The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-25
If 1t Has to Be, He Wants
the Biggest Fragment.
SEES TRUSTS AT WORK
Thinks They Are Behind the Senate's
Agitation Over BrownvilIe, and
Ii Ready for the Issue.
Special to Neso York Times.

Washington, JAN 19.-The Repub-
lican situation is far worse to-day than
it was yesterday, and the Senate leaders
tonight know that they are in the
worst box of their lives. The Presi-
dent and the Democrats have got them
in a corner and are squeezing them
against the wall.
To-day the leaders, while not aban
doning their efforts to pry the Demo-
Gratis off, concentrated their main ef-
forts on the President. Every con-
/, ceivable sort of pressure was resorted'
to. They did their utmost to get him
to join with them and send out word
to his followers that he would like to-
have them vote against the Black
burn resolution.
Failing that they pleaded with him
to say one word, drop the faintest hint
that he was Indifferent. did not care
which way 1t came out, so that they
could use that with the insurgent Re-
publicans. AS result of their efforts
the President sent out word to his fol-
lowers directly contrary to what they
asked.
No more pitiable and ridiculous
spectacle has been seen here for a long
time. A few days ago these Senators
were doing their best to stabe the Pres
ident in the back They were egging
Foraker on in his Brownsville resolu-
tion and almost openly declaring their
intention to "put the President in a
hole' Not only that, but they were
working on scheme to show him up
in his true light before the country
by introducing a resolution censuring
him for Executive usurpation and then
making speeches reviewing his public
acts.
Now to-day they are abjectly COM
ing before him on their stomachs, be-
seeching him to save them from being
shown UP before the country" as his
enemies, and to do it by stultifying
himself and declaring against a reso-
luton drawn in his own fnterest-the
very resolution in all essentials which
his friend Lodge introduced in his be-
half and was induced to abandon
The worst of it is that. like the ne
gro who rolled over in the dust at the
foot of a preacher whom he supposed
to be Whitfield, but who was not, they
"rolled their selves in the dirt fol
muffin" The President, who on al
previous occasions has responded tc
the call of party regularity, simply en-
lows the spectacle they are making Of
themselves and refuses to be moved.
His view is that this oligarchy has
rendered him lip-service and giver
him stabs in the back for years. Now
through Blackburn's resolution, thu
tables are turned. He has them dow1
for once, and why should he take his
hands off?
That, in a paragraph, is the Presi
dents opinion of the situation. Notn
ing in years has so aroused him a
this Brownsville business. His utter
ances about how ne would stand i'm
parchment before he would rescind hi
order show how thoroughly worked VI
he is. But there is more behind hi
attitude than has been published, an
here is what it is:
He thinks that the corporate lntel
ests on whom he has waged war ar
behind the Brownsville business. H
thinks they dare not attack him on tn
question of prosecuting the trusts, an
therefore they are endeavoring to dt
stroy his popularity by melting thei
Senatorial spokesmen to attack hir
over the shoulders of the negroes.
is not the race question, but the trus
question over which the Brownsvill
battle is being waged.
a Yesterday the President was no
nearly so emphatic in his attitude COZ
cerning the Blackburn resolution a
he is to-day. To-day he told his SUI
porters and his concealed enemie
when they came to the White Hous
that he thought it desirable that ties
of strength should come between NJ
friends and foes. A fight, ne tol
them, had been made against him b
the Republicans ever since he TOO
Office, and he had never fought pac