The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence Of Intclli0encer
Washington, d. c., March,, 1908,

hours Of this Congress. They have
ridden rough shOd over the mir .Ority
and now they are repenting. in sack
cloth and ashes.
The fllibuster in the House and the
Senate during the last week of this
Congress has been productive of great
good, not alone to the people and their
numerous bills that were steals pure
and simple, but ithas been q salutary
lesson to the arrogant majority. They
have been returned 80 often to power
by the votes Of the people in the last
ten years that they have come to look
upon the perquisites of Office as pecu-
llarly their own, and THAT they could
do aS they pleased and tho Democrats
would sit down meekly and calmly
and suck their thumbs as thew have
been doing. too long already because
they have been cursed with q supine
and cc!H:!ess leadership But, the
worm will turn at last, and sometimes
man refuses to turn the other cheek
after being smitten on one. You can
KICK O tramp outdoors when he is
plumb busted and he will not resent it;
but put q twenty dollar bill in his
pocket n kick him and he will knock
you down. The Democrats hays been
Duoyed up lately by the mistakes of
the Republicans, aud the twenty dollar
Dill 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 Re-
pubiicans to recognize them, and they
are DONG so with a vengeance that has
maze d Republicans gasp for breath.
Inc whole rumpns started when the
Republicans committed the greatest
outrage that aver was committed in
the history of national legislation in
this government, that is, when thew
Kicked out the Hon. James j. Butler,
OF the 18th district of Missouri, from
nus seat In this Congress, twice with
u rhyme or reason. 1t was the most
indecent and l~ndefensible piece of par
of the earth. Nj. Butler was elected
to the 9th Congress-, and his seat was
contested by o man named Horton,
horizons record was 80 rotten that the
Republicans could not afford TO give
MIN the seat, bat such was their parti-
ssnshlp that they would not give it to
Butler, whose father had been sopromi-
nent IN Democratic circles in the city
or st Louis for years, 80 they declared
me seat vacant, and that no election
nad occurred. That happened on the
2Sth OF last June. Last fall ar. Builder
a not only for the vacancy, but
Sor the long term in the next, or 58th,
Congress. He was elected to both
seats by q majority of over 6,0OO votes.
The man who contested his seat FOR
the short term, Mr.. Wagner, made
his contest on the ground of fraud in
the district. There was over 1900
pages. OF testimony In the case, on both
sides OF which the committee on cleo.
nothing to. the House. The COMMITTEES
simply called up the case and the par
tisan majority fired out Mr. Butler
on the ex-parte statement of the Re-
publican chairman of the COMMITTEES
that he was elected by fraud. They
not only did that, but they did it with
out o quorum present, as demanded
Dy the CONSTITUTION Of the country.
They had the power and they used
o case OF might, and not the eemblanco
Of justice or Of decency connected
Herewith. The Democrats reaented
n outrage and caused the flibuster,
not 30 much in revenge for the indie
cent partisanship Of the Republicans,
but, as the Hon. John Sharp Williams.
OF mississippi, said the other day in
one OF bis brilliant. and & inimltabte
cans to understand that they could not
walk over the minority with hobnailed
o on without stepping on some
thing that hurts. Sir. Williams will
be the next floor leader of the Demo
Gratis, by common consent on tho part
OF the Decocrats OF the next House,
that he is the best-equipped man in
q House for the position, and the
ding to walk over him. They not only
fear him but they respect him rs we'll,
and it will be my pleasure and privi-
lege to give the readers Of this paper n
pen sketch Of this brilliant man in the
near future.
Democrats has saved the people of the
country not less than $50, DOC, 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 O debt OF gratitude for that
II for nothing else.
The Democrats have been madden
than they have ever been since the
FIFTY frst Congress. when the Reed
rules were FORCED on them, and they
foretaste OF the future If the Repnbii.
O majority In the next House lat
tempts TO play horse in the same way
The Democratic filibuster inthe SEN
ate has been productive of q great
good in that it has resulted in the
death of the Aldrich financial bill
That bill was designed to give the
al advantages, andin fact to establish
a national bank. trust, but the action
of tho Democrats i;as killed the meas
ure for this Congress. They commended
that the ostensible object OF the bill,
which was to getfhe money now con-
gesIed in the national treasury, OUT
into the handsof thePeopie, could be