The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-01
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| IT is worth noting, HoNeNe'' 'h'N
| mon who by common consent are hei"
tn he strongest with the people aio
those who are ut least preaching uitf
mate tariff revision. As an issue IL -
strong with the people. whatever 'o
terrifying effect upon Tie poi'tc"i
Nurse strings of the corporations
The Ohio Republican Fight
REPRESENTATIVE james Kennedy oil
tha Eiyhtecutb Ohio district, which in
cl,,des the great manufacturing city OF
Youngstown. j. one of Mr.. Tafts c4ief
| political Iieutenauts in that state VT.
Taft is not fortunate in his lieutenants
! At time when the big secretary
chief weakness before the country Is
the knowledge of the fact that his
nomination means fractional hght Ill
a pivotal state Mr.. Kennedy comes
to Washington and adds fuel to the
Foraker flames Most of the Tart
men are willing to let well enough
alone If they can nominate their 1doi.
| they are willing enough that FORAKER
| shall return to the senate Not > Ken
| nedy He demands the pound or flesh
with all the blood pertaining thereto.
He would drive Foraker out of poll
| tics and out of the senate and substi-
tute for him the ancient and pictur-
esque General Grosvenor whose own
constituents declined TO send him back
to washington last fall In the house,
in Which he has so long served. Cen
era Grosvpnor has always been per-
sonally exceedingly popular 10 him
alone among the retiring congressman
the house. regardless of party. tender
ed an ovation and presented IL testi-
monal of silver on the last day of the
session Himself Il bitter partisan, Il
strenuous and somewhat acrid debat
err. General Grosvenor has made a host
of friends and hardly an enemy on the
Democratic side Yet his substitution
for Foraker in the senate would not
add to the intellect of that body or
very materially liberaliZe its views.
He is as narrow as Foraker. as com
pete n stand patter and quite as much
impressed with the idea that she mis-
sion of his party is to serve the cor
porations and keep the stock markets
booming as the senior senator from
up and down the state preaching re
vision and permitting his lieutenants
to intrigue for the election Of eros
venor to the senate would he n model
of Inconsistency.
Tafts Latest Junket
On the daI that this is written Sec
rotary Taft left Washington TO begin
3,.;,, ~ \
on public business. lie stopped in Ohio
I'f'. enough to deliver Il speech on the
e~5,ntially private business of recon-
rnending himself To the favor of the
people of that state. During his serv-
ice in II" war department the Sscre
tary has probably Travelled more tff:in
any other living American unless H
be those who go forth to seek material
for 'travelogues and illustrated lee
lures. 1t is estimated that he has al
ready covered more than 10000 miles
and has yet this circumnavigation of
the globe to complete. If Mr.. Roose-
welt is intellectually restless. as even
his friends admit. Taft is physically so.
Somehow, though. the necessity of al
ways sending Taft to smooth out trOu-
bles in the Panama zone in the Philip
pines. in Porto Rico. and now on Il spe
cial mission to Asia and Europe, sug
trous thing for the national govern
ment should he be disabled 1t will
be remembered that when some over
Jealous friend of an Officeholder under
Lincoln succeeded i'll persuuding the
president that no other man was capa-
bic of diScharginS the duties of the
office he held Mr.. Lincoln replied
thoughtfully: what II disaster if he
should die think I'll abolish the
Office And he did This. however.
would obviously be too drastic rein
eGy to an;,i,- to the secretary Of war.
Wall Street In Turmoil.
The stock gambling community has
been going through il ocOnvuision that
somewhat recalls the days Of 1896;
In that year. it will be remembered
the New York banks concluded that
the Sherman silver purchase law
should lie repealed without stopping
for deiDeration or debate. by way OF
putting gentle pressure upon congress
10 do their bidding they prepared III
object lesson, as u result of which most
of the banks of New York were legal
~ and literally bankrupt. For weeks
they refused to pay their depositNS
i'll cash as the law provides, giving
thci!l instead clearing house certificates
which could only be used To liguidatc'
debts owed to some other bank. It
was the duty Of the government to iii
terfer' but as the banks were big and
not lii. lie the treasury looked Oh com
plaisa itiy. and congress even forbore
to impose on the certificates the Legal
tax of % per cent
Nothing that Wall street ever said
III the 1896 campaign against the then
Democratic nominee was more bitter
than what it is saying now against the
president Of the United States. 1t at
lacks equally those Democratic gov