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Show Grant overt c;; -1 t! - t1. y v I a f;ht-ing f;ht-ing for twenty year a, 1:1. iL '.r a.a..tha. ' 'Well, one'ir.crnirg it v. : j I'.a-hcd to the country that President Lincoln Lad lata r.:. a.-a-inatcd. Then tLey realized, by the bhock they felt, who was really the great man of the rge, and how Email they were by comparison. Their soul3 were in sackcloth sack-cloth and ashes,' and. the sting of their, sorrow was intensified by the stings of remorse for the obstacles obsta-cles they had placed in his path.' The present Republican Senate' should, remember remem-ber that, and should try to imagine what their thoughts would be 'were President Roosevelt to meet tomorrow the fate that President Lincoln met forty-one years ago. The whole North grieved for Lincoln; the Nation, North, South, East and West would grieve for Roosevelt. What their , "motive is in opposing him people cannot understand. That he' is trying to usurp some of the prerogatives of the Senate? , ; That will not do so long as they stand between the country and needed legislation. -They ought to Jcnow that in their direct reasoning the people will Niy they are attorneys for the trusts and combines, thafare fleecing the. people at every turn. And once in about so often the people .'have a way of smashing things and making a new deal necessary. ne-cessary. The Senate should remember that. ' ' : - , the president and the senate. t :. Congress, and especially the Republican Senate, has not met the President half way during the pres- ent session. The Philippine bill has been killed, the 'i rate bill is now under fire; the San Domingo treaty has been fco far hung up; in many ways the major ity in the Senate has seethed to be in closer accord i with the sugar trust and the railroad combines 1? than with the President.' - ? . This is most unfortunate for the country and for the Republican party. The Senate in 1863-64, while it grudgingly voted eupplies for ; the army, had within it about a dozen controlling members who r CM not mind showing their belief that the wrong . ' i.ian was President, and did not hesitate to give ', their opinion .as to the mistakes . that had already ' boon made and o point, out what should be done. Jven Appomattox did not quite reconcile them. The fact that slavery was dead and the war was ractically over did not really 'reconcile them. They : t realize the truth, which was that, down , V y frit ttat they had not received their full 1 t! for it was clear that Lincoln and |