The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-14
PASSING OF BAILEY
REGARDED IN WASHINGTON AS
POLITICALLY DEAD.
His Hope of Ever Standing at the
Head, of the Democratic Party is
Dead.
Senator Bailey seems to be looked

|. Senator Bailey seems to be looked
upon in Washington as a dead polit-
|ical duck. This seems to be the
opinion of both Democrats and Re-
publicans in Washington, woere all
the facts in the case have come out.
They seem to think that Bailey's
connection with some Of the trusts
has done the business for that gen.
tleman, and that he is no longer
looked upon as a Democrat v'h3 can
be trusted with the ledership Of the
party. Here is what the Washington
correspondent of the Charlotte OBJ
server says about Bailey's standing
in the Democratic party:
"Since the exposure Of his deal
ings with the WatersPierce Oil Com
pany there has remained in the
minds of many persons a lingering
suspicion that as Senator, serving
in Congress net only in the interest
of the one State from which he
comes-but in the general interest
of the people at large, he should sew
er any legal connections that he
might have which would conflict with
the higher duties as member of the
Senate. Since the oil case was
brought to light. Senator Bailey has
made no concealment of the fact that
he had, and would represent certain
cases in the United States Supreme
Court.
"The Texas Senator, if general
gossip here is worth anything, has
ruined all hope that he might have
had Of again securing and holding
the high position he had won for
himself before the Waters-Pierce
matter came to light. If he meant
his resignation to be accepted, 1t, Is
claimed, he knew that he could nev-
er, in all the years he might continue
to serve in the Senate under present
conditions, unite with or cooperate
with the other Democratic members
to the best interests of the Demo-
cratic party.
"Did he mean it to be taken serl-
ously and accepted or was he merely
playing for position, making a
"stage play to feel Of the sentimen,
Of his colleagues and the people OF
the country by which he meant to
profit politically for his own benefit
should there have been sudden ard
spontaneous demand that he become
the leader in the upper House OF
Congress for having made himself
martyr to his own whims? What
ever may have been the cause thai
actuated him in showing his desire
to Immediately quit the Senate, one
thing is certain:
Senator Bailey will never again
be as big a man as ne was prior to
March 4, 1911. There was no spon-
taneous and frenzied appeal to Bal
ley to recall his resignation, though
it Is true that, naturally, few Of his
colleagues, surprised at what he had
done, expressed their surprise and,
as his close personal friends-and he
has many of them-wanted his ac-
ticn rescinded.
This correspondent seems to think
that John Sharp Williams, who sue
ceeds Nancy from Mississippi in the
Senate, will be the Democratic lead
er in the Senate. He was for a long
time the Democratic leader in the
House, when he was member IF
that body. 'Who else has the Sem
ate to depend upon on the Demo-
cratic side who could so ably handle
the Republicans as John Sharp Will
liams?" asks the correspondent who
says "to follow Bailey is out of the
question because, to use his OWL
words, he would not stand for initia-
tive, referendum and recall, which
was policy advocated by some Of
his colleagues"