Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-09

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welt Republican bigwigs. They
IRE beginning to show their hands.
They are speaking out in meeting.
There is revolt all along the line. or
course Senator Joseph Benson Foraker
of Ohio is the Navarro of the Repub-
lican rebels, and his white plume losses
in the forefront of the battle, but
there are others-Mr. Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks, for in.
stance, and Senator General Charles
Dick of Ohio, and ex-senator John NJ.
Thurston of Nebraska, and Il. H. Har-
of New York, and Senator Boies
Penrose of Pennsylvania, and Mayor
Reyburn of Philadelphia, and Senator
Perkins of California, and Lieutenant
Governor Draper of Massachusetts, and
still others, as the sale bills run, "too
to mention" Why are they
beginning to show their hands and wag
their tongues when they have been
dumb as lambs before their shearers
heretofore? The reason Is not difficult
to discover. President Roosevelts time
in the White House is rapidly passing.
and his patronage is about exhausted;
consequently these worthless are pluck
ing up courage enough to express those
anti-Roosevelt opinions which they
have secretly entertained all the time.
The following dispatch is a straw
showing which way the wind blows:
San Francisco, April I7.-United States
porLjno ct{rra1 hi, ,,,dlaroa oct
night at the annual banquet Of the Oak
land Merchants Exchange by declaring
that President Roosevelt talks too much.
ut is the history Of the human race"
he said, that some people talk too much,
and this Is the fault of our president. He
wanted to n%aturalize the Japanese, and on
this point, as you all know, he talked too
much. but people forgave him because he
Is In earnest and his heart is for the
right"
Now, be 1t known that Senator Per
kins is one Of the smoothest and one of
the mildest hammered men among the
conscript fathers. Diplomacy is his
forte. He boasts that he is the only
real sailor in the senate, having sailed
before the mast some years. Does any
SAM man believe that this gentle
speaking Californian could have been
induced under any pressure, however
strong, or during any excitement, how
yer tense, to have spoken thus of the
president two years ago or even one
year ago? Not a bit Of it. He thinks
the time has come to unload Colonel
Roosevelt, and he joins hands with the
other recalcitrants.
The Topeka Capital, a rabid Roose
welt organ, recently said:
Lieutenant Governor Draper of Massa
chusetts has advised President Roosevelt
to take a months rest; otherwise you
would never have heard Of Lieutenant
Governor Draper.
No doubt the president thoroughly in
dorses the Capitals remark. Perhaps
he would have made it stronger.
OF course everybody that reads the
newspapers knows the remarks-bit
ter, burning-which ex-Representative
James w. Wadsworth recently made
touching the president. The latter's
newspaper friends say that he ought
to have had more respect for the pres
idential Office than to speak of its oc
cupant in such rude language even il
he felt so bitter. There is an old saying
Ode gustibus non est disputandum,'
which applies to that controversy. Il
must suggest itself to folks In this con
nection that the president is not notet
for mild speaking himself. On the con
trary, he uyes the most vigorous words
to be found in our vernacular. This
can be proved by Judge Parker, ex
Secretary Chandler, the Storers, E. II
Hartman ct i'd genus omne, a con
stantly a%ugmenting company. Deat
sure pop, King David did not have il
mind the Republican bigwigs when II
the Hundred and T%hirty-third Psalm
he said, Behold how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to
gether in unity" They dwell in abou
as much unity as a lot of soreheadet
bears. If there is any weapon know
to political warfare which is not bein,
used, l have not heard Of it.
President Woodrow Wilson's Discoverie
Not long since in these letters / re
ferred to the fact that my esteemed
contemporary, the Washington Herald
devoted a column Of eulogy to Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson for discovering
that the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives possessed too much powe