The Irish standard., 1908-02-22


ed of men safe for the interests. Penn
sylvania's representation in the Sem
ate are main cog wheels in the Repub-
iican machine. Texas representation
IN the United States Senate is now, and
has been for years, in the leadership of
the Democratic party in Congress.
Senator Culberson is now the Demo-
cratic leader in the Senate. Senator
Bailey was for many years the Demo-
cratic leader in the lower house of Con-
gress. and before him Roger .. Mills
was the Democratic leader Of a Demo-
cratic House of Representatives..
"A short while ago Senator Bailey
was accused of being an attorney for
a branch of the Standard Oil Co. in his
state Of Texas. That accusation very
nearly lost him his seat. Before that
Bailey did not have to ask for political
preterment in Texas After the accusa-
ton he had to fight for his political
life, and won by very narrow mar
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cd States Senate he was deprived of
the leadership which had been, by COM
mon consent accorded 10 him.
Senator Knox OF Pennsylvania is a
man of great ability and a far better
senator than PENNSYLVANIA usually has,
Senator Knox has been the attorney for
the steel trust and for the great rail-
road systems. is a. stockhoIder and di-
rector in some of the great corpora
tions, yet none OF these facts work
against his seat in the United States
Senate from Pennsylvania. In fact,
those are the things which place him
in the Senate.
They are now planning stayue Of
Matthew S. Quay in Pennsylvania, and
they are also trying some of Quay's
friends for defrauding the state. The
following description from Golfers
briefly states what the trouble is about:
"The trial Of the contractor, John H.
Sanderson. and the three former state
officials, James M. Shumaker, William
P. Snyder and William L. Mathues,
who helped each other to extract nine
million dollars from the treasury of
Pennsylvania for the trimmings" in
"a four million dollar capitol, has re-
peated in illuminating detail the sordid
revelations that came out in the pre-
liminary Investigations. A window
seat three feet long, measured before
the jury, cost the state $3212O. The
"throne chair" of the Speaker of the
House, measured by the foot, was
billed at $761.1O. The fittings of the
Senate and House caucus room, which
cost sanderson s2,06o, were charged up
to the state at $9O,74ssO, a profit of
4.3o5 per cent Bills were put in, aud
tied. and paid before the goods they
/ represented had been delivered
In the midst of these disclosures, or
rather these combinations of previous
knowledge, the question Of the proper
site for the statue of Pennsylvania's S
former political patron saint Matthew
Stanley Quay loomed up for settle
ment. Mr.. Karl Bitter has put twenty
thousand dollars worth OF art into Il
noble efflgy of the late senator, stand
ing III u statesn,anlike frock coat and
thrilling a breatllless Senate with an
apostrophe to high ideals in public life,
or something of the sort. 1t has been
the intention Of the legislature that ap-
propriated tho money to have the
statue set up in the rotunda of the
new capitol, although the matter was
left to the discretion of the statue COM
mission and the board of public
grounds and buildings. Now these
bodies are beginning to feel little
,ttmidity about assuming the response
bility, and Mr.. David Fl. Lane, of the
statue commission, proposes to settle
the matter by popular vote. Although
fastidious Pennsylvanians have shud-
dered a little at the thought Of putting
the statue where anybody can see it.
poetic justice seems to fix upon the
rotunda Of the capitol as the most APP
propriate place for it. There, in the
centre of Pennsylvania's Palace of
Craft the shade Of Quay can say: If
you seek my monument, look about
you.'"
Whose is the best citizenship. Tex
as or Pennsylvania's? Which state
serves tho general government in Con-
gress the better, Texas or Pennsyl-
vania? Where are the principles of
the American government safer, in
radical Texas or in conservative
Pennsylvania: