The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-12
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Especial Washington Letter

are beginning to show their hands,
They are speaking out in meeting.
There is revolt all along the line. OF
course Senator Joseph Benson Foraker,
OF Ohio is the Navarro of the Repub-
iican rebels, and his white plume losses
in the forefront of the battle, but
there are others-Mr. Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks, for in
stance, and Senator General Charles
Dick of Ohio, and ex-senator John NJ.
Thurston of Nebraska, and e. III. Har-
ximan 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 wac
their tongues when they have been
dumb as lambs before their shearers
heretofore? The reason is not difficult
30 discover President Roosevelts time
I'm the White House is rapidly passing
and his patronage is about exhausted;
ing up courage enough to express those
anti Roosevelt opinions which they
have secretly entertained oil the time.
The following dispatch Is straw
showing which way the wind blows:
Gan Francisco April 17-United States
Uenator Perkins stirred his audience last
ntgAt at the annual banquet of the OAK
1nnd Merchants Exchange by declaring
that President Roosevelt talks too MUCH
'.1t Is the history of the human race"
he said, that some people talk too much.
ard this is the fault of our president. He
wanted to naturalize the japanese. and on
tizis point, as you all know, he talked too
much, but people forgave him because he
is IN earnest and his heart is for the
ri8ht-"s
Now, be 1t known that Senator Per-
kins Is one of the smoothest and one OF
the mildest hammered men among the
eonscript 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 1t. He thinks
the time has come to unload Colonc'
Roosevelt, and he joins hands with the
other recalcitrants.
The Topeka Capital. a rabid Roose-
welt organ, recently said:
cAusetts has advised President Roosevelt
to take months rest; otherwise you
Wonld never have heard of Lieutenant
Governor Draper.
! No doubt the president thoroughly in
dorses the Capitals remark. Perhaps
he would have made 1t stronger
OF course everybody that reads the
newspapers knows the relnarks-bit-
Ter. burning which Representative
James w. Wadsworth recently made
touching the president. The latter's
newspaper friends ray that lie ought
10 have had more respect for the pres
idential Office than to speak of It's oe
eupant in such rude language even II
he felt so bitter. There is an old saying.
de gustibus non est disputandunl,
which applies to that controversy. II
must suggest itself to folks in this con-
section that the president is not noted
ror mild speaking himself. On the con-
trary, he uses the most vigorous words
10 be found In our vernacular. This
can be proved by Judge Parker, ex-
secretary Chandler, the etorers, =. "A.
Hartman ct Id genus onne, con-
sfantIy augmenting company. Dead
suse pop. King David did not have in
mind the Republican bigwigs when In
the Hundred and Thirty third Psalm
he said, Behold how good and how
pleasant it Is for brethren to dwell to-
gether In unity" They dwell in about
AZ much unity as lot of soreheaded
bears. If there is any weapon known
TO political warfare which Is not being
used, have not heard of it
President WeedroW 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 Presl-
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 q
large portion of it. / 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 meruit OF praise upon him. Now
comes my esteemed contemporary, the
washington Post, and bestows coll
umn of editorial praise upon President
woodrow Wilson for discovering the
tact that our trials in courts are not
conducted with sufficient expedition.
why. bless my soul, the claws delay
has been subject of complaint as far
back certainly as the days Of Magma
Charta. How much farther back ! wot
not Shakespeare complains OF IT IN
one Of his finest passages.
Some day President Woodrow VII
non win solemnly announce In some
speech that il you add two to three
80 n. Is