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gressional Directory any reference to
that fact. He might be described III
a phrase as Il small bundle of contra
dictiOns. nervousness and brains.

/ phrase as Il SIilt!li DuHult VI Noh'AN'
dictions, nervousness and brains.
The States and the Railroads.
After all. these southern advocates
/ of state rights have much logic ant
many facts to- support their conten
ton Within ninety days more has
! been done by states north and Souti
! to relieve the people from railroad az
! gressions than has been accomplished
! by the federal government since tine
! Interstate commerce commission Wa:
! created Let me quote from memory
as one would in casual conversation
! OF course the latest state triumph
over Il railroad is that scored by Coy
crnor Glenn Of North Caroliua when
| he compelled the Southern railroad to
iecedc from its position Of dcnyin-
! the authority of the state and the state
/ courts and to accept the rate of fare
liked at "a cents per mile. until the
United States supreme court should
pass upon its justice. That was a
stroke for It Democratic governor IN
the south. Yet. not many weeks be
fore. the legislature of Illinois passed
a law fixing the rate Of fare III that
state ut . cents a mile. The railroads
protested and threatened litigation
Governor Denccn with admirable tact
persuaded them To make Il test of the
rate for Il number of months, with the
understanding that at the expiration
Of that time. If they believed il was
confiScatory, they could 90 into court
to have it set aside on that ground.
That, 1t seems to me. was an equally
or in a northern state.
Looking over the recent history OF
railroad regulation. we find the inter
state commerce commission interesting
itself with recommendations for the
regulation of freight rates. most of
find congress and the administration
highly successful in cutting off passes
and in other ways contributing to the
advantage of the railroads, but the
states have taken up the issue which is
of the greatest interest to the greatest
rateS-and have brought their re<luc-
ton
The Future Of Foraker.
Senator Joseph Il. Foraker is almost
sixty-two years old He has been in
public life since 1879. His public ca
reer has always been stormy He
seems to thrive on political warfare.
But today he is facing what may be
the vital fight for his political life. It
is fair to say for Foraker that his
fighting has always been open and
ahovehoard and. moreover. that bis;
voting and his work in the senate
have been equally in the open. 1t was
a plucky thing for him. alone among
the Republicans. 10 stand out againS.
the rate law SO StrenuouSly urged hy
President Roosevelt. In Il city where
calumny is always active you will hear
that he did ii at he hehcSt of his rail
road clients. The charge is arrant
nonsense. There were plenty of rail
road attorneys who voted for the bill,
and one solitary vote against it would
not have been worth the while of any
railroad to secure at the cost of weak
torney. But it helped to beat Mr. For
aker in Ohio when the contest over
the Endorsement of Secretary Taft was
on Il short time ago. Yet people who
know him and who know his fighting
qualities wonder whether, beaten in
hc in
battle. He himself shows no great
signs of trepidation. He turns from Il
state committee controlled 10y federal
officeholders to the people. and shrewd
observers are inclined to believe that
he will be able either to split the Ohio
delegation or else 10 make so great an
cutlery against fedc~a Intervention in
Ohio affairs that Il national convention
will be very slow to accept an Ohio
nominee.
Ohio has often brought fight into
the national councils of the Republican
party, and every time the fight was
thus brought Ohio lost its favoritc
son. 1t was so with Salmon T. Chase
it was so with John Sherman in three
conventions. and it may yet he so with
Secretary Taft.
The HapIess Hartman
After all. one must feel some SWIM
patty for +. IT. Hartman. He is
the latest target for the American
press and the American politician. He
Is the present prototype of Jay Gould,
pierpont Morgan and John u. Rookie
teller, all of whom have apparently
become immune either by death or
through the forgetfulness of the pub
lie. Within three days men have come
to me with the greatest solemnity to
offer proof of these remarkable com
binatiOnS between Hartman and pub
lie men whom my infOrmants happen
to dislike.
One statesman offered to prove a deal
between Roosevelt and Hartman by
which the Hartman influence would
be thrown to the president or his lega-
tee. He asserted that while the White