The Princeton union., 1893-06-29

ONI GJs 1910
many friends among members of the
coming congress. AS a Democratic
he ought to be able to
be Of some value to the State. The3
other Democratic member, o. M. Hall,
Of Red Wing, amounted to nothing in
the last house and there is no possibil-
ity of his cutting any figure in the next
house. He has already earned the
title of "Poor Little Hail. and owing
to the fact that there will be another
Hall in congress from Missouri, he will
be known all over as 'Minnesota's Lit
tie Hall. ? The Populist member from
the Seventh district will flock with
Jerry Simpson and other cranks, and
his influence will be as nothing from
the start. If Minnesota must send
Popuiists to Washington, it is a pity
that the State could not send Ignatius
Donnelly. Everybody would be willing
to trade Hall for Donnelly and give
Boen to boot.
Your Sixth district member, Bald
win, had very serious time when he
was down here. Doran not only turned
him down very hard, but talked real
mean to him while he was doing it..
Baldwin was kept in hot water most of
the time. Nearly every Democrat in
the district took crack at him. Over
every post Office there was a bitter
fight and Baldwin was abused in the.
most vituperative manner, no matter
what action he would take, and often.
times he took no action at all: Your
Democrats in the Sixth district must
be a hard lot. 80. r.. Il ~. .s,.4t ss
The next session of congress is go.
ing to be the most interesting one
since reconstruction times. That is,
it will attract more attention and the
people will watch it more closely than
any other. Of course, the Republican
51st congress was a strikingly interest
ing body, but it was made so by the
great personality of Tom Reed as
speaker and the fact that he revolu-
tionized methods of doing business in
the house. What was done by that
congress did not excite such wide
spread attention as what will be done
in the 53rd congress. The probable
tiles are that mighty little in compari-
son will be done by the Democratic
house and senate as the Republican
house and senate of the 51st congress
were business bodies and seemed to
think that they had something else to
do besides wasting time in idle talk
and tedious roll calls.
Silver! 1t will ring out in the early
days of the coming session. It will be
talked about, lied about, misrepre-
sented, and form the basis of discus
sion which will run the gamut from
radical deductions to absurd vagaries
and after they get all through what
will it all amount to? Perhaps there
may be some relief for the business in.
terests of. the country, but there is a
spirit in the Democratic organization
hostile to what is known as business
interests. Business means that some
body is making money and the ground
work of Democratic feeling at the
present time seems to be against any
body making money or anybody being
prosperous. The job lot Statesmen
from the south who are able to live
and dress decently, and clothe anc
educate their families on the salaries
they receive from the United States
government, seem to think it is 9
crime if any man is able to enjoy {
larger income than that which, they
draw from the Federal treasury
There is no use talking to this kini
of cattle about the business interests O
the country, as the business Interests
of the nation to them means the pros
perity of their people. They have.no
yet recovered from the idea that NJ
gentleman should be engaged in bust
ness OF: engaged in fostering business
interests. What is the use of appl ying
to people like that?
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{. The spirit which pervaded the Dem
ocratic administration between 1858!
in the management Of the public do
main-the vast unsettled tracts of lanl
in the northwestern States, and The
lands which were in progress of settle