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Philips exposed Depew as receiving more than $50,000 from several companies. He also helped educate the public on how the senators were selected and that it was held in the hands of a few bosses in a tight circle, helping increase the corruption level.
May 23, 2018 · David Graham Phillips. The interests of David Graham Phillips (1867-1911), American journalist and novelist, ranged from the plight of women to corruption in Congress. David Graham Phillips was born on Oct. 31, 1867, in Madison, Ind.
David Graham Phillips’s series “The Treason of the Senate” ( Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired Pres. Roosevelt’s speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for popular senatorial elections.
The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906. The articles were each published a month apart, beginning with the forward in February and the last article, in July. The series is a caustic exposé of the corruption of the United States Senate, particularly the corporate ...
Jan 14, 2011 · One hundred years ago, a libel accusation leveled at a famous novelist ended in the most spectacular crime in American literary history.
- Peter Duffy
On 23rd January, 1911, David Graham Phillips was murdered by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Goldsborough believed that the novel, The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig, had libelously portrayed his family.
Overview. David Graham Phillips. (1867—1911) Quick Reference. (1867–1911), born in Indiana, began his journalistic career at Cincinnati (1887) and moved to New York (1890), where he worked on the Sun and World. In 1902 he began to ... From: Phillips, David Graham in The Oxford Companion to American Literature » Subjects: Literature.
