The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-06
BAILEY MEETS
HIS MATCH
By Ernest @. Walker.


like ninety United States Senators are
feeling very glad that one has come
within their circle who seems capable
of combat with Joseph w. Bailey, OF
Texas. An incident OF the past week
brought him to the front and he bore
himself so well that the satisfaction
over the trimming he gave the Texan
is still the subject of comment in the
cloakrooms
And while Senator Charles ]. Hughes
Democrat, of Colorado, is stoically re-
ceiving congratulations over the out
come of his clash with the formidable
Bailey, the Senate is beginning to take
notice of the arrival of other Demo-
Gratis, who promise to come into the
ranks of forceful and effective deb1t-
ers. Gore, the blind man of Oklahoma
has been getting into prominent place
The Republicans have ceased to smile
derisively when he speaks. His coli
league, Owen, is also becoming SEN
ator of argumentative power. Accord
ingly there is galaxy of speakers ana
analyzers on tho Democratic side whe
promise to make tho minority more re-
spected.
AS debater Senator Bailey is prob
ably the most concise, aggressive and
dangerous opponent among Democrats
and Republicans. He knows his ability
and seems Mt times to use it to tantS-
lie his less gifted brethren. He es-
| says to lecture and to prescribe. He
tells Others what they should do. He
attempted this upon the new Democra-
tic Senator from Colorado, man WHIT
has an angular face, crowned with gray
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oldfashioned, plain but grouchy citi-
zen. He has been sitting in the rear
Senate row all the session, without
hardly lifting up his voice. Out in
Denver they know him as "Charley"
Hughes, great expert in mining and
irrigation law and leading legal light
who has spoken before the American
Bar Association and the Harvard Law
School and dabbled little in politics
occasionally.
Senator Bailey undertook to criticize
the work of the Denver convention rs
| he had done previously several times
| in the course of the tariff debate and
| defined his ideas of what the functions
| of a convention were. He stepped on
the toes of the Colorado Senator by
reference to the votes of that Senator
and roundly expressed his disapprnval.
The Senate was greatly surprised when
the gray-crowned man arose unosten-
tatiously and described his articles OF
faith. He was thinking it up" with
the Texan in n few brief minutes and
the senate was all attention over tho
unexpected proceeding. His language
was not quite as precise as that the
Texan uses but his sentences were well
chosen. His ideas were clearly formed.
He did not lose his temper but he ex'
planned why it did not look well in Mr..
Bailey to undertake to lecture him and
why some of Mr.. Bailey's views about
'ational platforms were not orthodox
from the Democratic point of view.
The speech, well balanced and strong
ly delivered, has opened the way for
the Colorado Senator to attain high
place ut that end of the Capitol. He
has not pitched into debate with Re-
publicans yet but plainly has the capa-
city for it and in time will be touch
!, ing elbows with Bailey and Tillman
in combating the Republican doctrines.
He promises to be different kind OF
, an antagonist than either and may have
, the opportunity to rise to greater
, eminence than either of them as an
. opposition force.
r
). much the same class of criticism as
a Senator Tillman has busted himself with
A in the many years Of his Senate service.
o But he is not as violent as Senator
;. Tillman often is and does not shock
? the sensibilities of many possible sym
!. pathizers by vehement outbursts. Be-
- cause of the loss of his cyesight Sen
2 ator Gore is greatly handicapped but
n he makes surprising progress. His
A memory is little short of marvellous
and he can follow an involved debate
v of figures and abstract data quite as
4 readily and intelligently as any Sen
h ator who has two eyes.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, has been
10 something of force as critic and
n opposition man, but he is so prolix that
nj he loses effectiveness. The bulk Of
a. really able Democratic debating there
fore has fallen upon the two Texas Sen
N ators. Bailey and Culberson, and Ray
70 ner, of Maryland. The latter is the
n. Democratic DOlliver, but like Mr.. Dol
al liver, he comes forth only occasionally
NJ and when he has a prepared speech tt
deliver. The tasks of exposing thu
weaknesses and faults of Republican
measures, as presented for considera
ton on the Senate floor, have beer
lett To Two or three men ana tnlS na
been responsible for much of the com
n ment about the decadence of Demo
+ cratic strength in the upper Legislative
L branch.
Possibly n revival is at hand. Tn
work of the new Democratic Senator
he seems to indicate as much. Shively
Sc of Indiana, is credited with being al
ne able man who might supply som
-, strength to the personnel of his part.
- in the Senate, but he has been i'll s
p much during the extra session tina
IL there has been no opportunity to tr.
Y; him out. He made one speech an
n. demonstrated that he could take car
:, of himself in debate and also discus
~ measures on plane above the com
IL monplace.
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