The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-04
SENATOR BAILEY
STANDPAT SWAN
A Big Crowd of Up-to-Date Citizens
Heard the Retiring Texas Senator
Dwell on Affairs of Long Ago.
Closing Address of a Losing
Fight.

Washington, Jan, 3-The farewell
address which Senator Joseph w. Bail
ey delivered this afternoon would have
done admirably as the swan song OF
standpattism.
1t had sympathetic hearing from a
Washington audience, which has been
sick Of this Progressive foolishness
for some time. 1t was the last import.
ant utterance of the abelest orator
standpattism can claim, and it was
all that any standpatter could ask for
In the way of scorn, invective and
oratorical persuasiveness.
Moreover, it was delivered by man
who Is going out of office, after twenty
two years of CONSPICUOUS effort at lead
ership, a victim to the transient dis
temper of the public mind" as the dis.
tinguished senator would scornfully
call 1t.
Serene Sat Serene in Senate
Tne occasion was big with expectan-
cy;the crowd was there, filling every
seat in the gallery, even the exclusive
section reserved for diplomats and dig
nitaries being occupied. Nearly every
senator was in his place and members
from the lower house came over and
stood around the circle behind the SEN
ators desks. Representative Serene
Payne, standpat Republican leader of
the House, was given senator's seat
wherein he sat and sagely nodded his
head at intervals for four hours.
And yet, after the long address was
over, the big audience got up and went
away, not gleefully but without spirit
or joyfullness, Every standpatter there
knew that it was only another Incl
dent in losing fight, only another
loud, but Intellectual protest in behalf
of past which is going down under
the steady march of militant, pro-
gressive present.
The burden of Mr. Bailey's song was
that representative government would
be all right if people would put more
trust in there representatives. He
quoted Madison, Hamilton, Marshall
and Jefferson as showing that the early
fathers meant the Nation to be an ideal
form of representative government,
where all the people were loving and
loyal to their representatives and all
their representatives patriotic and
deserving.
And as he talked of the ideals of Mad
ison and Hamilton one found himself
wondering what those early statesmen
would have thought of the Standard
Oil Company, the steel trust, the sugar
trust, the tobacco trust, the transpor-
tation monopolies and all the other
tremendous instrumentalities of an
age undreamed of in the simpler days
of individual effort
Why He Doesn't Love Newspapers
AS Mr.. Bailey spoke with feeling and
elequence of the newspaper attacks
which had made people suspicious of
their representatives, one could not
help remembering the disclosures of
Mr. Bailey's professional services for
some of these great concerns.
AS the speaker pleaded for a rebapt-
ism for the faith of our fathers one in
stinctively found himself wondering
whether Madison, Hamilton or Jeffer-
son would have taken retainers in the
service of any of these monopolies
while serving a government which oc-
casionally had to regulate, prosecute
or restrict the aggressive effort of
these concerns to build fence for
themselves around the earth and own
everything inside the fence.
The arguments from which NJ. Bailey
got the most comfort were those show
ing the limitations that Hamilton, Mad
ison and Marshall laid down in that
early day sor restricting the direct eff