Show QUAY AS ASA A HUMORIST SENATOR Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania is considerable of a humorist t himself We find the sena sosia senator sepa tor standing up In the senate and gravely demanding the passage pasSage of f the th omnibus statehood hood bill because the t last Republican national platform pledges the party to that action The omnibus statehood bill It will be remembered provides for the admission of ot Ari Ar Arizona zona Oklahoma and New ew Mexico The senate committee on territories in Its report recently submitted Insists that Oklahoma alone is ready for and nd en entitled entitled entitled titled to statehood It was of Senator Quay and his ht argument argument ment meat however that we started out to steak speak The old gentleman 1 never neer cracked cr a n smile when he talked ed about Republican pledges He a seemed to take Lake it for granted that the people took the tile Wr in Ip spite of Its long Jong on record re ord rea premises t Re Republicans Ret publicans ns are now n and the ve al always always always ways been long Jong i but put ex ox exceedingly c h 1 t We Wesee see no reason reaSon nOw why wh Senator Quay should houd expect t a change of front During D the campaign that closed when dum the th votes were wert counted last Jt st month we were wre told that the Republicans be depended upon uvon to han ban lil the question as it should be handled that they would enact such legislation as would regulate the evIls which grow out of ot monopolies It t Is true that a number of anti antitrust antitrust antitrust trust measures have pave been t oen een introduced during the present pre ent session elon of congress but not one ono of ot them has been offered oa r with serious Int t to strike a blow blo bloat at the trusts tU About half Mif qi of or the orators olO declared themselves In ln favor oe oV I l g the tariff tari on af ja g b would j lt 1 goods gos But no sooner bad had j congress assembled than it tJ was an ail announced n ed d that no legislation of t this thi character char ter would be e permitted d instead In ead eada a a policy has hs been laid down and nd the leaders join joh in the declaration c tat that that no bills bil other than tha those carry carrying lag ing is appropriations will be allowed U wed to togo togo togo go through S Senator Sentor Quay must mu t be acquainted d with wih these facts fact and yet he has the th hardihood to hold his ISIS party pary account accountable accountable able for its Is pledges The senator him himself hl himself self been so 50 careful about keep keeping lug ing ig faith as a he be might have bave been been And at this juncture we can hardly refrain from wondering how now warmly warly Quay w uJ espouse the omnibus statehood I it were were not for foit the ii business in interests interests of himself and some friends f in inthe the th territories Involved i olve |