The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-03-03
nY aIlson GARDNER.


WASHINGTON. n c. March 3 =.
Every year the people have :
chance II do little toward rrarn
Grating the lfulted States senate
and making II \ little more fespnA
slvs 10 the Demands u The people
This fear there are ham. star fah
Gals pho SEEK reelection and Wha
might Just AZ well be fetifsd
or The 80 senators whose tsrma
expire IN iena. and Who afs there
fufe nov campaigning faf their re
election. the Wurnt are
Albert j Hopkins ef lllluela,
IaH A HsmeHwaf Of Indiana.
flolss reufess. Of Pennsylvania.
Joe n Fafnhsr 81 Ohio.
Chaa v Fulton Of Oregon
Jacob IL aalllueeF Of New Hamp
shire
Henry 6 uanshroush Of North
Dakota
Weldon h lies burn Of idaho
Tho. Z Plat Of New Yufk.
All the ah09e named senators are
q draF upon popular government
They are the mrn who help special
interests IN thrive. who kfll ufi
parcels posts in the Interests nf tbs
express companies. who fiEht forrest
preservation IN the Interest n the
lumber trust. Nho oppose rate FuEu
laflou in the Interest ~ railroads
Who XIII Philippine tariff revision
20 aid the sugar tfuk, who. ID
short. are opposed ia thlnEa honest
and helpful. and Nho Do all in thsif
power to hele o. the designs 81
those people who belong IN iaii but
are still wearing hroadeioth and
presenting our principal cilies with
art galleries
Take a man like Hopkins for ex
ample. Ills record Is bad lie Is
tricky. but In spite 81 al his In
xeunitf II II perfectly evident L
anybody who takes the trouble q
study hls record that he has served
the interests aud not the people
lie pretended to be fer rate leeisla
ton but he tried to get tho bin sent
back 90 committee 81 the critical
stage II is consideration. The com
miitee Ras hostile. aud such a re-
/ quest betrayed Hopkins hostility
Hopkins has become rich while hf
has been eunzresaman. He wal
many years In the house Of repre-
aeuiativen. aud has reared a lafE,
f family he started as a barefoot
newshoy lie now has plenty Of thil
worlds goods He practices Law
T Its firm has had many eases before
the departments lie practices poll
T tics la the interest OF a guarnnt,
company be Is mixed up with out Il
Illinois He works With a eorrup
political machine In Chicago. II,
has had his relatives aud family oi
the federal payrolls In Washington
and IN Chicago. He has thriyeu OF
reeeiverahips.
The story Of the unfltness O
Thoa. Collier Plat IL a stale one
Every sehootboY ought 10 know b.
this time who Is the greatest dis
grace To the senate Added torn
fact that he represents the Vansst
bilts, the Ryan Rockefeller HpAri
man Rogers stock IobhinK outfit, to
gether with the Western Union
Telegraph Co and the United State
Express Co. he Is a man Of nutori
nualy degraded life. and he has en-
himself off from all decent asseeia
lions.
jas 4. Hemenvay IL the man VII,
inauEufated hia senatorial eareai
hY becoming the special representa-
tive Of the patent medicine trust
and fighting pure food legislation
lie. too. has carried members Of hil
family on the government PAYROLL
and has practieed similar small
crafts. lie Is opposed To the Hoose
welt administration and policies
and Is chief political manager faI
the reartlauary combination which
exists between Fairbanks and Can
non lie Is the tool OF the indiana
railroads. and was elected By rail
road Influence aud money.
Second only To- Plat In the dis
grace he brings upon the United
States senate. f. noles Penruae. oI