The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-30

And what also could the country
do than try the case as it did try It?
The Scotch verdict" no more OBJ
scursd the black in Lorimers record
than the waters of old ocean make
white the swans black legs Mr..
Bailey was the savior OF Lorirner,
whose case he made his own, though
without dispossessing the INTEREST,"
that bought it Of the corrupt gang at
Springfield. The senator from Texas
rescued Lorimer from official chas-
tisement, though he was powerless to
relieve him of public odium. The
country was heard from, and every
wave was freighted with virtuous in
dignation. What was 10 be done? A
ton.
Arizona came along with a pre-
text, and the Hon. Bailey found him
self one of a small minority of the
minority. a condition that he ought to
be accustomed to by this time. as
witness his stand on the tariff. on
reciprocity with Canada, and on the
Lorimer case. He seized on the Ari-
IONA constitution and sought to make
it a paramount to eclipse the Lori
mer case; but the country cared moth
ing about the Arizona business. One
day after he had overcome all his
enemies and his reign had become
tranquil. committee of a church
congregation waited on Frederick the
Great and lodged complaint against
the minister he had sent them, who
preached that there was no everlast-
ing hell after death very WELL re-
sponded the royal old reprobate, IF
you are resolved to be eternally
damned. be 1t so ordered And the
country is ready to say to Arizona
that if she is in love with her consti-
tuition. let her keep it. Nobody cares
a rap about the ARIZONA episode. but
all America is concerned about the
Lorimer case. that isn't yet res adj
judicata" by a long sight.
Senator Bailey is strong for tradi-
tional democracy Has he read the
platform on which John c. Brecken-
ridge ran for president? If not, let
him do so. and find himself con-
founded as to his stand on Arizona.
But Mr.. Bailey is a considerable
force. He has a following. He is
powerful senator with some half a
score votes in the senate, one of them
from my own state of Kentucky, that
he allows Paynter to cast. How long
the Democratic party is going to put
up with the capers and shines the
Hon. Bailey cuts is difficult to tell;
but if on the reorganization of the
senate both the majority and the min
GRITTY of the finance committee are not
revised, there is going to be a terri
bic row. The unspeakable Penrose
must go, and so must the recalcitrant
Bailey. Let these two tinker with
the tariff and Aldrichism and Can
nonism will remain with US always.
Mr.. Bailey breaches free trade and
practices protection. He makes a tar
if reform absolutely impossible by
his stand for taxed raw materials.
Aldrich knows, Penrose knows, Can
non knows, Dalzel1 knows, that free
raw materials is the beginning and
the only beginning Of lower and hon.
ester tariff taxation. Every one of
these joins cordially with Mr.. Bailey
for taxed raw materials. and Mr..
Bailey's position on that question is
precisely the position they would
have him take.
As for reciprocity with Canada,
that is additionally Democratic. The
free trade era-1s46-61-gave us reci-
procity with Canada by a treaty ne
gotiated when Franklin Pierce was
president. That convention would
have been broadened and renewed
had not the war of 1876 come on
to be fought. BY this time there
would have been absolute free trade
between the two countries had the
Democratic view been absolutely
maintained. But Free Trader Baileys
objection to the proposed Canadian
reciprocity and Protectionist Cum
minis objection are identical But the
country is for reciprocity. and reei-
procity it intends to have ere the
summer solstice come.
The death of Jonathan P. Dollievr
was a great calamity. He had Just
begun to grow. and he promised to
be second TO no man in his party in
the country. And there was another
equally great calamity. It came when