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Show H A BASE INSINUATION. H The News copies lovingly the printed words of Hj a foreigner, the burden of which is that in the H' United States, the rule is that United States Sen-H Sen-H ators are only elected through bribery and cor-H cor-H ruption and that Mr. Smoot will oe opposed, if at H all, because of his personal decency and the fairs' fair-s' ness of his election. Probably it was natural for the foreigner to write that way, just as nat-H nat-H ural as for the News to lovingly copy the dirty H slander. H- Some men have doubtless been bribed to vote lor certain men for the Senate. The habit came H to our country from England, but it is not yet the H rule, and it is not in the best of taste to charge L it as the rule or to copy the falsehood. Further, we cannot recall one Senator who ever bought a H seat, who would not, if called upon, go out and H fight, and if needs be, die for his country. That H fact proves their Americanism, at least, and even H in the Senate of the United States, real Americans' American-s' ism counts for something. |