The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-21
WASHINGTON


other Win such rapidity that there
is scare lv any thing startling about
them. They have become common
place. The President sends matter
to the Senate duplicating Senator
Tillman between whom and him
self there has been long estab-
lished unpleasantness, for, more
than four years ago the South Car
alma Senator behaved himself so
disreputably OH the Senate floor in
fifticuf attack on his colleague
Senator McLaurin that the Pres-
dent cancelled his invitation to the
White, House given in honor Of
Prince Henry, brother of the Kaiser
Expectation was on tiptoe Monday
the day that Senator Ti.lman an-
nounced he would make his defense.
Not even Gil first days or Inaugural
tion day has the Capitol been more
crowded. The South Carolinian's
defense was rather tame and to use
his own word "disingenuous." But
it appears TO have been satisfying TO
himself, Colonel Henry Watterson
and to some of his constituents
He gave out that he had a good deal
more to say with regard to the
President and intimated that he
would make all annihilat;ng ex-
posure of his dark and devious his
tory at future time. If Tiliman
of South Carolina can add a page
to the history or biography of The
odore Roosevelt after it has been
written and rewritten, phrased and
paraphrased through Presidential
campaign and during his seven
years as President he will prove
himself one of the most original lit
erary inventors or rehashers of this
or any other age. There is another
Senator who is trying desperately
hard to get back at the President
but his method is confined to the
stale and thread bare Brownsville
episode. Verify current history is
the most inter esting and edifying
of all history. 1t was only yester-
day as time goes that Theodore
Roosevelt was the object of objur-
cations of the offended and eve
Mortified Southland because he had
invited distinguished colored ed
ucator to break bre ad wiki him in
the White House and now Senator
Foraker has been trying and with
some appearance Of success to array
the colored population against him
because as Commander i'll Chief of
the Army he disbanded riotous
colored regiment in Texas. The
South has probably quite forgotten
the Booker Washington episode in
admiration and appreciation of the
courageous and judicious action
necessary to the discipline and NOR
ale of the army. Take another in.
stance. Ouly a few weeks ago
Samuel Gompers, President of the
Labor Federation, was savage III
his denunciation of the President
as either Tillman or Foraker and
on account of his manners and lam
guage probably more than for any
other reason he was not invited
with John Mitchell of the Miners
union and others to the dinner at
the White House given in honor of
some labor union leaders. Now
Gompers and Mitchell have been
sentenced to prison and are at large
on bail pending an appeal. 1t will
be remembered that certain leaders
of the labor organizations especially
those who had not been invited
scolftd at the invitation TO the
White House, and other leaders
who were present at the dinner
have since been ostraciZed and one
of them at least has, because of his
acceptance of the invitation, lost
his Office as the President of his Or
ganization. But see hcw the ta-
bles have turned. Mr.. Gompers
has written a letter asking the
President that he receive him and
other members of the Federation S
executive council. This request
and the fact that the President has
appointed an hear for the inter
view has occasioned some surprise,
for great bitterness between Mr..
Roosevelt and the Labor leaders
was developed curing the campaign
: and has been intensified by illjudged
and acrid language since. There
is an intimation that owing to the
depleted finances of the labor or
ganization Messrs. Gompers
Mitchell and Morrison have not the
necessary funds for an appeal to the
higher court and that there is ex'
t pectation that the President may
grant them pardon after merely
formal term in Jail.
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