Show THE YELLOW STREAK t Since the first sesSIon of the RoJJerLB I committee The Trlbuno has said that there would be but one result t that I l possiblythree of tho committee would report In favor of seating Robtrts and then cxpolllnj Jslm while the others would vote to exclude him Th ro was no doubt of the finaloutcome there was not a sholv In the world for him to hold his seat We stated the news as It was sent us by an honest correspondent Wo haVe said too all the time that there would be no partisanship Jn the business neither partisanship sectionalism nor sectarianism that the result re-sult would be solely on the question llrat of the law and second on the question of decency and good morals An the hearing progressed we were the more sure of the result because be-cause the yellow streak In Roberts I was revealed When he evaded con easing that his child that had died was his child when he half hinted that It might have been some other man who was seen In the bedroom of one of his wives at S a m and when be 1 could not possibly account for the presence pres-ence of his own pictures In the house i of that name plural wife we were con l I I firmed In the belief that the committee would make short work of his case when It came to a final summing up of tho facts All the time the News and Herald have been deceiving their readers by their dispatches It has been clear all the time that they were not seeking to give their t readers the real news but rather such Impressions as their own hopes dictated Roberts was lobe lo-be seated the report might be unanimous unani-mous In favor oC seating him It was on one morning a mere partisan fight on anther a mere sectarian fight and again public opinion was rapidly changing In I Robcrtss favor In WashIngton I I I Wash-Ington andthroughout the country The answer to all Is the report which I has been agreed upon The great majority I I ma-jority of the committee will recommend I that he be excluded the minority of two one Republican and one Democrat Demo-crat will recommend that he be seated and then expelled In tills matter the public will readily correctly judge which has been honest and which yellow yel-low streak Journalism This is only referring to what has happened within a month The matter might be run further back even to before the election elec-tion or Roberts The Tribune begged the people not to put the State In the I situation which Robertss election would surely place It It told them what would come and we were answered back by the Herald that it was but a dastardly partisan fight and so soon as the present management was In chnrgc of the News tho same cry was raised It was but a fbrlit on the part of Tlie Tribune because Roberts was a Democrat and on the part of the Christian ministers as a means through which to raise money Further the whole thing would be settled before Congress woukl meet Tow doea It look now And which newspaper has dealt fairly by the people |