The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-15
Will Press the Reduction
 Scheme.
MAJORITY IS WITH HIM
South Almost Sure of Political
 Humiliation.
Ghe Radicals are in the Saddle and 1t is Evident That They Have
 Abundant Encouragement Prom Their Party. a..

Washington, Nov. 14.-(Special.)-- Representative Crumpacker of indf- ana, he. of Southern reduction of rep resentation fame. will from all signs now uppermost, among Republicans be notable figure in Republicans coun- cils from now on.
 He is reinforced by a Republican majority more than twice that he had with him in. the fifty-eighth congress. and from the sentiments expressed by Republicans visitors to Washington since the election his scheme for re- ducing Southern representation in con- gress will command a majority of the Republicans in both the Senate and the House
 The Republicans campaigners and the Republican literature did not ne- glect the subject, and. the result shows that any compunctions for the politi- cal power of the South had no re- straining effect. upon the great mapor- ity. given the Republican ticket in the North. ' -i tt, t.
 Speaker Cannon. although born in North Carolina, led in the campaign ing for the reduction of representation from the South as now constituted.
 .,,.- The Doctrine Spread.
 The Republican spell binders shout ed it to the Northern crowds and ear- nestIy impressed 1t in private councils that something had to be done to cur tail the political power of. the growing South whose public men on all .ques- tions of national import had provided themselves degenerate and unregener. ate, unfit indeed to participate in tho national political councils of their own party.
 Administration organs are today speaking most scornfully of political fnfxs ara ha nd Crumpacker reform has been only in abeyance and postponed heretofore as a more reasonable exercise. The time for Southern reduction is to come with the Fifty-ninth Congress.
 The Crumpaciser radicals will be in the aaadie and seem that they have abundant encouragement. if not out spclxenly and directly from the White sHoase. at least from newspapers that have free access to White House news. with this sort of news, comes feeling among Democrats that it was only the generosity. of few political opponents who early assumed that the RepubIi- can victory was so large that Mir. Roosevelt's maEnaminity would be stirred and he would bear himself generously toward the Southern Demo- crats. that the President has in no wise changed his leopard spots, that ne Wt1l hL iedSI pc COuSISI6nL with the declaration of his message to the ef- feet that he intended to carry on the government in the future as he has in the past.
 On the question of reducing repre- sentation which 1t discusses at length The Evening Star which has hitherto accurently represented the administra- tion said today in its conclusion.
 The Stars Conclusion.
 ,'The men who have the cause in hand have been preparing for the fight and whether it is won orrnot in the coming Congress, it is to be waged with all ardor.' -.
 It is now up to this issue. either President Roosevelt has been entirely right in his handling of the race Ques- tion in the South. or the Southern poli- tical leaders who opposed him are right. That he will exert his utmost power to impose and effect his view is hardly to he doubted. That he will be resisted with all the power that be- longs to representatives of Southern constituencies Is no more to be Quea. tioned. whatever the outcome. That at least is the temper of Southern rep- resentative who have been about Washington the past few days.
 There are most ominous indications that the South Is threatened with a more serious political humiliation ust now that at any time since the days of bayonet interference with home rule.
 R. Fl. Watkins.