The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-29
NO BEE BUzZING IN
CANNON'S BONNET
SENATE HAS NO ATTRACTIONS.
WOULD NOT ACCEPT VICE PRESI-
DENTAL NOMINATION..

"UncIe Joe" Has Little Regard for
"genntOrinI Courtesy" and He
Iieves Members of the House Are
Just as Good as SenatOrs-His Po-
liticnI Ambition Reached Its Hight
when He Became Speaker-Praise
from Both sides for williams,
Leader of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
alism' Dead in Debates-Demo-
Gratis Getting Together.
BY R. M. Larner.
Washington, April 27.-Speaker Can
non has informed his personal and po-
litical friends that under no conditions
or circumstances, will he accept the
vice presidential nomination. The Sen
ate has no attractions for Uncle Joe.'
He has but little personal regard for
the so-called Senatorial courtesy
policy which dominates the Senate, and
during his long congressional career,
he has consistently opposed the theory
that members of the House We're sew
eraI grades lower down on the public
office scale than senators.
Speaker Cannon says his political
ambition reached it's hight when he
became Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives and he has no desire to
become the chronic audience" in the
Senate, a term so frequently applied
TO the presiding officer of that body.
In the House, Uncle Joe" is thorough
ly at home and the atmosphere of the
Senate is not sufficiently charming to
tempt him, Notwithstanding the earnest
and urgent appeals made to him to
rescue the state of Illinois from threat
ened capture by the Democrats.
Praise for Williams.
John Sharp Williams is receiving
much well-deserved commentator
from both sides Of the House, for his
admirable leadership of the minority
forces. 1t has not been possible, nor
was it expected that the minority
would accomplish much in the way of
political legislation in the face of a
solid, well disciplined majority, sup
ported by the drastic Reed rules. Mr..
Williams has, however accomplished
better results in directing the line of
debate on public questions than his
most sanguine friends anticipated.
Under the tactful and evenly bal
anced leadership of Mr.. Williams, the
several factions in the minority have
been drawn together, and in several
notable instances, the bold and we'll
sustained attacks on the Republican
forces have astonished and frequently
disconnected veteran Republican lead
ers like Payne of New York, Grosve-
nor of Ohio, Hepburn of Iowa and
Dalzell of Pennsylvania.
Sectional Issue Done for.
Prior to this session-that is, for sew
eral years past-the Democratic mi
norlty has lacked aggressiveness in
DEBATE, and when one of the leaders
dared to indulge in fierce partisan dis
cussion, the question of "sectionalism'
was promptly raised against him, and
there was division of opinion on his
own side as to the wisdom of direct
attack upon the admins ira ton in
power.
During the present session the Dem
ocrats have shown more courage, more
unity of purpose and more enthusiasm
in political debate than the House has
experienced in many years. There
have been many exciting scenes, and
the personal exchanges between Re-
publicans and Democrats have been
sharp and severe, but strange to re-
cord, the sectional issue" has found
no place in the remarks of the Re-
publican leaders. The Spanish War
completely obliterated "sectionalism''
and only cheap, empty-headed poll
tician will venture to try to raise that
issue in Congress to-day
Democrats Getting Together.
There may or there may not be any,
thing substantial behind the hopeful
ness of the Democrats in the coming
campaign, but it is evident that so far
as the Democrats in the House are
concerned they are making commend
able efforts to get together" in a gen.
eral line of attack upon Republican,
ism and all the party in power stands
for. During the past few weeks many
of the old-line Democrats who have
not been active in the party councils
for several years past have visited
Washington to get in touch with the
leaders of the party. 1t required but
short stay here for many of them
TO imbibe the spirit of courage, hope
fulness and aggressiveness which per-
vades every Democratic gathering at
the national capital.