The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-09
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Especial Washington Letter.

playing the fool, as usual, by
~ plotting to aSsassinate Czal
Nicholas Of Russia Most as
suredly anarchists are the most in
corrigible idiots on earth. They are
just as apt to kill q wise and huma ne
ruler as a despot. What good could q
sane man suppose would come of kill.
ing Mckinley or the president of the
French rePlblic, King Humbert of
Italy or Empress Eliza beth of Austria !
These fools claim that their object is
to do away with all government They
ought to have learned by this time of
day that killing individual rulers has
no tendency whatever to abolish gov
eminent. In this country, for instance,
succeed seriatim to Colonel Roosevelt
place should he die while in Office 1t
would be a remarkable performance
should the anarchists manage to kill
him and all the eight presidents in
posse at one fell swoop. And suppose
congress were in session. it would pass
an emergency measure instanter ap-
pointing somebody president pro tenn
and till a special election could be
called to elect president If congress
were not in session, it would get itself
together in FIVE days and do the same
thing. somebody acting on his own
motion as president while congress
was getting itself together OF course
there Is no provision in the constitu-
ton or laws for the performances
which l have mentioned, but the law
of self preservation is the first law of
nature. We would act on it, and every
body would acquiesce in the proceed
ings as necessary and proper
In the case of crowned heads the
assassination of the reigning soyer-
eigns and their immediate possible
ton of government, for in almost ey-
cry case there are scores of persons in
being who may lawfully succeed to
the throne. In Great Britain and Ger
many there must be hundreds, for the
Brunswickers and Hohenzollerns are
prolific folks. President Roosevelt
cannot charge them with race suicide.
Gar Nicholas also has numerous blood
relations who are in the line of success
sion. He is not a great monarch, but
he does his best according to his lights
which, 1t must be confessed. are some
what dim and Pickering He is not
cruel as czars go. He is a reformer
so far as he knows how to be and so
far as he9is permitted to be by cir
cumstances and his advisers. So was
his grandfather, Alexander II. He is
known In history as 1.-The liberator'f
because he freed the serfs The nihil-
lists murdered him at the very moment
when he was about to sign paper
granting many new privileges to the
Russian people. That paper was never
signed, for he was succeeded by his
gloomy, savage and tyrannical son,
Ill, who was a reactionary
Of the most pronounced type. So by
The death of liberal czar the Rus
slams fell out of the frying pan into
the fire. So In all human probability it
will be, to certain extent at least. II
they succeed In assassinating Nicho-
as. It's great pity that all the an
archists on the face of the earth could
not be rounded up and either hanged
Or imprisoned for life at hard labor.
Il the present gang could be utterly
1t would be some consider
lble time before new gang could be |
aised 1t would be good radiance
The Buckeye Warwick.
These be parlous times, my masters |
especially in Ohio. where men and |
hings are sizzling hot The view there |
> kaleidoscope. Now yon see It and |
low you don't. Six months ago 1t |
eemed that Senator Joseph Benson |
foraker had the Ohio world in sling. |
hen Taft stock began to RISE Then |
/ was nip and tuck betwixt them. |
hen, when George B. Cox, the boss of
,incinnati and OF the state, declared |
or his ancient enemy, Secretary Taft,
be jig appeared to be up with Senator /
'oraker, but he kicks at being handed |
yer bound hand and foot to his oppo-
ents. But Senator Foraker may kick
: much as he pleases, and it will do
lm little gooc. for George B. Cox is the
Buckeye Warwick. For years be has
iade and unmade United States sena-
BIS, representatives In congress, gov
rnors, judges and minor officers. After
ne Republican rout In Ohio In 1905
OK published statement that he was
ut of politics for keeps. Nobody be-
eyed him then, and now be has open
7 resumed business at the old stand
nd aspires to be president maker.
ruth to tell, he helped considerably in
ending Mckinley to the White House
Le was cheek by jowi with Marcus
lonzo Hanna in 1895 and again in
BOO. Hanna is In his grave, but Cox
J still In the land Of the living, cour-
geous, resoureeful, ambitious and
laster Of The Ohio situation. That
OK should brow the weight of his in
uence in favor of Taft, whose Akron
peech in 1905 In denunciation OF Cox
nd all his works, is one OF the most
ktraorfliuary DEVELOPMENTS of the |