Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-11
FROM WASHINGTON

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lust adjourned and they insisted i'm
hustling away as fast as they could
get away. The Democrats poured
the hot shot into them. grape and
canister. SO hard and so fast that
they became demoralized. They
were ready and glad to quit and
they have left here with a scare
thrown into them as big as an Iowa
barn. They have flown to their
respective homes with the convic-
tion firmly fixed in their minds that
they are gone coons in the fight
that is coming of this year and
they are plumb right. IL we
can nominate the right kind of a
national ticket they are gone both
from the standpoint of the Execu-
tive and the National House of
Representatives. They are pick
ing out a soft place 10 fall right
now. The last two days of the
life of this session made the Repub-
licans look like thirty cents in
Chinese money or five cents worth
of dog meat. They were no match
for the Democrats who tackled
them. Little Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, who reminds YOU Of one of
these little teter-backed snipe
which runs up and down sandy
shore. was wiped off the round
earth once more by one w. Bourke
Cochran. When Cochran got
through with him the second time
he resembled piece of rained on
edam or camembert cheese. He
was hatter than piece of pumpkin
pie that had fallen from the top of
the Washington monument.
The very next day the Hon. John
Sharp Williams. the brilliant floor
leader of the Democracy, the only
leader we have had since the days
of Sam Randall and Charlie Crisp.
who is to-day the Murat of debate
in the House Of Representatives Of
the nation, took a fall out of Little
field of Maine, the verbal cataract
of the Republican side of the House.
that sounded like bay mule taking
fall out of stable door with both
hind feet. He also paid his respects
To the Hon. John Dalzell, who had.
in his speech, animadverted upon
the foreigner in this country and
who had said that the only hood
lums in this country were those
who had left the country of their
birth for their country's good. In
other words. there were no hood
lums in this country except foreign
hOodlumS. Mr.. Williams rung the
changes on this charge and delied
the gentleman from Pennsylvania
To prove that all the foreign-born
citizens in this country were hood
lumS, and he reminded him of the
fact that the So-called hoOdums of
whom he spoke had saved the State
OF Pennsylvania from the invasion
OF the Confederate armies on the
held of Gettysburg by the charge
IN that battle of the 69th Pennsyl-
wanna Regiment called Owens
Own, an Irish regiment that saved
the day for the Northern arms.
Mr.. Williams blistered him for his
knownothingism and intolerance of
the foreigner who had come to this
country of his own free will and
VINO had fought for the principles
OF Democracy ever since. How do
the Germans and the Irish of the
country who have been voting the
Republican ticket ever since they
got here like to be pilloried by the
leading Republican of the House
OF Representatives as hoodlums
and no-goods, as the scum of the
earth who came here for their
country's goodl Do they relish
lU If so let them smoke the
speech of DalzeIl in their pipes
and see how it tastes.
Another symptom of alarm on
the part of the Republicans is the
repidation with which the hitherto
invlncible Babcock, the chairman
OF the Republican Congressional
Committee, enters this campaign
Tor the new House of the Fifty
ninth Congress. He practically
mas admitted to the leading MEM
Ders of the Republican side of the
House that they have no more
chance to win the next House than
mas a one-legged man at a kicking
match. He said he had warned
them that tharo vraS a dan,and fo,