Show U It f t I 1 I I I 0 i t PRo DR DEPEW IN ARMS i t 1 I 6 M M 6 t I M- M H t M t M t M 0 M t M f M M M- M The Thc brief speech of Senator Depew in the Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate y yesterday on the subject of the popular election of United States Senators furnishes evidence that the genial Doctor who on ordinary occasions is js s a matinee girl for fOl gentleness and sweetness is not ne necessarily always so but sometimes if not more frequently fi can drop the Frangipani and satin of the carpet knight so trim and become like his old ora college chum Marmion In stern fight a cl champion cham chani- am pion grim grini in camps a leader header sage Tn n ot ler other wor words s Senator Depew is not kindly affected af af- af toward the proposition to take the election of S Senators out of the hands of the State legislatures legislatures legislatures legis legis- and place it in those thos of the popular electo eleCto- rate Thinking that way he has the courage of his convictions o say so He did so yesterday and in inthe intile 11 the tile co co course re of hi his remarks s he lie displayed a desire to appeal t to the lex for the benefit of the op opposite opposite op- op side in a manner which must be considered consider or-j or d fierce if not not real devilish in one whose angriest est roar usually lly is like lile unto that of the sucking dove He warned tim the advocates of the popular senator senator- ship idea th that should they succeed in fastening the the fangs of th their ir f fell ll design deep in inthe the heart of the country's institutions the States which had limited th tilts the suffrage by bJ- eliminating the ne negro ro yote rote would feel the ear 1 marks of his sanguinary heel hicel that their representation would be bo cut down downor or 01 else Congress Con Con- gross gress ross take control of Federal elections and secure the tIle franchise to every male thing within their borde bor bor- de ders s. s S The incident was not much save in exposing i ith th tha 1 awful latent possibilities that lurk within the spotless shirt waist aist of the the grea great t an and g good od odI I stat statesman who in p part rt represents the imperial I wealth and power of the thc Empire State and of the theYan Yan family The TheMan Man on Horseback has lias lost his Jis t e He cannot scare us any longer since we find him hardly able to squeeze a twenty per cent tariff concession to Cuba out of an anun unI un unwilling I willing and nd surly Burly Congress ss s. s What hat we really have e I to fear Is thIC sudden development of a more terrible terrible terri terri- ble creature a a a man on a locomotive with a tonof tonof ton tonof of dynamite on on the cowcatcher With a sensation of shilling billing horror we we are moe compelled to express s the fear that t tie the le hour is approaching and the Man lan in inthe inthe th the outwardly innocent person of Senator Depew |