Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-09

campaign Is laDie to be prolonged While these white headed veterans put uD pretty scriEmage when they get into action. they are very courteous about their scrapping. and courtesy is liable to delay the game. If one of them wants to talk, or object, or any thing, they do not pull off the battle until be is through. and not even theE usually, for by the time lie is done some one else is in the talking moo1. and so if goes. or. rather. so it does moi go. It never goes, in fact, until ey- erybody is talked out.
 A Foxy General.
 The ostensibIe head of the senate gar. rison is Major General Steve EIkins. At different times he has hailed iron. Missouri. New Mexico and West Nir- gina. In former days he was lieuten. ant of the celebrated armed warrior" and "plumed knight" James c. Blaine. Elkins is reputed to know most every thing about railroads. for he owns some of his own. He is at the head of the important interstate commerce com mittee brigade. but it is not certain that majority of this body will follow him. He is one of those reported to be conniying al turning over the fortress to the railroad forces. but he is foxy general and does not give himself away. Every few days there come ru- mors that he is trying to effect a com promise, and there are even intima- tions that he may be successful.
 Another great commander in the sen. ate is General Nelson ". Aldrich, whc halls from Rhode Island. Now, AldricE is not much on dress parade. but he is a mighty man of strategy. There is no doubt as to his position. He is opposed to the Roosevelt forces. While not much will be heard of him in the fight, it is safe to say that he will be maneu- vering constantly. Beware of the man who says little and plans much.
 Another commander of the same way of thinking as Aldrieh is General Jo- seph B. Foraker of Ohio. Foraker has been compared to fire alarm, but that was by his enemies. He loves nothing so much as a fight and generally is in one, both inside his own lines and out
 Valiant Warriors.
 Arrayed against these are a valiant host of warriors who are standing by Colonel Roosevelt. Chief of these per haps is General Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania Knox will handle the legal end of the campaign and is emi- nentIy fitted for the task. With him will be Colonel Jonathan P. Deliver of Iowa. He is a mighty orator, and his voice will ever be heard cheering his men onward. Lined up on the same side will be the veterans, Allison and Cullom. Nor should a new recruit be forgotten. La Toilette of Wisconsin new in the senate, but not in this fight. He has been shooting it into the rail- roads for 10. these many years.
 Of the Democratic hosts most of them will be fighting with the presi- dent. Two notable exceptions will be German, the veteran strategist of Maryland, and Morgan of Alabama, who will fight behind an old fort all his own, called state rights.p
 Of the general army in opposition to government control it may be predicted that they will bear down on the ad- ministration in a long line of locomo- tiyes. like Hannibals elephants charg ing on the army of Scipio, and possibly with similar results. It will be remem- bered that the huge beasts did little damage to Scipio. but that some Of them were stampeded and did create havoc in their own army.
 At any rate, it will be a famous vic tory, whoever wins it. It should not be forgotten that Colonel Roosevelt is something of a warrior himself and shows a disposition to crowd the fight ing. On the battlefield will be left number of dead-poliucally speaking, you understand
 The Administration Measure.
 Leaving these bloody and martial similes, the present lineup of the iegis- lative struggle is something like this: The Esch-Townsend bill, which has k.s.s s, tha haY1aa