Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1913 — A Pettifogging Senator. [ARTICLE]

A Pettifogging Senator.

The American people like fair play, and therefore they take no pleasure in the spectacle afforded by Senator Reed, of Missouri, who flayed Lobbyist Lamar, whose stories involved two of his political friends. Senator Stone and Speaker Clark, but who wishes to deny to the men whose reputations are impunged by Lobbyist Mulhall the right even to cross examine a witness with whom the Missouri senator is quite evidently cheek by jowl. In the case of Lamar Senator Reed figured before the senate <tommittee as an attorney for the defense. In the case of Lobbyist Mulhall, a similar character, Reed appears as the pettifogging attorney tor the prosecution, and wishes to deny to the defendants in the case the ordinary right accorded a horse thief in the courts of Missouri. It is evident, of course, that Reed is playing the probe game for partisan political purposes. The truth in the matter does not concern him, he is merely anxious to extract from the Mulhall story whatever political advantage there may be in it. But when Lamar was on the stand, his efforts were directed to discrediting an accuser of friends of his own. This is the sort of "statesmanship’’ which nauseates fair minded people.