Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-02
NELSON ". ALDRICH, GENERAL
MANAGER OF UNITED STATES.
a Pen Sketch of the Lord of the Sem
ate, who Controls That Body, and
incidentally the Nation. a Nan of
Brains and Ability Necessarily, tie
Is an UndOubted Force.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 81. -
If you will look at Il copy of the Of
fetal roll call of the United States
Senate you will observe that the
names of the two senators from the
state of Rhode Standardization and
Wetmore-constitute the Alpha and
Omega, of that list, the beginning
and the end.
If this roll call were to be arranged
according to the prestige. power and
influence of the 92 members who
constitute that august body, instead
of alphabetically, the beginning and
the ending would not be changed.
For, let it be understood at the out
set that Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich is
the United States Senate. George
Peabody Wetmore is his colleague for
the reason that the constitution of
the United States permits each state
in the Union to enjoy the privilege
of having two representatives in the
Upper House of the National legis-
lature. The other 81 members are
merely the pawns which Aldrich
moves about the chess board of leg
isation as he wills. His is the master
hand which shapes the laws wherever
the interests of the ''InterestS' are
concerned. He is the pilot who
guides the treasure laden ship of
state through the shoals of politics
and lands her rich cargo upon the
wharves of Special Privilege. When
one knows the power of Aldrich and
the things he does, it is small won
der that he is referred to as "the
general manager of the United
States"
The artist in whose fertile brain
first originated the idea of the car
toon of the trust magnate, with
knotted features, double chin, bulg-
ing cheeks and corpulent, must have
sat in the gallery of the senate and
looked down upon the junior senator
from Rhode Island, and then gone
away and drawn his picture. He
could not have gotten his conception
from the calm, pleasant, regularly
featured face of Nelson W. Aldrich.
Wetmore is the type, yet Aldrieh re-
presents in fact what his colleague
does in appearance. But man is
not to be called to account for his
personal pulchritude-or lack of 1t,
and this is not consideration of Sen
ator Wetmore. Although a million
aire he is not trust magnate, and
if there were two Wetmores in the
senate from Rhode Island it would be
far better for the people of the whole
country, for, to say the least, Wet
more is harmless, except that MS
name coming after Aldrichs, he al
ways votes as does Aldrich. During
the IA years he has been in the SEN
ate his longest speech has been, "Mr
President. / offer the following bill
and ask it's appropriate reference.
Ordinarily, his remarks are limited
to the responsive AYE" or mo. But
for all that George Peabody Wetmore
is the one real representative OF
Rhode Island. Although accredited
to the state. Nelson w. Aldrich, sc
far as it's people or their welfare
are concerned might as well hal
from Alaska or Mindinao. He is not
the representative of Rhode Island II
the senate. he is rather the repre-
sentative of the Interests in the
great game Of special privilege
Having been born in Rhode lslant
and maintaining a legal residence
there, and being able to control lt'
politics by a system of corruption
and debauchery unparalleled in any
other commonwealth Rhode lslan'
offers him the opportunity of sitting
in the senate to do the will of those
who want him kept there.
Aldrich has been called the repre-
sentatiye of "Business' in thu
United states Senate. That is mis-
take. He is the representative o
tariff barons, of high finance o
special privilege and OF legallze'
plunder which are no more entitled
TO be called honest buslnes
than piracy is entitled
be called commerce. lie STANDS 10
that which the Great Hunter OF tn