The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23
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..s Especial Washington Letter.1
HE multlnillionsirss Of Rhode
!. island are in q deadlock. 1,
may or may not be broken be-
ll fore this letter is In print The
metter I'm controversy Is the election OF
afCnitei States senator, and two Re.
pnelicsil. multis want It. Senator Wet.
more has tried the senatorial POGO and
Warts some more. Colonel Colt thinks
Wstmore llus had a quantum suflicit,
pSrhaps more thau a quantum mcruit,
sr9 wsnts to taste 1t himself. so these
trp; plutocrats have tapped their bar.
~, and In Little Rhody everything IL
hIry ~ marriage bell. While tho
tTP multls are wasing this war of the
barrels the boys are having a good
time and would be delighted TO see the
contest continne till the roses bloom.
zip Rhode Island the people have liz.
tlesto do Will. running the government.
II they did L would be Democratic.
Some astute persons have expressed a
doubt as. to whether they really have
Republican FORM of government in
Rhode Island such as the federal con.
stltutfoircqulres. AS Il Is 2S per cent
or the votes elect majority OF both
houses OF the legisature-a condition
growing out OF the fact that the basis
or representation IL about The same
now as ia century. ago. 1t is all based
on towns" In the lapse Of time Tho
population of some towns" has grown
20 nnd the population OF others dwin.
ttled so that the thing has come TO be
preposterous. but II suits the pluto.
crsts to "t." All they have TO do is
to round IN the 2S per cent who are
50 situated geographically as TO con.
trol both houses OF the Legislature.
With the other T2 per cent they need
not bother. The basis of representa-.
ton Is n constitutional provision and
cannOt be amended except the lcgisla.
turc il wllllng-which of course it is
not. Fs
In Earnest,
Evidently the Roosevelt third term
boomers are in dead earnest, and they
are goit,e AZ Il systematIcal,y ana with
netve. They ere out in The omen fight
ihC FOR At,,elr man oyaipst ali comors
ThaS .a;e publishing n magazine on.
tjt,cd l,iucllgtt in aid Of thci /.
ffl0v6n,ctlt. CcrtDjnly that paper js
correctly named. for If ever there wnc
ajnln Who loved to bathe himself IN
thd l,nhlight II is the Hon. II. r.. If Is
ptitjilslied lin Chicago. the Windy
(siiy.- anotjior observance OF the prc.
pti3finr. Eih,cllyl,t claims TINT IT'S idol
iSstIeM 6l,ing his first term. IL that bo
tflit thea thc idol himself did not know
wlikt W. was talking about when bc
DECLARED that the present term is hin
sS66nd. l.ln,elight seems to have a
GSphn o. boomers sjudicjously located
aE4pt tlsa land so as to give TO tho
ttJtd tcr1i movement the appearance
Mbelnk widely diffused. geographical.
Iyispesking, and IL tills its columns
With more or less heated com,nunica. :.
tl6Ae from these boomers. or course
MSSt Of them belong TO the .braad and
bitter brigade Is, to those hold.
idk oilice under the administration or
thOse; who hope TO do 80. 1t ought TO
be ttst4d that there are some who are
w6ooplug it up for third term for
Roosevelt under the delusion that the
county would speedily 60 10 what MIR.
NahtAiipi was wont to denominate ns|
.,tilA dSrnn milton bowwows" if Roosevelt
sbbpid lose his grip on the helm. Poor
sxhik. The governments life or prog
RIA depends ON no one man. thank
33d! And II all the officeholders In
America were to die today. IN n week
or,.fwbs their places would bc filled
wlfh Srdeh lust as capable. Whatever
cIse DhSppens In this land OF the free
ana home of the brave, the breed OF
diRceKoidArs will not run out.
iaEx.Csovsrnor Durbin of Indiana. an.
uth'Sr statesman out OF a lob and in
hobft of fetting one. has been In Wash
iiiktoh lately throwing icc water on
-thA FAlrbanks boom and screecbing
for, 4 third term for Roosevelt. Thc
txlSoyernor thinks h. knows that the