Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-04 | Page 16 | Senator Bailey's Concluding Appeal

Senator Baileys Bailey's Concluding G ng Appeal I H PREVIOUS P unsuccessful attempts made b by Senator Bailey to resign aroused the tile suspicion that he didn't know how But Bul the present effort is to be a success we are assured and the tone of his Ius swan song sont on Thursday in the Senate indicates that the Texas lexas statesman will wil retire to the simple pleasures of private life Delivered with the impassioned impassioned im ira- fervor fenor and matchless oratory of which winch he is is so c. c consummate a master Mr Baileys Bailey's closing plea in the chamber he has so long ornamented was an appeal for the preservation of the constitution ant an and the maintenance of our free institutions The superior of every other Democrat in iu public life his hiR proud and independent spirit made him a I natural leader for he lie knew not how to follow He is tho the last link Jink between the thc great Democrats of the past and the truckling time servers that gather in these latter da days s 's about the counsel table of the party o. o of nega negation tion and futility In his sneer at nt Republican success in only two states at the thc recent election and in ill his warning to his party's titular leader to follow the path of conservatism Senator Bailey enunciated an excellent principle but from a premise entirely false He is too farseeing a statesman to assume that the treacherous blows dealt to the Republican part party by bj those whom it had honored are fire likely to prove fatal his acquaintance with history is too complete for him to foster the that his hia party is permanently entrenched in power None should understand better better bet bet- ter than he heo that the rank and 2nd file of the Democracy is as radical as the thic enthusiasts who followed C Colonel lonel Roosevelt to defeat and that thal the President elect must seem to be l leading ading th them rn or they will trample him under foot The fhe Texas senator leaves lea the Senate halls with wilh the respect of er C every member The fhe incoming tide of radicalism beat bent in vain against his rugged integrity and of pride country and even eu those who most mol bitterly litterly denounce his bis unswerving ing to fealty the traditions of his Ins party's parts's great men have never ne doubted his honesty Incapable of joining in the tho assaults upon the constitution and and fearing th the results of the modern pandering to m his last words were a solemn warning his country will vill do well to heed