make
speech next Saturday and hat he
will then say something severe about
the magazine and newspaper critics of
the administration and of the senate
and house. He will, also Of cour.e, talk
of lsgi ,lation in general And since It
must be assumed that whatever he
executive ays has an intention behind
1t. ii is for the opposition to ak what
he expects to gain by attacking the
pro, estant portion of the press.
Saturday. of course. Is some dis
tance away, and by the time II IS here
the president may have fourfl ii eX
pediont to discourse on other sub
jects than those he now ha in mind;
but he can still produce an immediate
effect by mere threat, if II may SC
he termed, OF the one p opposed. That
he has been in harmony with the sen
ale during this session will hardly be
maintaned by anybody; the senate
has not been in harmony WITH Itself;
ana it. division has not been on the
usual line. Of Democrat and Republi-
can only. cr even chiefly; bu' botl
sides of the chamber have revealed
distinct clCayages amcng themselves.
There are at least two cabals on tue
Republican side, and more than that
number on the Democratic. Moreover
IA asc factions ere not table but may
Il ssolye AMI form fresh cumbnaGion
at any moment according rs the pa
tisan or political poets Of peldine
legislation NAV sugge t. II would
obviously to difficult for even such a
hibbertigibbet as ouc chief maH 'trat
TO align himself vita deiib2rat W
body which is facing 'oward all points
OF the compas AT o3co.
Another aud vet more cogent reason
why the peresil-nt cannot hel bein@
more or less at olds with the senat
is the fact that it contains sevcra
presiden ial aspirants, and wlomso
ever else b, may be With, he caano
AVOID being against them.
Third Term Query.
II is probable indeed that ne is,
bottom. the fric1d of none of tlcm
and that none Of them is the friend -
him: but tina would not stand H.
the way of his acting tempora lily. l.
accord with scmc Of them. It is pos
sible. then by bearing in mind what
the president j. likely to want on hif
own account. IN order 10 further bi
own ambition. 20 determine wha
senator's he would reasonably select
as with the view Of promoting hat am
biliun in the pre- ent posture cf affa'r.
If he means to have third term he
must TO some cXtcn' have the people
behind him: the machines cannot do
II all Although Aldrich. Knox, Fos
aker, Kean and several others of that
stamp are always ready to assert thai
they have at hear, The best interests
of the people. the people, even those
who still nave faith in Roo, ,evelt. are
no; 50 far gone a. 10 believe them.
These senators desirs entire free lon
of appeal To the courts IN the rate
review matter. and have committed
themselves against any amcndm nts
that would tend e. prevent II. So that
although The president ha- been re
firing. step by step. frC mthe radica
position on appeal 10 tn courts which
be originally occupied. it hardly seems
likely that he will venture 20 retire
quite 20 far as io act with these sen
ators. To DO so would discrcdit M
with the mass Of y3t tsrs.
To make it worse Forake~ i- ore
of the mos promising caniidates Tor
the presidential office. VIII the pre- J.
dent. then. abandoning patty ties. ca e
I'm his lot with the Other extreme IN
the senate. which may be identihcd
with Tillman2 Tillman IS one of The
few men in the chamber whore sin
cerity ana honesty are b syond doub.
and who is for the people fret lasi
AMI al the time He wants little rs
possible to do with courts bat b. ul
derstOod 10 lean toward Bailey's
amendment which denies the riglt
# suspension pending exam nation by
the courts No doubt were the pref
dent to become the ally of Tiilman hi.
position with the peopla would b'
strengt bened- bur on the other band
he would be forced to confess that tbs
bill was a Democratic measure and