Morris tribune., 1909-08-21
LANDS ON ALDRICH.
Clapp Neither Stung to Silence
Nor Entombed by Boss.


read papers in America. It runs a
page feature entitled: "Who's Who
-and Why'' in which public men are
freely criticized or commended. In
last Saturdays Post the junior senator
from Minnesota, Moses E. Clapp,
comes in for a write-up on his fight
for downward revision of the tariff.
Clapp is good fighter, a man of
striking appearance, well balanced,
and an able lawyer. He doesn't ever
go off half cooked, and whenever he
spoke on the tariff bill he was listened
to attentively even by those on the
other side of the fence. There was
no mistaking his position from the
start, and his final stand was consis-
tent, and he went down fighting and
,, asking for no quarter. The Post tells
it as follows:
Just before Mr.. Nelson W. Aldrich
stamped for the last time on the
piteous upturned face of the ultimate
consumer, just before Mr. Aldrich put
the final boots to the theory that re-
vision of the tariff means revision
downward instead of upward, just be-
fore the Vice-President asked that
question has been tucked away in the
back of his head since April 10, yearn-
to be asked but held in what we may
term allegiance, because some ninety
two Senators desired to bay a few
million words about their ideas con-
cerning said tariff, which ideas includ-
ed everything in the sum total of hu-
man misinformation, from aardvark to
zythum, that question everybody has
been waiting to hear: "Shall the bill
pass?"-immediately previous to these
historic occurrences, up rose Moses
Edwin Clapp, Senator from Mime
sofa.
Up rose Moses Edwin Clapp, Sena-
tor from Minnesota, and rising, said,
in part and in conclusion, impenitent
and impassioned: "I merely wish to
say now, that my silence may not be
misconstrued, that the Senator from
Rhode Island has neither stung to
silence nor entombed at least one
Senator" the inference being, of
course, that the at-least- one Senator
who remained unstung and disinterred
was the said Moses Edwin Clapp.
Well, sir, that was dramatic mo-
ment. Six Or eight other Senator'S
all Republicans-had come to bat, in
quick succession and told the Senator
from Rhode Island to go and take
long running jump, because they in
tended to rebuke his infamous tariff
making by voting against the bill, but
Nose was the only one who gave it
out cold that he wasn't stung. Nor
was he entombed. There are those
who hold that Noses little cemetery
reference was Pathological, for any
person who is entombed is pretty bad
ly stung, so far as current events go,
and if he remains outside the sepulcher,
no matter what has happened to him,
he is comparatively unstung, in a
manner of speaking; but Moses Edwin
wanted to make it good. So he did.
Now taking Nose by large, it would
have to be pretty handy stinger to !
sting him, stingaree, at any rate, or
stingerino. Not disputing the fact
that Nelson w. Aldrich is somewhat
of a stinger, it is here chronicled, in
his very words, that Nose remained
unstung. AS the poet says: Gun
tombed, unsilenced and unstung."
Take your change out of that, Mr..
Nelson w. Aldrich.
1t was this way with Moses Edwin. |
His state, Minnesota, wants revi-
sion of the tariff, is positively hanker-
ing after it, and when the Honorable |
Knute Nelson, the other Senator, be-
gan knuting around early in the ses-
sion, along revision lines, it was up to |
Moses Edwin to get off the reserva-
ton, too, and he got Off issuing forth |
a short time after the Honorable
Knute had dyed his chin whiskers a
brilliant cardinal and waggled them at
Nelson W. Aldrich as a sign of de-
fiance, declaring that hem. E. Clapp
did not intend to be shackled by the
dicta, dictum or dictorium of the Or
ganization, that he was for real re.
vision of the tariff, and would Mr.,
Aldrich and all the Aldrichians kindly
put that in their pipes-tariff fifty
per cent-and smoke it?
The Migratory Mountain.
When Senator like Moses Edwin
leaves the reservation there is an ap-
oreciable vacancy. A slight and ten