The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1903-03-17
iron. tire -Aanons CaoitaL

lSpecia Correspondence TO the Chronicle !
Sow the Wind aud reap the whirlwind. -
That's what the republicans of the House
and Senate ct the - Congress have done
act are doing in the closing hours OF this
Congress. They have ridden cough shod
over the minority and now they are repent
ing in sack cloth and ashes.
The Iiibuster in the House and the
Sena e during the last week Of this Con.
Kress has been productive Of great good
not alone To the people and their pocket.
books by the decapitatios at numerous
bills that were steals pure and simple, but
4 has been salutary lesson to the arpog-
ant majority They have been returned
40 often To power bv the votes of the
people in the last ten years that they have
come to look upon the perquisites of
othce as peGHliurly their own, and that
, they could do a, they pleased and the
democrats would sit down meeklv and
calmly and suck their thumbs as they
have. been doing too long already because
they have been cursed with supine aud
colorless leadership. But, the worm will
turn az lust, and sometimes "A man refuses
TO turn the other cheek after being smitten
on one. Iou can kick tramp out doors
when he is plumb busted and he will not
resent it; but put twenty dollar bill in
his pocket and then kick him aud he will
knock you doSn. The democrats have
been buoyed up lately by the mistakes Of
the republicans and the twenty dollar bin
OF almost assured success in the next
campaign, and they have come to the con
clusiOn that il is high time to assert their
rights and compel the republicans to recog-
nize them, and they are doing so with
vengeance that has made the republicans
gasp for breath.
This whole rumpus started when the
republicans committed the greatest out
rage that ever Was committed in the history
of national Legislation in this government
that is, when they kicked out the Hon.
James j. Butler. OF the 18th district Of
Missouri, from his seat in this Congress
twice without ryme or reason. Ii was
The most indecent and indeiensible piec.
of partisanship ever perpetrated on the
face OF the earth. Mr.. Butler was elected
10 the 57th Congress, and his seat was
contested by "A man named Horton.
Horizons record was so rotten that the
republicans could not afford to give him
The seat, but such was their craftsmanship
that they would not give il TO Butler,
whose fath,r had been so prominent in
democratic circles in the city of ST. Louis
for years, so they declared tie seat vacant,
and that no election had occurred That
happened on the 2oth of la June Last
tall Mr.. Butler ran not only for the vacan-
~, but for the long term in the next, or
5Sth, Congress He was elected Ia both
seats by majority OF over G,0OO votes
The man who contested his seat for the
short term, Mr.. Wagner, made his con
,test on the ground of fraud in the district
There was over $500 pages of testimony
, IN the case, on both sides Of which the
committee on elections read not one page,
and submitted nothing to the House The
D., committee simply called up the case and
The partisan majority fired ont Mr. Butler
on the ex-parte statement of the -epubli-
ian chairman Of the committee that he
was elected by fraud. They not only did
that, but they did il without quorum
present, demanded by the Constitution
= of the country.
They had the power and they used
that power like giant, 1t was simply
a case of might, and not the samblance of
Justice or of deccncy connected Herewith.
The democrats resented the outrage and
caused the hlibuster, not So much in
revenge for The indecent partisanship of
The republican,, but, as the Hon. John
sharp Williams, of Mississippi, said the
other day in one Il his brillant aud mimi
able spees'hcs, il was TO give the republi-
cans to understand that they could ct
walk over the minority with hobnajled
shoes on without stepping on something
chat hurts. MI Williams will be the
next Aoor leader Of the democrats. by
common consent on The part Of the demo.
Gratis Of the next House that he is the
best equipped man iu the House fr the
position. and the Republicans will have
some hard Shedding 10 walk over him.
They not only fear bin. but they respect
him rs we aal IL wll be- nv pleasure
and privilege 90 give the reader, Of this
paper pen sketch ofihis brilliant man in
the near future
This hliuu-ter on The part Of the demo
Gratis has saved the people of the country
not less than S2O,OOOO0O ~ jobs and petty
steals that would have gone through the
republican House IN The closing hours Of
this last session. Tie taxpayers OF the
country owe the democrats debt of
gratitude for that ID tor nothing else.
The democrats have been maddcr than
they have ever been since the Fiuy.Gr.t
Congress whcn the Reed rules were forced
on them, and they have given the repuOli
cans gentle forc,ase vt the future ir tne
republican majority iu the next House
attempt. 20 play horse in the sam, wy.
The democratic hlibustcr in hc Senate
Aas been productive Of great good in that
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