The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-24
BAILEY OF TEXAS AND
WILLIAMS OF MISSISSIPPI


BY SoyNOyaru IN 10
When ! look at the situation in Tex
as recall the battle OF Boutwell,
Bridge, rs Sir Walter Scott mar
rates It in the delightful romance OF
Old Mortality Henry Morton would
have gained the day FOR the Presby
terian cause had his advice been tax
en-. but fanatics and fools looked on
him as an Erastian and would not
support him at the only point on tho
field where Il was possible 10 make
defense, and the duke OF Monmouth
hurled the veterans of DalzeN against
the feeble force of Morton and the
day was gained for the English crown.
Then Il was that the stern Cameron.
ians. gloomy and fanatic, headed by
Ephraim Macbriar and Habukkuk
Musklewrath. got their commander.
Morton. in their custody. condemned
him to death. and would have execut'
ed him IL Ciaverhonse had not come
in. pu5 them to the sword and rescued
his gallant and generous adversary
on the field of Mars.
] defy any man who is familiar with
"Old Mortality" to look with unbiased
t9tH OI iUG nliNdilOu 2l tNhH anu
not discover a striking parallel In the
military career OF Henry Morton and
the political career OF Joseph w.
Railey Bailey's fault Is not that he
borrowed money from somebody, who
had II to lend not taat he gave legal
coausel to man in st. Louis
named Pierce. No; nothing of the
kind. What they have against Bailey
is this, simply this. and nothing more:
Bailey is the most intellectual man
in the senate. the greatest constitu-
tional lawyer and most formidable
debater in that Dody. AMI the best
equipped man IN all America to en-
gage in an academic discussion of p0
liticai principles in that august forum,
the United States senate. That is
what is the matter with Bailey, and
all that is the matter with him. This
latitudinarian Democratic party will
not suffer such a man as that to re-
main in public life. Envy. jealousy.
prejudice, ignorance-these are. the
pack now after Bailey. and It will be
next thing to the miraculous IL they
don't get him Personal integrity new
er looks so much like personal integ-
rity, civic virtue never looks so much
like civic cirtue as when this kennel
ENVY, jealous, rivarIy, prejudice
and ignorance-put them on and set
up barking that would drown all
the thunders of Olympia Jove. |
have heard II IN this town--the bay
ings Of little minds-and II is heard
ih every political capital the world
round. Christian and pagan.
Do they. point To a vote Bailey has
cast in either house of congress they
object to? No; though ] can point
to a score OF them that | object to.
10 they traverse a word he has utter
ed in either house. or OIL the hust-
ings, or a line he has written in legis.
lative reports? Not one, and they say
that as stateman he is simply ideal.
but that he had some sort OF business
transaction with man named Pierce.
and that Pierce had trafficked with
the STANDARD oil company. It-seems
that Bailey bought Barney Gibbs
farm and they want TO know whore
he got the money. He also bought a
farm in Kentucky, and they are ready
10 charge that as a rascaIly transac-
tion.
II was the Eighteenth congress
j believe, that elected John Quincy
Adams president of the. United States.
The vote OF Kentucky decided IL in
Adams favor. though the people of
Kentucky had cast twenty votes for
jackson to one for Adams Henry
Clay caused the Kentucky delegation
10 give the vote OF that state to Ad-
ans, for, like thousands of the very
best men I'm the country. CLAY did not
believe that the government was safe
ia the keeping Of man Of "Old Hick-
ory's" temperament Adams appoint
ed C'la5 secretary OF state. and imme-
diaieiy the cry went up that II was a
bargain between the two. that Adams
had sold and Clay had bought the
chief place in the cabinet and the
price was the vote OF Kentucky for
Adams when the PRESIDENT Al election
had failed in the electoral college and
was determined IN the house of repre-
sentatives. Everybody who knows
ANYTHING about Il now Is convinced
that IL was a slander. though 4 cost
Clay the presidency; but old kentucky
never faltered. She stood bY her
greatest son TN she pillowed his man
~ form to It's final rest in her bosom
at Lexington.
And they are after John Sharp
Williams. too Why? Because he is
the foremost man In the house just
as Bailey is the foremost man In the
senate II was such political peanut
cry as that which caused great
British statesman. Shrewsbury, the
ablest minister OF William III. to eX
claim: Had n son I would sooner
breew him a cobbler than a couriier
and handman than a statesman.
There was "a political party IN England
that called themselves patriots
They turned against that granl old
parliamentary leader, Sir Robert Wal
pole. and helped 10 drag him down
The old Atateman viyidly described
him after this fashion: Patriot, sir
Why, ! can make hundred OF then
IN a night have only 70 refuse al
absurd request for a place md NJ
starts patriot"
John Sharp Williams has bu, 10 re
fuse q coveted committee assignmen