Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-08
agsBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
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-JusT BEFORE ELECTION


We are having these days some
political developments at
Washington. The other day we read
in the news dispatches that Senator
hal left the hospital and
gone to the senate chamber with his
head swathed in bandages, and voted
for the presidents four battleship
provision Following this melodram-
afie statement, was a relation at
detail of how the sena-
tor had rallied to the cry for more
hattieships- how he had always been
4 supporter OF the presidents polio
les and the inference was that he
was prepared TO risk life and limb
and even more to testify to his rea6i-
ness to enlist in the cause advocated
by the president
Not very long ago we found the
senator declaiming on the floor of the
senate for q new legislative twist
on the harvester trust Investigation.
taking advantage of the occasion TO
make a speech in which it was stat
ed that the harvester trust had in
Faded the state of North Dakota and
was prepared to oppose the senator
at the polls. Then some carefully
prepared extracts from the debate
in the senate at the time were is
sued and sent out under a senatorial
ranking privilege TO the people of
the state The fact Of the matter is
that the senate at that time sat
down on the senator's resolution.
and a complete publication of the
debate would have created an entire
IL different impression than the eI-
purgated edition mailed TO the peo-
pie of the state. It was the general
impression that the senator's FesoIu-
ton was intended TO create the op-
portaniry 10 picture himself as the
victim of tine Vaccinations Of the
harvester trust and to give him the
opportunity TO declare how great and
good a friend of the people ne was
and how he alone stood between
them and the rayaging hunger OF
corporate greed.
reau is so diligently and faithfully
portraying his personal and senator
ial sacrifices ON the part of the PEG
pie, Congressman Marshall takes I
leaf out of the senator's book amt
under Washington date line we find
the Congressman also Illuminating
against corporations Their inauen
cs must be eliminated from politics
declared the Congressman, who wen
on TO say that In his own fair stat
the corporate wolf was abroad. dc
Touring honest people, driving cit
zens away from the polls. infuenG
ing primaries and caucusess an
seeking to defeat the peoples will
which. in the opinion of Mr.. Mai
shall, is the election of Marshall {
the senate
There are many OF these fulmins
tons in Washington-the peopl
there have become used to then
Indeed. we reprinted one of the,
the other day, in which Senator Je
Davis paid his respects both TO Ii
corporations and the press How "
thrilled az we read the words of tt
senator from Arkansaw:
Go. damnable imps of pelf an
greed ] defy your taunts. Tear |
fragments my political career. III
COMFORTS with your execrable vii
Stifie and distort my every utteraue
and, not satisfied, IL such be yov
brutal frenzy, lash my poor form Ii
TO insensfbiIity Then. IT it be yo1
further pleasure. gnaw from ny stfi
ening bones everF yestage of guiEe
ing Hesh. Howl in wretehed bestial
ty through my own innocent bgo0
as it drfps from your fiendEsh Wis
ges. Drag. then, IL you want. Wh;
remains into the filth and vermfn
your foul dens and burn 1t upon II
altar of Baai or scatter fl before Il
friendly winds of heaven to your be