The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-09
WHIRL WIND IS DUE
IN REPUBLICAN
CAMP
Partisan Congress Certainly
Did Sow the Wind During
the Closing Session of the
Late Unlamented Congress
One Instance of Fla
grant Outrage.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March s.
''Sow the wind and reap the whirl-
wind" That's what the Republicans OF
the house and senate of the Fifty-seV-
enth congress did in the closing hours
of this congress. They rode rough shod
over the minority and now they are
repenting in sack cloth and ashes.
The filibuSter in the house and the
senate during the last week of congress
was productive of great good, not alone
to the people and their pocketboOkS by
the decapitatiOn of numerous bills that
were steals pure and simple, but it was
salutary lesson to the arrogant ma
jOfity. They have been returned so
often to power by the votes of the peo-
pie in the last ten years that they have
come to look upon the perquisiteS of
office as peculiarly their own, and that
they could do as they pleased and the
Democrats would sit down meekly and
calmly and suck their thumbs as they
have been doing too long already be-
cause they have been cursed with a su-
pine and colorleSs leadership. But, the
worm will turn at last, and sometimes
a man refuses to turn the other cheek
after being Smitten on one. You can
kick a tramp out doors when he is
plumb busted and he will not resent
it; but put n twenty dollar bill in his
pocket and then kick him and he will
knock you down. The Democrats
have been buoyed up lately by the mis-
takes of the Republicans, and the
twenty dollar bill of almost assured
success in the next campaign, and they
have come to the conclusion that it is
high time to assert their rights and
compel the Republicans to recognize
them, and they are doing so with
vengeance that has made the Republic
ans gasp for breath.
Sample Outrage.
This whole rumpus started when the
Republicans committed the greatest
outrage 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 Twelfth district of Missouri,
from his seat in this congress, twice
without ryme or reason. 1t was the
most indecent and indefensible piece of
partisanship ever perpetrated on the
face of the earth. Mr.. Butler was
elected to the Fifty seventh congress,
and his seat was contested by man
named Horton. Horizons record was so
rotten that the Republicans could not
afford to give him the seat, but such
was their partisanship that they would
not give 1t to Butler whose father had
been so prominent in Democratic cir
cleS in the city of st. Louis for years,
that no election had occurred That
happened on the 2Sth of last June. Last
fall Mr.. Butler ran not only for the va
cancy, but for the long term in the
next, or Fifty eighth, congress. He
was elected to both seats by a majority
or over 5000 votes. The man who con-
tested his seat for the short term, Mr..
Wagner, made his contest 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 committee simply called up
the case and the partisan majority
fired out Mr.. Butler on the ex-parte
statement of the Republican chairman
of the committee that he was elected
by fraud. They not only did that, but
they did it without a quorum present
as demanded by the constitution of the
country.
No SembIance of Justice.
They had the power and they used
that power like giant. 1t was simply
a case of might, and not the Semblance
of justice or of decency connected
Herewith. The Democrats resented the
outrage and caused the filibuSter not
so much in revenge for the indecent
partisanShip of the Republicans, but
as the Hon. John Sharp Williams. of
4hlSSlSSlppl, Sdlu the OlnGr Q;lN In one
of his brilliant and inimtable speeches.
1T was to give the Republicans to un-
derstand that they could not walk over
the minority with hobnailed shoes on
without stepping on something that
hurts. Mr.. Williams will be the next
floor leader of the Democrats, by COM
mon consent on the part of the Demo-
Gratis of the next house, that he is the
best equipped man in the house for the
position, and the Republicans will have
some hard shedding to walk over him.
TESy not only fear him, but they re-
Spect him as we'll
This flibuster on the part of the
Democrats has saved the people of the
country not less than $2O. .0O0. 900 in
jobs and petty steals that would have
gone through the Republican house in
the closing hours of this last session,
The taxpayers of the country owe the
Democrats debt of gratitude for that
if for nothing else
The Democrats have been nadder
thar they have ever been since the
F'ifty-first congress, when the Reed
rules were forced on them, and thew
have given the Republicans a gentle
foretaste of the future if the Repuh-
lican majority insthe next house at
tempts to play horse in the same wav