The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-04

throughout the four hours of fiuen
and ornate language there was not one
word to indicate that Senator Bailey
realized the conditions of life had chan
ged any since the days of James Mad
ison. When he eXcoriated the yellow.
newspapers, he admitted that only a
few of the newspapers were RESPONSE
BILE, and the vast majority of them were
honest but he said no word that would
indicate that he realized that in Mad
ison'S day there wasn't a newspaper
in the United States that had a circu-
lation of two thousand readers and
that practically the entire population
was without means of popular infor-
nation.
| Back to Stage Coach Days.
When he spoke of the ample view
point our forefathers had for studying
the principles of government and pro-
viding for all the eXigencies of the
future, he said no word that would
show his listening auditors that he
realized that since the days of James
Madison anybody had struck oil, or
welted together a steel trust so un-
breakable that it could dictate govern
ment tariffs and sell its product abroad
on competitive basis while fixing its
own prices at home. When you heard
all of Bailey's sonorous nonsense about
the sacred and Interchangeable character
of the constitution you wondered why
he was not wearing silken knee breech-
es and a powerded wig instead of mod
set clothes. You wondered why the
standpatters of both old parties who
sat around nodding their approval were
willing for everything else under the
sun to take on modernity except gov
ernment
You thought of Madison, his stage
coach, his few hundred thousand con-
stituents-and then you thought of the
parcel post, the wireless telegraph the
country of 80 millions of people SO
welded together by modern invention
as to make California and Maine one
neighborhood
Arrayed Wilson Against Himself.
When he said of Hamilton and Mar
shall and Madison, they were the arch
itects and builders of the Nation; they
drew its plans and reared its super
structure" you wondered why it was
the only superstructure which in an
age of constant change and improve
ment Mr.. Bailey didn't want made mod |
ern.
The clever thing he did in his four
hours was to array Woodrow Wilson !
against himself He quoted from Mr..
Wilson's treatise on the constitution, |
written some years ago, to show that !,
Mr.. Wilson was opposed to the initial |
i've and referendum.
In view of the President-eects pres |
ent attitude it aroused momentary
stir. 1t didn't occur to Mr.. Bailey that |
in ten years Mr.. Wilson may have I
changed his viewpoint honestly, the
same as many other able Americans
have done. The same fact in as many
of Mr.. Bailey's own constituents seem
to have done.
Mr.. Bailey also prophesized that il
the Democratic party did it's duty the
Republican party would never nomin-
ate another candidate; that all the
Republicans who were real patriots
would join the Democratic party (mean
ing of course, the conservative Repub-
licans), and that all the Democrats
whose absence would be welcomed
would ojin the Roosevelt movement,
''let US not deceive ourselves said
Mr. Bailey, our conflict with him is
not ended. He'll take some of our
party from us, but, thank God, they'll
be the ones we can spare"
Spoke Lightly of Minimum Wage
In sighting terms he spoke lightly
Of the minimum wage scale and said
the poor were not growing poorer, but
better off. With these two or three
references to live issues he went inn
back to the writings of the
ancients, and talked of the spirit of ,
The honored dead who yet rule us from
their urns' And as he talked on and
On about these dead the electric eleva-
prs carried people rapidly up and down
he marble walls of the Capital Build
ng the trolley cars changed along out
side, taxicabs went whirling over mod :,
srn pavement, boy brought him bot F.,
led water which had been shipped j,
across the ocean in five days up in
he press gallery telegraphie instru-