The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-11
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Auey ufe spcuhlng out IN meeting.
There Is revolt al along the line. OF
course Senator Ins-i'i Benson Foraker
OF Ohio is the Navarro of the Repub-
1ican rebels, aud bis white plume tosses
in the forefront OF tie battle. but
there afe others-Mr. Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks, for In
stance, anl Senator General Charles
Dick of Ohio, and ex-senator John NJ.
Thurston of Nebraska, and H. Ii. Har.
rlman 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
numerous to mention" why are they
beginning to show their hands and wag
their tongues when they have been
dumb as lambs before their shenrers
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 IL straw
showing which way the wind blows:
San Francisco April 17.-JTnited States
Senator Perkins stirred his audience last
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 naturalize the Japanese, and on
this point as you all know, he talked too
much, but people forgaye him because he
10 In earnest and his heart IL for the
right"
Now, be 1t known that Senator Per.
kins Is one Of the smoothest and one OF
the mlldest 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
sane man believe that this gentle
speaking Californian could have been
induced under any pressure, however
strong, or during any excitement, how
ever tense, to have spoken thus of the
president two years ago or even one
year ago? Not bit of It. He thinks
the time has come to unload Colonel
Roosevelt, and he joins hands with the
other recalcitrants.
Tile Topeka Capital, rabd Roose-
welt organ, recently said:
Lieutenant Governor Draper OF Massa-
chusetts has advised President Roosevelt
to take 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 il stronger.
OF course everybody that reads the
newspapers knows the remarxs--bit-
ter, burning-whlch 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
identlal office than to speak of its oc-
cupant In such rude language even if
he felt so bitter. There is an old saying,
''De gustlbus non est disputandum,"
which applies to that controversy. 1t
must suggest itself to folks in this con-
nection that the president Is not noted
for mild speaking himself On the con-
trary, he uses the most vigorous words
to be found In our vernacular. This
can be proved by Judge Parker, ex-
Secretary Chandler, the Storers, II. IL.
Hartman ct id genus omne, con-
stantly augmenting company. Dead
sure pop, King David did not have in
mind the Republican bigwigs when In
the Hundred and Thlrty-third Psalm
he saId "Behold how good and how
pleasant II is for brethren to dwell to-
eether In unity" They dwell in about
as much unity as a lot of soreheaded
bears. If there Is any weapon known
to political warfare which Is not being
used have not heard of 1t.
President Woodrow Wilson's Discoveries
Not long since in these letters / re-
ferred to the fact that my esteemed
contemporary, the Washington Herald,
devoted column OF eulogy to Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson for discovering
that the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives possessed too much power
and that he ought to be shorn of Il
large portion of it. I stated in that
connection that President Woodrow
Wilson was somewhat late with his
discovery about eighteen years be-
hind the times, In fact-and that the
Herald bestowed more than his guam
tum merult OF praise upon him. Now
comes my esteemed contemporary, the
Washington Post, and bestows a col
umn OF editorial praise upon President
Woodrow Wilson for discovering the
fact that our trials In courts are not
conducted with sufficient expedition.
why, bless my soul, the "laws delay"
has been a subject OF complaint as far
back certainly as the days Of Magma
Charta.- How much farther back wot
not. Shakespeare complains OF 1t In
ope of his finest passages.
Come day President Woodrow VIII
ron will solemnly announce In some
speech that II you add two to three
You will obtain Ave as a result, dis
covery which will entitle him to two
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