The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-06-09
REBUKE GIVEN
TO PULL-RACKS
Senator Penrose Takes 0cca-
sion to Give La Toilette An
other Verbal Castigation
TIME FOR HARANGUES TOCEASE
Editorial From BeIlefonte Gazette on
Efforts Of %Lilliputian Statesmen
Well Expresses the Situation and
Views Of the People at Large.

Efforts Of Lilliputian Statesmen
Well Expresses the Situation and
Views Of the People at Large.
For the second time during the
present session Of Congress, Senator
Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, was
practically forced to administer a
stinging rebuke to Senator La Fol-
!ette, of Wisconsin. La Toilette and
a few other near-Republican members
of the Senate have been forcing the
policy of delay and obstruction far
beyond the line of endurance. Re
Gently Senator La Toilette spent mos.
of IA day in a political harangue III
which he endeavored to establish that
he was not a Republican. No
who knows him had charged him with
having that particular virtue. In or
der to push along the proposed tariit
bill to a satisfactory conclusion the
Senate was forced to hold night ses-
sions.
After Senator La Toilette had con-
sumed much of the day in a rambling
talk without point or purpose, his
friends attempted to prevent a night
session on the ground that the Wis
consin man was sick and was not
able to continue his speech, This
nimsy pretext provided Senator Pen
rose. who launched a terrific attack
upon Senator La Toilette. No speech
delivered upon the floor of the Senate
since the tariff session began mas
caused a greater sensation. Senator
Penrose charged the Wisconsin Sem
ator with wilfully deceiving the SEN
ate.
In tones of indignation that brought
all the members OF the body tlockinS
from the cloak rooms, the Pennsyl-
vania Senator alleged that La Fol
lette's sole purpose was to delay con
sideration of the tariff bill by feign-
ing illness and ~absenting himself from
the session.
while | have no desire to make
any reference to the Senator from
Wisconsin in his absence" Penrose
declared, 81 am prepared to show the
Senate at any time that part of his
professional tactics is to make a pro
tense of illness while he is openly
abroad upon the streets consulting
with the editors of yellow journals
and agents of uplift magazines.
Upon SO many occasions has this
practice been maintained as to make
any man in his ordinary senses abso-
lutely refuse to believe any statement
regarding the Senator from Wiscon-
sin"
On the former occasion when Sem
ator Penrose had occasion to call the
Wisconsin Senator to account, he char
acterized the tactics of La Toilette as
those of a mountebank vender from
the tail-end of a cart.
The p~ull-backs in the Senate, chief
among whom are Senators La Toilette
and Beverage, of Indiana, have be-
come positively provoking. They
have been playing to the galleries at
the expense of every legitimate in
terest in the nation, and the rebuke
administered to them by Senator Pen
rose has started a wave of applause
which seems to be rapidly spreading
to the extreme limits of the continent.
The drafting OF a tariff measure for
this nation is a ponderous work. 1t
requires serious and intelligent work.
1t has enlisted the best thought and
most earnest consideration of tho
trained statesmen of the whole u
try, and when the transformers of
which La Toilette is a type attempt
to sprag the wheels with haranguec
intended wholly for home consump-
ton, q vigorous, earnest rebuke such
as that administered by Senator PEN
rose is timely and particularly pleas
ing. Regarding the senatorial pull
backs and grumblers the Keystone
Gazette, of Bellefonte, Pa, last week
printed a decidedly interesting edi-
torial which is appended. 1t is well
worth the reading:
There seems to be a studied effort
on the part of some Lilliputian states
men who assume to train as Repuh.
licans to Illustrate and delay the ac-
ton of Congress in legislating on the
tariff question for purely selfish polit-
ical purposes. The La Follettes, Cum
minses and Dollivers, who are rather
notorious for the wind power they
possess, and who have exceedingly
great personal admiration for them,
selves and exalted ideas of their own
abilities as statesmen, are seeking
persistently to cripple the Republican
party and its leaders regardless oil
what it may cost the business inter
ests of the country, if they could
thereby leap into the saddle and pro
claim themselves as the leaders of the
Republican party of the Nation.
1--WE have a few would-be leaders
and statesmen in Pennsylvania who
are influenced by the same motives
and who desire to accomplish thu
same purpose. We clip the following
from the Washington Observer, owned
and edited by ex-Congressman Ache
SON.:
1.-The progressive Republicans in tn,
Senate are sounding notes of warning
to the leaders of the party in the de
bate on the tariff question. Wha
crimes are committed in the lame o
protection against the American pee
pie in favor of the trusts and the 81