The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-04
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srRAUB IS WORRIED


and supreme logic sometimes almost
take away our breath; and then
sometimes the way 1t lapses when it
tries to make a point for political
friend or against somebody else's,
really does take it away. Now, we
are sure we like Park Trammel1 as
we'll as the Telegram does, but just
LOOK at what 1t says in trying to
discourage the aspirations of Perry
Wall to beat the governor to the
United States Senate:
Run your mind back over the
history of the Senate as far as You
chose and pick out the business men
in that body who have risen above
the ordinary and achieved distinct
influence as factors in legislation
There have been a number of bust
ness men there, first and last, but We
have not heard of one who got in the
front rank either in the committee
room or on the floor of the Senate
in debate"
Nelson Aldrich! Marcus Hanna!
And scores of others-including our
own business senator" j. P. Tall
liaferro. What SHALL we do about
this Telegram, anyway?-St. Peters,
burg Times.
Don't fret yourself, Brother
Straub A perfectly pardonable lapse
of memory for the moment when we
were rushed to feed the ravenous
nav Of linotype made us overlook
the well-known case of Marcus Han
ma, of Ohio, the friend, mentor and
director general Of the lamented
William Mckinley. AS for Mr.. AL
drich, we had him in mind, but he
was in no sense a business man"
as that term has been applied to
Perry Wall. Mr.. Aldrich was a
swollen multi-millionaire and he
made his money through the pro-
cesses and benefits of that high pro-
lection to American industries he
loved 80 we'll and defended so ar
IDENTIFY. He was not a business man
in the Senate. He was the boss
politician of Rhode Island, treating
that diminutive commonwealth al
though 1t was his personal PROPERTY
and in the Senate he was simply 6
tariff specialist, defending the
agency through which he had piled
up his millions.
As for Marcus Hanna, he was an
other political boss of much thu
same type as Aldrich, and like AL
drich he was professional politi
clan after he had practically cease,
to be business man. Both went t,
the Senate, not as business men, bu
as big bosses in the politics of thei
respective States and it was as BIZ
bosses that they ruled the Senate
They are both referred to today b,
the purists and reformers in Amer
lean politics as two very bad ex
amples, not in their personal char
acters, but as representatives O
special interests, seeking to put tn
whole country. under tribute t
those interests.
Our original statement still hold
good that we have not heard of on
genuine bonas fide business mar
pure and simple, who got into tn
front rank or near the front ran
either in the committee room or o
the floor of the Senate in debate
Marcus and Nelson were both bull
old boys of rare shrewdness an
eagle eyes for the main chance, bu
they quit business to go into pol
tics and they went to the Senat
and remained there as politician
only.
And now will our tutor on tn
Times kindly point out some {
those other shocking lapses in juds
ment on the part of the Telegram I
which he refers as endangering h
ihe ny cutting OH MS air we ia
not suspected before that EditC
Straub took his valuable existence /
his hand, so to speak, and bravel
faced peril of deadly character whe
he read the Telegram We occasion
ally use hot air in our trade, as e,
cry newspaper man does. but we hs
thought it quite harmless, and "
are properly Mortified to learn tn.
at times 1T affects our ST. Peter
burg friend with almost the dead
effect of those diabolical gases use
by the Germans in their trench wa
fare.
Speaking of eugenics, derided /
some and approved by more as beir
merely good sense in proper propo
tion mixed with sentiment, in the in
portant work of selecting husband
and wives, Luke McLuke, who
much more than jokesmith, .pr
sents the subject from this angl
which gives a remarkably clear vie
of It:
1t makes man respondent whe
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