Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-01-15
A HIGH OLD TIME AT THE SEAT
OF GOVERNMENT.

OF GOVERNMhNJ.
Within the past ten days the Congress
and the President of the United States
have furnished to the people of this great
Republic sufficient number Of surprising
episodes to keep them in state of aston
ishment until the summer flowers come
again.
Sometime after sending his annual mes
sage to Congress- parts of which were con-
strued as being grossly insulting to that
body, the great "faunal naturalist in the
White House followed it up by request,
with another message, in which he in
formed the law-making aggregation that
its members were unable to understand
the true significance of the English Ian
guage. The Congress was as mad as a
hornet before it got the latter message. and
after reading and digesting it the members
grew ten times madden; so they forthwith
proceeded to get back at their insulting
accuser and in a dignifed resolution.
adopted by an almost unanimous vote,
they jumped upon his presidential excel
House of Representatives laid the objec-
tionable portions of the messages on the
table and informed the world that it would
refuse to consider them officially. as they
would refuse to consider any disrespectful
communication from any source. The action
of the House amounted to a rebuke so
severe that any man with the slightest SEN
sibility would have suffered deep humilia-
ton from it, but word went out from the
White House that the strenuous Executive
felt not the slightest concern about it.
The Senate has also had its filings at
him. and still there is more to follow. In
retaliation for the Senate's hostile attitude
toward him. and in order to divert the at
tention Of the public from the severe cas-
LEGATIONS the Congress had been giving him
and at the same time administer an under
handed blow at his old-time critic and enc
my. Senator Tillman. of South Carolina. he
sent message to the Senate designed to
blacken the character of Mr.. Tillman by
charging, in effect, that he had lied TO the
fiuence and worked as Senator for his
personal benefit alone in the Oregon land
grant matter Mr.. Tillman made a reply
which has attracted the attention of the en-
tire country, and has announced that he
will shortly make another, in which he will
give the President a nauseating dose of
his own physic.
OF his next attack Senator Tillman says
Il am not prepared now to predict what
my charges will be. but have a number
of clues.
When ! make statement in that
h shall follow it Immediately with
nee that believe will be conclusive.
] give the President a dose of his
medicine.
ask is that may remain in good
! until can make that speech.
n comes Senator Foraker, in a speech
Senate last Tuesday. and boldly ac-
Roosevelt's administration with di-
n of public funds and other illepal
ltraIeoH actions Spa Enc ~ Reese
ne says
doe not lessen the gravity Of his Of
that ID appears 10 be imperceptibie
@, u not SO, that he has become
otaiyions 10 an the restraints Of law.
- and pgopiie,y ia ms mao pursuit
use helpless victims of his ill-consid-
ction. Moreover. | shall be able to
! think, that all this has been done
ut authority Of law and with public
7 that has been filched from the public
lry in fiat defiance of the Constitu-
nd a statute in full force and effect.
40 not hesitate to say that in my
opinion, aside from the question whether
there has been misappropriation of pub
lie funds, no precedent for anything so
shocking can be found in all the history of
American criminal Jurisprudence"
Now, doesn't all this make a pretty ket-
tie of fish, Worse than all, there is no
telling where it will end. Roosevelt has
almost two months yet to serve and how
much more of mess can such a man stir
up in that length of time