Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-16
SINCERITY
OF OHIO SENATOR
CHARGE FORAKER IS PLAYING
PERSONAL POLITICS
Buckeye Statesman Is Accused Of
Playing Role Of Batting the Presi.
dent" to Further His Politi-
cal Ambitions
Special TO The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. 15.-AI
favorite expression of some writers
when speaking of a session of congress
is to call the proceedings a weary
grind Sometimes to the members II
may indeed be a weary grind, bu,
Notwithstanding this is the short ses-
sion when It was not expected that
much would be doing, there are few
things that liven UP the affair and make
II interesting and amusing to the out
siders, If not to the members. The
center of interest just now is the senate
chamber where Foraker has been play
ing n great role of batting the presi-
dent over the Brownsville affair.
one OF the bad features OF American
politics is that nearly always, when a
prominent politician takes the lead in
any proposition, other politicians and
some of the newspapers charge that he
Is playing personal politics. This is the
case just now and on every hand is
hCard the declaration that Senator For
aker movement in the matter of the
discharge of the Colored troops is sim
PLY grand stand" play for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination.
rms may be unjust to the Ohio sena-
Tor Mr. Foraker is of large size. and
no doubt he knows it, but It is possible
that he is acting in this matter because
lie honestly believes great Injustice
has been done the colored troops. and
that the president exceeded his con-
sttutional authority WIN he ordered
their discharge. There are many who
agree with the first proposition. i'm fact
but few can be found to claim that no
injustice was DONE
American Dreams on Decline
What has come over the spirit of
American dreams? Are we living in n
new era? Have we entirely forgotten
the past and oil its glories? January
) mas come and gone, and hardly any
where in the United States was there a
celeDratlon calling to mird "Old Hick-
ory his cotton bales and his Tennes-
see riflemen.
Is there no longer any Democracy or
Democratic party in the land? There
was a time when according to the
81 eakers and writer's of opposing poll
teal parties that all there was of the
democratic party We're its recollections
of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack
son.
For nearly q hundred years on each
recurring Sth of January the air has
heen made resonant with shouts of by
the eternal" and The Union Must be
Preserved" (only this last clause was
left out Of the shouting for a few years),
but now the day has come and gone and
not shout has been heard.
The most picturesque character that
f-I -
Andrew Jackson. He had more force
than Grant, and more stubbornness
than Cleveland. He was the first presi-
dent to dominate congress, and he had
many stormy scenes with that unruly
body, but always succeeded in forcing
his will upon it,
1t is sad to think that a year has
gone by and the attention of the people
not be called to this great American
character on the anniversary of the day
that won him his great fame as a war
rlor and commander. He was the first
president to set himself up against a
great corporation, and the first to pull
down corporation he believed to be
inimical to the best interests of the
people.
From the days of Alexander Hamilton
to those of Andrew Jackson there ex-
listed great corporation, dominating
in finance and in politics. much as great
corporations have tried to do in these
days. 1t was the only real financial
quantity in the country; controlling
nearly all the finances 1t sought to con-
troll the politics. or at least so believed
Jackson, and he set himself to the task
OF breaking it down. When he began
bis fight it was strongly intrenched i?
congress, and all the efforts of the
president to break it there failed. Then
1t was the old man showed the stuff he
was made Of. He ordered the secretary
Of the treasury to withdraw the gov
eminent deposits from the banks; the
secretary declined, saying it was
against the law of congress. The presi-
dent removed the recalcitrant secretary
and put in his place a man who be-
| ieVed rs he did, or was willing to carry
out his orders. The new secretary re-
moved the deposits and the corporation
fell.
1t was half a century before another
corporation sought to control legisla-
tion i'm the government. The credi,
mobilier sprang into existence, ran q
brief career financial bankrupted hun.
dreds and destroyed the reputation of .
score or more Of the prominent men OF
/ the country. Now we have corpora,
/ tlons by the dozen, but where is An
drew Jackson?
Education by Experience
There is little prospect that congress
at this session, Will come to the relic
OF the coast artillery to any marked eX
/ tent Costly guns and intricate and eX
peusive machinery will be left to tn,
mercios Of the elements; the army vii
be left with an inadequate force o
trained arJillerYmen, while we play a
being a World-power, mixing in will
the affairs Of other nations with alway
q chance Of being embroiled in a for
c'gn war.
This is the same old policy pursue