Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-06-10

Senatorial syndcates seem to be the
order OF the day. Scarcely is Senator
Penrose forgotten, with his five-million.
dollar effort to obliterate Mr.. Roosevelt,
when another combination OF togas take
the stage, directed this time against the
predominance of Mr.. Bryan in demo.
cratic counsels. If the president should
conspire to control the election of sena.
tors enough to form safe majority in
the upper house of congress, there would
be terrible hullabaloo over it. The air
would be full OF slirieks about usurpation
tyranny and a shattered constitution -;
but the senators can see no harm what
ever in conspiring to control the choice
of president. Which involves the more
serious danger to the country, for the
president to control the senate or the
senate to control the president? In re-
cent years has the president shown more
devotion to the public welfare than the
senate, or less?
There is not much danger that these
senatorial syndicates will dominate the
convention of either party. The clinging
odor Of tainted money makes them nau-
seous to the public. The moment they
are ex 'osed they vanish. They are like
the bubbles on turbulent stream which
form and break, leaving no trace; still
they show how violently the waters are
agitated in the depths. OF the deep
hatred OF the syndicated millionaires for
both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Bryan there
can be no doubt and nothing could please
them better than to eliminate both men
from the presidential race. They detest
Bryan because he is bold preacher OF
untried political doctrines. They detest
Roosevelt because he has the supreme
ability to select such OF these doctrines
as the time demands and apply them in
practice. Could the conjured pirates
drive Bryan out of the democratic leader.
ship their intrigues against Roosevelt
would become much more promising.
So long as Bryan is likely to be nomi.
mated, the republicans can do no less
than look to their strongest man. If the
Nebraskan could be set aside, there
might be some hope of electing color
less republican. What the senatorial
conspirators desire is pliable candidate
for each party. 1t would then make no
difference to them which was elected.
They would control him in either case.
We thus come to the interesting con-
clusion that these attacks upon MIR. Bry-
an in the democratic party are in all
probability directed from the same source
as those against Mr.. Roosevelt in the re-
publican party, and their success would
weaken the Roosevelt influence. If Mr..
Bryan is nominated, Roosevelt man
must be ptted against him or he cannot
be defeated. If some neutral tinted per-
son ike Judge Gray is to be nominated
by the democrats, almost any republican
can defeat him and the call for Roose-
welt man may subside. 1t is one OF the
curiosities of current history that the
fortunes OF two men SO widely different
in purpose and ability as Bryan and
Roosevelt should be thus intimately
linked together. OF course the conspir-
ing senators do not care which party wins
the next presidential election. Their
sole concern is to put in office man who
will be subservient to their influence
They care a great deal about his opinions
upon predatory wealth and corporate
control of the courts, but nothing what
ever about his party label. So far as
the olgarchy Of millionaires is concerned
the two parties are completely merged.
Ostensibly the bitter hostility to Mr.